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Installation, Customization, and Security - ...ction of them). Instead, we have included some general information about the different
types of tools.
Installing Applications
Collaborativ...
Customizing Applications - ...tware suites,
wikis, and hosted blogs, let you apply standard themes,
changing the “look and feel” without having to modify any
...
Collaborative Software Suites - ...>Cooperation is when the results of independent
subtasks are merged to create a final deliverable.
Collaboration requir...
Meeting and Communication Tools - ...ra.
The following types of tools are included in this
category:
- Instant messaging (IM) applications
- Voi...
Information Broadcasting Tools - ... retrieve information on demand, unlike presentations
and webinars that are typically scheduled.
With very little equipment, you can create...
Wikipedia - ...g).
MediaWiki, the wiki software used for Wikipedia
(http://wikipedia.org), is wiki-only.
- Full-featured management ...
RSS feeds - ...ases, it is a waste of resources (like
paper), and of the three technologies, faxes tend to be
the most irritating when received too freque...
What is a BLOG - ...ing from the more popular blogs on the air. Unfortunately,
despite all the press coverage, little is being published
about how blogs can benefi...
Blogging history - ... on expensive focus groups, feedback forms,
e-mail, and other time-consuming and tedious methods used for
gaining feedback.
If you ...
Business blogs - ...ntually evolved into a means of sharing both personal
expression and other information that individuals found
valuable. Since its beginning,...
Customers and blogs - ... through employee and customer input. One way to do this is by
never confusing customers with the popular marketing term: consumer.
A...
Effective communication aka blogs - ...or even
excites you, you can take
the opportunity to create
a positive experience
that’s being handed to you
and respon...
Participating in blog conversation - ...ticipating in this conversation offers several benefits:
• Creates customer evangelists.
•Builds trust among your entir...
How to start blogging - ...oes something
like this:
1. Listen to the conversation.
2. Understand what’s being said in the conversation.
...
Tracking blog activity - ...ems
• Trending systems
Blog tracking systems, such as Technorati, typically
monitor how often blogs link to each othe...
How blogs can help your business - ... A great product
• Visibility
• A well-trained team of people who work hard to...
How blogs impact your business - ...always hard to come by. Several
adventurous companies have begun blogging for new product
ideas, assuming that their users know what they wa...
How blogs bring in customers - ...vying for mindshare,
and customers only have a certain amount of mindspace.
Create places that are meaningful to your
customers; ...
The Kryptonite story - ...ons.
In 2004, Kryptonite, maker of top-selling locks, suffered at
the hands of a blog. A blogger discovered that it was possible
to pick a ...
How do I use blogs - ...n use blogs internally
and externally to improve your business.
As you can see in Table 4-1, the problem isn’t finding ways to
use b...
Use blogs in innovative ways - ...ature of the work, each shift produces a shift
log that notes events that occurred during the shift as well as any
outstanding issues. This al...
Why you want your employees to blog - ...ons that internal blogs are
critical to your company’s success.
WHY INTERNAL BLOGGING ROCKS!
by Suw Charman
...
Blogger types - ... man. Each visit to the barber was a time of potential growth
and change.
In the world of blogging, barbers are few and far between. This
i...
Blogs as marketing voice - ...only means of marketing.
One company that uses blogs for marketing is English Cut
(www.englishcut.com), which was helped
along its...
You can use blogs in a number of fantastic ways - ...asier, and make information easier to access.
In this article we go deeper into the uses of internal blogs and
provide a brief overview of how t...
You can use blogs internally in a variety of ways - ...
• Project management communication
• Internal communication and marketing
...
Internal communication via blogs - ...On average, it takes someone
7 to 15 seconds to read, process, and do something about a single
e-mail message (even if that something is to ...
Developing and internal blogging strategy - ...ou begin your blogging
journey, ensure that you have an internal blogging strategy. With
so much potential here, mismanaging it would tragic...
As your company gets into blogging - ... cacophony of voices. As your company gets into blogging,
instead of being lost in the crowd, you need to know not only
what the blogging voic...
Responding to comments - ...pond. But
no matter what kind of feedback you get, all of it deserves an
answer.
Dealing with good comments can often be the m...
Technorati responded to Corante - ...the top blogs wasn’t changing.
Within a couple of hours, Adam Hertz of Technorati responded
to Stowe’s comments, as shown next, ...
