Nick Denton, the expat Brit and creator of the Gawker Media blog network, is interviewed today in the New York Times. Already lots of blog posts about the interview, many focusing on Denton’s views about the development of blogging. Sample: […] As for the blog revolution, Mr. Denton put it this way: “Give me a […]
Category: Business
GM blog continues to push the envelope
There’s a new blogger on the GM FastLane Blog, with a new approach – talking to women. A post yesterday by Cynthia Price, GM Center of Expertise, Women’s Market Initiative: I’ve been noticing that guys make most of the comments in this blog. But I’d like to address the women out there. It seems there […]
IBM creating an army of evangelists
Silicon Valley Watcher: Early next week IBM will introduce the largest ever corporate blogging initiative in a bid to encourage any of its 130,000 staff to become online evangelists for the company. Tom Foremski’s report today in Silicon Valley Watcher makes for very interesting reading. He says IBM’s plan comes hot on the heels of […]
FeedDemon acquisition gives NewsGator a complete RSS offering
The news today from Nick Bradbury, the developer of the FeedDemon desktop RSS aggregator for Windows, that his company Bradsoft has been acquired by NewsGator is a significant move in the market for tools and applications that enable you to more easily and effectively retrieve, manage and use information. NewsGator enables you to subscribe to […]
Knowing right from wrong is intuitive
Last month, 119 applicants to Harvard Business School followed a link on a Business Week message board to access a website containing confidential information about their admittance, a Financial Times report says. Harvard decided this constituted hacking and Kim Clark, the dean of the business school, decided the applicants would all now be rejected. This […]
Nokia’s rap on the knuckles
BBC News: Phone maker Nokia has been reprimanded by Finland’s financial market watchdog and stock exchange for not releasing positive earnings news quickly enough. Listed in New York and Helsinki, Nokia followed US rules but did not abide by Finland’s, the regulators said. Nokia should have told investors about the improved fourth-quarter earnings and sales […]
Boeing takes second step with 777 blog
Aircraft maker Boeing launched a new blog ten days ago – Flight Test Journal, a place where the engineers and test pilots of Boeing’s new 777-200LR Worldliner talk about their work in getting the world’s longest-range commercial airplane ready for commercial service. Only two posts so far, but it looks like the scene has been […]
Powerful lessons from eBay
This week’s Economist magazine features eBay on its cover and has a special report about the company, analzying its history, its business model and its future as it marks its tenth year in business. It’s a terrific report and well worth reading if you want to gain some knowledge about one of the most successful […]
PR gaffe burns Wal-Mart PR director and agency
Daily Telegraph: The Wal-Mart publicity manager behind an advert that equated the retail giant to victims of the Nazis has resigned. Peter Kanelos, who had overseen public relations in Arizona and southern California on behalf of Wal-Mart, left his job yesterday, a few weeks after the company apologised for its PR gaffe. And what a […]
Can Ketchum walk the new media talk?
I was reading the press release issued yesterday by Ketchum Public Relations announcing their new service offering called Ketchum Personalized Media: "a global service that advises organizations to know how, why and when to integrate the growing roster of online and wireless media – from blogs and podcasts to mobile marketing – into their overall […]
Corporate responsibility reporting enters the mainstream
International accounting firm KPMG has published the results of its latest survey on corporate responsibility reporting. The survey report shows continuing support for corporate responsibility and open communication by the leaders of many of the world’s most successful and biggest companies: Corporate responsibility (CR) reporting in industrialized countries has clearly entered the mainstream, with Japan […]
Ketchum dissected
Poor Ketchum. After all the derision in the PR blogosphere during this past week to their news about their new-media service offering, they might have been hoping things had died down now. Not so. Today, Constantin Basturea posted an excellent dissection of Ketchum’s offering and the variety of commentaries from PR bloggers. Recommended reading. Especially […]
The continuous alarm bell for telcos
BBC News interviewed Niklas Zennstrom, the CEO of Skype, on Friday. The wide-ranging interview includes commentary on Zennstrom’s early venture with Kazaa and discusses Skype and its impact on traditional telephone services. The most interesting part of the interview: […] He believes Skype will take away revenue from phone calls, which is the bulk of […]
Carnival of the Capitalists connects you to great content
Wayne Hurlbert at Blog Business World is hosting this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists, the weekly aggregation of links to posts by a wide range of different bloggers that provides a unique focus on them for further developing conversations. For this week’s carnival, Wayne has assembled an enormous quantity of links – 71 posts spread […]
Ketchum starts to climb the mountain
They are paying attention after all – Adam Brown, director of eKetchum, leaves a comment on Constantin’s blog as a response to PR blogosphere criticism about Ketchum’s announcement last week on their new-media service offering. While I don’t want to continue any Ketchum-bashing, I will say that Adam’s response hardly addresses any of the criticisms […]
Is this a record for HP toner longevity?
Printing out a draft this morning of a rather lengthy document I’d written and edited gave me pause for thought about my printer. My default printer is a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 4L. Black and white, a basic laser printer. I bought it on 17 November 1994 (I can recall the precise date because there’s a little […]
Accountants can blog, too
Blogs present many business benefits to accountants, according to The American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). In the June issue of the Journal of Accountancy Online, AICPA’s journal, a feature entitled Would You, Could you, Should You Blog? gives a good overview of blogs and their business potential. Most of the reasoning in the […]
The new trust changes everything
Last month, when Fredrik and I advertised in our respective blogs for freelance writers to join us in a communication project we’re jointly working on, we were taking the next steps in a Big Experiment we’d started. This Big Experiment is to do with collaborative working and the role of blogs, and what that means […]
New resource for business podcasts
My podcasting co-presenter Shel has started a new resource page on The New PR Wiki to list business podcasts in one convenient location. I’ve just added a couple to the list; if you know of any, please add them. The New PR Wiki | Business Podcast List
Apple podcast subscriptions top a million in two days
In just two days, people using the new version of iTunes have subscribed to more than a million podcasts, TechWeb News reported late yesterday. On Tuesday, Apple launched iTunes 4.9, the latest version of the free digital music player software, that includes support for podcasting. For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, the bi-weekly […]