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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 8:59 AM

Blogging is a retail business...

The appeal of blogs to a corporation is the ability for an individual to effectively scale his communication. There is no doubt that you can reach a huge audience through your blog. But that audience is built one at a time. Not literally. But, by how
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Sunday, March 23, 2008 10:11 PM

How I measure blog success...

More than one person ( Ben Gordon and Mike Fox , for starters) have asked the question of how I measure/track the blog. Let me start by offering this... RSS is the KEY The single most important measure of blog success is "how many people have subscribed
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Thursday, March 20, 2008 6:20 AM

Get Rich by Blogging...

Unfortunately, it's not going to happen. Ok, well it might, but the odds are seriously against you. Mark Cuban had a great post on this at More on Blogs, The Long Tail and Following vs Leading . So, if you are not going to get rich and famous by becoming
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Monday, February 25, 2008 5:22 PM

I am the Absent Blogger...

A few loyal readers (yes, I feel loved) have asked about my blogging whereabouts... Answer: My wife was on bedrest for 3 weeks and gave birth last week. I was pulling double duty for a while there and now am sleep deprived. Hope to return soon. And, for
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Saturday, December 08, 2007 9:34 PM

Positive Energy Blogging...

I'm going to re-devote this blog to positive energy. As Andy Sernovitz writes in " Cheer Up Blogosphere " Blogs should celebrate. They should celebrate freedom and openness. They should revel in the joy of fresh ideas. They should be fun. Here we go..
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Saturday, December 08, 2007 9:25 PM

Are MS bloggers' days numbered?

An interesting post: Is a muzzle being tightened around Microsoft bloggers?
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Tuesday, December 04, 2007 3:14 PM

Blogs in Plain English

These guys do great work. For others, see: On RSS: http://www.commoncraft.com/rss_plain_english On Social Networking: http://commoncraft.com/video-social-networking On Social Bookmarking: http://www.commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english Wiki: http://www.commoncraft.com/video-wikis-plain-englis
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Sunday, December 02, 2007 12:23 AM

Why A Blog...

Sometimes you make mistakes, but when you do, what do you learn from them? I've gotten a fair amount of feedback (and a fair amount of fallout) on my post (since modified) about Microsoft logo policy . I admit, initially, I made a mistake and violated
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:47 PM

Blogging ROI

Nice post from Avinash on how bloggers can measure the ROI of their activities . For people new to the blogging world, it's a tough idea. I've touched on anecdotes in the past, but this is a good metric-based approach.
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Saturday, November 10, 2007 11:14 PM

Do You Read Your Customers' Blogs?

If you are a service provider, you should. Angie Robar of Extra Mile Marketing does and she comments as well. A little background, first... There's a mentality among Microsoft employees in the "field" (read: outside of Seattle) that the folks "in Redmond"
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Friday, November 09, 2007 2:44 PM

Blog Value Proposition...

Last night, lying in bed (hey, where else to do solid thinking), I outlined the three focus areas for the blog.... A Play by Play (with color commentary :-) of the evolving process I hope to use to build community and leverage smart data to help revolutionize
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Sunday, August 12, 2007 12:07 AM

Why Blog?

Many people don't understand blogs. Don't understand the phenomenon or the business value. Here's a post that claims that "Microsoft was saved b/c of blogging." Gerald Kanapathy's Blog: Successful Blogging
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Friday, June 15, 2007 10:36 AM

Community Building...

Had a chat the other day with one of Microsoft's leading (if not, the leading) community builder/marketer, Sean O'Driscoll. He's Microsoft's General Manager for Community Support & MVP His blog, Community Therapy , talks about the ideas and challenges
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:40 PM

Think blogs don't have power?

Ask the people who cumulatively lost 4 billion dollars worth of Apple market cap thanks to 1 blogs report. And, oh yeah, it was a false rumor.
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Tuesday, May 01, 2007 7:27 PM

Free Book Offer...

Well, there is no such thing as a free lunch, right? But, this comes close. I have 10 copies of Seth Godin's latest book, Small Is the New Big , to give away . But, there's a give/get . You GET the book. You GIVE one SOLID idea for making it even easier
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