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Full story: Explaining the Blog Council
In early December, there was a great deal of commentary surrounding the formation of the Blog Council, a community of global companies whose primary goal is to promote best practices in corporate blogging. Founding members include AccuQuote, Cisco Systems, The Coca-Cola Company, Dell, Gemstar-TV Guide, General Motors, Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft, Nokia, SAP and Wells Fargo. Shel and I talked about it in FIR #299 on December 6. Paul Dunay at SocialMediaToday has posted a series of audio commentaries from Andy…
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Full story: Carl Icahn coming soon
Billionaire financier Carl Icahn is about to start blogging on corporate governance. Well, at least a site is up with a single post on January 31 saying "Blog coming soon." An RSS feed is ready, along with an email subscription option. A lengthy terms of use statement is there and a privacy policy. But no posts yet. And the ‘hello world’ one that’s there – it’s a WordPress blog and that’s the default post URL you get when you first…
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Full story: Banning ‘coterminous stakeholder engagement’
Any idea what that phrase means? It’s a good example of the type of jargon that you still encounter in much of the business world. But it’s not only the business world that’s awash with pompous words and phrases that confound and confuse normal people. The Daily Telegraph reports that local councils have been ordered to stop using incomprehensible jargon when communicating with the public: […] The plain-speaking edict has been issued by the Local Government Association, which represents the…
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Full story: FIR Live Call-In Episode: February 9, 2008
Content summary: The live call-in episode on BlogTalk Radio. Our topic: the blurring line between internal and external communication. [Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for your free two-week trial, at www.customscoop.com/fir.] Show notes for the live call-in episode recorded February 9, 2008 Welcome to For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, a 60-minute podcast…
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Full story: DreamHost loyalty stretching a bit thin
I’d planned to do a bit of blog admin this morning including upgrading all my WordPress blogs to the latest version 2.3.3, released earlier this week. Plans scuppered, though, by a long service outage at DreamHost, the company I use for hosting. Looks like either a continuation of yesterday’s outage (which is what I thought) or, more likely, related to moving a server cluster. Whatever the reason, it meant that I couldn’t get into any blog, either through the usual…
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