Category: Weblogs

  • Blogging the shift in power at Sun

    Will Jonathan Schwartz be the first Fortune 500 CEO blogger? asks Debbie Weil. I was wondering exactly the same thing as I read various news reports today about Schwartz taking on the top job at Sun Microsystems following the stepping…

  • Spam blitz has Akismet struggling

    Is spam-catcher Akismet struggling today, or is this just a peculiar one-off? As I write this at 2.00pm, the list of spam comments and trackbacks blocked so far today by Akismet shows 231 items, the majority from an IP address…

  • Social media drives greater employee engagement

    Here’s a terrific case study from Swedish/US communication consultants and training firm Gronstedt Group on the role social media plays in helping the sales team at US educational publisher Prentice-Hall improve their sales performance. The case study describes how the firm…

  • Blog editors: An opportunity awaits

    Where do I even begin? asks Lee in a rant that I suspect will resonate with many bloggers who use offline blog editing software. As Lee writes elsewhere in his blog, and as I’ve said before, there is plenty of…

  • WordPress instead of CMS

    Writing in O’Reilly ONLamp, John McCreesh has an excellent review of WordPress as a replacement for a content management system. His feature walks through the steps he took to set up a WordPress-based website complete with his analytical approach to…