Active blog tracking - ... blogs are
saying about a specific subject and what blogs are linking to other
blogs by listing the newest entries first.
Tech...
Monitor your blog with Blogpulse - ... trend analysis. Blog-
Pulse is adding new features at an exciting rate, and you could
definitely do worse than subscribing to the Intellise...
Searching for blogs - ...ll continue to grow over the
coming months, fueling new innovations, better tools, and better
tracking and ultimately providing the informat...
You and your blog - ...ed. He usually blogged about whatever came
up during the day.
Late in the week he had blogged about a sign he had made for...
Ten Tips for Comment Response - ...r emotions that are so easy to
slip into when dealing directly with people especially
angry people.
• ...
Develop a blogging strategy - ...lly into the
possibilities of blogging, and seemed to have that most elusive of
traits they really “got” blogging. However, afte...
Beyound the blog - ...t only want to tell
you how to run your company, they also want to tell you how to
grow it.
Part of learning to listen, then, is learni...
Knowing what your competition is doing - ...on,
and blogs will help you do that like no other tool (except
perhaps bribing competing officials, which I don’t advocate).
The ...
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Set Tags and Categories for Blog Entries (02/03/2008)
(...) Oh, and you got there from the hotel on a “Vespa.” What tags do, both within individual blogs and on the Internet in a wider context, is simply give us more information about the posts that are being made, offering readers more entry points into information and entertainment on the Web. Tags give you a way to create free-form associations between your own blog entries, and they can also provide hooks into social networking websites such as Technorati. (...)
(...) Oh, and you got there from the hotel on a “Vespa.” What tags do, both within individual blogs and on the Internet in a wider context, is simply give us more information about the posts that are being made, offering readers more entry points into information and entertainment on the Web. Tags give you a way to create free-form associations between your own blog entries, and they can also provide hooks into social networking websites such as Technorati. (...)
Tagging in ExpressionEngine (02/03/2008)
(...) See http:// expressionengine.com/downloads/details/weighted_categories/ for details. Currently, the best way to add true tags to your ExpressionEngine blog is to buy an add-on module from a company called Solspace. (...)
(...) See http:// expressionengine.com/downloads/details/weighted_categories/ for details. Currently, the best way to add true tags to your ExpressionEngine blog is to buy an add-on module from a company called Solspace. (...)
The Web Sensibility (02/01/2008)
(...) For a blog, that means that you need relatively few bells and whistles, and that none of the design elements should overshadow the function of the page, which is generally to convey information or entertainment in that way that blogs are supposed to do. The fundamental idea is that if you don’t have many distractions on the page then your reader is forced to look at the content. It should be pleasing to the eye and easy to read, but it doesn’t need to be overwhelmed with visual elements. (...)
(...) For a blog, that means that you need relatively few bells and whistles, and that none of the design elements should overshadow the function of the page, which is generally to convey information or entertainment in that way that blogs are supposed to do. The fundamental idea is that if you don’t have many distractions on the page then your reader is forced to look at the content. It should be pleasing to the eye and easy to read, but it doesn’t need to be overwhelmed with visual elements. (...)
Edit Your Blog Templates (02/01/2008)
(...) Once you’ve made your changes to the template in the Edit Template part of the page, click Preview to see what it will look like or Save Changes to put your changes into effect for the blog. Blogger offers another option discussed in before —you can switch to the “Classic Template” approach, which gives you more control over the layout of your Blogger blog using XHTML and CSS. What you lose when you switch to the Classic Template is the drag-and-drop functionality of the Page Elements feature. (...)
(...) Once you’ve made your changes to the template in the Edit Template part of the page, click Preview to see what it will look like or Save Changes to put your changes into effect for the blog. Blogger offers another option discussed in before —you can switch to the “Classic Template” approach, which gives you more control over the layout of your Blogger blog using XHTML and CSS. What you lose when you switch to the Classic Template is the drag-and-drop functionality of the Page Elements feature. (...)
Explore TypePad (01/31/2008)
(...) That said, you can dig into the templates; it’s just a bit more effort.) The cost for the service is generally only a few dollars a month, depending on the plan that you opt for and the number of authors and blogs that you want to have participate. If you don’t want to pay anything for a hosted blog, however, then Blogger or WordPress (covered later) might be better choices. (...)
