Dilbert cartoons skewer CEO blogs
Posted in the Category of CEO Bloggers
Thanks to Steve Clayton for alerting me to these two cartoons. Hmmm.... so ghostblogging (ghostwriting a blog) is on the rise according to Scott Adams. I've publicly said I think ghostblogging is wrong.
But "wrong" is kind of a feeble word when it comes to the realities of corporate life. Let's just hope the ghostbloggers are witty, smart, in tune with the blogosphere and willing to dig out the nuances of an executive's thinking.
What a good corporate blog should look like
Posted in the Category of Blogging
Congrats to Mario Sundar on the launch of a new corporate blog for LinkedIn. Mario has been publishing his own blog, Marketing Nirvana, for about a year (can't find the archives so I'm not sure when he started it).
It's one of my favorite resources for tips and insights related to corporate blogging. Looks like his blog helped him get his new job as Community Evangelist with LinkedIn.
See below for 10 things that work on the new LinkedIn corporate blog
It always sounds better in French: Un bon blog repose sur une belle plume
Posted in the Category of Writing Tips
Ah, the language of Proust and the madeleine. I told my son the story of the madeleine when he was a little boy (how a tiny taste of a madeleine cookie unleashed a surge of memories; in fact, Proust's very long book, À La Recherche du Temps Perdu).
He was fascinated and always insisted on ordering madeleines whenever he saw them - hoping to spark some memories, no doubt.
Congratulations Eliza and Minor!
Now my older daughter,…
What does social media look like?
Posted in the Category of Social Media
Look at the mock-up below of a typical Amazon product page (this one for an iPod) and you'll get an idea of what social media looks like on a Web page. The schematic was created by Web designer and writer Joshua Porter. Shows 16 different ways that Amazon is including links to other related content, much of it created by users. [via Brian Oberkirch]
Only caveat I'd add is that the "sales rank" (at least for…
Technorati’s Peter Hirshberg on Japanese bloggers, Jello and the shoe shine guy
Posted in the Category of Blogging and Events and Global and Measuring ROI and Social Media
Technorati chairman Peter Hirshberg gave a fab opening keynote at last week's conference on corporate communication and technology held by The Conference Board in New York.
Apologies for taking so long to get this post up. I've been going non-stop. I was on the blogging panel for The Conference Board, did blog training with a corporate client and then was on another panel for the Annual ASJA meeting. Fun week in nyc.
Here are a few highlights…
Blog writing workshop - private session for client
Posted in the Category of Speaking
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