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Marketing Moves to the Blogosphere

September 2nd, 2008

Perhaps the action of starting a blog in and of itself is a path to moving a company toward more open communication.

Picture: rodjohns.typepad.com

Article excerpt:   Jason Calacanis, who got into blogging early and big, has quit. He co-founded a network of blogs called Weblogs in 2003, before the medium cracked the mainstream, and then sold it [...]

Blogging 101

May 19th, 2008

Is my blog a corporate blog?  I guess you could say it is, but it is not anything that I asked for permission to do.  That may be the model for successful corporate blogging.

picture: radio.weblogs.com
Article excerpt:   Think of it. A cheap, direct means of working one-on-one, one-to-many with customers, partners, prospects. The ideal means of [...]

Wal-Mart Tastemakers Write Unfiltered Blog

March 21st, 2008

Interesting that they are allowing their merchants to talk freely – I wonder how they (or any other retailer) would feel if the tables were turned?

Article excerpt:   Microsoft is one of Wal-Mart’s biggest suppliers. But that did not stop the Wal-Mart employee in charge of buying computers from panning Microsoft’s newest operating system, Vista.  “Is [...]