Content summary: Listeners’ comments: audio comments and a few written ones, too, on VNRs, multimedia search, and new blogs; Elizabeth Albrycht’s advice column; Nielsen-Norman’s top 10 intranets; Microsoft’s newly named stripped-down Windows XP for Europe; new bloggers at GM’s Fastlane blog; Yahoo 360; faux blogs; and monitoring employees’ online behavior. Show notes for March 31, […]
Category: Weblogs
IABC prepares relaunch of Chair blog
A post late yesterday on the IABC Chair Blog by outgoing IABC Chairman David Kistle is prefaced by this prominent statement: Look for the all-new IABC Blog at this URL, starting Wednesday, 6 April. I imagine this is a typo (like the post headline: “Bloogin’s cool…”) and the text should say “Look for the all-new […]
Taking Yahoo 360 for a spin
What a dilemma – six invitations to sign up to Yahoo 360°, the new social networking offering from Yahoo that launched in beta earlier this week. Which do I choose? So as not to offend anyone, I’ve accepted the first one I received based on the email date/time stamp. And that was from Mike Manuel. […]
Fake blog cheapens Diageo brand
In writing about how lame he thinks the Captain Morgan’s Rum fake blog is, Joël Céré says: I think it is less bad than the Mazda experiment as at least it allows for comments, and there are regular postings. Although there are some speculations on how such new blog got so many comments so quickly. […]
Preparations for Global PR Blog Week 2.0 have started
What Global PR Blog Week 2.0 is an online conference on how new media technologies are changing the practice of public relations and corporate communications. We’re talking weblogs and participatory journalism, wikis, podcasting, and RSS – but the list of topics is open. Global PR Blog Week 2.0 will follow the success of last year’s […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #21: April 4, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments: podcast annotating, indexing and navigating; running VNRs and press releases is shoddy journalism; mainstream media is not the way to go with youth messaging; searching blog feeds for photos, audio and video; Print media will still be around for a while; Darren Barefoot’s not smoking the podcasting dope; Catholic Insider at […]
Edelman and Intelliseek highlight the growing influence of blogs
A newly-published white paper on blogs from PR agency group Edelman and marketing intelligence firm Intelliseek explores the importance of blogging for public relations and marketing, and provides a first-of-its-kind directory of influential bloggers, segmented by industry. The report, Trust MEdia: How Real People Are Finally Being Heard (22-page PDF available for download from both […]
UK general election called
The UK general election will take place on Thursday 5 May, confirming the date which has been widely rumoured for weeks. Prime Minister Tony Blair made the announcement from Downing Street a short while ago. If the governing Labour Party wins, it will give Blair his third successive term in office as Prime Minister. So […]
It’s all happening in France
In February, I wrote about what some French newspapers are doing with blogs – Le Monde with its reader blogs and Libération with its journalists’ blogs. Last month, there was news that VNU France launched a consumer blog portal, following its launch of blogs for its journalists across Europe. Tech publisher 01Net also launched a […]
PR satire blog shut down
If you try and get the Spin Bunny satirical PR blog today, you may get a ‘404: not found’ error. They’ve been legally shut down. The blog’s still up as I write this (although some links produce 404s) and the RSS feed was still working. The blog and the feed have this post: Official statement […]
Completing the circle
Jeremy Pepper in Scottsdale, Arizona, has finally got a trackback capability on his blog, Musings from POP! Public Relations. I’ve been trying to persuade him to do this because a) he writes some very good content, and b) I can’t connect to that content if I post something on my blog related to his writing. […]
The Dutch company where everyone’s a blogger
Fredrik Wackå posted a great report today about Macaw Nederland, a Dutch technology company and Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, whose 110 employees all blog. Fredrik says: At Macaw all employees have their own internal blog. They get it when they get their network, intranet and e-mail account. Not only do they have blogs – they […]
IABC blog relaunched
Yesterday, the IABC Café opened for business, with incoming IABC chairman Warren Bickford behind the bar and in the kitchen. The new name for the relaunched blog – and the strapline "A gathering place for professional communicators" – offers a clear and encouraging glimpse into how this blog might develop. In his first post, Warren […]
The Hobson and Holtz Report – Podcast #22: April 7, 2005
Content summary: Listeners’ comments (employee monitoring and performance; don’t write off podcasting; time-shifted podcasting, cars and home PCs; more on VNRs and responsibility, and audio search; smoking the podcasting dope down under); political scandal in Canada and media muzzling; update your crisis communications plans; Pew’s lost credibility; Macaw Nederland’s employee bloggers; IABC Café launches. Show […]
GM: Poster child for the executive blog
Since General Motors began the GM FastLane Blog in early January, it’s attracted considerable attention from business communicators. That attention has been sparked by who the bloggers are – senior corporate executives, starting with GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz. The blog’s been under a continuous spotlight with a great deal of ongoing commentary and opinion […]
Content plagiarism – is extra exposure worth going along with it?
Constantin Basturea writes that excerpts of postings from PR blogs are republished, with new permalinks, on a website with pages featuring Google ads and asks, Do their authors know about and approve this practice? The website in question is called PR Blog Watch, part of a website called 101 Public Relations. Constantin’s post lists 18 […]
BBC Radio launches tech blog, sort of
The BBC moves in mysterious ways regarding blogs, it often seems to me. Earlier this week, one of the BBC’s UK domestic radio stations, Radio Five Live, introduced a blog on the Up All Night radio show website. It’s called the Technology Blog with the strapline "Keep up with the latest gadgets, games and gizmos." […]
UK newspaper wants to host blogs
“We’re looking for people who want to keep a blog or online diary for the News & Star website,” says Nick Turner, deputy editor of the Cumbria News & Star newspaper in northwest England. In a report on Thursday, Turner said, “We would like to have a diverse range of voices on our website and […]
Blogs as ‘editorial innovation’ for mainstream media
Catching up with some neglected RSS feed reading has resulted in a burst of blogging already today. About to take a breather when I came across a post by Suw Charman writing in Strange Attractor about the Blogs in Action seminar in London on 24 March. In her detailed reporting, Suw has done a terrific […]
Microsoft’s Channel 9 and cultural rules
Channel 9, the social networking blog and wiki for Microsoft’s developer community and the outside world run by ‘5 guys from Redmond’, celebrated its first birthday last Wednesday. One of those 5 guys, Robert Scoble, deserves much credit in driving Channel 9 to its current prominent success level as a one-of-a-kind place that video showcases […]