Archives for October 2006
A New Marketing Firm Opens In Super Addictive Second Life
A foursome of prolific bloggers and podcasters — Joseph Jaffe, Neville Hobson , Shel Holtz, C.C. Chapman — are starting a “new marketing” agency called Crayon which will be based in Crayonville Island, Second Life, the virtual world. Neville’s post on Crayon was the clearest. This new company sounds a little crazy and [...]
New Hires Drive Enterprise Blogging
John Patterson at Capgemini (GCI client) tells me his firm is being motivated by new hires to expand their blogging policy to allow a broader base of employees to blog. As an example, he says engineers formerly with IBM (where there are more than 15,000 bloggers) in the U.S., India and other markets show up [...]
Save TWIT!
TWIT is my favorite tech podcast. It was one of the first podcasts and it is hosted by Leo Leporte who is arguably the best tech host/reporter on-line or off-line. More than 150,000 geeks listen to each show. I was disappointed to learn the show this week was cancelled because none of Leo’s usual guests [...]
HD Teleconferencing Arrives? It Arrived In Austin A Year Ago…
Just read Scoble’s post on Cisco’s announcement and it rang a bell. There is an Austin company that has had an offer in the higher-end, HD teleconferencing space for a while: LifeSize (see the fun video on their home page).
I spent a half-day with Munira Fareed, VP marketing, and her team [...]
Rolling Stones In Austin
Wow.
Wikipedia Rocks Google?
This is relevant, I promise. This Sunday the Rolling Stones are playing in Austin’s Zilker Park. Radio Shack (our client) is sponsoring the tour, and we are taking a party of 50 clients and friends. Our creative director Joel Babbit knows Chuck Leavell, the Rolling Stones’ piano player, and we are hanging [...]
Walmart Saga Motivates Lawyers To Phone The Bloggers
I get to go nose-to-nose with some really good corporate lawyers who want to better understand what their bloggers and/or marketing and/or communications teams are planning to unleash on-line.
John Slafsky, a partner at Wilson Sonsini, Goodrich and Rosatti, the powerhouse law firm that represents Sun, Google, Netflicks and HP warned me early on that “as [...]
Edelman And Technorati Generate Great Publicity Together, But Invest In Wrong Functionality
More than a dozen folks have asked me what I think of what one executive called “the Edelman and Technorati service to track blogs” featured in the NY Times yesterday. In a nutshell, here’s what I think: Great publicity. I am envious of the nice story they generated in my favorite newspaper, [...]
“Time Required” To Blog Is A Challenge
It’s been a week since I posted, and I’ve been feeling some angst. Why? My goal is to “take my own medicine” and post at least four times per week (and ideally more). Like most enterprise bloggers, “time required” is one of my top challenges. Oh, I have a whole database full of excuses: I’ve [...]
IT@Intel Blog
Intel joined the blogosphere — welcome! If I am deciphering the initial posts and “about” page correctly, Intel’s internal IT organization is behind this blog. I’ll be keeping an eye on this one. My guess is they will use this as a forum for sharing enterprise IT management ideas and to show [...]
