In early December, there was a great deal of commentary surrounding the formation of the Blog Council, a community of global companies whose primary goal is to promote best practices in corporate blogging. Founding members include AccuQuote, Cisco Systems, The Coca-Cola Company, Dell, Gemstar-TV Guide, General Motors, Kaiser Permanente, Microsoft,…
Billionaire financier Carl Icahn is about to start blogging on corporate governance. Well, at least a site is up with a single post on January 31 saying "Blog coming soon." An RSS feed is ready, along with an email subscription option. A lengthy terms of use statement is there and…
Any idea what that phrase means? It’s a good example of the type of jargon that you still encounter in much of the business world. But it’s not only the business world that’s awash with pompous words and phrases that confound and confuse normal people. The Daily Telegraph reports that…
Content summary: The live call-in episode on BlogTalk Radio. Our topic: the blurring line between internal and external communication. [Messages from our sponsors: FIR is brought to you with Lawrence Ragan Communications, serving communicators worldwide for 35 years, www.ragan.com; Save time with the CustomScoop online clipping service: sign up for…
I’d planned to do a bit of blog admin this morning including upgrading all my WordPress blogs to the latest version 2.3.3, released earlier this week. Plans scuppered, though, by a long service outage at DreamHost, the company I use for hosting. Looks like either a continuation of yesterday’s outage…
Content summary: Problems with voting at Podcast Alley; how to participate in Saturday’s FIR live on BlogTalkRadio; the FIR Listener Contest: announcing the winners; Dan York reports on Microsoft/Yahoo as well as AOL, Google’s social graph API, and more; the Media Monitoring Minute with CustomScoop; why social applications will thrive…
Last week, I had a terrific conversation with Brian Pittman, director of content for Bulldog Reporter and Bulldog Reporter’s PR University. We spent an hour discussing digital immigrants, mindset shifting in PR practice, challenges for communicators with social media, what’s on the horizon, and a lot more. Brian’s posted that…
When you come across something interesting on the web, but don’t have time to read it at that moment, what do you do? The old way is to add the web page to your browser’s bookmarks or favourites so you can retrieve it when you do have time. A more…
