]> http://www.corporateweblogging.com/latest Blogging Systems and Platforms Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.corporateweblogging.com en http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52971&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Four WordCamps and one WordPress Meetup all on September 27. It s WordPress Day! WordPress 2.6.2 released. Update now. New Plugin released taking advantage of new features in 2.6.2. Comment threading and inline editing added to upcoming WordPress 2... Fri, 12 Sep 2008 01:57:15 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52971&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/global-neighbourhoods?iid=52965&rsstype=latest&cid=17 I am starting my 16th month of writing my Social Media Global Reports. To date, I have interviewed 108 people in 34 countries. They are a diverse lot, ranging from Michael Dell, founder of the world s second largest computer company to Wael Abbas who... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:11:52 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/global-neighbourhoods?iid=52965&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/better-business-blogging?iid=52911&rsstype=latest&cid=17 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... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:26:41 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/better-business-blogging?iid=52911&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-pro?iid=52952&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Nobody missed me! Not even a comment to say, hey where s Jim? . Have we all just taken a quick look elsewhere for their daily tech dose, have we all stepped sideways to look at the other side have we have we have we Kidding!... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:13:16 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-pro?iid=52952&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52918&rsstype=latest&cid=17 This may well have been doing the rounds among other publishers, so apologies if this is old hat to some, but today I received an email from Google offering me 75 of AdWords advertising.I m a UK blogger using Google Analytics. The email begins:De... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:35:42 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52918&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-profs-daily-fix-blog?iid=52924&rsstype=latest&cid=17 With global sourcing strategies in place, companies often assemble finished goods from raw materials from hundreds of suppliers. However, not all suppliers act ethically, and some take short-cuts in quality control. In order to properly manage our br... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 09:00:54 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-profs-daily-fix-blog?iid=52924&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/diva-marketing-blog?iid=52922&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Social media marketing must be graduating from nursery school if the latest meme is - What is your best practice in social media marketing? Liz Strauss , as in the Diva Divine Ms. Liz Strauss, tagged me to play along. The game was stated by Mitch Joe... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:15:25 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/diva-marketing-blog?iid=52922&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52919&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Coollittlethings Studio has added its own software to the mix of blogging applications for the iPhone in the shape of Blog Press (iTunes Store link).Unlike some other general blogging tools for the iPhone which have missed out one or more key blog pl... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:09:15 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52919&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/web-strategy-by-jeremiah?iid=52956&rsstype=latest&cid=17 I ve had this blog redesign for a few years now, and it may start to show its cracks. For some, they like the simple layout and design, easy to scroll, for others, they may want a more updated look and feel.I ve noticed quite a few blogs have be... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:50:57 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/web-strategy-by-jeremiah?iid=52956&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52920&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Jason Calacanis has moved his blog, which he still isn t updating (despite a few Mahalo update linkdump), to WordPress. Why would Jason do this? I shot him an e-mail about it, but chances are, the reason is that he don t want to be on the old Web... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:22:37 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52920&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52921&rsstype=latest&cid=17 WordPress.com have rolled out the sticky post feature, said to debut in WordPress 2.7 due in November. This new features let you check a Stick this post to the front page box on a per post basis, which will keep the post up top, even if you pub... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:51:52 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52921&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/irdaily?iid=52894&rsstype=latest&cid=17 WHEN the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) said last month that it was going to build a new interactive data repository to replace EDGAR, I suggested that the timing was odd and that even the logo didn t seem finished.You can see my origi... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:30:13 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/irdaily?iid=52894&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52876&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Unless you ve been living under a rock, there s an election this year in America and opinions and emotions are running passionate and heavy. As a result, I ve noticed a few blogs I read toss in the occasional political slant, and sometimes a fu... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:51:29 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52876&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/flack?iid=52878&rsstype=latest&cid=17 You may not believe it, but most reporters at the leading news organizations take their trade very seriously. So much so that any hint of a compromise in their journalistic ethic raises all kinds of red flags within their news organizations.And thes... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:44:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/flack?iid=52878&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52807&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Over the weekend I asked readers how they suggest Live Blogging an Event. The resulting comments were really helpful so I thought I d collect some of them together into a post on the topic here.Travis Prinzi suggests that you use the opportunity to... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:25:08 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52807&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52814&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Movable Type has announced that its Sandbox for Movable Type plugin is now available, allowing the many Sandbox themes to be used on the MT blogging platform.Beau Smith writes:Ever thought about radically changing the look of your blog without much d... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:46:08 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52814&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52825&rsstype=latest&cid=17 A while back you might have read Brian s Effective Copywriting Tactics for Affiliate Marketing, which offered some great advice. But something tells me you might have wondered how to apply that advice to real-life affiliate marketing. I m going t... