April 19th, 2007
Every time I do a presentation on business blogging, I go looking for current examples of business blogs, preferably with some evident connection with the interests of the particular audience I’m to address.
To do that efficiently, it helps to have lists, with domains, so I don’t have to do the basic digging myself.
Back in 2004-05, […]
By Des Walsh -- 7 comments
April 18th, 2007
The next Blog Business Summit conference is to be held in Chicago, September 17-19.
The first Summit was back in January 2005, in Seattle, when business blogging was not nearly as widespread as now.
In the media release about the 2007 event, BBS President and CEO Steve Broback is quoted as claiming a major change in attitude […]
By Des Walsh -- 0 comments
April 14th, 2007
In an interesting twist on the new media vs old media conversation, a new print magazine on blogging and podcasting is about to launch.
There are also a “magazine-esque” digital version and a podcast version.
After some preliminary promotion, the new Blogger & Podcaster magazine is about to launch.
Teresa Valdez Klein at Blog Business Summit keeps her […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
April 14th, 2007
I noticed today that the Word of Mouth Marketing Association - WOMMA - is looking for “a few great full-time bloggers” to cover their Word Of Mouth Basic Training - WOMBAT - event in New Orleans, April 17-18. They are offering hotel accommodation but the bloggers have to make their own way to the […]
By Des Walsh -- 3 comments
April 9th, 2007
From time to time, in speaking with business groups about blogging, I ‘ve mentioned a conversation I’d had with a chief executive, about why blogging was in my view something any business owner should know about and possibly incorporate into their business activity. The punchline of the story was that when I explained that there […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
April 6th, 2007
I’ve just become aware of the Blogger’s Choice Awards, sponsored by PayPerPost, with the awards to be announced at PostieCon ‘07, June 1-2, in Orlando, Florida.
Among the thirty three categories, from Best Animal Blog to Worst Blog of All Time, are:
Best Blog About Blogging
Best Business Blog
Best Corporate Blog
and other sub-categories of business, such as […]
By Des Walsh -- 0 comments
April 5th, 2007
Another great, first person testimony backed, business blogging case study today on my Google Alerts, which took me to a post by blogging expert Denise Wakeman on Build A Better Blog.
Denise tells of how, back in 2005, as a marketing consultant to LA gourmet bakery owner Larry Maiman, she “urged him to start a blog for his cafe”.
By Des Walsh -- 4 comments
April 4th, 2007
More from BlogHer Business ‘07, held last month in New York, about which I posted a couple of days ago.
On Susan Getgood’s Marketing Roadmaps, another report from the conference and with lots of links to women bloggers, together with an observation, presented with a touch of whimsy but pointedly enough, for the benefit of males […]
By Des Walsh -- 0 comments
April 3rd, 2007
Via The Editor’s Weblog, news that South Africa’s Mail & Guardian Online (M&G) has launched a blog aggregator for South African blogs, Amatomu.
The aggregator, still in Alpha, is well laid out, looks good and has some very useful features from a business blogging point of view, including tag clouds, a search for blogs (South African) and lists of […]
By Des Walsh -- 3 comments
April 2nd, 2007
It’s over a week since the BlogHer Business ‘07 conference in New York and I am hoping to interview one or two colleagues who attended.
In the meantime, for anyone wanting at least a partial answer to the question “where are the women business bloggers”, a good place to start would be the post by Maria Niles on her […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
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