February 15th, 2008
(www.businessandblogging.) Liz and I have been following the use of blogging as a tool by businesses of all sizes. Last month Liz looked at the question: How Many Small Businesses Have Blogs?
Liz was amazed, and so was I, to find that only five percent of businesses with less than 100 employees have a blog.
When the […]
By Laura Spencer -- 6 comments
January 26th, 2008
(businessandblogging.com) A lot of our conversation about blogging and business has focused on customer relationship or marketing. There’s a lot more to it than that, as many project managers have discovered.
One of the key elements in project management is communication. Traditionally, project management communication has been done through meetings, progress reports, or phone calls. […]
By Laura Spencer -- 4 comments
August 24th, 2007
The next Blog Business Summit is only a few weeks away now. The event is to be held in Chicago, 17-19 September, and its structure is an interesting reflection of how blogging in the business sector has evolved since the first Summit in January 2005 in Seattle. (NOTE: the Chicago event scheduled for September has […]
By Des Walsh -- 3 comments
August 3rd, 2007
As it’s the beginning of August, here on the b5media Business Channel each of us is riffing on some or other aspect of the meaning of “small a” august.
Incidentally, this word is just one example of the challenge for people whose first language is not English, in learning how to pronounce English words: the month […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
July 29th, 2007
This is the first of two posts on the subject of managing our identities - and the identities of our companies - in a Web 2.0 world. This post looks at the challenge.
It is said that Charlie Chaplin once entered a Charlie Chaplin Look-Alike competition in Monte Carlo, Monaco. He came third.
More recently, noted blogger […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
July 28th, 2007
I sat up and took notice yesterday when email from eMarketer arrived. Headed
Chinese Tiger Roars Online, the message included some impressive statistics drawn from a new report, China Online Overview.
A current growth rate of 30% in China’s online population puts the country on course to soon pass the USA in having the most Internet users […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
July 26th, 2007
Future Exploration Chairman Ross Dawson sums up the extensive media and blog coverage of the San Francisco + Sydney Future of Media Summit this month, which I wrote about here on July 16.
Of the various media and blog items linked from Ross’ post, one in particular caught my eye, an article in the Sydney Morning […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
July 18th, 2007
One of my favorite blogs is that of Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz. But the author clearly doesn’t want to be known as a “CEO blogger”.
His post “The Internet vs. Stone Tablets” was prompted by an enquiry from the media. A reporter asked him, as a “CEO who writes a blog”, to comment on a […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
June 23rd, 2007
Good to see Microsoft Aussie blogger Frank Arrigo on the speaker list for the AMP Innovation and Thought Leadership Festival in Sydney next week.
Frank’s topic is “To blog or not to blog; that is the corporate question…”.
Some time ago I had the pleasure of presenting at another event in Sydney where Frank was also a […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
June 21st, 2007
This time next week I’ll be mingling with some top thought leaders, futurists, innovative thinkers, and technology experts from around the world and with staff of the AMP finance and investment company. The occasion is AMP’s week-long Innovation and Thought Leadership Festival 2007.
The Festival is for employees and decision-makers of AMP from all departments […]
By Des Walsh -- 3 comments
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