]> http://www.corporateweblogging.com/latest Fortune 500 Blogs Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.corporateweblogging.com en http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/micro-persuasion?iid=52916&rsstype=latest&cid=13 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=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/better-business-blogging?iid=52733&rsstype=latest&cid=13 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... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:35:01 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/better-business-blogging?iid=52733&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-journalist?iid=52689&rsstype=latest&cid=13 According to the Official Google Blog, today, Google is launching an initiative to make more old newspapersaccessible and searchable online by partnering with newspaperpublishers to digitize millions of pages of news archives. See Bringing history... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 13:59:28 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-journalist?iid=52689&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=52598&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Just added the Chevron Blog from World Petroleum Congress to the Fortune 500 business blogging wiki, and another blog is the KFCNation blog for Kentucky Fried Chicken, a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, the third blog is the Molson blog, a Canadian company... Sat, 06 Sep 2008 21:59:44 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=52598&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=52307&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Google launched a new browser today, Chrome. The name conjures up images of 1980 s sci-fi movies (Tron). Rather the name looks back to the 1950 s and American cars glittering with Chrome. The name chrome comes from the description of the elements wit... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:28:08 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=52307&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52291&rsstype=latest&cid=13 It was nearly a decade ago when a then-young Marc Andreessen, the wunderboy founder of Netscape Communications, first talked about the concept of the browser pushing the operating system into the background. With the release of Google s experimenta... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:52:16 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52291&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52269&rsstype=latest&cid=13 So by now most of us have learned that Google finally is entering the browser market, with Google Chrome, an open source browser that promises a lot, but is yet to be released. It is due today, Tuesday, for in a beta version for Windows only, with Ma... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:44:47 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52269&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52140&rsstype=latest&cid=13 On the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina s landfall in the U.S., another storm named Gustav weaves a path through the Caribbean that could end in New Orleans as early as next Monday.Here are some of the best places online to track Hurricane Gu... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:08:33 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52140&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/global-neighbourhoods?iid=51981&rsstype=latest&cid=13 [David Sifry, Technorati co-founder. Photo by Shel]My friend Joseph Thornley has a good post about Technorati, a tool that was essential when I started blogging. I m betting some of you newer bloggers have never heard of it becaus... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:45:52 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/global-neighbourhoods?iid=51981&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=51911&rsstype=latest&cid=13 In episode #373 of the FIR podcast last week, Shel and I discussed what s wrong with Technorati.This turned into quite a lengthy discussion, initially prompted by Dan York s report in that episode in which he talked about what s wrong with Tec... Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:51:14 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=51911&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=51307&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Updated: Today, Google is launching a new advocacy campaign, Free The Airwaves, an effort by the company to get some traction around white spaces, the tiny slivers of spectrum that resides in the 700 MHz band spectrum vacated by analog television s... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:03:56 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=51307&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=51954&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Always happy to share the fruits of their inside work, Google has launched a real helpful tool for focusing your SEO and Web copy efforts. It s called Google Insights for Search.Per Google, here s how it works.Google Insights for Search analyzes a po... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:36:20 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=51954&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=51267&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Always happy to share the fruits of their inside work, Google has launched a real helpful tool for focusing your SEO and Web copy efforts. It s called Google Insights for Search.Per Google, here s how it works.Google Insights for Search analyzes a po... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:31:19 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=51267&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=50745&rsstype=latest&cid=13 There s lawyers who don t care how they get the next client or case. Whether it comes via an ad above a urinal, a two page spread in the yellow pages, or a referral from someone who thought the lawyer was pretty good, they just don t care.In fact som... Sun, 10 Aug 2008 18:26:31 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=50745&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=50439&rsstype=latest&cid=13 The GM Fastlane Blog recently went through a redesign after two years of the same design. Highlights include:- Incorporating Twitter- Incorporating Video- More space for bigger picture- Pull down archives show the number of posts per month- A photo g... Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:47:11 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=50439&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=51340&rsstype=latest&cid=13 The GM Fastlane Blog recently went through a redesign after two years of the same design. Highlights include:- Incorporating Twitter- Incorporating Video- More space for bigger picture- Pull down archives show the number of posts per month- A photo g... Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:46:57 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=51340&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/wikinomics?iid=49636&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Jesse Alpert and Nissan Hajaj just shared this discovery over at the Google Blog. The numbers are staggering: in 96, the Internet contained 26 million pages, then the count hit a billion in the year 2000. Just eight years later, that number has b... Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:38:22 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/wikinomics?iid=49636&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/buzz-machine?iid=49427&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Google s hubris may have finally gotten the better of them. See this from the official Google blog about the launch of Knol, the Wikipedia-About.com-Associated-Content it just officially launched:The web contains vast amounts of information, but no... Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:22:35 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/buzz-machine?iid=49427&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=49009&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Rob Longert from PepperDigital reviewed the Verizon PolicyBlog for the Fortune 500 Business Blogging wiki. He used Business and Blogging s approach to reviewing blogs, giving the blog 54 out of a possible 80.He gave the blog high marks for responsive... Fri, 18 Jul 2008 06:15:29 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=49009&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=48736&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Do we have an answer on ownership of employee blogs? I actually think we may have a resolution on the controversial subject. For those of you following with interest the recent thread I started on the ownership of employee blog once they leave the co... Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:13:19 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=48736&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=48673&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Like most bloggers, I use a variety of tools and applications to get things done. But while many of the tools that I use have me enthralled and singing their praises, others leave me frustrated and seeking a better solution, only to be dismayed that ... Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:27:03 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=48673&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/better-business-blogging?iid=48572&rsstype=latest&cid=13 1. STOP!!Before you rush in and publish your first post on your new blog, stop. That s right, stop, hang fire, wait, take a chill pill, or whatever phrase you care to use. First, let s do a little bit of thinking and, heaven forbid, planning befo... Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:00:15 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/better-business-blogging?iid=48572&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-pro?iid=48382&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Over at the official Google Blog, Search Quality Group fellow Amit Singhal starts a series on Google ranking. Sure, a lot of us bloggers have perhaps been introduced to several SEO concepts, but hearing it from Google itself from their new Search Qua... Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:07:35 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-pro?iid=48382&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-pro?iid=47989&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Over at Blog Search Engine, we ve announced that BSE is now again powered by Icerocket s search technology, after a brief switch to Google Custom Search.We are now proud to announce that we have struck a new deal with Iceeocket, and our search is... Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:07:28 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-pro?iid=47989&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=47631&rsstype=latest&cid=13 One volunteer community project I ve been involved with this last year has been the Fortune 500 Business blogging wiki, which is an effort to conduct a census of the Fortune 500 with blogs. In addition there s also a parallel project to conduct revie... Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:23:24 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=47631&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=47149&rsstype=latest&cid=13 More than 1,700 communicators from around the world are in New York to participate in the 2008 IABC International Conference, the flagship professional development and networking event of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC... Mon, 23 Jun 2008 04:03:16 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=47149&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=47128&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Innovative lawyers, law firms, and legal professionals know they need to monitor the blogopshere as part of the their strategic intelligence efforts. Subscribing to an RSS feed of Google blog searches of their names, competitor s names, subjects of l... Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:44:31 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=47128&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=47086&rsstype=latest&cid=13 If you re just getting your first message from a public relations (PR) professional, and you are wondering why you re being graced with our august presence, this article is for you. And, if you re among those who receive dozens of seemingly poi... Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:31:55 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=47086&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=46730&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Apple (#103 on the 2008 Fortune 500 list) has no blogs.The closest thing it s ever had to an officlal company blog like the Google blog or the Dell blog is its PR-speak Hot News page and a long-defunct student blog.So ... Apple, what gives?Why is the... Tue, 17 Jun 2008 03:00:05 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=46730&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=50779&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Apple (#103 on the 2008 Fortune 500 list) has no blogs.The closest thing it s ever had to an officlal company blog like the Google blog or the Dell blog is its PR-speak Hot News page and a long-defunct student blog.So Apple, what gives?Why is the... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:00:05 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=50779&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=50814&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Apple (#103 on the 2008 Fortune 500 list) has no blogs.The closest thing it s ever had to an officlal company blog like the Google blog or the Dell blog is its PR-speak Hot News page and a long-defunct student blog.So Apple, what gives?Why is the... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:00:05 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=50814&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=46650&rsstype=latest&cid=13 I hereby wake this blog up from its temporary slumber.We ll have some good ol business blog news, reviews and tips coming your way starting tomorrow with a Fortune 500 company blogging review. Welcome back to Business Blog Wire. ... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:36:32 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=46650&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=50780&rsstype=latest&cid=13 I hereby wake this blog up from its temporary slumber.We ll have some good ol business blog news, reviews and tips coming your way starting tomorrow with a Fortune 500 company blogging review. Welcome back to Business Blog Wire. ... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:36:32 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=50780&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=50815&rsstype=latest&cid=13 I hereby wake this blog up from its temporary slumber.We ll have some good ol business blog news, reviews and tips coming your way starting tomorrow with a Fortune 500 company blogging review. Welcome back to Business Blog Wire. ... Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:36:32 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-blogwire?iid=50815&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-profs-daily-fix-blog?iid=46502&rsstype=latest&cid=13 If your company is ready to dive into the social media waters, which tools such they examine first? Blogs? Facebook? Twitter? Wrong, try Google Blog Search, Summize, and Technorati.Before you can launch a successful social media strategy, you must be... Fri, 13 Jun 2008 09:42:42 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-profs-daily-fix-blog?iid=46502&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fc-now-fast-company-blog?iid=45301&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Emboldened by the success of low-cost, ultra portable laptops, Dell [NASDAQ: DELL] has finally entered the market with a basic laptop for the developing world. According to the official Dell blog, this machine is positioned... as the perfect devic... Thu, 29 May 2008 18:57:42 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fc-now-fast-company-blog?iid=45301&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=45007&rsstype=latest&cid=13 First some background to this post about Oracle. While attending the New Comm Forum, the annual conference for the Society for New Communications Research I met Kevin Ruane, who works in public relations for Oracle, he described what Oracle is doing ... Mon, 26 May 2008 18:13:54 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=45007&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=44726&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Remember the Doodle 4 Google story? Well, the winners are announced over at the Official Google Blog. Apparently there was an award ceremony over at the Googleplex and everything. From the blog post:Today, we re pleased to announce the winner: Grac... Thu, 22 May 2008 03:41:04 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=44726&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=44643&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Yesterday, General Motors Europe launched Driving Conversations, a new executive blog.We have an exclusive FIR interview with Chris Preuss, GM Europe s Vice President of Communications, about the new blog, recorded a few days ago ahead of the publ... Wed, 21 May 2008 04:11:32 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=44643&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=44372&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Ben Benson writes another review for the Fortune 500 Business blogging wiki. He reviews the Accenture blogs. He generally finds the blogs to be engaging, though he would like to see more blog posts. Ben gives an overview of the blogs at Accenture, ma... Sat, 17 May 2008 06:47:05 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=44372&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=44252&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Lots of blog reviews this last week, in addition to the three I mentioned earlier in the week, we have two more from the PR students out in Oregon!Nigel Vanderford reviews the CEO of SUN Microsystem s blog, Jonathan Schwartz. Nigel gave Jonathan s bl... Thu, 15 May 2008 18:22:24 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=44252&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/micro-persuasion?iid=43847&rsstype=latest&cid=13 I love Friendfeed. However, I am far more enthusiastic about the platform s robust RSS and search capabilities than its current value proposition as a universal social aggregator. I find it generates too much noise at times, but when you tap its sear... Sun, 11 May 2008 17:51:51 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/micro-persuasion?iid=43847&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=43565&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Southwest Airlines have relaunched their blog, Nuts About Southwest, on their second birthday (sort of):Thanks for joining us on our slightly belated birthday celebration as we roll out our exciting new Nuts About Southwest platform, or as we call it... Wed, 07 May 2008 03:11:34 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=43565&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=43556&rsstype=latest&cid=13 The Nuts About Southwest Airlines blog notches up another level with the introduction of podcasts and video blogs.Here s some snippets from the press release: Nuts About Southwest features more than 30 Employee bloggers that represent a mix of Frontl... Tue, 06 May 2008 20:27:28 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=43556&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=43517&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Another question we get peppered with at LexBlog is What s the ROI for a law blog? Like on a lot of things, I m pretty cavalier in my response. I just throw back questions. What s the ROI for taking exec s to a Celtics game? What s the ROI for spe... Tue, 06 May 2008 16:27:40 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=43517&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=43384&rsstype=latest&cid=13 A group of students from the University of Oregon have been reviewing Fortune 500 company blogs for their Advanced PR writing class. Alison Nicole Grise reviews the eBay Developers blog - The blog receives a poor rating for a lack of interactivity, t... Mon, 05 May 2008 10:16:20 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=43384&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=43331&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Scott Monty correctly points out that the General Mills blog, Real Baking with Rose Levy Beranbaum, is a sponsored blog rather than a corporate blog on the Community 2.0 blog. I removed the blog from the Fortune 500 blogging wiki, and we are back dow... Sat, 03 May 2008 23:30:20 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=43331&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=43238&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Mack Collier writes a review of the Wal-Mart Checkout blog. He dives into the Wal-Mart blog s volume of posts for the month of April, only seven posts, I d be curious to know about previous month s postings? More seriously Collier identifies that the... Fri, 02 May 2008 06:51:07 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pr-communications?iid=43238&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=43057&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Or maybe, 5 online tools a community manager should not live without. These are tools that I ve grown accustomed to as they ve grown in popularity and as of today, I can t successfully do my job without. And, let s not forget - I m writing ... Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:00:10 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=43057&rsstype=latest&cid=13 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=42984&rsstype=latest&cid=13 Imagine a 90 lawyer firm that s been around for decades with a very nice website with the biggest referrer of traffic to the website being a blog published by a lawyer who just joined the firm. And the blog is only 6 months old. Just got word from a ... Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:44:45 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/lexblog-blog?iid=42984&rsstype=latest&cid=13