Archive for October, 2006
« Previous EntriesJotSpot Sells to Google
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006JotSpot, one of the leaders in the Wiki space, was sold to Google. This was covered on a wide variety of blogs, including Battelle’s SearchBlog, Scobleizer, Mashable, TechCrunch, and A VC. I was actually very surprised to hear this one- having watched the video on the ScobleShow where Joe Kraus talked a bit about his vision […]
Summary of Blog Business Summit
Tuesday, October 31st, 2006I posted a summary of last week’s conference on the Zillow Blog today- so take a look if you’re STILL wanting more BBS coverage!
I think this is the last of my coverage of the event for awhile- I’ll let my mind wander to other subjects for awhile.
How to Build your Blog- Tips from the Scobles
Monday, October 30th, 2006I just came across this post over at Compression, which pulls a lot of great points made during Robert & Maryam’s presentation at the Blog Business Summit last week. Two interesting points of interest (among the many)-
Maryam- There are two kinds of bloggers: bloggers who want to change things, and bloggers who want to talk about their lives.
Robert- A […]
Blog Business Summit Thoughts
Monday, October 30th, 2006So- I’ve had a couple days to think about everything that was covered at the Blog Business Summit. Here’s a couple major takeaways from my perspective:
Companies need to come to the realization that they can not control their brand- only influence it. That said, companies need to try to maximize their influence. This goes along with […]
Mac vs PC & Apple Blogging
Sunday, October 29th, 2006There’s been some conversation/debate recently about the lack of Apple blogs in the blogosphere, which got me thinking…
Here’s an idea that I would love to see Apple act on (I’m not hopeful that they will though)-
Create a blog focusing on the Mac vs PC debate that is written by the Mac representative (guy on the […]
St. Louis Cardinals Win the Series
Saturday, October 28th, 2006Congratulations to the Cardinals for winning the 2006 World Series! I consider it a win every year the Yankees don’t win.
John Battelle Keynote
Friday, October 27th, 2006John Battelle, who runs Federated Media Publishing and is enamored with blogs (he runs SearchBlog), search, and media, gave a Superb keynote presentation. My notes are below-
I thought it was interesting that Battelle mentioned that Web 2.0 was partly due to the notion that people started creating companies based on passion rather than commerce (amazing what happens […]
10 Ways to a Killer Blog
Friday, October 27th, 2006These tips are thanks to Robert & Maryam Scoble during their presentation at Blog Business Summit in Seattle. So you now have no excuses to not creating a compelling and interesting blog.
Blog cause you want to
Read other blogs - everyone has a different style to blogging.Pick up a style by reading other blogs and finding out what […]
Ben Edwards: Branding in the Age of YouTube
Friday, October 27th, 2006Ben does not have a background in technology. The rise of blogging started to effect his view on print journalism about 18 months ago and is now in charge of new media communications at IBM, which has abut 340,000 employees. Here’s some important points-
Establish social media skills
New media communications have lower costs and improved effectiveness […]
What Makes a Company Defensible?
Thursday, October 26th, 2006Well, sorry I don’t have much to add here, but go check out Guy Kawasaki’s blog post for his insights on the topic.
On a related note- It’s my view that small businesses/start-ups put too much emphasis into getting a patent. In my mind, it’s not a primary key to success. And further– even if I […]
Building Online Communities
Thursday, October 26th, 2006Being interested in social networking, this topic immediately caught my attenton. Here’s some notes-
Tara Hunt talked about Commodity vs Community. Don’t be a commodity.
Community:
Takes time and patience
requires introspection, commitment and honesty
Need to stop outgoing messages & start listening to incoming messages (make yourself available)
Be open more than you are comfortable
Put community first- before profits
There will be […]
Audience Measurement: Quantifying & Qualifying
Thursday, October 26th, 2006This panel discussed the topic of blogger engagement. So everyone seems to be wondering- how do you engage bloggers? Below are some of the points that I thought were important-
What Not to Do?
Send an e-mail to a blogger without a link that you want them to talk about
Be shy
What do Do (Your Homework)?
Use an Aggregator
Track […]
Weblogs to Netscape: Maintaining Authenticity and Integrity Within Commercial Social Media
Thursday, October 26th, 2006Jasaon Calacanis mentioned that 2003 was when blogging really started to take off even though the concept has been around since about 1995. Why? The internet bubble bursted and many workers in the technology space lost their jobs and had time to play around with blogging. One thing Jason just mentioned is that he came to […]
What’s Next in Online Communications?
Thursday, October 26th, 2006I didn’t get to posting anything yesterday from the Blog Business Summit (long & busy day)- but here’s some brief notes from this morning’s breakfast session. If you want information in addition to this- check out Teresa’s notes over at Blog Business Summit.
Jeremy Pepper of POP! Public Relations, Jeanette Gibson from Cisco, and John Starweather […]
Today at the Office
Tuesday, October 24th, 2006It’s always fun when Robert Scoble shows up at your office. With the Blog Business Summit conference the next 3 days, it was hectic trying to wrap up loose ends prior to being OOF the rest of the week. Since it is a blogging conference- you can bet I’ll be posting both here and on […]
6 Reasons Why Blogging Matters
Monday, October 23rd, 2006This is a great and insightful post that is a must-read whether you blog, plan to blog, or are just curious about blogging. It explains blogging from 6 perspectives: Advertising, Creativity, PR, Strategy, Influence, and Conversation. I HIGHLY reccomend you read the post yourself.
Fortune 500 Blog Project: Dell
Monday, October 23rd, 2006NOTE: This is a work in progress until I remove this note!! If you have any insights into Dell’s blogging, please let me know to make this a complete description of Dell’s blogging policy. Thanks (and don’t be mad it’s not complete yet)!
Corporate Blogging:
Dell (#25 on the Fortune 500 list) launched its corporate blog, called […]
Momentum Growth Conference- Online Advertising Podcast
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006If you are a business/web junkie- you’ll probably find this podcast interesting. The online advertising panel discussion that took place at the Momentum Growth Conference features Toby Trevarthen of AOL, Payam Zamani of Reply!, Rob Solomon of Sidestep, and the CFO/VP of Marketing of Zillow (my employer) Spencer Rascoff. It’s about an hour long if […]
Giving 4 Kids a Better Education is Short-Sighted??
Sunday, October 22nd, 2006I checked Robert Scoble’s blog this morning, which pointed to an interesting podcast that included a disagreement between Jason Calacanis and Dana Gardner. Like Scoble, I’m in Jason’s corner on this one. In my opinion, Dana’s argument was a load of complete crap. He was trying to argue that Jason was being short-sighted by providing 4 […]
Connecting with Like-Minded Individuals
Saturday, October 21st, 2006Just thought this post I came across (which is great by the way) was worth a quick mention since I realized I agree on just about everything mentioned in the post. Most notably-
The future of social networking is in niche sites
MyBlogLog is up to great things
VOIP is a space that hasn’t yet been integrated with the […]