Topic: Blogs and Blogging

Should Small Companies Blog?

BY Fast Company Staff
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I scrolled through Technorati today looking for a blog topic, and I simply typed “technology” to see what would come up. Not surprisingly, the search engine produced a wide variety of sites from a guitarist offering online guitar ...READ MORE›

Blogging Next

BY Heath Row
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Danah Boyd is an information management PhD student at the University of California, where she researches how people negotiate their presentation of self in online communities and other social contexts. Anil Dash works as VP of ...READ MORE›

Top 5: Up-and-Coming Blogs for Social Entrepreneurs

BY David Capece
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Along with sustainability and green living, social entrepreneurship is quite a hot topic. One way people can recognize their own potential for social entrepreneurship is by reading and following the works of those who are at the forefront of the movement. Social entrepreneurship is a grassroots effort that has picked up steam with the help of blogs and bloggers all over the world. By using their resources – the Internet and various social media platforms – they’re spreading the word in a way that stays true to their convictions, and still getting the message across to millions. These leaders are smart, successful, and have a great deal of insight into the constantly changing world around them. In this week’s top five, we’re exploring…READ MORE›

Tech Monday: What The Women Bloggers Know

BY Lynne d Johnson
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Back in July, I went to Chicago to attend the 3rd Annual BlogHer Conference to moderate a panel, "Privacy, Exposure, Risk: Can you maintain safer spaces online?" BlogHer is a community for and guide to blogs by women, as well as an ...READ MORE›

Tech Monday: It's A Blog World After All

BY Lynne d Johnson
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Back in the spring, there was some discrepancy about whether there are actually 70 million blogs in the world. David Sifry of Technorati posted "The State of the Live Web" in April and revealed a steady growth in blogs to the tune of ...READ MORE›

(Blog)Roll Call

BY Heath Row
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We recently added a "blogroll" -- a list of business, innovation, leadership, and technology blogs and frequently updated Web sites that FC Now contributors follow -- to FC Now. On the left-hand side, if you look below FC Now ...READ MORE›

The Value of Reciprocity in Social Influence

BY David Capece
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In the digital age, reciprocity has never been more essential and evident than in the development of communities. Whether it's digging a friend's story, introducing a colleague on LinkedIn or adding a link to a fellow blogger on your blogroll, reciprocity is an integral part of online community development. In our Digital Influence in News and Politics Report, we found those with the greatest social influence heavily relied upon...READ MORE›

Report from BlogWorldExpo: Blogging and Television

BY Lynne d Johnson
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Highlights from 11.08.07 4 PM session: Blogging and Television @ BlogWorldExpo. I came to this session expecting a talk about the intersection of blogging and television, perhaps even some highlights on Vlogging (video blogging). It ...READ MORE›

Report from BlogWorldExpo: The New Media Moguls Roundtable

BY Lynne d Johnson
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Highlights from 11.08.07 5:15 PM Featured Panel Keynote @ BlogWorldExpo Are blogging networks and blogging communities (group blogs) becoming more like MSM (mainstream media) or are they still blogs? That's the question I asked ...READ MORE›

Ridiculously Easy Group Forming

BY Heath Row
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Tantek Celik is a software development lead at Microsoft Corp. Joi Ito founded Neoteny, a venture capital firm focused on personal communication technologies. Pete Kaminski iniated the Social Software Alliance and serves as CTO for ...READ MORE›

The Blogging of Business

BY Heath Row
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Contributors to FC Now try to avoid being too self-referential -- if you want to know what Fast Company is working on, it's probably best to sign up for Fast Take, our weekly email newsletter -- but we just put the April 2004 table ...READ MORE›

Syndication Nation

BY Heath Row
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Moderator Paul Boutin is a contributing editor for Wired magazine. Scott Rosenberg works as managing editor of Salon.com. Tim Bray serves as the director of Web technology for Sun Microsystems. And Kevin Marks sat in for David Sifry, ...READ MORE›

