]> http://www.corporateweblogging.com/latest Blogging Tips and Best Practices Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.corporateweblogging.com en http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52980&rsstype=latest&cid=21 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 ... Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:24:01 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52980&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52981&rsstype=latest&cid=21 The final character to get to know in the Lateral Action universe is Marla. Compared with Lou and Jack, she s like Yoda.Next week we ll start publishing a lot of foundational text content that will help you make sense of where we re coming from... Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:05:07 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52981&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporatecounsel.net-blog?iid=52975&rsstype=latest&cid=21 The Need for Hold-Til-Retirement Provisions In the September-October issue of The Corporate Executive - which was just mailed - the primary focus of the issue was on the need for companies to implement hold-til-retirement provisions for equity awards... Fri, 12 Sep 2008 07:22:33 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporatecounsel.net-blog?iid=52975&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52969&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Have you ever wished that you could get more details of how your AdSense performance is going and wondered why Google AdSense and Google Analytics don t have some way of talking to one another to give you more effective metrics?Well it seems that t... Fri, 12 Sep 2008 02:32:23 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52969&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52971&rsstype=latest&cid=21 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=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52961&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Tweet a link to the home page of your website. Then follow it up with tweets of links to blog posts reporting car accidents involving serious injuries to people you do not represent.This blog post linked to from Twitter is particularly impressive.Man... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:47:16 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52961&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52976&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Tweet a link to the home page of your website. Then follow it up with tweets of links to blog posts reporting car accidents involving serious injuries to people you do not represent.This blog post linked to from Twitter is particularly impressive.Man... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 23:47:16 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52976&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/global-neighbourhoods?iid=52965&rsstype=latest&cid=21 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=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52957&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Content summary: Remembering 9/11; next FIR Live on Blogtalk Radio on Sept 20; update on iTunes; follow-up: GM s anti-misinformation website; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; Dan York reports on BusinessWeek s guide to CEO micro-blog... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 20:22:06 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52957&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52913&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Rick Georges posted today that Twitter may work for guys like Kevin O Keefe, but not for the day to day practicing lawyer like him.Rick s post followed Chuck Newton s comments that A small part of [Twitter] might be beneficial but most of it is not.... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:18:23 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52913&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52978&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Rick Georges posted today that Twitter may work for guys like Kevin O Keefe, but not for the day to day practicing lawyer like him.Rick s post followed Chuck Newton s comments that A small part of [Twitter] might be beneficial but most of it is not.... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:18:23 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52978&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/micro-persuasion?iid=52915&rsstype=latest&cid=21 I love Google Docs, but this is just wrong. In a seemingly innocent blog post running down new features for back to school, Google now says they let you search for images off the web via your document so you can drop them in. In other words, they re ... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:27:50 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/micro-persuasion?iid=52915&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/better-business-blogging?iid=52911&rsstype=latest&cid=21 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=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52909&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Blogging advice articles all seems to include the matra - create great content . The theory goes that if you create great content people will come to your blog, link to it, pass it on to friends, bookmark it and your blog will grow.OK - we ve... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 16:31:17 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52909&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52934&rsstype=latest&cid=21 When we talk about all the harm patents do, some people respond that even if the market can make up for cover the research costs for commercial products, without patents, basic research would never happen. Nothing can be further from the truth. In ... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:33:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52934&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/micro-persuasion?iid=52916&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Google isn t exactly known as the most transparent company in the world, but they re light years ahead of Apple - a company that in some ways they share a kinship with when it comes to their reputation for innovation. Apple (or for that matter any bi... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:37:42 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/micro-persuasion?iid=52916&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporate-governance-blog?iid=52904&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Members of the International Working Group of Sovereign Wealth Funds agreed in early September to a voluntary set of principles to guide their governance, accountability, and investment practices. The principles are currently being debated by the fun... