Abby Johnson of WebProNews got a chance to catch up with me while we finished up our presentation about hiring professional bloggers while out at the Blog World and New Media Expo in the Executive and Entrepreneur Track. I moderated the panel of Darren Rowse of Problogger fame, Will Chen and Greg Go. [...]

A friend recently sent me an invite to join a new social network.  These days it is difficult not to receive an invite to join this network or be a user of this or that new application.  Everyone has a some “social” sprinkled in their recipe for success.  What stood out in my mind about [...]

On the same vein as my lost post regarding a blogging hiccup or what I see as a new era of business blogging, we are now at a crossroad of corporate advertising, marketing and PR online.  There are many forward thinking companies that are early adopters, and especially in the technical world where technology is [...]

My friend and mentor Paul Chaney recently asked a question on Facebook about the writing on the wall of the possibility of blogs exiting stage right.  His question:
Two things happened this month that are of significance where business blogging is concerned. Rick Bruner offered up the BBC domain for sale and BBS Chicago was canceled. [...]

It’s not often we get to toot our horn around here, but when we can, I like to play it loud and play it often.  I was reading through the comments section of the blog and noticed that Alex has given us a link to a Wall Street Journal article by Sarah Needleman entitled Blog [...]

Did you catch the show today?  No?  Well you missed an awesome one.  Yes, I know I say that every week, but IMHO they are getting better and better every week.
This week Jeremiah Owyang was our special guest, but no sooner did the conversation get rolling (we started with Hitachi), than did Chris Brogan call [...]

Thanks to Teresa Valdez Klein for using Facebook to provide an interesting link, I was able to read an article written by Dennis Howlett about the use of social networks in a large company like Oracle.  He sites an Oracle blog written by Jake Kuramoto in the Oracle organization.  They built their own application behind [...]

I read via my friend David Krug at Telegraphik that bloggers in the political arena are wanting to start their own Blogger’s Union.  Ashley M Heher of Fox News is reporting that:
In a move that might make some people scratch their heads, a loosely formed coalition of left-leaning bloggers are trying to band together to form [...]

At least in our company, we get most of our client’s through Google searches done by companies looking for a blogging consultant or looking to hire a blogger for their company.  I ran through our client list to see the number of companies that have contacted us to provide a professional blogger or to [...]

One of our clients have a great communication tool in their hands with a contact page on their blog.  Many people that have purchased their product can come and get information about the products they sell and the industry news and information about the company.  In this particular case, a consumer had a problem [...]