April 7th, 2008
How Did You Choose Your Career?
In honor of Take Your Sons and Daughters to Work Day (April 24th), the b5media Business channel has decided to run a contest encouraging all Business channel readers to talk about the process of how they chose their careers.
If you leave a comment on this post that explains how you […]
By Laura Spencer -- 19 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 22nd, 2007
As I’m moderating a panel on Social Media at the interactive marketing event, ad:tech Beijing in November, I’m starting to be more alert than usual to blog posts that offer insight into social media in that vast country and complex, multi-layered culture.
I’m also taking greater interest in matters of business etiquette. A long time ago, […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
August 20th, 2007
Thanks to having subscribed to the feed for Paula Neal Mooney’s always interesting blog, I caught up today with the 2007 Black Weblog Awards.
From the Awards blog site, I found that this year there is a Business Blog category.
Jim D. Walton’s Black in Business blog is “a blog for ordinary people wanting extraordinary success”. […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
August 17th, 2007
Things move fast in the Web 2.0 world and those of us who want to keep up have to be open to changing our opinions quickly as the environment changes. Take Twitter, for instance.
Regarding Twitter, in April I was poised as elegantly as I could manage, on the fence.
Since then I have dallied with Twitter, […]
By Des Walsh -- 4 comments
August 1st, 2007
Come November, I’ll be joining with my internet marketing/tech guru/new media wiz colleague, Rich Brooks from Portland, Maine, to host a session at the BlogWorld and New Media Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Our session, part of the Executive & Entrepreneur conference on November 7, will be on a subject I love […]
By Des Walsh -- 0 comments
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 21st, 2007
For anyone who wants an up-to-the-minute briefing on blogging as seen in a WordPress world, the WordCamp 2007 event in San Francisco is being live-blogged by several bloggers.
Among others, there are posts by Tris Hussey on the BlogWorld & New Media Expo blog and his own A View From the Isle site.
Stephanie Booth has extensive […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
July 16th, 2007
This time last year I had the privilege of participating in the Future of Media Summit, organized by Ross Dawson’s Future Exploration Network (FEN) and held simultaneously in Sydney and San Francisco. My recollection of having enjoyed the event was reinforced just now when I re-read the comment I emailed to Ross the following day, […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
June 25th, 2007
I don’t know whether it’s a first for blogging conferences, but the ever-innovative people at BlogHer have arranged, in tandem with their BlogHer ‘07 - “A World of Difference” conference in Chicago this July, a virtual world BlogHer in Second Life.
This should be a boon for those who can’t make it to Chicago and are […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
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