(...) That said, you can dig into the templates; it’s just a bit more effort.) The cost for the service is generally only a few dollars a month, depending on the plan that you opt for and the number of authors and blogs that you want to have participate. If you don’t want to pay anything for a hosted blog, however, then Blogger or WordPress (covered later) might be better choices. (...)
First post (01/31/2008)
(...) (Note, also, that as with any computerized text, you don’t need to enter two spaces between sentences. That’s old typewriter stuff.) To change text to bold or italic, for instance, you can highlight the text and click the “B” icon for bold text or the “i” icon for italic text. (...)
(...) (Note, also, that as with any computerized text, you don’t need to enter two spaces between sentences. That’s old typewriter stuff.) To change text to bold or italic, for instance, you can highlight the text and click the “B” icon for bold text or the “i” icon for italic text. (...)
Edit and Manage Posts in TypePad (01/31/2008)
(...) To Delete a post, you can place a checkmark next to that post on the List Posts screen, and click the Delete button. Likewise, you can perform some other actions on checked posts by choosing from the More Actions menu. That includes turning on (opening) and off (closing) comments, listing comments, turning on and off trackbacks, and making the selected post(s) Featured, which means the post is displayed at the top of the blog and others scroll beneath it, even if those entries are newer. (...)
(...) To Delete a post, you can place a checkmark next to that post on the List Posts screen, and click the Delete button. Likewise, you can perform some other actions on checked posts by choosing from the More Actions menu. That includes turning on (opening) and off (closing) comments, listing comments, turning on and off trackbacks, and making the selected post(s) Featured, which means the post is displayed at the top of the blog and others scroll beneath it, even if those entries are newer. (...)
Preferences (01/31/2008)
(...) Time Format Choose a format for displaying the time in your blog. Posting Status Choose the default setting for posting status; if you tend to write long posts and need multiple sessions with TypePad before one is done, then choosing Draft as the default might make sense. Text Formatting Choose whether or not line breaks in your post writing will automatically be preserved. (...)
(...) Time Format Choose a format for displaying the time in your blog. Posting Status Choose the default setting for posting status; if you tend to write long posts and need multiple sessions with TypePad before one is done, then choosing Draft as the default might make sense. Text Formatting Choose whether or not line breaks in your post writing will automatically be preserved. (...)
Add Lists to Your TypePad Blog (01/31/2008)
(...) If you want to upload an image to your site without going through a blog entry or a photo album interface, you can choose the Control Panel tab and click Files to upload files directly to your TypePad server space. You can then enter an image URL (<img src="http:// yourname.typepad. (...)
(...) If you want to upload an image to your site without going through a blog entry or a photo album interface, you can choose the Control Panel tab and click Files to upload files directly to your TypePad server space. You can then enter an image URL (<img src="http:// yourname.typepad. (...)
WordPress blog (01/31/2008)
(...) org and install it yourself. Although be aware that many of the things you can do with the self-hosted version of WordPress can also be done with the hosted version at WordPress.com if you don’t already have a web hosting account or if you simply don’t want to fool around with the installation. (...)
(...) org and install it yourself. Although be aware that many of the things you can do with the self-hosted version of WordPress can also be done with the hosted version at WordPress.com if you don’t already have a web hosting account or if you simply don’t want to fool around with the installation. (...)
Post with WordPress (01/31/2008)
(...) ) Once a paragraph is indented, you can click the Outdent button to remove the indenting. And, again with paragraphs, you can choose to left-align, center, or right-align the text. To create a hyperlink, highlight the text that will become a link and click the Insert/Edit Link button. (...)
(...) ) Once a paragraph is indented, you can click the Outdent button to remove the indenting. And, again with paragraphs, you can choose to left-align, center, or right-align the text. To create a hyperlink, highlight the text that will become a link and click the Insert/Edit Link button. (...)
Add to Your Blogroll (01/31/2008)
(...) The Add Links page actually has a few options that add some complexity. (To view some of these options, you’ll need to click the “X” on the right side of their titlebars). Those options include Categories You can categorize your links so that they can be displayed in different ways on your blog, if desired. (...)
(...) The Add Links page actually has a few options that add some complexity. (To view some of these options, you’ll need to click the “X” on the right side of their titlebars). Those options include Categories You can categorize your links so that they can be displayed in different ways on your blog, if desired. (...)
