BlogWrite for CEOs

Dec

21

2007

Best Top Ten Lists

Posted in the Category of WordBiz Report

I've compiled a handful I thought you'd find useful (or funny): Top 14 trends from Seth Godin's new book, Meatball Sundae; 10 tips for new bloggers from Jorn Barger who coined the term "Weblog" 10 years ago; Pete Blackshaw's Official 2008 Web 2.0 Buzzword Forecast; the best of Harvard Business Online. Merriam-Webster's 2007 Word Of The Year is w00t! More…

2007 Word of the Year 

Merriam-Webster's 2007 Word Of The Year is w00t! (Yes, those are double zeros.) It means yay! and yippee! as in, "I won!" #2 in M-W's Top 10 words for 2007 is facebook.

Best of…

Continue Reading »

0 comments

Dec

21

2007

Top 8 Tips for Corporate Blogging in 2008

Posted in the Category of WordBiz Report

2008tips2.gifBlogging is a key piece of Web 2.0 or the Social Web, as it's called. The Social Web means crowdsourcing: looking to your customers and fans for knowledge and smarts. It means that painstaking creation of static, stuffy, stilted Web pages is out. Blogs (interactive) are in. Here are my Top 8 Tips to launch an effective corporate blogging program in 2008.

1. Use humor

I don't mean funny ha ha. Poke fun at yourself. Be self-deprecating.  Readers love it. It may be the #1 way to make your blog appear human and to strip…

Continue Reading »

2 comments

Dec

21

2007

Free download: How to Write a Great Business Blog

Posted in the Category of WordBiz Report

gbb_bow_large.gifMy holiday gift to you, dear reader, is dressed up in a smartly packaged PDF. It's an enhanced transcript of the teleconference I did for the Personal Branding Telesummit marking the 10th anniversary of Tom Peters' now iconic article: The Brand Called You. You can also listen to the audio recording of this session.

Download Link

Download the PDF: How to Write a Great Business Blog 

Listen to the audio recording

Download the MP3 audio recording of this teleconference.

In this one-hour audio conference we touched on the…

Continue Reading »

0 comments

Jun

30

2007

Content Strategy teleconference now available as downloadable PDF and audio recording

Posted in the Category of WordBiz Report

content_strategy_thumbnail1.jpgShould you ghostblog for your CEO? Is anonymous blogging OK? Do you need a blog editor? All is revealed in the audio recording and enhanced PDF transcript of my April 2007 teleconference. Buy and download instantly. When the rubber meets the road, the content of your blog is what will determine its success or failure. By content I mean the topics, the writers, the voice, the links, the Comments from readers. The first teleconference in my series on corporate blogging focused on the knotty problem of how…

Continue Reading »

0 comments

Jun

30

2007

Summer reading: what’s in your stack?

Posted in the Category of WordBiz Report

persephone_shuttle_inside.jpgI've ordered four novels from the British publisher, Persephone Books, which specializes in 20th century novels written by neglected women authors. Each is wonderful reading and is published with a distinctive gray cover and a beautiful endpaper. Decidedly non-digital book selections but just what I'm hungering for.

Leave a comment below to share your reading picks for the summer

What about you? Click below on Leave a comment with your own suggestions for summer reading.

I'm currently reading one of Persephone's newest re-issues:…

Continue Reading »

0 comments

Jun

30

2007

Best free download for the summer: IBM’s new blogging report

Posted in the Category of WordBiz Report

ibm_blogging_report.jpgThis report is free. The Blogging Revolution: Government in the Age of Web 2.0, is a meaty guide to social media (great charts, tables, screenshots) that focuses on blogging in the public sector. The most intriguing case study is about how blogging is being used as part of the War on Terror by the U.S. Military. General James Cartwright, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command (STRATCOM), offers a fascinating glimpse into how blogs are part of STRATCOM's online information management system.

Blogging enables decision-making on a dime, 24X7, he explains. Information supplied by a…

Continue Reading »

0 comments

Next Page »

Subscribe to Debbie's Blog

Featured Posts

Latest Comments

Browse By Topic

Top CEO/Exec Blogs

Social Media Blogs

Browse By Date