Business and Blogging

February 23rd, 2008

BusinessWeek Updates Classic Article on Blogs to Include Social Media

(www.businessandblogging.) Three years ago, BusinessWeek made a prediction that was ahead of its time: Blogs Will Change Your Business.
They were right, of course, although most companies are just now waking up to the real power of blogs. Even BusinessWeek probably didn’t realize at the time just how right they were.
(Although not all of their specific […]

By Laura Spencer -- 6 comments

January 20th, 2008

Coffee Break

(businessandblogging.com) Grab your coffee cup and let’s explore the web!
This post highlights some of interesting Sunday reading choices.
Debbie Weil has an interesting post about The controversial issue of ”data portability” (or what we used to call “privacy”). As someone who conducts business online, her post raises an interesting question: where does online interaction […]

By Laura Spencer -- 7 comments

January 8th, 2008

Big Business Blogging

(businessandblogging.com) The recent survey results indicating that “only”5% of small businesses have blogs made me curious about what the big boys (and a few big girls) are doing.
I took a look at the corporate sites of the top 10 Fortune 500 corporations.
Here are the results:
#1 - Wal-Mart - No blog
#2 - Exxon Mobil - […]

By Liz Fuller -- 10 comments

January 6th, 2008

Introducing the Business and Blogging Blogroll

(businessandblogging.com) Liz and I have been exploring the Internet, looking for the best blogs about the impact that blogging can have on business.
For starters, we’ve come up with the seven blogs listed below. (You’ll notice that they’ve already been added to the blog roll.) I know that these blogs will become part of my […]

By Laura Spencer -- 7 comments

January 1st, 2008

New Year. New Beginnings.

(businessandblogging.com)
Business and Blogging. Power and Potential.
We are at the brink of incredible change in the way we do business.
Everything we know about communication, marketing, advertising, consumption, customer relations and consumer rights is changing.
Power is shifting and it may will never go back.
The visionary corporations are the ones that are paying close attention to the blogosphere.
They […]

By Liz Fuller -- 2 comments

August 31st, 2007

Moving Right Along

In my post here on August 7th, I announced that b5media were looking for a new host for this blog, as I was planning to move along. Subsequently, an ad was placed on the Problogger job board.
There has been an excellent response and although it’s not my decision as to who the next person would […]

By Des Walsh -- 4 comments

August 31st, 2007

Globlogging’s Explosive Growth

Today’s guest blogger, Hal Licino, points to some interesting statistics on the languages of blogging and lays claim to a neologism.
At the height of the Roman Empire, the single lingua franca of Latin was used as the official language of commerce and literature from Scotland to the Nile. Latin became an overlay onto the myriad […]

By Des Walsh -- 1 comment

August 29th, 2007

Chicago Blog Business Summit Cancelled

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 28th, 2007

8 Answers to the Question: Why do you bother?

Guest blogger Andrew Garrett provides eight good reasons for blogging as part of your business.

From the outside, spending valuable business time writing a blog looks like you’re wasting time.
From the inside, it’s hard work, but can still feel a little disconnected from your day to day operations.
The value we get from weblogging is hard […]

By Des Walsh -- 3 comments

August 28th, 2007

Beat Bad Buzz by Tracking Your Own Brand in the Blogosphere

Guest blogger Brittney Gilbert offers some practical advice for companies wanting to guard against bad buzz from the blogosphere.
When widely read blogger Jeff Jarvis of BuzzMachine, AKA Internet Rockstar bought a Dell computer that bit the dust on him, he took to complaining about it on his website. He wrote several entries about “the lemon” […]

By Des Walsh -- 8 comments