Go free or paid (01/30/2008)
(...) With commercial software, if you’ve paid the registration fee you should be assured of a reasonable amount of customer and technical service that goes along with the product. In the case of a tool such as ExpressionEngine, paying for it should mean regular updates, security patches, and add-ons that are designed to work well with the original product. (ExpressionEngine also offers a no-cost “core” version that offers the blogging functionality but few of the add-on modules such as the forums, wikis, or user management modules. (...)
(...) With commercial software, if you’ve paid the registration fee you should be assured of a reasonable amount of customer and technical service that goes along with the product. In the case of a tool such as ExpressionEngine, paying for it should mean regular updates, security patches, and add-ons that are designed to work well with the original product. (ExpressionEngine also offers a no-cost “core” version that offers the blogging functionality but few of the add-on modules such as the forums, wikis, or user management modules. (...)
How to do everything with your blog (01/23/2008)
(...) And the more entries you write—again, in theory—the more you’ll be able to interest an Internet-based audience in what you have to say. People use blogs for all sorts of reasons, from keeping a diary-like account of their day-to-day lives to pitching products and services. Some people who have blog-style websites focus on politics or on making a difference in a social context. (...)
(...) And the more entries you write—again, in theory—the more you’ll be able to interest an Internet-based audience in what you have to say. People use blogs for all sorts of reasons, from keeping a diary-like account of their day-to-day lives to pitching products and services. Some people who have blog-style websites focus on politics or on making a difference in a social context. (...)
Plan your blog (01/23/2008)
(...) You’ll often hear people say that they’re “married” to a particular blogging application; the metaphor can be quite apt. If you’re just getting started, you should take a week or two to “date” a few different blogging applications first before marching down the aisle with one particular one. It’s generally easy to move a few blog entries and comments from one system to another, but the more customization you do, the more you’ll probably want to stick with that blogging application through the good times and bad! When planning your blog, you’ll want to consider the reason that you want a blog in the first place. (...)
(...) You’ll often hear people say that they’re “married” to a particular blogging application; the metaphor can be quite apt. If you’re just getting started, you should take a week or two to “date” a few different blogging applications first before marching down the aisle with one particular one. It’s generally easy to move a few blog entries and comments from one system to another, but the more customization you do, the more you’ll probably want to stick with that blogging application through the good times and bad! When planning your blog, you’ll want to consider the reason that you want a blog in the first place. (...)
What is a BLOG (05/30/2007)
(...) Thankfully, plenty of positive stories resulting from blogs have also surfaced stories of companies embracing the world of blogging and seeing massive expansion, goodwill, and visibility as a result. Blogging is a communication tool, a marketing technique, a listening device, and a way to interact directly with customers one-to-one on a global scale. A business can learn a lot by reading blogs to determine what customers and non-customers alike are saying about the business. (...)
(...) Thankfully, plenty of positive stories resulting from blogs have also surfaced stories of companies embracing the world of blogging and seeing massive expansion, goodwill, and visibility as a result. Blogging is a communication tool, a marketing technique, a listening device, and a way to interact directly with customers one-to-one on a global scale. A business can learn a lot by reading blogs to determine what customers and non-customers alike are saying about the business. (...)
Blogging history (05/30/2007)
(...) Blogging is really about three things: • Information Telling your customers what you’re doing and finding out what they are thinking. • Relationships Building a solid base of positive experiences with your customers that changes them from plain-old consumers to evangelists for your company and products. • Knowledge management Having the vast stores of knowledge within your company available to the right people at the right time. (...)
(...) Blogging is really about three things: • Information Telling your customers what you’re doing and finding out what they are thinking. • Relationships Building a solid base of positive experiences with your customers that changes them from plain-old consumers to evangelists for your company and products. • Knowledge management Having the vast stores of knowledge within your company available to the right people at the right time. (...)
Business blogs (05/30/2007)
(...) In fact, these days, no business author’s work is complete without starting a article blog. As a result, the business magazines of the world such as Fortune, Business 2.0, and Fast Company have awakened to the power of the blog and businesses around the world are taking notice. (...)
(...) In fact, these days, no business author’s work is complete without starting a article blog. As a result, the business magazines of the world such as Fortune, Business 2.0, and Fast Company have awakened to the power of the blog and businesses around the world are taking notice. (...)
