Business Blog Wire

The team at b5media knows their blogging stuff.  They’re a big blog network - a few times bigger than Know More Media (where this blog resides) - and they’ve just officially launched a business channel (like a mini-network) consisting at the moment of seven blogs.  Des Walsh and Brian Clark will respectively cover business blogging [...]

JP Morgan Chase (NYSE: JPM; #17 on the Fortune 500 list) appears to have zero public-facing corporate blogs.
But it does appear to have a boring newsroom.  Okay, so I found some feeds.  But I still get the feeling that JPM Chase isn’t interested in talking personally to me (or you or the guy down the [...]

ReviewMe launched a few days ago.  It’s another service where advertisers can pay bloggers to write about a given product or topic.  The folks at ReviewMe say that unlike with PayPerPost (which launched a few weeks ago), bloggers paid through their system must disclose the fact that the blog posts are paid for:
"We are going [...]

Testing 1-2-3 - testing 1, 2, 3. Publishing a blog post in Movable Type using Google Docs.
Y’know, if this works, it could potentially remove some headaches I sometimes have with Movable Type. As much as I love MT, it can be a bit stubborn and slow-moving, particularly when I need to [...]

This post is part of a series for the Fortune 500 Blog Project.  We will now look at the blogging efforts of the #16 Fortune 500 company, McKesson Corporation (NYSE: MCK).
Found an unofficial McKesson employee blog by Jacob Hookom, a developer with McKesson Medical-Surgical.
No official corporate blogs found.
No Web feeds found at the McKesson site.
McKesson appears [...]

The Fortune 500 Blog Project continues to move forward at a good pace.  It’s a collaborative blogging effort to review every Fortune 500 company to see how many blogs it has and how good they are, and to offer suggestions on how that company could improve its blogging efforts.  While other projects have researched the [...]

Corporate blog reviews continue to roll in for the Fortune 500 Blog Project.  In the past few days we’ve added several more, including the following:
John Caddell - #146 Anheuser-BuschLi Evans - #208 Toys’R’UsLi Evans - #246 Limited Brands, Inc.Tan Kian Ann - #309 Harrah’sThe above reviews all include suggestions on how these Fortune 500 companies [...]

Just emailed Mary Rose Brown in Corporate Communications at Valero Energy (NYSE: VLO; #15 on the Fortune 500 list).  She says they have no public-facing corporate blogs.
The Valero News Room is somewhat plain.  I couldn’t find any Web feeds.  There’s little sense that a common customer might be able to talk to the company.
ExxonMobil, Chevron, [...]

Update, Nov. 8, 2006 - I’ve beefed up this post to clarify further what this fun new program is meant to do.  It’s simply a structured way for me to help you connect with some of the best business bloggers I’ve discovered.  Read on for more details and feel free to ask me any questions [...]

Continuing my work for the Fortune 500 Blog Project, I want to tell you what I’ve found regarding blogs by The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX), the #460 company on the Fortune 500 list.
Clorox has a little-known blog called Dr. Laundry.  I told you a little about it last week.  It launched with an official [...]