More pics of Washington's blogging cognoscenti, as well as corporate blogger wannabes, who came to the pre-release party in downtown Washington DC - yes, one week before the official pub date of August 3rd!
John Aravosis of
Americablog fame (at right) was there. A bunch of my friends from
Fleishman-Hillard (co-hosts of the event) came, including Peter Klaus (at left).
And of course local celebrity corporate bloggers from the book, including Pat Cleary of
NAM (at left), Kevin Holland of
ACCABuzz and Cheryl Contee of
BloggerRelations. Ken Yarmosh
live blogged the event with this spot-on comment:
"There is…
Cool to be quoted yesterday in Randall Stross's Digital Domain column in The Sunday New York Times Business section (July 30, 2006). Stross interviewed me at length for the article and mentioned The Corporate Blogging Book "which Portfolio Hardcover is to publish this week." He began by positing that CEOs tend to avoid high-risk activities like sky diving and rock climbing... and blogging. But why? He goes on to cite Sun Microsystems Fortune 500 CEO blogger Jonathan Schwartz (the only F500 CEO blogging publicly). Schwartz's comments on his blog in the wake of Sun's most recent quarterly earnings announcement are a "tonic," writes…