Customers and blogs (05/30/2007)
(...) JetBlue CEO David Neeleman realized early on that without talking to his customers he would never be able to build a customer- centric airline. As a result of his unique approach to customer interaction, Neeleman has been featured in a variety of business magazines. When he flies, he flies just like everybody else, in coach. (...)
(...) JetBlue CEO David Neeleman realized early on that without talking to his customers he would never be able to build a customer- centric airline. As a result of his unique approach to customer interaction, Neeleman has been featured in a variety of business magazines. When he flies, he flies just like everybody else, in coach. (...)
Effective communication aka blogs (05/30/2007)
(...) The challenge for most companies who engage in customer conversation isn’t obtaining feedback; it’s how best to deal with the feedback, both positive and negative. At the end of the day, you need to realize that these conversations include current customers, potential customers, employees, and partners. If you ignore these comments, you are ignoring valuable feedback, potential new marketing strategies, innovative new product ideas, and concepts that could completely transform your business. (...)
(...) The challenge for most companies who engage in customer conversation isn’t obtaining feedback; it’s how best to deal with the feedback, both positive and negative. At the end of the day, you need to realize that these conversations include current customers, potential customers, employees, and partners. If you ignore these comments, you are ignoring valuable feedback, potential new marketing strategies, innovative new product ideas, and concepts that could completely transform your business. (...)
Participating in blog conversation (05/30/2007)
(...) Whether an individual is a saboteur or an evangelist, every relationship you create and every time you step outside the boundaries of your company, you can create positive new experiences with each and every individual with whom you interact. CREATING CUSTOMER EVANGELISTS One of the most powerful benefits of blogging is that it helps you create evangelists. In their 2002 article, Creating Customer Evangelists, Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba tell us that passionate company evangelists can inform and empower your customers to carry your brand’s message to others. (...)
(...) Whether an individual is a saboteur or an evangelist, every relationship you create and every time you step outside the boundaries of your company, you can create positive new experiences with each and every individual with whom you interact. CREATING CUSTOMER EVANGELISTS One of the most powerful benefits of blogging is that it helps you create evangelists. In their 2002 article, Creating Customer Evangelists, Ben McConnell and Jackie Huba tell us that passionate company evangelists can inform and empower your customers to carry your brand’s message to others. (...)
Tracking blog activity (05/30/2007)
(...) feedster .com), which allows you to search the millions of feeds available in a Google-like manner. Thanks to tools such as Technorati (www. (...)
(...) feedster .com), which allows you to search the millions of feeds available in a Google-like manner. Thanks to tools such as Technorati (www. (...)
How blogs can help your business (05/30/2007)
(...) The challenge for companies who invest in ideas is often that the best ideas don’t get to the top, don’t get reviewed, or don’t even get considered. This idea barrier could be killing your company. A truly open and internally viewable idea blog, or even individual employee blogs that allow people to float new ideas for peer review, should allow the best ideas to rise to the surface for selection and review. (...)
(...) The challenge for companies who invest in ideas is often that the best ideas don’t get to the top, don’t get reviewed, or don’t even get considered. This idea barrier could be killing your company. A truly open and internally viewable idea blog, or even individual employee blogs that allow people to float new ideas for peer review, should allow the best ideas to rise to the surface for selection and review. (...)
How blogs impact your business (05/30/2007)
(...) Products Traditional product development leverages a roomful of customers to make decisions for a world full of people. The end result is a series of focus group insights that have no real-world applications. Blogging affords the opportunity to ask the world of customers about what they actually want. (...)
(...) Products Traditional product development leverages a roomful of customers to make decisions for a world full of people. The end result is a series of focus group insights that have no real-world applications. Blogging affords the opportunity to ask the world of customers about what they actually want. (...)
How blogs bring in customers (05/30/2007)
(...) Stonyfield runs five blogs, each targeted at a different part of their market. Some are targeted at farmers and those who remember traditional farming nostalgically; others are targeted at parenting and healthy living, as having a healthy image appeals to busy parents. The focus on healthy living, the environment, and family values are important facets of the company’s personality, something it prides itself in having maintained, despite the company’s phenomenal growth. (...)
(...) Stonyfield runs five blogs, each targeted at a different part of their market. Some are targeted at farmers and those who remember traditional farming nostalgically; others are targeted at parenting and healthy living, as having a healthy image appeals to busy parents. The focus on healthy living, the environment, and family values are important facets of the company’s personality, something it prides itself in having maintained, despite the company’s phenomenal growth. (...)