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:34:47 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporate-governance-blog?iid=52904&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/richard-edelmen-6-am?iid=52903&rsstype=latest&cid=21 I was on a panel on Tuesday in Washington D.C. for communications professionals from the National Institutes of Health. They wanted to know how they operate in an environment where media authority is dispersed, confidence in government as a trusted s... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:34:03 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/richard-edelmen-6-am?iid=52903&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/crisisblogger?iid=52912&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Two things caught my eye while enjoying the Napa wine country. Both involve the rapidly changing world of reputation management and instant news. One, United Airlines stock crashed going from $12 a share to one penny in a few hours all because so... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:19:14 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/crisisblogger?iid=52912&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52900&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Want to be a better writer? Read. That s a given. The more you read and comprehend what others have written, the more you can discern the good from the bad or various techniques that packed a punch. But what should you read? Should you read textboo... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:18:33 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52900&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52947&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Figuring out how to get wireless subscribers to watch and pay for over-the-air television on their mobiles is a problem in the U.S., and apparently it isn t doing well in Europe either. But instead of asking if people actually want to watch broadca... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 11:04:25 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52947&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-shift?iid=52928&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Imagine an application that functioned as your own,intimate version of a GPS. It could navigate you through nearly every decision of your life by providing instant info on any item,product,restaurant or store within your sight. While that technolo... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 10:25:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-shift?iid=52928&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52896&rsstype=latest&cid=21 OK so I ve been playing around with Genius and here are my initial thoughts / experiences: If you ve got a lot of indie catalogue in your iTunes catalogue (and I do) it reveals just how may gaps remain in the iTunes Music Store catalogue. The ... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:33:05 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52896&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52895&rsstype=latest&cid=21 As anyone with a broadband connection and an internet browser can tell you, video is now a standard feature on most web sites. (In our 2008 webtrack of leading European sites, we found that 96 percent offered video content -- up from 88 percent in 20... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 08:33:03 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52895&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/diva-marketing-blog?iid=52922&rsstype=latest&cid=21 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=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52919&rsstype=latest&cid=21 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=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/web-strategy-by-jeremiah?iid=52956&rsstype=latest&cid=21 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=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporatecounsel.net-blog?iid=52897&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Just Posted: Notes from the 2008 JCEB Meeting with the SEC StaffBe sure to check out these notes from the May 2008 meeting between the ABAs Joint Committee on Employee Benefits and the SEC Staff. Mark Borges previously noted a number of the notable e... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 06:35:54 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporatecounsel.net-blog?iid=52897&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52891&rsstype=latest&cid=21 There are plenty of news stories that seem to blame some form of technology for actions of individuals. The latest, as pointed out by reader Rose M. Welch, is an article that seems to be blaming mobile phones for bad parenting. Apparently, child de... Thu, 11 Sep 2008 01:44:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52891&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52873&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Well, it is finally Wednesday and the week is already more than halfway done. As with every day, here are the 10 best posts from all of LexBlog s bloggers. There are some really interesting ones in there so feel free to click through and possibly ev... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:10:43 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52873&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52898&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Well, it is finally Wednesday and the week is already more than halfway done. As with every day, here are the 10 best posts from all of LexBlog s bloggers. There are some really interesting ones in there so feel free to click through and possibly ev... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 21:10:43 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=52898&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52836&rsstype=latest&cid=21 On the day that Google s Chrome browser launched I saw a few reports claiming that it already had jumped to somewhere between 2 and 3% of the market. Those numbers seemed ridiculously high for a first day launch of a new piece of software -- especia... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 19:44:47 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52836&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52807&rsstype=latest&cid=21 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=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-logs?iid=52923&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Web 2.0. Social media. New media. Join the conversation.Whatever you want to call it, there is a big shift happening on the internet. Instead of just consuming information, more and more online users are become publishers.Web 2.0 sites like forum... