January 28th, 2008
(businessandblogging.com) Last week Liz asked the question, How Many Non-Profits Blog?
During the past week I’ve had the opportunity to discuss blogging with a member of a non-profit organization that is very much committed to blogs and to social media. That member has agreed to share their insights with Business and Blogging readers through an interview.
I’d […]
By Laura Spencer -- 6 comments
January 24th, 2008
(businessandblogging.com) The Business Channel at b5media is examining the issues, two bloggers at a time. It’s called the Odd Blog Couple, and it allows to b5 bloggers to present their opinions on the same question.
For this project, I was paired with Bridget Wright of Biz Chicks Rule.
Our issue is a two parter:
Should online social networking […]
By Laura Spencer -- 7 comments
August 29th, 2007
A few days ago I wrote here, enthusiastically, about the scheduled Blog Business Summit event scheduled for Chicago in September. And I was so enthusiastic, I wrote about it also on my Thinking Home Business blog.
I concluded the post on this site with a mention of the fact that I had not so far been […]
By Des Walsh -- 7 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 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 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
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 31st, 2007
The first post in this two part series took a brief look at the challenge of managing our digital identities - what people see when they find us or our companies online.
Way back in 1999, Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy famously said “You have zero privacy…Get over it.”
But “getting over it” does not mean we have […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
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
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