The Kryptonite story (05/30/2007)
(...) The conversation about the issue quickly spun out of control. Worst of all, Kryptonite had no idea what was going on until it was too late. In short order, The New York Times and the Associated Press had picked up the story and there was no turning back for Kryptonite. (...)
(...) The conversation about the issue quickly spun out of control. Worst of all, Kryptonite had no idea what was going on until it was too late. In short order, The New York Times and the Associated Press had picked up the story and there was no turning back for Kryptonite. (...)
How do I use blogs (05/30/2007)
(...) We could get pretty deep pretty fast, but for now let’s look at two companies that are using blogs in innovative ways to reshape the way they do business in the areas in which the blogs are targeted. GIVING YOUR COMPANY A VOICE: THE GENERAL MOTORS STORY In January 2005, a milestone event happened: Bob Lutz, vice chairman of General Motors, started blogging. Lutz was the first executive leader of a non-tech Fortune 100 company to be a primary contributor to a blog. (...)
(...) We could get pretty deep pretty fast, but for now let’s look at two companies that are using blogs in innovative ways to reshape the way they do business in the areas in which the blogs are targeted. GIVING YOUR COMPANY A VOICE: THE GENERAL MOTORS STORY In January 2005, a milestone event happened: Bob Lutz, vice chairman of General Motors, started blogging. Lutz was the first executive leader of a non-tech Fortune 100 company to be a primary contributor to a blog. (...)
Use blogs in innovative ways (05/30/2007)
(...) As a result of these challenges to their goals, the Disney Channel has been working on a more elegant solution for several years. WORKING ON A SOLUTION The first solution was a basic database that was developed inhouse. The feature set was minimal (no searching or editing capabilities), but it was certainly no worse than the paper system, and it meant an end to the piles of archived binders stored in a warehouse. (...)
(...) As a result of these challenges to their goals, the Disney Channel has been working on a more elegant solution for several years. WORKING ON A SOLUTION The first solution was a basic database that was developed inhouse. The feature set was minimal (no searching or editing capabilities), but it was certainly no worse than the paper system, and it meant an end to the piles of archived binders stored in a warehouse. (...)
Why you want your employees to blog (05/30/2007)
(...) Whatever you want, you will find software that either just works or that you can hack into exactly as you want. Fast and simple to implement, blogs don’t require a huge IT budget. Even the most expensive of blogging solutions is a fraction of the cost of traditional KM and CMS platforms, so you can toy with them and if they don’t work you can just toss them out. (...)
(...) Whatever you want, you will find software that either just works or that you can hack into exactly as you want. Fast and simple to implement, blogs don’t require a huge IT budget. Even the most expensive of blogging solutions is a fraction of the cost of traditional KM and CMS platforms, so you can toy with them and if they don’t work you can just toss them out. (...)
Blogger types (05/30/2007)
(...) For a business, establishing a barber blog will often mean rising above company issues and even company policies. A barber will be honest about his company and his industry’s faults, as well as their potential. He won’t pick sides, but he’ll trumpet every success. (...)
(...) For a business, establishing a barber blog will often mean rising above company issues and even company policies. A barber will be honest about his company and his industry’s faults, as well as their potential. He won’t pick sides, but he’ll trumpet every success. (...)
Blogs as marketing voice (05/30/2007)
(...) com), which was helped along its way by popular marketing thinker and blogger Hugh Macleod (www.gapingvoid.com). (...)
(...) com), which was helped along its way by popular marketing thinker and blogger Hugh Macleod (www.gapingvoid.com). (...)
You can use blogs in a number of fantastic ways (05/30/2007)
(...) Getting buy-in early from key figures at these levels of the company means that blogging isn’t being pushed on people, but is being made available by company leaders as well as being championed by the grassroots and encouraged by managers. Employees typically won’t begin blogging simply because you tell them to. That said, smart employees who recognize the value and time-savings that blogging can provide, when properly used, will often take up the idea quickly. (...)
(...) Getting buy-in early from key figures at these levels of the company means that blogging isn’t being pushed on people, but is being made available by company leaders as well as being championed by the grassroots and encouraged by managers. Employees typically won’t begin blogging simply because you tell them to. That said, smart employees who recognize the value and time-savings that blogging can provide, when properly used, will often take up the idea quickly. (...)
