Halloween
Halloween is a big deal here in the US. People decorate their houses with fake spiders’ webs, plastic pumpkins and put illuminated skeletons in their window. It always catches me by surprise. Halloween is right…
October 2005
Testing TagCloud
I’m testing out the latest blog navigation gizmo, TagCloud, which you can see on the right. Here’s a description of TagCloud from its site: TagCloud is an automated Folksonomy tool. Essentially, TagCloud searches any number…
Accountancy blog gives us another insight into benefits of business blogging
A month ago, my journo pal Dennis Howlett dropped me a note to say he’d started a new blog about accountancy. Thirty days later that blog, AccMan Pro, is off to a flying start. In…
Technorati – Daily Posting Volumes
Dave Sifry, who heads up Technorati, has started another edition of his State of the Blogosphere series. Today he shows that the blogosphere is doubling every 5 months. Technorati is now tracking up to 19.6m…
Webcast and presentations from Blogging seminar
The webcast of this week’s blogging seminar in London is now up and available here. You can also download the presentations from the site. Mine is here, Loic’s here, and Jo’s here. If you couldn’t…
Boeing corporate blogging case study
The Anchorage Daily News has a case study about Boeing’s use of a corporate blog in its fight for sales against Airbus. Randy Baseler, VP of marketing, blogs about the company at Randy’s Journal. And…
Jon Fine of BusinessWeek launches media blog
Following its revamp, one of the best new elements of BusinessWeek for communicators (and anyone involved in media) is Jon Fine’s page about the media. To add to this must-read, he’s now started a blog…
David Rossiter launches UK IT PR blog
Analyst Insight blogger, David Rossiter, who also runs a tech PR firm in the UK, has launched a PR blog named, PR Insights. I’m looking forward to reading his perspectives, since I find his views…
More travel tips
So an hour into my ten hour flight, the entertainment system failed, which has taught me a couple more traveling lessons. The first is to always fully charge your laptop and all electronic devices such…
Reasons not to start blogging
One of the main objections I hear from people when I encourage them to start a blog is – ‘Well I would start one, but what would I say?’ These are often senior people with…