Business blogging success can go a long way towards establishing confidence in your brand.Imagine having a sales person at your front door greeting every customer with proof that they will not get ‘mugged’ while shopping with you. Now imagine having staff assigned to roam your store continuously, reassuring your customers that their shopping experience [...]

The Darkreading security magazine posted an interesting article about the increase of a type of malware targetting RSS feed readers.
Users of desktop feed readers are particularly at risk if they don’t keep their feed readers up to date with the latest security additions.
And while practically all RSS feed readers prohibit execution of javascript [...]

Now available — Forrester podcasts! These free podcasts focus specifically on interactive marketing and feature and feature a series of interviews with analysts and industry leaders who spoke
at our Consumer Forum in October. Note that we are currently testing this new medium and we’re trying to figure out what works, what doesn’t. So we’d [...]

Mike Gotta has a short list of some risks to confidentiality that employee use of RSS (and social bookmarking sites) can develop:

If these sites (Bloglines, NewsGator Line, del.icio.us and such) are being frequented often by employees, that could be an leading indicator that business and IT workers might benefit from these tools internally. An [...]

If you have an internal blog, you have a great platform for connnecting to your people.  And, you also have given them a way to talk back.
CommentsThe easiest way to talk back on a blog is to comment.  Internal blogs are no different.  From your security personnel to your CEO, everyone who’s an employee can [...]

Internet Explorer has taken a beating this year from  Firefox, partially because of security issues (though most users say they  made the switch initially for tabbed browsing).  IE 7 hopes to draw some users back in with enhanced security features (and tabbed browsing).
In Microsoft’s forthcoming Internet Explorer 7, sites that have a high-assurance digital certificate [...]

The Sales Department:
Keeping a national (or international) sales force in constant communication with each other and with the company can be a challenge without an internal blog.
However, using something as simple as an internal blog can save your company time (and money) as you see the efficient communication and increased productivity an internal blog brings.
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Secure, internal communication has always been a problem for large corporations.  While they need a simple way to communicate, more like a small business, they must have a completely secure platform.
An internal blog may be the answer.  A few days ago I wrote on Microsoft’s internal blogs.  You don’t get much larger than Microsoft, with [...]

Despite its best efforts, the email inbox tends to be a clutter of relatively undifferentiated content. It’s easy to lose emails, hard to find them again later and prioritizing which messages to read is awkward to automate.
Enter RSS, a much more sophisticated and intuitive means of communicating. One of the primary advantages of [...]