You can use blogs internally in a variety of ways (05/30/2007)
(...) Because project management is inherently decision-making based on information, project management blogs allow the project manager and the team to communicate back and forth. Some project management blogs are completely open, allowing anyone on the team to post and comment. These are often strong ways of ensuring that the project is pushing forward while encouraging contributions from anyone and everyone involved. (...)
(...) Because project management is inherently decision-making based on information, project management blogs allow the project manager and the team to communicate back and forth. Some project management blogs are completely open, allowing anyone on the team to post and comment. These are often strong ways of ensuring that the project is pushing forward while encouraging contributions from anyone and everyone involved. (...)
Internal communication via blogs (05/30/2007)
(...) And while it isn’t necessary to enjoy the other benefits of blogs, the arguments for saving your employees’ time, never losing a document, and getting employees involved in the company and empowered for change are difficult to dismiss. Simply implementing blogs won’t do all these things, though. You need to be prepared to raise up champions for the cause by training people to use the blogs, supporting new ideas, and responding to what is happening on the blogs. (...)
(...) And while it isn’t necessary to enjoy the other benefits of blogs, the arguments for saving your employees’ time, never losing a document, and getting employees involved in the company and empowered for change are difficult to dismiss. Simply implementing blogs won’t do all these things, though. You need to be prepared to raise up champions for the cause by training people to use the blogs, supporting new ideas, and responding to what is happening on the blogs. (...)
Developing and internal blogging strategy (05/30/2007)
(...) Developing a strategy is a three-part exercise: discovery, exploration, and excavation. The discovery phase of creating a successful blogging strategy is laying out your current challenges, your values, and your objectives as a company. Any blogging activity you take on needs to fit with these. (...)
(...) Developing a strategy is a three-part exercise: discovery, exploration, and excavation. The discovery phase of creating a successful blogging strategy is laying out your current challenges, your values, and your objectives as a company. Any blogging activity you take on needs to fit with these. (...)
As your company gets into blogging (05/30/2007)
(...) Early bloggers decided that searching Google on a nearly daily basis was not only inefficient, but slow. After all, it could take more than three days for new links to your site to show up in Google, and that was simply unacceptable. In fact, Dave Sifry, one of the earliest bloggers, got so fed up with using Google for ego surfing that he created his own website called Technorati (www. (...)
(...) Early bloggers decided that searching Google on a nearly daily basis was not only inefficient, but slow. After all, it could take more than three days for new links to your site to show up in Google, and that was simply unacceptable. In fact, Dave Sifry, one of the earliest bloggers, got so fed up with using Google for ego surfing that he created his own website called Technorati (www. (...)
Responding to comments (05/30/2007)
(...) And, like the good comment, someone posting a bad comment is giving you the opportunity to interact with her. Not only is it welcome, but in many ways it’s expected: because she has interacted with you, ignoring the poster would only drive her farther away. In this case, inaction is just about the worst thing you could do. (...)
(...) And, like the good comment, someone posting a bad comment is giving you the opportunity to interact with her. Not only is it welcome, but in many ways it’s expected: because she has interacted with you, ignoring the poster would only drive her farther away. In this case, inaction is just about the worst thing you could do. (...)
Technorati responded to Corante (05/30/2007)
(...) Not only did Hertz find Stowe’s post, and not only did he respond to it, but he also responded to a comment left by another user later in the day and helped her through issues involving her blog and how Technorati was tracking it. Because Technorati execs are so responsive to bloggers and customers’ needs, user support for Technorati’s services continues to grow. changed his entire perception of the event. (...)
(...) Not only did Hertz find Stowe’s post, and not only did he respond to it, but he also responded to a comment left by another user later in the day and helped her through issues involving her blog and how Technorati was tracking it. Because Technorati execs are so responsive to bloggers and customers’ needs, user support for Technorati’s services continues to grow. changed his entire perception of the event. (...)
Active blog tracking (05/30/2007)
(...) CNN.com as the searching entity, you’d find a large number of links to CNN nearly 75,000 links from more than 40,000 sources. (Throughout this article, we will use CNN as an example for our searches. (...)
(...) CNN.com as the searching entity, you’d find a large number of links to CNN nearly 75,000 links from more than 40,000 sources. (Throughout this article, we will use CNN as an example for our searches. (...)
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