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 18:24:16 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-logs?iid=52923&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/e-media-tidbits?iid=52866&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Follow ONA 2008 online: The Online News Association conference gets underway in Washington, DC this week. Follow the action online via the official Twitter account ONA08, and the hashtag #ONA08. (If you re tweeting from the conference, remember to in... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 17:59:47 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/e-media-tidbits?iid=52866&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/wikinomics?iid=52871&rsstype=latest&cid=21 A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking to Ken Eklund, a freelance writer and game designer, and the creator of a fascinating Alternate Reality Game (ARG) called World Without Oil. As the world grapples with climate change and other global iss... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 16:37:32 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/wikinomics?iid=52871&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fastforward-blog?iid=52809&rsstype=latest&cid=21 I just came back from covering the Serena Tag 2008 conference. I want to share this one post, as it is a topic we often discuss and caused me to link back to some of these discussions on this blog. Jeff Kaplan of THINKstrategies discussed how the Saa... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:34:38 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fastforward-blog?iid=52809&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52841&rsstype=latest&cid=21 It seems like every few months, well respected security researchers come out with yet another report about just how insecure various e-voting machines are. The amazing thing is how hard the various e-voting companies have fought against allowing the... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 12:34:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52841&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/buzz-machine?iid=52864&rsstype=latest&cid=21 New Jersey s Star-Ledger today put out an entire edition without anything from the Associated Press within. The sharp-eyed reader will notice lots of local news by staff plus articles from other papers Washington Post, LA Times, McClatchy, the Gl... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:49:21 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/buzz-machine?iid=52864&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52825&rsstype=latest&cid=21 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=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/copyblogger?iid=52880&rsstype=latest&cid=21 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=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/global-neighbourhoods?iid=52818&rsstype=latest&cid=21 A couple of weeks back, I wrote a piece on the future of social media. It was not my best-received post. It is one of the few times that I have ever been criticized for brevity. But the issue was that I had a thought that has not fully developed, one... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:38:08 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/global-neighbourhoods?iid=52818&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fc-now-fast-company-blog?iid=52851&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Citing a quote from 19th century writer Thomas Carlyle, Bud Bilanch talks about learning after your formal years of study are finished in his new blog. I admire the concept that it is the books you read and the study you do after college that truly m... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 11:37:30 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fc-now-fast-company-blog?iid=52851&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52856&rsstype=latest&cid=21 I am still sifting through all the information I have gathered this week while attending a couple of conferences. This has taken my focus away from what s in the news. The good news is that most of the team has been busy at work. You can follow our... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:57:17 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52856&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/web-ink-now?iid=52869&rsstype=latest&cid=21 I ve written a great deal about how social media has gradually become an important aspect of public relations. For example, smart PR people at companies and agencies have created terrific online media rooms, delivered online video and podcasts, writt... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:19:39 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/web-ink-now?iid=52869&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52815&rsstype=latest&cid=21 Have you noticed how all bloggers are often lumped together into one, big, generic group? Like we are all the same? Bloggers are , Bloggers do , Bloggers think .I have been guilty of this myself.But think about the vast variety of blogger... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:58:38 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52815&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52843&rsstype=latest&cid=21 As a company, if things aren t going well, it s often difficult to accept that some of the blame may be on your end -- which makes it especially easy to lash out at competitors, assigning blame to them. This becomes troublesome when it starts to inv... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:10:07 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52843&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-profs-daily-fix-blog?iid=52821&rsstype=latest&cid=21 If you have every questioned the power of Google, consider this: United Airlines lost 76% of its value the other day due to the supposed re-posting (or careless reading) of a six-year-old Chicago Tribune article about the firm s 2002 bankruptcy filin... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 08:00:03 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-profs-daily-fix-blog?iid=52821&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporatecounsel.net-blog?iid=52794&rsstype=latest&cid=21 An Insiders Perspective: How to Avoid a Yahoo-Like Tabulation NightmareAs part of the Fall issue of InvestorRelationships.com, I got to spend some quality time with my good friend, the independent inspector Carl Hagberg to conduct an interview entitl... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 07:26:53 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporatecounsel.net-blog?iid=52794&rsstype=latest&cid=21 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52786&rsstype=latest&cid=21 My handwriting sucks. I m sure of it. I sometimes can t even read my own notes. It s worse than doctors prescriptions. One of my elementary school teachers even likened it to chicken scratchings on the ground.It all started when I was in pre... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:28:47 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52786&rsstype=latest&cid=21