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:45:33 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52825&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52880&rsstype=latest&cid=17 A while back you might have read Brian s Effective Copywriting Tactics for Affiliate Marketing, which offered some great advice. But something tells me you might have wondered how to apply that advice to real-life affiliate marketing. I m going t... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:45:33 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52880&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52842&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Last month, of course, there was a big story around the FBI ... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:58:09 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52842&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52808&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Yesterday I announced on Digital Photography School that I was planning on running a short Photowalk while I was Las Vegas for Blog World Expo (you re welcome to join in). The post was to gauge if any of my readers would be interested in coming alo... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 10:05:31 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52808&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-profs-daily-fix-blog?iid=52819&rsstype=latest&cid=17 It s hurricane season here in Houston, and the weather weenie in me recently made a fascinating Web discovery. Then the marketing wonk in me started wondering... what could this cool find teach me (and maybe you) about creating a blog that the loca... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:10:09 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-profs-daily-fix-blog?iid=52819&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52870&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Later next month, the Web 2.0 Expo Europe conference and exhibition takes place in Berlin, Germany.A joint venture from TechWeb and O Reilly Media, this event is the conference and tradeshow for everyone looking to embrace and build on the opportu... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:04:17 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52870&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52816&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Blah Girls is the first of many web projects from Ashton Kutcher s Katalyst Media. It s a animated show featuring three female hosts yapping about celebs, gossip, and stuff like that, backed by a celeb blog in Perez Hilton style, but featuring th... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 04:44:39 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52816&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52785&rsstype=latest&cid=17 After spending two days at DEMO and catching most of the presentations, I m slightly disappointed. The number of passionate entrepreneurs who are thrilled to be here are inspiring and fun to be around, but some of the products launching make me wan... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 00:01:49 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52785&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/stephen-spencers-scatterings?iid=52781&rsstype=latest&cid=17 I m on a Mac and I love working from the command line (i.e. from within the Terminal or iTerm). Here is a random collection of some of my favorite hacks (time-saving tips and tricks), which will also work not just on Mac OS X, but in Linux/Unix dis... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:58:18 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/stephen-spencers-scatterings?iid=52781&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/stephen-spencers-scatterings?iid=52802&rsstype=latest&cid=17 I m on a Mac and I love working from the command line (i.e. from within the Terminal or iTerm). Here is a random collection of some of my favorite hacks (time-saving tips and tricks), which will also work not just on Mac OS X, but in Linux/Unix dis... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 20:58:18 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/stephen-spencers-scatterings?iid=52802&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52735&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Today saw a lot of varying but insightful blog posts from LexBlog s bloggers. I normally don t do this but the best of the day, and the best post I ve seen in a while is done by Adrian Lurssen, who comes in with an extensive list of legal professiona... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:30:41 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52735&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52797&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Today saw a lot of varying but insightful blog posts from LexBlog s bloggers. I normally don t do this but the best of the day, and the best post I ve seen in a while is done by Adrian Lurssen, who comes in with an extensive list of legal professiona... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 19:30:41 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52797&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52730&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Today I m excited to announce that my co-author of ProBlogger the Book, Chris Garrett, has just pre-launched a new training course for bloggers Authority Blogger.This is not a how to blog course - instead it is a course for people wanting to ... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 15:00:15 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52730&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52741&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Is your blog filled with Your Ad Here titles with empty space all around it? Honestly, WTF?As part of our ongoing WTF Blog Design Clutter article series, let s look at people s attempt to inspire advertisers on their blog, and where it fall... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:06:29 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52741&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/influential-interactive-marketing?iid=52734&rsstype=latest&cid=17 News doesn t really go away ever, it just gets pushed further down search results. If you had to single out one of the greatest impacts of the Internet on the traditional news media, it would likely be that now just about anyone has access to an inst... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 08:53:54 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/influential-interactive-marketing?iid=52734&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-profs-daily-fix-blog?iid=52745&rsstype=latest&cid=17 PJA Scratch: On launching an internal innovation blog, and what we ve learned In January, we launched PJA Scratch (as in money, or improvisation, or scratch pad), an internal blog for our advertising agency. The launch was quiet, and our expectatio... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:52:12 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-profs-daily-fix-blog?iid=52745&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52715&rsstype=latest&cid=17 There s a new version of WordPress out now, 2.6.2, which addresses a database issue as well as the weakness of mt_rand(). This is especially important if you accept registrations to your blog. Also, some bug fixes, but other than the MySQL/PHP issu... