Results tagged “Business Blogs”
An Interview: Apperceptive, Boing Boing and MT4
As we’ve mentioned on the Movable Type news blog, today Boing Boing, the immensely popular “Directory of Wonderful Things”, relaunched on the Movable Type 4.0 platform. There were a lot of people and organizations involved in the effort, but one...
Movable Type Hackathon Interview with Tim Appnel
In November Six Apart hosted a Movable Type Hackathon. The event was a great success with developers attending from all over the country, and a number of other developers participating throughout the week. One of those developers was Tim Appnel....
Six Apart Podcast: Web 2.0, Widgets Live and Business Blogging Seminar
Ding, Dong! Hey, who’s at the door? It’s a podcast! Come on in. It has been a very busy week at Six Apart with tons and tons of announcements. We were at the Web 2.0 conference and Widgets Live. We...
Look! Did you hear something?
For several months now we have been conducting bi-weekly conference calls with ProNet members (and anyone else who wants to listen in) in which we discuss a number of different topics revolving around Six Apart and professional blogging. What surprised...
Join us at the Blog Business Summit
We're proud to be participating in the Blog Business Summit next week, not just because it's an event focused on business blogs, but because the advice and attention of the summit is all practical and useful for businesses today. For...
Drinking in the Benefits of Blogging
Last year, Stormhoek, a popular South African wine, started a business blog powered by Movable Type and sent out one hundred complimentary bottles of their wine to bloggers across Europe. With the assistance of well-known blog marketing expert Hugh Macleod,...
Fortune 500 Blogging
Wired magazine Editor-in-Chief Chris Anderson (of Long Tail fame) has announced the Fortune 500 Business Blog Index, a new resource created in collaboration with Ross Mayfield of Socialtext. Chris and Ross have both provided more background on their respective TypePad-powered...
"Why I Read Business Blogs"
Hillary Johnson's new piece in Inc, Why I Read Business Blogs is one of the best recent stories that explain the appeal of business blogs from a reader's perspective. The truth is that I recently quit my day job to...
Corporate Blogging Survey 2005
The team at Backbone Media has published Corporate Blogging Survey 2005 a brief but useful look at a lot of key business blogging data. From case studies to analysis, the white paper (downloadable as PDF) includes an enormous amount of...
Why Your Business Needs a Blog
Bob Lutz, the Vice Chairman of General Motors who's the voice of the Movable Type-powered Fastlane blog, has a strong new essay in InformationWeek, and it's well worth a read if you're making the case for blogging within your organization....
25 New Blog Jobs
We've just posted 25 new blog jobs over on the members-only Professional Network blog, as part of our biggest roundup yet. We'll be working to expand our job listings for Professional Network opportunities soon, as this list was culled from...
Lifehacker's hiring
Popular Gawker Media blog Lifehacker has just announced they're hiring another editor. The Movable Type-powered site for productivity geeks s looking for another blogger to strengthen their team, and if you're a ProNet member, you're probably right in the target...
Macromedia Blog Authoring Survey
Deeje Cooley's posted a link to a Macromedia Blog Authoring Survey. If you maintain a blog regularly, they're looking for your feedback, and survey participants who finish all 30 questions are eligible to win an iPod mini....
Vespaway, the new Vespa Blog
Courtesy of Steve Rubel comes work of Vespaway, the cool new blog from popular scooter maker Vespa. Though the scooters are already enormously popular, Piaggio USA, which makes Vespas, is making a big bet on blogs to help sustain and...
How GM's Blog Was Born
Though business blogs behind the firewall are exploding in popularity, one of the areas that gets a lot of attention in business blogging is having a public-facing blog, especially one written by a senior executive. In most organizations, though, this...
Yahoo Offers Its Guides
A few new guides that might be of interest to bloggers have just been released by Yahoo. The first is the Publisher's Guide to RSS, which explains the ways that various Yahoo services can take advantage of XML feeds. The...
Wall Street Journal on customer retention with blogs
There are some executives who will consider the Wall Street Journal the most authoritative source on strategic decisions, and if you're pitching to a client (or your boss) who fits that profile, you should hang on to "Blogs Keep Internet...
Blogging in the financial industry
Blogging's disruptive impact could seem like anathema to an industry as historically conservative as the financial industry, ThinkEquity Partners has launched ThinkBlog. Their new blog gives some rare insights into the thinking process at the investment banking firm. The New...
Jambo on the road to DEMO
Jambo Networks is creating products to enable wireless personal networking, which they intend to demonstrate at the DEMO Conference next month. What's cool is they're documenting their preparation for the conference on Face to Face, their TypePad blog....
Corporate RSS Applied
Sandy Hamilton, Executive Vice President of NewsGator has just started a TypePad weblog called Corporate RSS Applied. The name says it all, and it's a useful resource for tracking the opportunities around syndication within organizations....
