Category: General

Sobering thoughts on comparing content management to distributed authorship: There isn’t any ROI in a CMS by itself. Not one red cent. There is ROI in a publishing process that perhaps uses a system to enhance that process. The process is much more important than the system and should be put into place before a […]

Synesthesia Wiki has a developing document on requirements for blogs in the corporate world: (via CorporateBloggingBlog) Must work in Windows environment User authentication must be transparent Users can keep existing tools Must support multiple clients Store once and only once Must have security profiles Must support Trackbacks Must support offline working

Super-brain Robin’s got a new career path for us. The newsmaster is an individual capable of personally crafting RSS-based specialized information channels by utilizing technologies that allow her to select, aggregate, filter, exclude and identify quality news, information, content, tools and resources from the whole universe of content, news and information available on the Internet. […]

Jim over at Eweek wanes on RSS: RSS is at a crossroads in development…. [T]his is also that time when many of the problems and deficiencies in RSS will be discovered, and enterprise users of RSS will expect these problems to be fixed as soon as possible. If the developers and caretakers of RSS are […]

Jeremy C. Wright sells Ensight, his blog about business and tech for a cool $15,000: (via BusinessPundit) As far as I’m aware, Ensight’ll be the first blog to be sold for anything beyond the domain name’s value (a couple of hundred bucks typically). It’ll be the first blog to be sold as and bought as […]

Concetric Blog argues: Blogging is driven by personal brand: authority and trust. This cannot be manufactured, and cannot be imparted to newbies just by affixing a media brand to them…. [L]et your product people openly discuss plans and goals. Engender a community of involved and smart users — they will provide better customer support than […]

Associated Press on published authors keeping blogs: (via CorporateBloggingBlog) Author blogs are also the latest reminder of how times have changed since writers simply wrote their books and let the publishers and the work itself speak for them. Now, many authors arrange their own tours, maintain Web sites, send e-mail newsletters and, in the case […]

Associated Press on Wikis Offer Knowledge-Sharing Online: Not everything maps that well to chronological discussions. How to do something, for instance, is the same now as next week and three years from now. If it’s in an e-mail from three years ago, I’m not going to remember that or find it. But editing a Wiki […]

Scoble’s got some tips on getting your blog discovered, others find them a little manipulative (call the wahh-mbulance): How your blog will get discovered

Bill hits the nail on the head: Corporate culture as it’s manifest in most companies is so profoundly the opposite of being straight forward, direct and plain speaking that even when people within that world make a genuine attempt to be direct and honest, they can’t. They simply don’t know how. They have a very […]