Category: Business blogging
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They work inside too!
Too much of the discussion on social media (blogs/podcasts, wikis, etc.) in the enterprise revolves around outward facing tools and not enough mention is made of the advantages of using these tools internally. I met an Enterprise Ireland rep yesterday and his take on business blogs was that they were for client communications. And that…
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Irish Blog Awards nominations
I’m both deeply honoured and humbled to have been nominated for several Irish Blog Awards. The competition is stiff and I am up against many more deserving blogs/podcasts than my own. Judge for yourself – listed below are the categories in which I have been nominated (twice in the best podcast category). I have italicised…
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World champion blogger?
I was on NewsTalk 106 again yesterday evening. This time with I was on the Technology for the Rest of us slot with George Hook and Karlin Lillington. What I didn’t realise going to the interview, was that this was the launch of NewsTalk in Cork and so they had along local politicians, the CEO…
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Busy couple of days
I have a busy couple of days ahead – expect light posting. – today I have a couple of CIX-related sales meetings – I have an it@cork pre-conference podcast with Eddie Hobbs to edit and publish – tomorrow I have several meetings in Dublin followed by the Netvisionary Awards night – Friday I have an…
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Arguments against business blogging?
A couple of commenters on a recent post raised issues I hear time and again when I discuss the advantages of blogs for businesses: Blogging has a poor perception Blogging takes too much time Blogging allows people to make negative comments on your site Let’s deal with each of these points: 1. Blogging has a…
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Where are the Irish Business Blogs?
In my excitement at being shortlisted for the Netvisionary awards and in coming quite high in Justin’s Technorati-ranked Top 100 Irish blogs, I missed something fundamental – the fact that I am doing well is a very poor reflection on the state of business blogging in Ireland. What do I mean? Well, one of the…
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Top 100 Irish blogs
Justin Mason has put together a list of the top 100 Irish blog sites by Technorati rank and by inbound links. Jason obviously put a huge effort into doing this and serious kudos to him for doing it. If it weren’t too difficult to do Justin, a monthly report of these numbers would be fascinating…
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Le Web 3 hotel recommendations
Anyone going to Le Web 3 have any hotel recommendations? Last year there was a wiki where people could leave their suggestions but I don’t see that anywhere on the Le Web 3 site this year and emailing the organisers has elicited no response, as yet!