When to be Redundant, Repetitive, and Say the Same Thing Twice
Remember your fifth grade What I did on my summer vacation paper, where you used the words pool, baseball and bike 100 times apiece? And your English teacher dutifully marked your paper up with her red pen. Redundant. Don t ...
Want to improve your blog?
If you want to improve the focus of your blog and make sure that it s doing its job, then the best place to start (as well as asking your readers directly) is to check on your stats or analytics package. It contains a mine of useful information whi...
Crowdsourcing: business model failure vs. management mistake
While a combination of my job and a bit of intellectual curiosity leads me to devour a lot of content on the web, there is precisely one publication that I pay to have delivered to my house each week - The Economist. It s always a special treat whe...
How to Polish Posts: Individual Blog Post Design
Much is written about how to design blogs (as a whole) but another element of blog design that I think is just as important, yet not written about much, is the design of individual blog posts.How blog posts look is so important. I ...
Business benefits of RSS to subscribers and readers
There are two things that I consider to be safe assumptions in life: one, we all like to know what s going on and, two, we never seem to have enough time. Now it may be that for some of us, a copy of Business Week, The Times or perhaps Cosmopolitan...
Top 15 Corporate Blogs (Technorati Rankings) - Sep 08
It s time for another edition of Top 15 Corporate Blogs, and you re in for a few surprises. I was glad to find that our most recent ranking (May 08) now finds mention in the Wikipedia entry on Corporate Blogging.What s different?There seems to ...
Speaking at Blog World Expo 2008
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I m one of many featured speakers at Blog World Expo 2008 at the Las Vegas Convention Center. I ll actually be on two panels this year, one as a speaker and the other as a moderator. Both panels are focused on (...
Weekly Corporate Blogging News Capsule (Sep 7, 2008)
Given that I cannot cover all recent articles on corporate blogging, starting this week, I ve decided to present a weekly summary (each Monday) on corporate blogging ideas/blog posts/articles that I haven t had a time to dedicate an entire post t...
David Gregory is Now MSNBC s Lead Anchor on Election Coverage
The New York Times reported September 7, 2008, that David Gregory has replaced Keith Olbermann and Chris Matthews as MSNBC s lead anchors in the cable news channel s coverage of the [presidential] election. See MSNBC Takes Incendiary Hosts Fro...