David Teten and Scott Allan of Online Business Networks have written a useful article on Twelve Business Models for Blog Technologies. Some interesting ideas if you’re thinking about business or investment opportunities around blogging. Summary: Traditional businesses leveraging blogs: Individual virtual presence – the use of a blog to enhance your visibility and professional reputation. […]
Category: Weblogs
No CEO blogging: Good analysis or ignorance?
I commented last week on an employee communication survey by the Edelman PR agency entitled New Frontiers in Employee Communications: Current Practices and Future Trends (see post: Room for changes in internal communication). Among the findings in the survey report was this – nearly 20% of the survey respondents said, “My CEO would never blog.” […]
Do terrorists blog?
From a BBC News report yesterday: The capture of alleged al-Qaeda computer expert Mohamed Naem Noor Khan by the Pakistani authorities in July brought with it an unprecedented haul of high-tech intelligence. Speaking in London last month, America’s homeland security chief Tom Ridge said the volume of potential information was “the largest we’ve ever seen […]
Six Apart gets more VC funding
The future is looking rosy for Six Apart, the company behind the TypePad blog hosting service (the one I use) and the Movable Type blog publishing platform. Business 2.0 journalist Om Malik published an exclusive announcement on his blog yesterday stating that Six Apart is about to secure more venture funding in their series B […]
PRSA and IABC: Exercise leadership
Earlier this week, I posted commentary about the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) ignoring blogging. My post referenced commentary from the Business Blog Consulting blog which said that, in the forthcoming PRSA conference that takes place later this month, blogging doesn’t get a mention anywhere. What’s been happening since I posted my commentary is […]
BBC World radio broadcasts about blogs
Robert Scoble comments about a radio broadcast on the BBC World Service yesterday about blogging which features him and his blog. The broadcast, by Dow Jones journalist Jeremy Wagstaff, gives an overview of what blogs are, how they’ve grown in the past few years and why companies should get involved with them. He uses Scoble […]
IABC leader blog to launch
Following my post on Friday re PRSA and IABC, I discovered late on Saturday that a blog by 2004-2005 IABC Chairman, David Kistle, ABC, is imminent as this screenshot indicates. That answers the prime call: To start with, I’d like to see the leaders of the PRSA and IABC with a blog. I want to […]
Corporate blogging helps companies open up
A well-articulated article that discusses the pros and cons of corporate blogging, written by Trevor Cook for the Australian Financial Review Boss magazine: Corporate blogging is being heralded as the next big thing on the communications horizon, valued mostly for its potential to bring personality and authenticity to a bleak landscape of dull newsletters, breathless […]
Fake blogs, true buzz
The Chicago Tribune reported this weekend on how phony messages and hoax campaigns on the internet have gained acceptance as a marketing promotional tool with a goal of drawing attention to new product offerings. The paper quotes the example of a video-game tester named Beta-7. When he began suffering from blackouts and uncontrollable fits of […]
Technorati: Blogosphere ‘doubling at regular pace’
A month ago, I posted commentary on the rising influence and rapid growth of weblogs. That post included comment on how many blogs Technorati tracks and what blog growth looked like. I quoted figures from Technorati as at the end of July when Technorati reported it tracked 3 million blogs. When I posted my commentary […]
IABC Chairman blog live
The brand new blog by IABC Chairman David Kistle, ABC, is now live. In an introductory post, Kistle says: I want to be sure to talk about things you want to talk about… so now it’s your turn. Give me some feedback – good and bad – about how we’re doing and what’s important to […]
Technorati: Nearly 5 blog posts per second
Following statistics on growth of the blogosphere that I posted about yesterday comes more info from Technorati, this time on the sheer volume of blog posts. According to Technorati CEO David Sifry: With the tremendous growth in the number of weblogs also comes an increase in the number of posts per day, also known as […]
IT Kitchen ready for recipes
The IT Kitchen I commented on a few weeks ago is now ready for business. The concept of Shelley Powers at Burningbird, the IT Kitchen is a workshop for bloggers and those who read blogs, where you can contribute commentary and essays. It takes place from Monday 25 October until Friday 5 November. Actually, that […]
Two-way blogs and moderated conversations
When Richard Edelman, CEO of the Edelman PR agency, launched his blog in late September, he was welcomed enthusiastically by the PR blogging community. Two weeks on and after Edelman’s second post – he’s committed to posting once a week – some bloggers are a bit twitchy about how he’s blogging and how commenting is […]
NevOn Gmail
So, I now have a Gmail account. Thanks again, Steve! Now I can see for myself what everyone is raving about. Just changed my contact email for this blog to my new Gmail address, accessible in my About page.
Blogging for PR
Widely reported already by a number of bloggers today: Webpronews.com published a review of blogging as a PR tool. Among the communication bloggers and their blogs specifically mentioned in the article are, in order of mention: Steve Rubel’s Micro Persuasion, Steve Hall’s Adrants, John Battelle’s Searchblog, Mike Manuel’s Media Guerilla, Wayne Hurlbert’s Blog Business World, […]
Jupiter Media blankets the search world
News from Jupiter Media CEO Alan Meckler: During the summer Jupitermedia launched a chat and discussion site called SearchEngineWatchForums.com. Traffic is growing daily and there are now almost 2,000 members. Page view traffic has surpassed 20,000 per day. When combined with the 120,000 daily page views for our well established SearchEngineWatch site and the nearly […]
Wall Street Journal on Denton and Six Apart
The Wall Street Journal has had a close focus on blogging in the past 48 hours. Yesterday, the paper published an interview with Nick Denton, founder of the Gawker Media range of web properties especially popular with US audiences. Denton – an expat Brit – has made a big impact that has rattled the traditional […]
Challenge to PRSA on blogging spreads
The challenge to the leadership of the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) to including a track on blogging at the PRSA conference in New York in ten days time is spreading. Following commentary on a number of blogs last week and this, B.L. Ochman makes the challenge crystal clear in a post yesterday: PRSA […]
Conversation is a two-way street
More on two-way blogs and moderated conversations, from Tom Murphy at PR Opinions: Conversation is a two way street.You don’t see companies promoting customer service phone numbers and then not employing anyone to answer the phone (those annoying automated customer service systems at least answer the call). If you’re establishing a blog, you are doing […]