Posted on April 15, 2005 8:33 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
As I noted briefly yeterday in a follow-up in
Posted on April 12, 2005 9:30 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
A lot of criticism has been aimed at Randy’s Journal, the pseudo-blog from Boeing Vice President Randy Beseler. The only thing this site had in common with blogs was the blog-like entries. No comments, no trackbacks, no permalinks, no RSS feeds. You can debate the need to allow comments; I’ve noted here before that Dave Winer, the guy who (for all practical…
Posted on April 8, 2005 12:18 pm by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
I’ve written about Michael Hyatt and Neville and I talked about him. Paul Chaney has done us one better. He interviewed Hyatt for his Radiant Marketing Group blog. Hyatt, CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishers, has been posting drafts of his proposed policy to govern employee blogging, seeking comment and incorporating suggestions. The interview covers the blogging guidelines and delves more into…
Posted on April 5, 2005 9:52 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business | Social Networking
“Self-governing social networks combine with interactive weblog publishing to create something people just call Blogworking.” So writes Jesse Taylor in a piece at AlwaysOn. Taylor sites adholes, a collection of blogs from people working in advertising. (The site’s slogan: “Ad industry schmoozing without expensive restaurant tabs.”)
Taylor notes that these smaller networking sites are starting to generate ad revenue.
Why would these smaller, private Blogworking sites…
Posted on March 28, 2005 8:19 am by Shel Holtz | Business | External
Normally, Jim Hill’s predicament wouldn’t raise an eyebrow. But since his adversary is The Walt Disney Company—a business hamstrung by years of negative publicity—even the action Disney took against Hill has made headlines and prompted outcries of indignation.
To call Hill, who runs Jim Hill Media, a Disney fan is an understatement. His travel agency offers tours to various Disney properties. Much of his blog deals with…
Posted on March 21, 2005 9:57 am by Shel Holtz | Blogging | Business
In his “Strategic Public Relations” blog, Kevin Dugan wonders if GM will address its recent surprising forecast and related fallout in its blogs. I hope not.
In case you missed it, GM announced it would lose money in the next quarter and that the company would lay off workers. Says Dugan:
Anyone that has visited the company’s Smallblock Engine and Fastlane blogs knows they do not lend…
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