The Digital Marketing Guide

BY David Capece
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How loud can you yell? How outrageous can you be? These are questions marketers have been asking for nearly a century. This paradigm shifted when Doyle Dane Bernbach injected intelligence into advertising in the 1960s with their revolutionary “Lemon” print ad for Volkswagen. For them, it wasn’t about how loud you can yell, it was about how interesting you are. Since the 1960s, there has been a blend of intelligent campaigs, but far outweighed by…READ MORE›

Welcome to the New, Agile FastCompany.com

BY Fast Company Staff
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The brand new FastCompany.com homepage design that debuted today is sure to change quite a lot over the coming months. Not because we don't love it -- we do -- but because we're adopting a business strategy based on agile ...READ MORE›

Gawker Media Acquires CityFile

BY David Capece
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The edgy, controversial Gawker Media is the shining star in the blogosphere, valued at an astonishing $300 million. In a move to further expand its reach, Gawker Media acquired CityFile on Feb 15th, an online directory of...READ MORE›

It's a "Plog" World After All?

BY Heath Row
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Jena McGregor suggests that businesses can successfully use blogs as knowledge management and marketing tools -- ways to organize information within the company, as well as to reach out to partners, clients, and customers. In the ...READ MORE›

FTC Responds to Blogger Fears: "That $11,000 Fine Is Not True"

BY Jennifer Vilaga
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Bloggers say the FTC is threatening hefty fines if they take freebies. Not true, an agency rep tells Fast Company.READ MORE›

The NCAA is not a Fan of the Blogosphere

BY Fast Company Staff
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Or at least the ones who don't have express written consent to reproduce or retransmit any accounts of the game or descriptions thereof...For those of you who don't know, Brian Bennett, a writer for the Courier-Journal in Louisville, ...READ MORE›

Report from Blogworld: Closing Keynote With Mark Cuban

BY Lynne d Johnson
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The following is a live transcript of highlights from Mark Cuban's closing keynote @ BlogWorldExpo. Connection between Dancing With the Stars and blogging. Dancing With the Stars taught me value of different mediums. People ...READ MORE›

How To Be an A-List Blogger - Commenting (Part 1 In a Series)

BY DJ Francis
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“How to become an A-list blogger,” indeed. I may be going out on a limb with this series because I am not, in fact, an A-list blogger. However, I do contend that you don’t need a Ferrari to know how to get to the grocery ...READ MORE›

Should You Go to BlogWorld? An Interview with Rick Calvert

BY Rich Brooks
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Every year stars from the social media universe (blogging, podcasting, online video, etc.) get together in Vegas for Blogworld. But is it right for you?READ MORE›

How To Be an A-List Blogger - Curiosity (Part 3)

BY DJ Francis
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In this continuing series, I am covering how you can become not only the best blogger you can be, but also how to become recognized in your field and thus adequately compensated. The first two installments covered tactics - ...READ MORE›

Blogging: Changing the Face of Publishing, Branding, and People’s Lives

BY Saabira Chaudhuri
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Mediabistro Circus’s session about blogging featured Eric Hellweg, Editorial director for harvardbusiness.org; Noah Shachtman, Contributing editor for the Danger Room Blog (on Wired.com); Anil Dash, Vice President of Six Apart; ...READ MORE›

I Am Mommy, Hear Me Roar

BY Cheryl Contee
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I just got back from BlogHer, the largest gathering of female bloggers in America. It's the 5th year of the conference and has grown from a scrappy, homegrown, volunteer effort to a nationally renowned, corporate-sponsored ...READ MORE›

Innovation: Google’s Math PUZZLES Customers

BY Valeria Maltoni
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Your site just did the Google Dance — and your partner seems to have stepped on your foot. Today the giant information engine company downgraded several blogs with high PageRanks (PR) – the jury is out on why those sites were ...READ MORE›