Month: August 2008

  • Top 10 posts on Corporate Blogging

    I agree with the Matt (Blog Herald) when he says that the Washington Post must have been living under a rock to have stumbled upon Corporate Blogging years after its being institutionalized in corporate America. It’s also over a year since my Top 10 CEO blog post, which featured Calacanis’ blog. In a recent article…

  • Top 3 Corporate Blogs in India

    We’re nearing my quarterly review of the Top 15 Corporate Blogs (Ranked last in May 2008). Before we get to the September ranking (a week from now) I thought I’d focus this week’s start on Indian companies’ foray into corporate blogging. This recent article in an Indian newspaper confirmed that belief. Here’s a brief synopsis:…

  • Rating Corporate Blogs. Plus, my blog pick for the week!

    Not another corporate blog pick. I hear you say. But, I wouldn’t have gone down this path, if not for Web Worker Daily’s post on how company blogs can provide big insights. He then goes on to provide a list of criteria for evaluating the efficiency of corporate blogs and I couldn’t help measure the…

  • Business as unusual. iPhone gets LinkedIn.

    Let me explain: while all bloggers (including myself) have praised iPhone’s app ecosystem to the skies there hasn’t been a business app that really made you go – Wow! Now with the launch of LinkedIn’s very own native iPhone app, that may have changed. (Disclosure: I work at LinkedIn) As my colleague, Jerry Luk, says…

  • Netflix and VMWare on Crisis Management

    This is a continuation of our series on how companies use corporate blogs to deal with crises. You may have read my earlier posts on the top 5 Corporate Blog apologies, which included Apple and Google. Adam Engst from Mac News sites, picks up on the meme: As a writer, I’m struck by how Apple’s…

  • LinkedIn Grows Audience and Engagement – July 2008

    Before you continue reading, couple of things to keep in mind: 1. my affiliation with LinkedIn, and 2. the fact that the numbers you see below are – US only. In March 2008, I blogged about LinkedIn’s stupendous growth rate (Nielsen Online) that saw us grow to over 7 million uniques in the US alone.…

  • Apple’s MobileMe Corporate Blog R.I.P

    This would probably go down in the history books as the shortest lived corporate blog ever. Looks like Apple started a blog to tide over the crisis that was brewing with MobileMe. One that I’d hoped would be the start of a deeper engagement with the blogosphere, but alas, t’was not to be. Not for…

  • Steve Jobs Quotes – Top 10

    Like my post? Follow me on Twitter. Now, why didn’t I do this before! A perfect way to combine my love of management philosophy and all things Apple, by churning out a playlist of Jobs’ Top 10 quotes. What started it all, was this recent article in Fortune Magazine that comes on the heels of…

  • Top 5 Corporate Blog Apologies

    So Google turned all mushy with this “Sweet Lil Apology of Mine” blog post, after Gmail went down for a few hours earlier today. It looks like this was the first time a Gmail downtime impacted so many users. So, it seems worthy of a post that so nails it when it comes to corporate…

  • HP’s Corporate Blogging Initiatives

    If you’re in community marketing or engaged in social media initiatives for your company. Quit reading this post (not really), but at the earliest opportunity go find this book on bookshelves and buy it – Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff (Forrester). Why buy Groundswell? To learn more from gold-standard examples of how companies;…

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