Thanks to PRblogger for this short (introductory) video.

This is one of the best of this ‘how to be a good blogger’ genre, I’ve come across. Here are the headlines but read the original it’s rich in explanation and links to tools and further ideas. 1/ Find the domain name.  2/ Figure out what blogging tool would work best for you.  3/ Tell your readers about [...]

Here is the text of my remarks to a business communicators conference in Sydney today: New technologies seem to follow a certain pattern of adoption. First, they are rejected as useless. We all know the amusing anecdotes that involve famous people predicting that telephones and computers were just fads. Websites were not seen as necessary [...]

From Mashable by Peter Kim a Senior Partner at Dachis Corporation.  He blogs about social computing and marketing at Being Peter Kim. 1. Blogs (Johnson & Johnson, Delta Air Lines) 2. Bookmarking/Tagging (Adobe, Kodak) 3. Brand monitoring (Dell, MINI) 4. Content aggregation (Alltop, EMC) 5. Crowdsourcing/Voting (Oracle, Starbucks) 6. Discussion boards and forums (IBM, Mountain [...]

We haven’t seen much effort in Australia yet to use web 2.0 technologies to empower citizens and re-invigorate our sagging democracies. Of course, it’s not going to happen in NSW under the Rees Government because they’re only interested in spin not participation. Federally, Rudd has said he is committed to open government so maybe he [...]

Problogger today has a 13 tip guide by Reem Abeldoh who interviewed “the social media gurus behind three of the top companies with blogs: Michael Brito, Social Media Strategist at Intel, LaSandra Brill, Manager, Web & Social Media Marketing at Cisco, and Tac Anderson, Web 2.0 Strategic Lead at Hewlett Packard (HP).” The resulting tips [...]

Presentation by Robb Hecht and, here’s a way to measure a twitter’s influence. (thanks to ross dawson for the pointer). Update: Here’s an article on twitter and PR: Birds on a wire: Public relations in the twitterverse

Australian newsagency blog: It is disappointing that a few commenters at this blog spew hatred instead of rational comment. The comments posted on Thursday evening by one person using seven different names served to make himself or herself look stupid and for readers to therefore disregard their view. The purpose of my original post was [...]