From an announcement on 25 November in the Everything TypePad blog: Starting [this] week, TypePad customers will be able to visit TypePad.com and purchase “the gift of a TypePad” for anyone on their holiday shopping list at a special holiday promotional price. An annual subscription of our TypePad Basic, Plus and Pro services will be […]
Category: Weblogs
IABC Chair blog: About to be relaunched?
Brian Kilgore asks: Is the IABC chairman’s blog dead or alive? It does look dead. No new posts since 24 October (the 30-day anniversary of no posts was marked last week). While the IABC Chair blog is still there, the link to it has now disappeared from the home page of IABC’s main website. So […]
It’s about Target’s reputation
It has been interesting seeing the different reactions to the Target marijuana story during the past few days. Web Pro News has a good summary of events, including an explanation of how Target’s e-commerce website works as a front-end for Amazon.com. Whatever you see on Target’s website, they don’t really sell marijuana, it seems. Neither […]
Apple blogs
I’ve not seen this news on any blogs – maybe I just missed it – but Apple started a corporate* blog on 28 November. The Apple Blog * CORRECTION: No, it’s not actually a corporate blog, as pointed out in the comments to this post. Not even an Apple blog. It’s a blog about Apple.
The visionary road for internal blogging
Tim Bray of Sun Microsystems argues that the only feasible way an organization can get started with blogging is through a top-down approach: It’s going to have to happen much the same way it did here at Sun: your CEO or COO or whatever is going to have to say Make it happen! and then […]
Blog Wars Episode II
A report yesterday by Microsoft Watch said that Microsoft is about to launch a blogging service, MSN Spaces, this week: MSN is expected to tout MSN Spaces as a direct competitor to blog-creation and hosting tools, such as Blogger, Blog*Spot, LiveJournal and TypePad. Microsoft also will position MSN Spaces as a way to allow users […]
One swallow does not make a summer
So IABC chairman David Kistle finally blogged a new post yesterday on the IABC Chair blog, nearly six weeks after his last post. He says, “I’ve heard from more than a few that they thought the Blog was dead or dying, but that’s not the case.” That’s good to hear, David. Does this mean we […]
On the MSN Spaces bandwagon
It took just three minutes to get a blog set up and running on the new MSN Spaces blog service launched in beta by Microsoft last night. I thought I’d try it out to see what it’s like. I think this will have huge appeal to anyone who uses Hotmail, MSN and all other such […]
Webinar on blogging for business
If you want to learn what blogging means for your business and how you can “blog for business,” this free one-hour webinar on 16 December could be helpful. Starting at 2pm US Eastern Time (that’s 7pm GMT), the webinar will cover: Marketing Content vs. Editorial Content Blogs vs. CMS (Content Management System) Blogs vs. Chat/Discussion […]
Easy customer relationship building
Add this one to your list of examples to use in answering the question, "So what can a blog do for enhancing my customer relationships?" Nick Bradbury, the developer of Feed Demon (RSS aggregator and reader) and TopStyle (HTML and CSS editor), has a bit of a problem concerning another software developer who has a […]
Contribute thinking for a new communication model
As part of preparation for an IAOC blog discussion in January, Elizabeth Albrycht is asking for thought contributions from communicators: I believe a fundamental shift in the entire model of communications (under which I include marketing, PR, advertising, etc.) is now possible. I am talking about moving from the old command/control, uni-directional, war-metaphor driven practices […]
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 :)) […]
Changes in the works at Electronic Arts
It’s part of a modern-day sweat-shop industry with it’s high-tech work force toiling like galley slaves chained to their benches. So said the New York Times in an article last month describing Electronic Arts. This is about ea_spouse, the wife of the Electronic Arts employee who wrote in her personal blog last month a from-the-heart […]
The Red Couch is inspiring!
Such a great idea – write a book about blogging where a blog is the focal point for the two authors – Robert Scoble and Shel Israel – to interact, converse and engage with anyone who has an opinion and some ideas to contribute, and actually create the book’s content. Publishing rights will be auctioned […]
Some evangelism on Forrester’s vision
Not everyone sees the visionary road for internal blogging as Charlene Li of Forrester Research does. It looks like I’m one of the seemingly few who very firmly does share that vision on how blogging might evolve in companies as part of an integrated communication and information-sharing system or process, and as a means unto […]
A bevy of books on blogging
The Red Couch isn’t the only new book in the works on blogging. There are quite a few! Jeremy Wright has compiled a list and some comments about what each title plans to cover, which you can read in Jeremy’s post. Here’s the list: Robert Scoble and Shel Israel are doing one called The Red […]
Not for love but money
Marqui, the company who is paying bloggers $800 a month to blog their product, has a list on their website of who’s signed up so far for the money: Marc Canter, Allen Herrel, Jonathan Abad, Nathan Weinberg, Molly E. Holzschlag, DL Byron, Lucas Gonze, Mitch Ratcliffe, Paolo Valdemarin, Jon Lebkowsky, Susan E. Kaup, Richard Murray, […]
PubSub brings news you might never see otherwise
I find PubSub extremely useful for tracking themes and topics I’m interested in. For instance, one of the PubSub subscriptions I have looks for blog posts that contain the phrases “organizational communication” and “corporate communication.” Every instance it finds, it sends me the posts as an RSS feed which I then see in FeedDemon. PubSub […]
Mapping visitors
As ever an embracer of new tools and apps that let me customize my Windows or my blog, I’ve just found a rather interesting tool that will show who’s visiting my blog at any given moment. What’s cool about this one is that it shows this info as a world map and identifies which countries […]
A blog is a great CRM tool
Guillaume du Gardier recounts an experience in a post in the CEO Bloggers’ Club from meeting with the sales team of an international company in which blogging was discussed: The first reaction of the sale team was negative, as they are afraid to see their client talking about prices or problems they might have when […]