Corporate Blogging

Tuesday 13 February 2007

  • Corporate blogging enthusiasts at Sun - On the Clingan Zone of the blogs of Sun employees (highlights are mine): Now for what Blogging @ Sun has done for me. I've "met" (well, not face-to-face) some folks I now call friends. Ya' know it when ya' start... (14:59 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Sunday 19 November 2006

  • Personal vs. Business Blogs: Is this really black or white? - in a recent post of Lilia where she writes about the personal vs. business dimensions of blogging, and attempts to position various blogs on a personal -> business scale on various dimensions. As she says: From what I've seen so... (10:16 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 14 December 2005

  • MovableType hosting plan by Yahoo - Yahoo just launched a blogging service for small businesses based on MT. It will be interesting to know how it will fit in the toolbox and how all this will be seamlessly integrated.... (10:40 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 13 December 2005

  • Corporate Blogs - Blogs at IBM Blogs at SAP Note that blogs at IBM are part of a bigger collaboration platform which includes forums and user groups as well.... (11:43 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • Corporate Blogs - Blogs at IBM Blogs at SAP Note that blogs at IBM are part of a bigger collaboration platform which includes forums and user groups as well.... (11:43 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Sunday 4 December 2005

  • Control of blogging is an issue - From Philippe Borremans, coming back from the online information conference in London:From a corporate point of view it is all about trusting your employees and creating (or having them create - even better) corporate blogging/podcasting guidelines. Yes you have to... (22:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Friday 21 October 2005

  • Why do people blog? (cont'd) - I blog when I have an idea and nobody to talk to.... (14:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • Why do people blog? - A quote from Theodore Zeldin - An Intimate History of Humanity Every people puts its own scent on its food, and it accepts change only if it can conceal the change from itself, by smothering each novelty in its scent.... (14:07 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Friday 23 September 2005

  • A breakthrough in corporate communication - Case study: Macromedia Blogs by John Cass is a must read. It explains the blogging strategy of Macromedia and why it is such a success. The rule of thumb under which Macromedia employees are allowed to blog is simple and... (23:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Sunday 18 September 2005

  • Community Blogging is the future - Corporate Blogging looks like a hot topic these days, and whenever the discussion starts about blog in a company, it nearly always starts with the debate about whether it should be internal (intranet) or external (public). Lilia advocates public weblogs,... (21:25 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 9 March 2005

  • When corporation use bloggers for advertising - The folks at Engadget from the Weblogs Inc. blogging network, were recently approached by Siemens, and were offered to cover the CEBIT trade show on behalf of Siemens. They were offered free plane tickets, hotel accomodation, etc. in exchange for... (19:13 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • Corporate blogging taking off - Hewlett Packard's blogs particularly interesting for software developers. Yale Tankus, an HP exec, is using his blog for active evangelizing! The Guardian in the UK has a news blog, Guardian Unlimited network of weblogsIn that time we've found that weblogs... (18:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 22 February 2005

  • Blog readers to be managed as a community? - Intel president Paul Otellini writes a blog, which theoretically only employees can read. Of course, there were leaks in the press which brought Mr. Otellini to be more careful. He is said to have written in a recent post:While this... (15:49 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)
  • Blogging for Project Management - 10 ways to use blogs for managing projects by Tim Duckett, an english type. That's how the list goes (my comments in brackets):1-Communicating with project stakeholders 2-Replacing paper 3-Building issue logs 4-Capturing information snippets: from shared passwords to useful URLs... (15:23 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 7 February 2005

  • Corporate blogs are coming - Over nine hundred Microsoft employees have unique individual blogs. A list of them can be found here Novell already lists employee blogs in their company directory along with the employee’s email address. Boeing's and GM's senior execs are starting to... (22:28 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 22 December 2004

  • Markets are conversations - at last (?) - Interesting article on blogging for marketing in MarketingMag of New Zealand [thanks Adrine]. The article refers to Ben McConnell's book "Creating Customer Evangelists". It also tells the story of the now famous Raging Cow boycott epitomizing the failure of marketing... (16:18 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 13 December 2004

