]> http://www.corporateweblogging.com/latest RSS Sector - Latest Blog Articles at http://www.corporateweblogging.com en http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52971&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52957&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/better-business-blogging?iid=52911&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-logs?iid=52923&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52805&rsstype=latest&cid=27 CTIA seemed a bit quiet yesterday, but granted that was a day before the show floor opened. I m glad I was around yesterday because I got the chance to see some really cool stuff - in addition to the nano-chromatics announced by Apple. For those of y... Wed, 10 Sep 2008 13:56:37 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jupiter-research-analyst-blog?iid=52805&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/techdirt?iid=52841&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52856&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/web-ink-now?iid=52869&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52760&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Mobile Internet adoption is still rather slow. According to Forrester Research, only 21 percent of U.S. adult mobile phone owners use the mobile Internet, and only 7 percent do so at least once a week. One of the main reasons for this is that browsi... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:05:34 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/gigaom?iid=52760&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/micro-persuasion?iid=52737&rsstype=latest&cid=27 A news story from 2002 about United Airlines filing for bankruptcy tripped up investors yesterday when it re-appeared on Google News, Barry Schwartz reports. The Google News team follows with their own explanation. However, the entire issue raises th... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 12:33:16 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/micro-persuasion?iid=52737&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52741&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52731&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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 ... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 09:02:36 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52731&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/better-business-blogging?iid=52733&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=52717&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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 ... Tue, 09 Sep 2008 04:02:18 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=52717&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52647&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52693&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Content summary: Winner announced in PR Week blog contest; FIR Live on BlogTalk Radio on Sept 20; Shel on Sun Microsystems call-in show; update on iTunes issue; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; News That Fits - defending your brand onlin... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:10:48 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52693&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52649&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/bivings-report?iid=52646&rsstype=latest&cid=27 It really surprises me that more political figures and celebrities have not taken Obama s lead and created functional social networking sites that engage users and allow for not only greater transparency, but also general likeability of its moderator... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:57:17 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/bivings-report?iid=52646&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52650&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52652&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Is this the future? The TechCrunch50 Aggregator feeds us stories from the blogosphere and the social web that are tagged techcrunch50 or tc50 , which is really cool. Sure, it is mostly tweets up front, but you can sort it. Perhaps this is ... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 06:35:33 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52652&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52645&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/scobleizer?iid=52702&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=52626&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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 (... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:42:54 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=52626&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=52627&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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... Mon, 08 Sep 2008 04:43:22 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=52627&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jonathan-schwartzs-weblog?iid=52619&rsstype=latest&cid=27 It s been over a month (and three hurricanes in America) since I ve posted a blog. More than a few of you ve noticed - thanks for the prodding... It s been a busy summer, on nearly every front. Customer activity hasn t slowed down, and the good new... Sun, 07 Sep 2008 23:20:32 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/jonathan-schwartzs-weblog?iid=52619&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52586&rsstype=latest&cid=27 The subject of live blogging has come up for me three times in the last 24 hours so I thought it might make a good reader discussions. How would you go about live blogging at a conference? That was the question I was just asked - how would you do... Sat, 06 Sep 2008 11:08:42 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52586&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52594&rsstype=latest&cid=27 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=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/bivings-report?iid=52528&rsstype=latest&cid=27 The Bivings Gorup recently launched what is easily, as far as we are aware, one of the most advanced multilingual sites made in Drupal ever built. The International Journalists Network, or IJNet can be seen here: www.ijnet.org. The website, built ... Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:02:28 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/bivings-report?iid=52528&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporate-engagement?iid=52418&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Echo chamber: Social media strategists are talking to themselves Feeds ZDNet.com: Lately I ve been thinking a lot about social media as an industry. Or as a field. It s very new. We re still finding ourselves. We re trying to figure out ... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:56:07 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/corporate-engagement?iid=52418&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52471&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Content summary: SNCR awards deadline Sept 8; Twitter questions for Laura Fitton; PR Week blog contest update; follow-up discussion: Seth Godin and the myth of launch PR ; Dan York reports on Google Chrome and upgrading the web; the Media Monito... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:15:49 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52471&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52437&rsstype=latest&cid=27 It s slightly strange to me, being a near-lifelong freelancer, but some folks actually like working at Startups and are specifically looking for such jobs.HotStartupJobs launched earlier today and is just the place to find that new CTO position in ... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:05:31 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52437&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fastforward-blog?iid=52414&rsstype=latest&cid=27 I asked several of the startups I interviewed for AppGap if they have a twitter feed and a number of said yes. They see it as an alternative channel to reach their clients and not a replacement. Zappo shoes has gotten a lot of press because of this.... