October 21, 2005
McDonalds and Blogging - BlogWrite for CEOs is Lovin' It!
McDonalds execs are blogging and it's not just the CxOs. And BlogWrite is Lovin' It (or at least Writin' It)! A recent discussion on the corporate blogging topic only made me more convinced that retaining the Personal, Unique voice of the individual is key and what sets apart blogging and it's related New syndication vehicles (RSS, podcast, etc.) tools for Knowledge Management / Collaboration / Communication from something that's just New.
Debbie Weil and BlogWrite for CEOs illustrates that individual voice well and is a great new find for me, getting into the in and outs of corporate blogging...and really getting Into It...dig the excitement of her first podcast (nothing mini about it Deb).
And in the practice of sharing that Debbie leads the way with, I use http://Audioblog.com for Live phone conversation / interview recording and auto-posting to various VO weblogs and http://Flickr.com/photos/vo for Live picture / image storage and auto-posting via cameraphone (and digi-cam)...fun tools. I also use http://Streamload.com/outlawv for hosting other audio / video files (made available via podcast RSS enclosures in some cases), mostly MP3s of TNJT interviews...like last night's killer chat with Reid Anderson of The Bad Plus (not quite up yet)...but Streamload download costs are getting expensive as the interviews get a bit popular...so I think I'll be looking distribution via BitTorrent soon (although I hate to think about having folks scale that tech wall just to get downloadable versions of the interviews...ugh). I'd like to get into the Skype and PC / Mac mobile recording set-up too, so it's good to hear Debbie's experience with it.
Keep Lovin' It Deb!! VO
October 18, 2005
Doc Laments The Cult Of Personality In The Blogosphere
Beyond Monoculture | Doc Searls' IT Garage: When any culture focuses it's hero worship on one entity, as the blogosphere has done with Google, then undesireable mutations, like incestuous blog spam, will no doubt result. Diversify!
Tech Memeorandum: Collective Voice of Consumer Information Technology
tech.memeorandum is an aggregator of blog posts and links covering the latest in what I'm calling Consumer Information Technology (or Consumer IT): Informaiton technology in the hands of the masses, or at least the emerging masses, interested in comsuming information (via search engine results, read-blogs, RSS readers, listened-podcasts) and communicating information (via written-blogs, produced-podcasts, RSS syndication). I haven't quite gotten on the Memeorandom bandwagon yet, as I haven't added it to my RSS reading list, but it's good for a tech read when the whim hits (and it's political side is a good skim also).
I specifically differentiate Consumer IT from Corporate IT, in that it seems like a lot of the blogging world covered by Memeorandum is still very focused on the act of producing and consuming of information for and about blogging and related issues (pinging, blog search, podcasting) as opposed to the analysis of technology and process used to run businesses (ERP systems, governance, business process, enterprise architecture). This may just be because the blogging (and it's offshoots) means of knowledge sharing and knowledge finding is still in it's infancy.
But there are signs of this beginning to change as even Memeorandum was covering BlogWrite for CEOs' Debbie Weil covering McDonald's blogging COOs and Posted by outlawv at 05:47 AM | Comments (0)