Category: General

  • Curse of the CEO Blog

    Seth Godin says it best (as always): Here’s the problem. Blogs work when they are based on: Candor Urgency Timeliness Pithiness Controversy Does this sound like a CEO to you? It does pain me to try and propose blogging to entrepeneurs who seem to lead very boring lives. It’s like having a dead brand. I […]

  • Exclusive: Paul Chaney of Radiant Marketing Group

    Easy Bake EXCLUSIVE! I snagged a teleconference with blog marketer Paul Chaney from Radiant Marketing Group. RMG focuses on marketing know-how for small businesses to build their businesses online. I hope you’ll join me for this fantastic opportunity to pick the brain of a web marketing expert. Topics include: Predictions on the future of blogging. […]

  • Blogs and Consumer Generated Media

    Intelliseek held a teleconference (sometimes I just can’t bring myself to say the word ‘webinar’ – it’s like saying the word ‘infopreneur’ with a straight face) on the advent and advancement of Consumer Generated Media (CGM). Boiling it all down: Traditional marketers are threatened that consumers can now publish their opinions about products. With blogs […]

  • My Beef With Feedburner

    I want to use Feedburner. I think it’s a great idea that it tracks clicks from a newsfeed. But I just don’t want to be tied into the Feedburner service. If I have lots of people subscribed to my feed at Feedburner – what happens if they change their terms of service or start charging […]

  • 10 Reasons Why Blogging Is Good For You

    10- A hope: Blogging is about sharing thoughts and ideas by writing daily/weekly or monthly on a webspace accessible online. Writing about things that matters to you will likely force you to question yourself and force you to express feelings and thoughts as clearly as possible to the outside world. Thus, this can just result […]

  • Blogging as Virtual Water Cooler

    From Knowledge Jolt: [B]logs can be used to extend the socialization framework that we get when smart people gather around the cube, board table or in the lunchroom. In those situations, people are sharing and learning from one another, but it happens only within a small group of people who happen to be near each […]

  • Every Company Should Blog

    Not much more than a declaration but still notable. Every product and every company should have a blog. I expect this will happen in the near future. If company is afraid to have a blog because it doesn’t want some customer [s]to say something nasty on the blog, then this company has serious fundamental problems.

  • EU Launches Media Initiative

    The EU has launched the ‘New Media for a New Millenium’ project. Which will: (via Paid Content) create new production tools for the media industry that will allow the easy production of non-linear media genres based on moving image suitable for transmission over broadband networks. The new media genres will be characterised by the fact […]

  • Small Business Book Review

    Some of my coaching cronies have cooked up a great new group blog: http://www.smallbusinessbookreview.com/ This is a great chance to talk with other biz book junkies – and our first text is The E Myth: Revisted.

  • Blogs and Politics Timeline

    Super-Sifry has served up a timeline in wiki format: Blogs and Politics