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 […]
Category: Weblogs
The Red Couch outlined
Robert Scoble and Shel Israel have outlined how they see The Red Couch, the book on blogging they are planning (see my recent post). Highlight from the outline introductory segment: The Red Couch argues blogging is changing everything and businesses choosing to ignore it, face the same fate as the blacksmith who ignored the automobile […]
How a blog will help Macy*s NY
My PubSub subscription that gives me RSS feeds of blog posts that contain the phrases “organizational communication” or “corporate communication” (see earlier post) continues to provide some really interesting news and information. For instance, Workers Rights and Comfortability: Key to Productivity at Macy*s Herald Square, a post today in the Positive Energy Activates Constant Elevation […]
Real blog ROI
One of the things that resulted from copywriter Bob Bly‘s "blogs are a complete waste of time" story in October (see my post) were lengthy (and still ongoing) discussions on a number of blogs, including mine, about showing some evidence that a blog can generate a direct return on investment (ROI). Here’s an example of […]
Technorati: Over 5 million blogs
As I write this at a quarter to seven on Saturday evening, I see that Technorati is now tracking over 5 million blogs: Two months ago, that figure was 4.1 million, a 10 percent increase on the previous month. Things continue to move forward very fast indeed. Quite a milestone. Related NevOn post: Technorati: Blogosphere […]
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, […]
New PubSub tool to measure link rankings
While content has always been regarded as king in most communication, that’s not necessarily the most important thing any more, especially with blogs. Linking and referring – these are likely to become far more important, where what you say is one thing: who links to what you say is another. So I was very interested […]
20 questions and blog writing skills
Steve Rubel wrote yesterday about Stowe Boyd’s efforts to find meaningful answers to 20 questions about blogging and the blog that’s been set up to facilitate the answering process. The answers to those 20 questions will form part of the content that Stowe’s company, Corante, will use in a seminar in January. Most of the […]
Interview: Raising blog awareness in Norway
In October, I was interviewed about blogging for an article in the Norwegian business publication Kommunikasjon, published in Oslo, Norway, by Kommunikasjonsforeningen. The article’s now been published. It’s not online, only in print. And it’s in Norwegian. But thanks to translation help from Fredrik Wackå, I have the text in English. There’s increasing interest about […]
Fired Delta employee crusade lacks credibility
The story of the Delta Airlines employee who was fired for breach of company policy regarding some photos she posted on her personal blog is taking some interesting twists and turns. Here’s the quick story overview. Ellen Simonetti was a flight attendant at Delta Airlines. She writes Queen of Sky, a personal blog, in which […]
How to read a blog
Tech columnist John Dvorak has written a good starter’s guide on how to read a blog. Written for his blog specifically, it’s nevertheless a good general introduction to understanding the content structure of blogs, and illustrates with diagrams the common elements in most blogs, including links, categories, comments and quotations. Helpful for blogging newbies.
WebProNews re-publishes NevOn content
Through an informal agreement, tech news portal WebProNews has started re-publishing some of my posts on their news site. Here’s the first re-published post. I was more than pleased to make this agreement when WebProNews asked if they could re-publish some of my content. It is an informal arrangement – I am not receiving any […]
Podcasts for communicators to launch in January
Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, the new podcast weblog by Shel Holtz and I: Starting in January, Neville Hobson and Shel Holtz – two communicators who think they have something to say that you might find worth listening to – start their weekly podcasts. Shel’s in Concord, California, and Neville’s in Amsterdam in The Netherlands. […]
The Number One Hot Prediction for 2005
I’ve resisted the temptation so far to make a list of blog-related predictions for 2005. Everyone does lists and I’m sure what I might say wouldn’t be that different from what I see many communicators and others saying. But, catching up with scanning my RSS feeds last night, I read Media Guerrilla’s 2005 Predictions by […]
Journalists and bloggers can learn from each other
Two very thoughful articles by Steve Outing of PoynterOnline explain in some detail what journalists can learn from bloggers, and vice versa. US focused of course, but every practical point Steve includes in his articles is valid for any blogger in Europe, too. Take a look: What Journalists Can Learn From Bloggers: Blogging isn’t just […]
FT highlights example of blogs for internal communication
Today’s Financial Times has a report on corporate blogging that includes an excellent example of a European company using blogs for internal communication: Some companies, uncomfortable with the openness of public blogs, use them as an internal communications tool. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, the German investment bank, has set up about 120 internal blogs to promote […]
Blogging: It’s the real thing
A highly-readable and lengthy feature on blogging is in the 10 January issue of Fortune magazine, as part of its look at the 10 technology trends to watch in 2005. Blogging is number 1 on Fortune’s top 10 list: Freewheeling bloggers can boost your product—or destroy it. Either way, they’ve become a force business can’t […]
Podcasting and vlogging: It’s all about the distribution
Media reports on two rapidly-emerging communication tools – (audio) podcasting and video logging, or vlogging or vblogging: BBC News on podcasting, featuring pioneer Adam Curry: An Apple iPod or other digital music players can hold anything up to 10,000 songs, which is a lot of space to fill. But more and more iPod owners are […]
Blogs can help keep the awareness alive
This morning, I was reading Evelyn Rodriguez’ latest posts in Crossroads Dispatches following her safe return home. Evelyn was caught up (and injured) in the Asia earthquake/tsunamis disaster and blogged about what she saw and experienced. One of Evelyn’s posts in particular has provoked some thoughts. In a post entitled A Tsunami Survivor’s Perspective: The […]
TypePad problem today…
Looks like TypePad has some problems today as my previous post has ended up being published 3 times. And I can’t delete the two duplicates. Hopefully TypePad will have a solution asap. Sorry for any inconvenience! Update 20:00 CET: The problem now seems to be fixed – I was able to delete the 2 duplicate […]