  • Access rights metadata for blog posts - Blogging is like standing in your underpants says Rogier Brussee through Andy. Indeed, it can be quite dangerous to blog about the things you do for the company that pays you. On the other hand, it can also be quite... (08:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Sunday 7 November 2004

  • Making money by blogging - Many people as for the "business model" behind blogging or behind whatever social activity on the web. It seems like such a waste of time! I just read a partial answer from BloggerCon News (impossible name in France!)I myself have... (22:32 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 13 July 2004

  • Networked Individualisms - I just came back from the KM Cluster meeting in London on social tools for the entreprise. It was a great moment with very interesting people. Matt Mower of evectors software did a great job to organize all this... (17:38 | 3 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Tuesday 6 July 2004

  • Linking blogs through a shared ontology - Just read Anjo, Rogier and Lilia's presentation made yesterday at BlogTalk in Vienna called "Shared Conceptualization in Weblogs". I wonder if it is possible to extract and match similar concepts expressed in several weblogs without the mediation of a common... (22:37 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Wednesday 30 June 2004

  • Corporate use of weblogs - I just attended EBG's conference on weblogs and their use in the corporate world. Loïc Le Meur was there, among others, and presented a couple of interesting things (Main ideas conveyed can be found on his French weblog on a... (15:41 | 1 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Monday 28 June 2004

  • Social networking vs. blogging - In a previous post, I tried to figure out how blogging networks and communities of practice relate to one another. This post has attracted quite a lot of attention thanks to Lilia and the KnowledgeBoard. This time, I am trying... (17:21 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Saturday 15 May 2004

  • Embedding weblogs in corporate processes - Legitimised theft: distributed apprenticeship in weblog networks a paper written by Lilia, Sebastian, Carla, and Andy (hey, I know them all!) gives a lot to think about regarding corporate blogging. Embedding into existing processes: to succeed, weblogs have to fit... (21:55 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Friday 14 May 2004

  • Blogging is not journalism - The revolution will not be blogged of George Packer apparently caught a lot of attention in the blogosphere. For more, listen to the excellent broadcast of the Connection on wbur, my favorite radio station. The constellation of opinion called the... (23:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Thursday 1 April 2004

  • Corporate weblogs are born - Article about corporate weblogs Fast Company | It's A Blog World After All talking about employees "playing with dynamite".IBM began blogging in December, and by February, some 500 employees in more than 30 countries were using it to discuss software... (19:06 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Sunday 28 March 2004

  • A case study on weblogs - Harvard Weblogs: Weblogs at the Harvard Law SchoolA milestone case study from the Shorenstein Center was released on Friday last week. It tells the story of Trent Lott, his talk at Strom Thurmond's birthday party in December 2002, and how... (20:58 | 0 Trackbacks | 0 Comments)

Thursday 25 March 2004

  • Ecology of weblogs for business - Supporting enterprise knowledge management with weblogs: A weblog services roadmap by Michael Angeles though Jim Robertson is one of the most inspiring presentations I ever saw. Indeed, weblogs have a very important role to play in the innovation process, and... (14:02 | 1 Trackbacks | 2 Comments)

Monday 22 March 2004

  • Blogs and CoPs - Report from a Blogwalk 1.0 discussion last Friday. The topic was: "Can blogging replace communities of practice ?" Background of discussion: Before the development of weblogs, « online community » tools like forums, mailing lists and bulletin boards were predominantly... (22:31 | 7 Trackbacks | 4 Comments)

Sunday 21 March 2004

  • In the wake of Blogwalk 1.0 - I just came back from Blogwalk 1.0, an informal conference on weblogs for business organized by Ton, Lilia and Sebastien at the Telematica Instituut in Entschede, Netherlands. It took me ages to get there and to come back, and I... (17:00 | 1 Trackbacks | 1 Comments)

Sunday 14 March 2004

  • Corporate blogs and change management - From Sebastien Paquet (le bien nommé), this quote...one can view blogging as a personal "coming out" experience, going public with what was once private. And I think this process that many people are undergoing has the effect of speeding up... (18:31 | 0 Trackbacks | 5 Comments)