Posted on December 26, 2006 1:50 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Crisis Communication | PR | RSS
The beating Microsoft is taking in the blogosphere and elsewhere over a patent filing leads me to wonder whether this isn’t an instance where some solid, formal communication might be in order. Leaving it to Microsoft’s employee blogging force doesn’t seem to be doing much good.
The kerfuffle erupted when the patent filings from June 2005 became public on Christmas Day when a…
Posted on December 26, 2006 10:57 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Social Networking
The folks over at del.icio.us have developed a nifty new tool they’ve named the “Tagometer.” The Tagometer is a new version of the old button that you could add to your page, inviting visitors to “bookmark this on del.icio.us.” This new version, though, includes the number of people who have saved the page to their del.icio.us accounts and the bookmarks they have applied.
The widget is…
Posted on December 21, 2006 3:20 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging
I’ve been tagged. Lionel Menchaca from Dell (who coordinates the Direct2Dell blog) has made me one of the five bloggers he has tagged to participate in this game of blog tag that’s been making its way through the blogosphere.
In case you missed it, this all began when Jeff Pulver listed five things people didn’t know about him, then tagged five other bloggers to do…
Posted on December 19, 2006 10:25 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Just as PayPerPost has revised its business practices by requiring its bloggers to disclose the fact that they’re getting sponsorship money, another enterprise has unleashed a service that will make it drop-dead easy for anybody to start pitching bloggers without any such constraints. Umbria Inc., which describes itself as “a market intelligence company that specializes in blog research and consumer generated media…
Posted on December 16, 2006 9:38 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
My “Blogging for Business” co-author, Ted Demoupolus, and I were quoted in an article about the future of business blogging (in light of the Gartner study) in a NewsFactor article.
The gist: While Gartner may be predicting that blogging…
Posted on December 14, 2006 9:46 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging
Research firm Gartner has predicted that the growth of the blogosphere will peak at about 100 million by the mid-point of 2007. Gartner rationalizes that most people who would ever “dabble” with blogs have already done so, and many of them have given up.
Steve Rubel’s report of Gartner’s assertions attracted some interesting comments disputing the claim:
- “Please don’t make me go through the history of really, really bad…
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