Archive for October 28th, 2005

Even the Speaker of the House Has a Blog

Friday, October 28th, 2005

You know that blogging is becoming mainstream when even traditional, long-time politicians start their own blogs.  Dennis Hastert, Speaker of the House of Representatives posted the first post to his new blog yesterday. 
Speaker Hastert talked about his motivations for blogging and the upcoming plans for the republican party.  This first post was content-driven and [...]

Podcasting Isn’t Just for Marketing

Friday, October 28th, 2005

A press release announcing the world’s first pharmaceutical podcast just illustrates the point that you don’t have to market to sell something.  While that seems odd, and even contradictory, consider that consumers no longer want to be talked at or sold to, rather they want to be the chooser, and if you can educate them, [...]

Corporate Knowledge Management with Internal Blogs

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Having a difficult time organizing the massive amount of data and ideas your company discovers each day?  Try internal blogging to manage your corporate knowledge.
… more and more I find internal blogging to be the thing people, especially bosses, really pay attention to. I’m convinced that for every external corporate blog we will find (if we [...]

Bloglines Releases Mobile Reader Update

Friday, October 28th, 2005

If you’ve been using Bloglines to read your feeds on your mobile, like I have, you’ll appreciate the addition of several new features, like being able to create a mobile feeds list, so that your graphically heavy feeds and those that don’t need your immediate attention, don’t end up on your mobile device.
Mobile Do you [...]

New Yahoo Button Makes Your Content Sticky

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Sticky content refers to keeping your content in front of the consumer longer than it would be, traditionally.  Yahoo has released a button, Save to My Web, that promises to help in this department.
Save to My Web is a simple, sociable button you can add to any and every page of your blog or website. [...]

Comedy Central Announces New Online Media Network

Friday, October 28th, 2005

Businesses that change and adapt according to market demand will be successful.  Comedy Central has announced that on November 1 they will be releasing a comedy site that offers users a television-like experience.  Short video and skits wll be downloadable at no charge on this new site.
“We’ve taken everything that is great about Comedy Central [...]