By Ian, on December 17th, 2009
I’ve been having a go at the latest chic-geek blogging tool — posterous — recently, as you’ll be able to tell if you look at the posts I’ve made here over the last month or so. But, in the end, I’ve decided not to use it. Why? Read on. Just to be clear, before Continue reading Past Posterous By Ian, on October 5th, 2006 An article in the (London) Times newspaper on Tuesday talked about the extent to which newspapers have been slow to embrace the ‘era of unbundling’. What is unbundling? The author, Jonathan Weber, recalls a remark from Bill Gates in the early 90s. Newspapers, Gates said, bundle together a lot of different stuff, local, national and international Continue reading The Daily Bundle By Ian, on October 3rd, 2006 Like a number of you, I expect, I attended Charlene Li’s webinar in relation to her ‘calculating the cost of business blogging’ post (covered here, three posts down). Powerpoint slides and an MP3 of the presentation ought to follow shortly — I’ll update when they are. A lot of the content was covered in the original post Continue reading ROI follow-up By Ian, on October 3rd, 2006 Forrester research consultant Charlene Li has begun a project to address the important issue of calculating the ROI of business blogs. It’s too easy to simply say “blogs are good for your business because X, Y & Z”. That statement may be true, but when the hard-nosed Financial Director wants to know why you’re spending Continue reading The ROI of Business Blogs By Ian, on October 2nd, 2006 An interview in the Sunday Times yesterday said that Bebo head Michael Birch seemed prepared to wait before earning much money from the service: Birch, 36, is almost dismissive of the need for Bebo to generate revenues at this stage. For the next two or three years, his priority is to establish the firm Continue reading Bebo Looks For Revenue 2.0 By Ian, on September 20th, 2006 More tightly integrated with its owner, that is. I’ve always wondered how Writely was supposed to make any money. Today’s email brings a clue. New users or the users you invite to collaborate on documents will need to get themselves a gmail/gcalendar/gpersonalised account to participate. Good move, I think. Writely is a cool tool, but it’s a poor vehicle Continue reading Writely Getting Tightly | About this BlogSocial tools, devices and web evolution are creating epochal change in media, society and business. The plan is to hide under the floorboards till it’s all over document some of the interesting parts of that change. More…. |
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