The Corporate Blogging Book

I just figured this out. Turns out you can read Kindle e-books on your iPhone or iPod touch or Blackberry, no Kindle required. In other words, you don’t need to own a Kindle to read Kindle e-books.

Here’s how to do it: browse to the Kindle store on Amazon via your computer and purchase a Kindle book. Then download the free iPhone or Blackberry app and, magically, your smartphone syncs with your Kindle account. Whatever books you’ve purchased

The Corporate Blogging Book


I am writing today. I am updating The Corporate Blogging Book for a new Kindle e-book edition. First, I cracked open the procrastination nut with 20 minutes of freewriting. This really works. Mark Levy, author of Accidental Genius, turned me onto freewriting. He just finished revising his wonderful book and a new edition will be coming out soon. Essentially, freewriting means just what it sounds like. You sit down at the computer, apply your

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Thanks to Geoff Livingston for prompting a bit of reflection on what it all meant in Debbie Weil Discusses Social Media in China.

China Blogging Tour chronicles my two weeks in China in October 2007 during which I spoke to a number of audiences (primarily English speaking ex-pats) about corporate blogging and social media in the U.S.

I tried to learn as much as possible about the attitudes in China towards the tools and technologies of social

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Nothing warms an author's heart more than having a fan approach with a dozen tabs sticking out of your book, so I was thrilled to meet Prof. Bill Barnett, faculty chair of Computer Information Systems at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Bill was attending BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas and sought me out for an autograph and a quick chat. He told me that after reading The Corporate Blogging Book he set up a blog for departmental news and as

Nothing warms an author's heart more than having a fan approach with a dozen tabs sticking out of your book, so I was thrilled to meet Prof. Bill Barnett, faculty chair of Computer Information Systems at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.

Bill was attending BlogWorld Expo in Las Vegas and sought me out for an autograph and a quick chat. He told me that after reading The Corporate Blogging Book he set up a blog for departmental news and as a recruiting tool. He also requires students to blog executive summaries of reading assignments and to comment on each other's blogs.

Cool idea. Using blogs in academics - and to teach writing - is a huge interest of mine.

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China_expat_logoDATELINE: Shanghai (Oct. 22, 2007): I’ve been here in China, my first visit, for exactly one week. The roller coaster phenomenon goes something like this…

Two weeks in China and you think you can write a book… two years in China and you realize you have nothing to say.

- expat’s refrain

China_twoweeks

1. Scarcely 48 hours after arriving in Beijing I shared what I considered to be my GREAT revelation with an audience at Amcham Beijing: with 137 million

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First (jetlagged) impressions: China is amazing! Shiny, new, modern, BIG. I''m in Beijing. It's 6:30 AM Monday morning here; 6:30 PM Sunday back in the U.S. Follow the China Blogging Tour!

P.S. This blog is loading very slowly from my hotel in Beijing. Not sure if there is a problem.

First (jetlagged) impressions: China is amazing! Shiny, new, modern, BIG. I''m in Beijing. It's 6:30 AM Monday morning here; 6:30 PM Sunday back in the U.S. Follow the China Blogging Tour!

P.S. This blog is loading very slowly from my hotel in Beijing. Not sure if there is a problem.

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I’ve been writing about corporate and CEO blogging and business use of social media since 2003. I also use this blog as a whiteboard to work out my thinking on other subjects, such as Government 2.0 and Publishing 2.0.  I welcome your Comments if they are on topic. I delete them if inappropriate or spammy.




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