Incresingly, companies large and small are getting to understand that blogging can be an effective tool of corporate communications and public relations.
And unless the CEO or some other senior executive with the CEO’s confidence is an experienced blogger, the next question for some will be, “Who are we going to call?”
Wow! The b5media blogging network has just launched six new blogs in the business channel and brought into the channel three other blogs from the broader network. That makes sixteen blogs in all (including this one) in the channel. And there are evidently more on the way.
There seems to be no shortage of stories about big business and blogging and for anyone interested in what, say, the Fortune 500 companies are doing there is the excellent Fortune 500 Blog Project wiki.
One of my goals for this blog is to provide links to useful resources for business blogging. For a start I could organise the sprawling mass of favorites/bookmarks I’ve gathered over the past few years and serve them up, or at least the ones that still seem of use.
For quite a while now I’ve been trying to get a handle on what is covered by “Web 2.0″.
There is of course a Wikipedia entry, but I generally use Wikipedia for quick clues, rather than to read lengthy entries.
I’ve also read Tim O’Reilly’s What is Web 2.0 article of September last year.
Some time ago, courtesy of Paul Chaney, now VP Marketing at Blogging Systems, I learnt about iUpload, which provides a very interesting set of tools for online business, collaboration and community-building.
When people are new to blogging, or just exploring the possibilities, one thing I do is encourage them to find blogs in their industry or field of interest. I used to say, search on Google™ or Yahoo!® And sometimes I would suggest Technorati.
Thanks to Frank Barnako’s MarketWatch alert today (may need subscription - free), I learned of the BlogWorld and New Media Expo scheduled for Nov 8-9 next year in Las Vegas.
My previous post, on the launch of this Business and Blogging site, mentioned that it is part of the Business Channel within the b5media blog network.
The other Business Channel blogs just announced are:
As of today, Business and Blogging is officially launched as part of the rapidly growing b5media blogging network and ‘categorically’ speaking as part of b5media’s new Business Channel.
b5media (www.b5media.com) is a global new media network featuring more than 150 blogs on a wide variety of subjects ranging from entertainment and news to technology and sports. […]
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Written by Liz Fuller [email], and Laura Spencer [email] for b5media.
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