We recently undertook informal research of the FTSE 100 companies and found that none of the listed companies has a blog at the corporate level (or at least not easily found).
Granted their brands may have *consumer-oriented, open communication platform tools of engagement, but we were surprised that, despite the media buzz, there still doesn’t appear […]

Wonder if you spotted the winners of The Weblog Awards™ announced on Monday earlier this week, March 12.
The winners are a wonderful cross section of popular, new, large, small, private and public blogs highlighting the variety and many uses of blogging.
Category nominations were made voluntarily by members of the general public […]

Graham Charlton’s blog post on e-consultancy.com advises that another report has been published forecasting that English Blogs have peaked.
Pranam Kolari looked at ‘ the distribution of “I” in blog posts, one from BlogPulse and the other from Technorati’ and proclaims that there is constant growth – ie no change.
All the comments come up […]

The recent interview by E-consultancy.com with Shiny Media’s CEO Ashley Norris highlighted an essential element of blogging.
‘Sure, you can set up a blog easily enough but actually putting it on the map – and keeping it there – requires a lot of effort.”
My last blog touched on one of the many elements […]

Must be after the weekend, as I was reading the Sunday papers and came across a rather interesting financial blog success story plastered across the front page of The Sunday Times:
“I blog, therefore I am £70,000 richer”
“Less than six weeks after starting to write about downshifting from London to rural Northumberland, a mother of three […]

I’ve been reading the trades again – but this is London and that’s what a commute is made for - selecting to avoid iPod ear pollution, I go for the magazines to pass the time, pressed up or squashed in with random strangers on London’s buses and trains.
Without ROI on marketing spend, the board room […]

It’s here again! I only just wrote that the press are full of the virtues, pitfalls and necessity of joining the open communication channel of corporate blogging.
February’s edition of Management Today dedicated a lot more space to blogging, and here are highlights from Alexander Garrett’s crash course:
1. Think Strategy; why have a […]

This New Year’s trade press is full of the rise and merits of business blogs and advice on blogging. We present a summary.
According to e-consultancy’s interview with Anil Dash, of Six Apart fame (the company behind popular blog platforms Movable Type, Vox and TypePad), blogging has by no means peaked and we haven’t seen […]

Interview with Maz Nadjm from Rareface about Social Networking.

Charles Dunstone, Chief Executive of the Carphone Warehouse who offers no-cost broadband to UK consumers, blogs here. You have got to love this guy. What a breath of fresh air, a corporate being open & transparent about their challenges. I was forwarded the link by a Telco Analyst who said:
Refreshingly honest. Even if you are […]