Topic: Blogs and Blogging

Blogs: The Other Job Board

Job sites are continually trying to find ways to get in front of passive candidates. Ya' know, the most desirable prospects who already have a job. Doing so helps job boards become more desirable to employers (their ...READ»

Pondering Past and Future for Women In Media

Entrepreneurs from all over the tri-state area gathered in droves at the NY Xpo For Business 2008 last week, held at the cavernous Jacob Javitz Convention Center. WCBS sponsored the Working Women's Business luncheon at midday and had ...READ»

Best Business Blogs

What are your favorite trendspotting and cool hunting blogs? Blogs that track the latest and greatest developments in culture, technology, and design? Tell us.READ»

Best Business Blogs

What are your favorite company-run blogs? Internal-yet-authentic blogs that show what it's really like to work for a fast company? Tell us.READ»

BBC Adopts Tortoise as Official Mascot

In the wake of scandal and bad press, the BBC has unveiled a new set of editorial guidelines - set to take effect July 25 - stressing accuracy over speed. (Read the BBC reporting on the BBC here. AP story here.) The big news ...READ»

Best Business Blogs

What are your favorite branding blogs? The best blogs that concentrate on marketing and how to keep brands cool and emotionally connected? Tell us.READ»

Blog Maniacs

With blogging taking off like mad and people and businesses realizing the potential of generating a dedicated readership, we have been flooded with those who want to blog, but are:1.       burnt out from already blogging for a ...READ»

Best Business Blogs

Speaking of blogs, what are your favorite gadget blogs? The best blogs that highlight what's new in tech gadgets? Tell us.READ»

Top of the Market?

No offense to Arianna Huffington, who as far as I can tell is a very smart, decent and, needless to say, connected person. But the news of her new celebrity blog, The Huffington Post, strikes me as a sign that the blog phenomenon may ...READ»

Blogging at Work

The debate over employee blogs has reached new heights ever since a blogger who works for a blog company has been reprimanded for blogging about employees blogging. (Try saying that three times quickly.) The New York Times today ...READ»

Fact Flaming

I noticed it on Amy Wohl's blog when she asked, "how bloggers blog?," saw it with Scoble, and then Gruber's dismantling of Doctorow's, "paranoid diatribe" on DRM. I don't care about Apple on Intel and whether or not it's locked down ...READ»

So Many Blogs, So Little Understanding of RSS

Comscore Networks published a report today that states 1 in 6 of the total US Population visited blog sites in Q1 2005. Readership is growing (45% in the last year) and more and more people tend to recognize a blog when they see ...READ»

Finding My Path in the Blogosphere...

Even though I toyed on and off with Blogs using first Blogger and mostly Typepad it is not until March of this year (2005) that I became a steady blogger. I have to thank Debbie Galant of Baristanet for giving me a ready made name ...READ»

What Happens in the Tubes...

You may think what happened has happened and that you can just put the past behind you and move forward. Unfortunately, the Google never forgets. There really is no such thing as removing content from the internet. In an age of ...READ»

The State of the Blogosphere

Technorati has released its 2008 State of the Blogosphere report and it's an interesting read, particularly if you're not yet convinced of the place that blogging has in the corporate world (read it here).  Blogs are becoming a ...READ»

Can the Wisdom of the Crowds Help Us Through the Downturn?

As mainstream media becomes more open to tapping into the blogosphere and even the Twittersphere during this collapse; news and analysis are becoming two-way conversations.READ»

Marketing BlogJam

For two days in June, FC Now will host a marketing blogjam in connection with the 2006 Innovative Marketing Conference presented by blog site Corante and the Center on Global Brand Leadership of Columbia Business School. Throughout ...READ»

Is the Original Blogging Dead?

In the tech world, where tools and gadgets are way cool one day and so 2004 the next, is blogging really dead? According to Paul Boutin, who ironically writes for the Sillicon Valley gossip blog Valleywag, blogging is out and being ...READ»

Corporate Marketing Is a Conversation

I'm very impressed that Fast Company is opening up its server space to its audience in celebraton of the blogjam 2005. It represents an openness that we don't see much from business publications, and certainly not from the corporate ...READ»

Blog War 2006

I read recently where another politician has engaged a blog as a campaign tool. As the 2006 elections get closer, we are going to see more and more of the politicians and their advisors jumping on the blog bandwagon or as I preach, ...READ»

Most Influential Women in Web 2.0

We've heard the stats before -- only a quarter of those involved in computer and mathematical occupations are women. And yet, in the ever-evolving world of Web 2.0, women have often been pioneers, redefining the way we interact online. We tracked down the most influential of these. Our list wasn't chosen by star power, nor by career altitude. Rather, we feature the biggest innovators.READ»

• The Most Influential Women in Web 2.0
• Marissa Mayer: The 2008 Fast 50
• Gina Bianchini: Ning's Infinite Ambition

Best Business Blogs

What are your favorite design-related blogs? The best blogs about the design of business and the business of design? Tell us.READ»

Beware the Bloggers

I love the idea of blogging: transparency, freedom of speech, pure Internet-fueled democracy at its best. But I'm beginning to hate the actual practice. I don't have strong feelings one way or the other for Dan Rather or Eason ...READ»

Best Business Blogs

What are your favorite business blogs written by women -- and blogs about women at work? Tell us.READ»

The Blogging of Business

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»