August 31st, 2007
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 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 28th, 2007
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
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
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
May 26th, 2007
After posting the item Business Blogging in China, I remembered a particular blog which I could appropriately have made reference to.
Jeremy Gordon’s China Business Blog has been going since May 2004, which is a pretty good run in the world of business blogs, and in that time he has racked up just over 500 posts. […]
By Des Walsh -- 0 comments
April 30th, 2007
What if a business person could have a place on the Web where there was a collection of blogs which were:
- focused consistently on business issues
- informative and even entertaining
- written professionally
- by bloggers respected by their peers
- updated regularly and at least several times a week?
You’ve read my mind.
It’s here, at the business channel […]
By Des Walsh -- 1 comment
March 27th, 2007
Just over a week ago I wrote about luck. That was part of a ‘theme day’ with my colleagues on the b5media Business channel. I had every intention of making reference on the day to the other posts on the subject. That was about when “one of those weeks” started where with the best of intentions […]
By Des Walsh -- 0 comments
December 22nd, 2006
Must have been a good red Martin Neumann chose, to assist him in coming up with a very interesting set of seven predictions for blogging in 2007.
1. Blogging will Peak in 2007, Settle and Start to Mature
2. The Rise of the Group Blog
3. Blogging Metrics will be a Big Talking Point and Advances Will be Made
4. […]
By Des Walsh -- 2 comments
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