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 02:30:19 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52715&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52716&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Sarah Palin is the first woman ever to run on the U.S. Republican party presidential ticket. If Americans elect John McCain on November 4, Mrs. Palin will be the first female Vice President of the United States.Perhaps unsurprisingly, both BlogPulse ... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:45:27 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52716&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52647&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Many say, It s about time. Others are saying, We told you. Either way, it s as official as it gets. Bye-bye WTF blog cluttering CAPTCHAs. According to the Guardian in How Captcha was foiled: Are you a man or a mouse? , the CAPTCH... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 18:13:39 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52647&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52635&rsstype=latest&cid=17 This week I d like to run a reader review competition here on ProBlogger. Chitika kindly emailed me last week to ask if I d be interested in doing a giveaway with them and so instead of just running a comment to enter competition we t... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:45:40 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52635&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52649&rsstype=latest&cid=17 A week ago, I was offline for a few days and returned to find a bunch of comments on my blog pointing to comment spam that had slipped by my comment spam fighting WordPress Plugins as comment spammers tried new techniques.Recently, I brought up the i... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:29:10 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52649&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52650&rsstype=latest&cid=17 According to statistics, if you are reading this, you are probably on a broadband connection. Whether you are surfing at work on a LAN or at home on a DSL or cable modem, you are probably not on dial up at this moment.However, there was a time not th... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:55:08 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52650&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/influential-interactive-marketing?iid=52640&rsstype=latest&cid=17 A blogger has just said something bad about your company and it s getting picked up and repeated by others rapidly online ... what do you do? One of the toughest things to understand about responding to a negative situation on blogs is the speed with... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:48:23 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/influential-interactive-marketing?iid=52640&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52651&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Ordered List has conducted a CMS Survey, which only got 189 responses, a bit low to be really interesting, but still. The survey tells us that WordPress was the most broadly used system, with Other as #2, and Expression Engine and Drupal follow... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:40:31 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52651&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52645&rsstype=latest&cid=17 OK, OK, I ve had my weekend fun when I said, on Saturday, that most of the sites for the companies being shown at the Demo Conference suck. That conference starts later today. I got half the industry to hate me. I have people wondering if I m a p... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:13:58 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52645&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52702&rsstype=latest&cid=17 OK, OK, I ve had my weekend fun when I said, on Saturday, that most of the sites for the companies being shown at the Demo Conference suck. That conference starts later today. I got half the industry to hate me. I have people wondering if I m a p... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:13:58 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52702&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52613&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Yesterday I visited Marc Canter who was holding a BBQ. His back fence is, should we say, unique. Canter is the guy who started Macromind, which became Macromedia. He s always been ahead of the market in recognizing where things are going. Plus he ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:41:29 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52613&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52705&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Yesterday I visited Marc Canter who was holding a BBQ. His back fence is, should we say, unique. Canter is the guy who started Macromind, which became Macromedia. He s always been ahead of the market in recognizing where things are going. Plus he ... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:41:29 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52705&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/web-strategy-by-jeremiah?iid=52617&rsstype=latest&cid=17 This is a busy week, I ve received more submissions than ever before, if this pace continues, I ll have to figure out a new way to let folks self-submit. Be sure to include a link to your announcement, if it doesn t exist on the web, it s ha... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:27:55 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/web-strategy-by-jeremiah?iid=52617&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52614&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Well, I ve taken potshots at the new breed of startups. But let s go back and look at recent startups that have gotten our attention and use this list as a gold standard through which to judge companies that come out this week at one of the... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:15:49 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52614&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52706&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Well, I ve taken potshots at the new breed of startups. But let s go back and look at recent startups that have gotten our attention and use this list as a gold standard through which to judge companies that come out this week at one of the... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:15:49 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52706&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52610&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Have you ever had one of those days where you set aside time to blog and while you spend the whole time that you put aside busily doing stuff - you don t end up actually writing anything?I had one of those days this last week. After what felt... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 10:14:36 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52610&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52615&rsstype=latest&cid=17 Company policies prohibit it. Your moral compass might fight it. And it might be difficult to find the time. But I have a hunch - a sneaking suspicion - that if you re reading this blog entry, you ve committed the act.YOU HAVE BLOGGED AT WORK.C... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 08:58:04 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52615&rsstype=latest&cid=17 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52594&rsstype=latest&cid=17 A new entrant to General Motors stable of social media communication channels is GM Facts and Fiction which launched yesterday.The Financial Times reports on this attempt by GM to address what the auto maker sees as unfair and inaccurate criticis... Sat, 06 Sep 2008 07:12:59 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52594&rsstype=latest&cid=17