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:27:37 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fastforward-blog?iid=52414&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fierce-sarbox?iid=52408&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Coca-Cola has decided to get serious about expense controls--a big issue at many firms these days. This year, the company crafted plans to automatically audit more than 1 million travel expense transactions in North America, Travel Management report... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:41:50 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fierce-sarbox?iid=52408&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52472&rsstype=latest&cid=27 If you re like me, you ve probably got a range of options for people to subscribe to your blog s RSS feed.In addition to your main feed, often via FeedBurner, you might offer little chicklets or links that enable people to get your content via... Thu, 04 Sep 2008 04:37:00 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52472&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-logs?iid=52384&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Hi. My name is Dee Barizo and I m the new blogger for this site.You may have read some of my old posts back when I blogged at Smart SEO Blog, Net Business Blog, or Performancing. Also, I ve done internet marketing and SEO work for great compa... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 23:34:23 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/business-logs?iid=52384&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/wikinomics?iid=52380&rsstype=latest&cid=27 This guest blog is by Steve Ressler, founder of GovLoop.com, a social network connecting the government community. Mr. Ressler is also a contributor to the nGenera Gov 2.0: Wikinomics, Government, and Democracy project and the co-founder of Young Go... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:12:40 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/wikinomics?iid=52380&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52344&rsstype=latest&cid=27 When you post your blog content, what do you want to happen?Adsense clicks?Comments and reactions?Attention and traffic?Links and SEO boost?There are many motivations for writing content, and how you approach blogging has to suit your goals. This art... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 04:59:02 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52344&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=52315&rsstype=latest&cid=27 This is a sequel to my original post where I proclaimed that the future of reading was the iPhone and NOT the Kindle. Since then, we ve seen a slew of posts that repeated my claims and more recently we saw some numbers that claimed the Kindle was a... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:25:24 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=52315&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=52316&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Every time I fall off the blogging bandwagon, when life and work takes its toll on my enthusiasm to blog, I remind myself. Why do I blog? It s not easy. It takes a couple of hours every day in addition to daily work. And, then I realize. I love the... Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:58:08 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/marketing-nirvana?iid=52316&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52308&rsstype=latest&cid=27 A blog post linking to one of my blog posts has been scraped dozens of times. Recently, it was scraped by eight different sites in the same day. The eight trackbacked sites turned out to have a single owner/webmaster using their auto-blogging scraper... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:37:25 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52308&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52254&rsstype=latest&cid=27 What do you see when you look at this image?Image by Lord VOK - so it s two flies right? Yes it is . but look a little harder. Have you ever used one of those crazy eye cross eye 3D multidimensional pictures? This is one of them. Relax, cross yo... Tue, 02 Sep 2008 10:36:18 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52254&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52222&rsstype=latest&cid=27 When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans three years ago, I was stranded in the upstate of Louisiana without my most basic tools. I was there for several weeks with only dial-up Web access and a borrowed computer to help me out. Yet, I managed to updat... Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:29:01 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52222&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52230&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Content summary: Vote for FIR at Podcast Alley; new FIR Interview posted; iTunes download problems; diary date for next FIR Live: Sept 20; PR Week blog contest update; Michael Netzley discusses recommendations for managing Singapore s internet; the... Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:30:07 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52230&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/better-business-blogging?iid=52216&rsstype=latest&cid=27 It s Blog Day 2008. It s just a single day each year when we are encouraged to share 5 blogs that you might not yet be reading. It s really just a way to try to extend that the type of blogs that you might want to have a look at.As a result, I ... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 19:00:01 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/better-business-blogging?iid=52216&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52197&rsstype=latest&cid=27 In our last ProBlogger Poll I asked readers whether they run RSS ads on their main blog. The results are in - 66% of you don t run RSS ads on your blog.What I find interesting is that 18 months ago I ran this same poll. The results were that 75% of... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:25:24 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/pro-blogger?iid=52197&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fastforward-blog?iid=52201&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Social Media came of age after the Tsunami. It showed its power to provide vital information very quickly when the official channels could not.With Gustav a day away from landfall many of the most experienced people in the field are coalescing on a N... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:02:20 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/fastforward-blog?iid=52201&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-pro?iid=52195&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Linkshare, a leading performance marketing network, is now offering partnerships with hundreds of top advertisers. They have recently developed a tool that will allow you to populate WordPress blogs with ad placements. All through the easy-inst... Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:24:24 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blogging-pro?iid=52195&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52168&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Sun Microsystems is readying a new online tool that will allow non-programmers to develop social applications in a collaborative manner. Zembly, currently in private beta, will make it easy for those with minimal programming skills to create widgets,... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:14:37 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52168&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52113&rsstype=latest&cid=27 Content summary: PR Week blog contest update; brief discussion of FIR interview with Maggie Fox and Geoff Livingston; discussion of Jason Calacanis post about do-it-yourself PR for startup CEOs who should fire their PR agencies; the Media Monitori... Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:49:01 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/neville-hobson?iid=52113&rsstype=latest&cid=27 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52100&rsstype=latest&cid=27 For those of you who belong to the WordPress faith, you may be surprised to hear that there is a second iPhone App on Apple s favorite phone.Called BlogWriter, this iPhone app was developed by VirtueSoft, who charges everyone a steep $10 in order t... Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:04:03 -0400 http://www.corporateweblogging.com/sectors/directory/blog-herald?iid=52100&rsstype=latest&cid=27