Cultural Odyssey #1
Irish dramatist, George Bernard Shaw famously said ‘England and America are two countries separated by a common language.’ I often get asked what it’s like being a Brit working here in San Francisco. The truth…
Corporate Citizenship Leadership Summit
The Entrepreneurs Foundation 2005 Leadership Summit about corporate citizenship is coming up on November 15, 2005. It features speakers from Synopsys, Scalix, CenterBeam, Salesforce.com, Red Herring and Vanguard Ventures. It’s open to Bay Area CEOs,…
Buddy can you spare me a link?
I’m adding my new friend John Wagner, who writes the excellent On Message blog, to my blogroll since he’s kindly helping me fight back up the tables, after my stellar entry at No. 20 in…
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…
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…