Business Blog Wire

Lately as I’ve helped start up NewOrleansTruth (a blog dealing with the recovery of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast since last year’s Hurricane Katrina), I’ve done my best to learn about the New Orleans-area blogging community.  I’ve been very busy finding, subscribing to and reading as many NOLA blogs as I can.  I’ve been [...]

Over the last few days I’ve learned a few lessons.  I’ve been helping Know More Media start up a blog called NewOrleansTruth, which is about the experiences of people in the New Orleans area since Hurricane Katrina.  It’s a not-for-profit blog, which makes it different from most of our blogs.
The most rewarding part has been [...]

I recently emailed Kathleen Gilroy of The Otter Group (which I discovered via Mario Sundar) a few questions about her company’s blog.  Here are her responses.  Hopefully you can learn something from Kathleen’s experiences.
Easton: What prompted you to start a business blog?
Kathleen: I was following what was going on with the Dean campaign blog and [...]

Remember when I asked for nine volunteers to help me complete a top-secret corporate blogging project?  Well, we’re done!  Here’s what the ten of us did.  It’s simply a list of 100 ways to utterly ruin your corporate blog.  That’s right.  We’re talking useless, unpopular, offensive, ignorant, insipid - all the things you would hate [...]

Here’s why you should consider prescheduling at least some of your business blog posts:
1. You never know when you’ll become too busy to sit down and write a post2. Unexpected travel3. Sudden illness4. Sudden lack of desire to post5. Sudden lack of inspiration or post ideas
And here’s why you maybe shouldn’t preschedule your posts:
1. The [...]

Today, with two Know More Media colleagues, I met Chartreuse and Loren Feldman in Los Angeles.  We discussed a number of things, including Chartreuse’s awe-inspiring grassroots project to investigate current conditions in the New Orleans area, which was ravaged last August by Hurricane Katrina and, sadly, remains somewhat in shambles.  (Loren is Chartreuse’s "site security [...]

So picture this: I was sorting through a six-foot-high (almost two meters high) mountain of fan letters addressed to "Business Blog Wire" the other day when I found a small postcard with a big question mark on one side and only this written on the back:
"How frequently should I post to my corporate blog?"
All right, [...]

Here, enjoy some home-cooked Tuesday night speedlinking:
Frustrated by Google’s vexing job application process, David Dalka has begun preparing to become the next Google CEO!
Mike Sigers at Simplenomics shares 10 business blog post ideas.
Jeremiah Owyang tells you how to choose the right corporate blogger.
The Search Marketing Gurus have a nice three-part series on blog promotion tips.
And [...]

(While we’re waiting for the now-complete cadre of ten bloggers to complete my secret - weird laugh - corporate blogging project …)
Taking a page from Steve Remington’s Why My Blog Stinks, I want to share with you a few surefire ways to waste your blogging time and be as unproductive as possible.  I’ve fallen into these [...]

So I’ve started a secret, short-term project related to corporate blogging and I am looking for nine volunteers.  Don’t care who ya are, as long as you care about corporate blogging.  A sense of humor is always welcome, too ;).  (No, the project is not simply to see how fast I can get nine volunteers.)
If [...]