If you are considering starting a corporate blog, want to learn how to maximize your current blog, or simply want to learn more about how blogging and other new communications tools such as wikis and RSS newsfeeds are becoming crucial for your communications toolkit, we’ve got a conference for you. There is growing demand for […]
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The Kitchen starts cooking
Now open for business – The Kitchen: How to Cook a Weblog. The brainwave of Shelley Powers, here’s what it is: The Kitchen: How to Cook a Weblog is a two-week clinic on weblogging and related topics for bloggers and those who read blogs and even those who don’t but still manage to use the […]
Instructors for New Communications Forum 2005
Elizabeth Albrycht and Guillaume du Gardier have just announced the first list of instructors/presenters for the New Communications Forum 2005 conferences in the US and Europe next January and February respectively. Elizabeth’s post | Guillaume’s post
IAOC hosts online PR blogging event
Constantin Basturea reports that the recently-formed International Association of Online Communicators (IAOC) has started a blog. What’s more, starting on Monday 8 November, IAOC will be facilitating an online blogging event throughout the coming week – the Thrilla’ in Mozilla blog fest – that will feature a different contributor each day: A-list US marketing and […]
BloggerCon III takes place today
BloggerCon III gets underway today in California. The focus of BloggerCon is weblogs in journalism, education, science, business and politics. BloggerCon is an unusual conference. There are no formal speakers, panels or an audience, but discussions and sessions, and each session has a discussion leader. It’s an un-conference and there is no cost to participate. […]
Bloggers blogging BloggerCon
In the coming days, no doubt we’ll be seeing lots of commentary, discussion and analysis on many blogs about BloggerCon III which took place in the US on 6 November (see my post). To help find blogs commenting about the event, try this Technorati link: http://technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=&url=bloggercon See these reports by O’Reilly Network correspondent John Adams, […]
Communicators’ views on BloggerCon
Good commentaries about BloggerCon III from Australian PR practitioner Trevor Cook who was there, with some focused thinking on what it all means from the business, PR and general communication perspectives. (What’s BloggerCon?) Blogging, journalism and public relations Bloggercon: the vendor problem Blogging and money The Bloggercon ‘politics’ session Some Bloggercon reflections – the podcasting […]
New Communications Forum 2005 launches website and blog
Planning for New Communications Forum 2005 is rapidly moving ahead with the launch yesterday of the new website and blog. The concept of PR bloggers Elizabeth Albrycht and Guillaume du Gardier, the New Communications Forum 2005 will provide you with an in-depth, hands-on exploration of the future of communications with two events taking place: in […]
Weblog Awards contest begins
The 2004 Weblog Awards contest is open for accepting nominations. Lots of categories, so something for just about everyone. For full details about the awards, the categories and the nomination procedures, see the nominations master post on the blog. I’m nominated in the Best European (Non-UK) Blog category. Ok, so I nominated my own blog – […]
Voting begins for 2004 weblog awards
Voting opened today for the 2004 Weblog Awards, announced last month (see my post). With over 500 blogs represented in 34 categories, there is something here for everyone to navigate through and vote for! I’m a finalist in the Best European (Non-UK) Blog category. I would definitely welcome and appreciate your vote, thank you :)) […]
BOBs winners announced
Deutsche Welle, organizer of the Best of The Blogs contest – the BOBs – has announced the winners. Overall Best Weblog (Jury vote) was awarded to The Dog Newspaper from China. “This Weblog is about dogs,” the description on the BOBs site says. “Not just the way dogs suffer, but also the strange and curious […]
Voting scam mars weblog awards contest
The voting’s over and the results are known in the 2004 Weblog Awards contest which closed yesterday. The award for Best Overall Blog went to Powerline, a US political blog run by a group of lawyers. The Best Tech Blog award went to Engadget, one of my personal favourite blogs. As it’s a long list, […]
Gearing up for the New Communications Forum 2005
Planning proceeds apace for New Communications Forum 2005, the twin conferences taking place in the US and France, the first of which is scheduled for 26-27 January in Napa, California. If you’re in the communication profession – in PR, marketing, advertising, employee communication, etc – and if you are considering starting a corporate blog, want […]
Blogging from Napa
My input to this blog will be a bit different (and probably a bit erratic) during the rest of this week as I will be at the New Communications Forum 2005 event in Napa, California, from later today. This is going to be a terrific time to gather with a group of like-minded communication folk […]
Preparing for Forum kick-off
The New Communications Forum 2005 kicks off today in Napa, California. It’s being held at the Silverado Ranch resort and spa, "set in 1,200 acres of lush vineyards and emerald hills in Napa Valley" (its says in the brochure). Can’t see much lushness right now as the weather’s actually reminiscent of what we have in […]
First session blogged
I just finished leading the discussion session on "Introduction to Corporate Blogging" which provides an overview introduction using blogs from a company’s perspective, looking at examples of what some companies and other organizations are currently doing. Anita Campbell of Small Business Trends, who participated in the session, has blogged it. Nice commentary, too 😉 Edit: […]
Blogs in crisis communication
I’m sitting in Shel Holtz‘ session on “The Blog’s New Role in Crisis Communication.” Some highlights from the discussion: Not practical to expect that the CEO of a large company will run a crisis blog. It will depend on the nature of the crisis – whoever is the best spokesperson for whatever the crisis is […]
The Napa experience Day 1
From my own perspective, the first day of New Communications Forum 2005 has been an enlightening experience. As I’ve presented one session and led two workshops, I’ve been able to participate in only one other workshop (Shel’s on blogs in crisis communication, which I commented about earlier today). The workshops I led today addressed the […]
EPIC: The age of participatory communication
I’m blogging in the keynote presentation being given by Andy Lark that starts the second day of the New Communications Forum 2005. Andy advocates how the age of participatory communication that has already dawned will change forever the way we communicate. To illustrate this, he presents EPIC, an 8-minute video showing a concept of what […]
Panel discussion: Blogging and branding
Highlight points from the panel – pictured, left to right: Anita Campbell, Evelyn Rodriguez, Dan Taylor, Andy Lark – moderated by Elizabeth Albrycht. The panel addressed the broad theme of how the connectedness of blogs and other networked media creates both threats and opportunities for corporate brands: Where are conversations occurring and how does this […]