Category: General

Business Blogging on the Rise: (featuring Paul) Blogs are a way for you to tell your story over and over again, and do it in a personable way. If you are blogging and your competitor down the street is not, then it can be a competitive advantage.

www. Oneupweb.com is putting a daily synopsis of marketing analytics directly onto customer desktops using RSS feeds. The RSS feed in this case will be called Reports Direct, and will contain figures from Oneupweb’s ROI Trax analytics product.Reports Direct will provide an overview of the company’s Web site positions across major search engines, top keywords […]

According to the Great Lakes IT Report: MLB going to bat for blogs? Major League Baseball appears to be planning to take advantage of Web logs’ ability to slice and dice passions into pieces. Om Malik, a senior writer for Business 2.0, reports that the Web domain mlblogs.com has been registered to the league. Delivery […]

Business Week hops on blog bandwagon: The new issue of Business Week, which arrived on newsstands Friday, includes eight pages about Web logs and how they will change your business. The cover story is written in a blog fashion, with numerous items in a chronological ordering and individual sections describing the phenomenon’s parts. “Call it […]

The boss says Katie and Brian should start blogging: [they] might do well to check out MSNBC’s TV Web site for a few pointers about Web logging. Their boss, Jeff Zucker, said he’d support NBC’s top talent writing blogs . “I don’t think there’s enough interactivity right now, particularly on ‘Dateline,’ ‘Nightly News’ and ‘Today,’” […]

Blogs become required reading for journalists: Web logs are causing some TV news people to get less sleep. Jeff Greenfield of CNN told an audience at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference in Las Vegas that he gets up an hour earlier than he used to: “I can’t rely on … traditional news sources alone.” […]

I’m gonna go out on a limb here. I think that people that are using AOL email addresses for their professional email are complete losers. Maybe I should be nicer and say that they are simply ignorant of how to set up their email. Or they are just cheap. I just got an email from […]

Tagging is a pretty new phenomenon on the web and is the process of allowing users to categorize and organize content without a defined list of categories. The idea is that as more content is categorized in this bottom-up approach, the content will self-organize. You can see it at work over at Del.icio.us or Flickr. […]

Now blogs are moving beyond personal musings and taking on a new role: corporate communications. A growing number of businesses are using the blog format to promote products, interact with customers and shareholders, conduct market research and distribute company announcements. Some company blogs even add “personality” by featuring posts from top corporate officers. Yeah, it […]

Yahoo! News : Publishers put bloggers between the covers