/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Picking out patterns in the chaos en-us suw.charman@gmail.com 2007-04-03T14:38:23+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/04/03/connected_marketing_podcast.php At the end of March, Kevin and I had an interesting chat with Justin Kirby of Connected Marketing for a series of podcasts he's running (unfortunately our bit doesn't have its own link UPDATE: which now has its own... 72188@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business blogging - external 2007-04-03T14:38:23+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2007/03/13/search_useless_for_blogs.php Interesting little piece from eMarketer about how people find the blogs they read. It's really no surprise to discover that 67% of respondents find blogs through links from other blogs, and 23% via recommendations, but I like the way they... 72121@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blogging - general 2007-03-13T22:08:46+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2006/06/22/british_corporatebrand_blogs.php What are the big name corporate and brand blogs in the UK? The New Pr Wiki - an invaluable resource for anyone into business blogging - has a list of CEO/leadership and corporate blogs, which I have shamelessly reproduced... 60633@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business blogging - external 2006-06-22T12:43:12+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2005/09/02/the_curse_that_is_management_speak.php Great article by Simon Caulkin in Sunday's Observer about how 'management-speak' leeches the meaning out of business communications. The sort of language Caulkin discusses is exactly the sort of language that I loathe, and which blogging in general abhors.... 13441@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Storytelling/Writing 2005-09-02T11:57:54+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2005/05/10/business_blogging_at_supernova_2005.php This year's Supernova conference - San Francisco, 20 to 22 June - looks like it's going to be a blast. Kevin, Jeanne and the team have put together a great line up including Esther Dyson, Dan Gillmor, and David... 13382@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business blogging - external 2005-05-10T22:12:34+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2005/04/22/blogs_on_the_cover_of_business_week.php Business Week give their readers a heads-up on blogging, going so far as even to write the piece in the style of a blog. Maybe it's me, but I didn't even notice it was 'in the style of a... 13374@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business blogging - external 2005-04-22T08:59:45+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2005/03/24/blogs_in_action_and_a_nasty_case_of_speed_mingling.php Just sitting on the train home after a great day up in London, which was capped off by the Six Apart-arranged Blogs in Action seminar featuring short presentations from Tom Coates from the BBC but talking about his own... 13360@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business blogging - external 2005-03-24T22:49:18+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2005/02/10/business_blogging_primer.php Steve Rubel writes a long and thorough primer on business blogging as a marketing tool, but ignores the use of blogs internally for knowledge sharing, project management, team building etc. He's not alone - it seems that more and... 13333@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blink › 2005-02-10T11:08:27+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2005/02/08/brandshift_new_corante_blog.php A warm welcome to Corante to Jennifer Rice, Andy Lark, Johnnie Moore and John Windsor, who together are blogging on BrandShift: What does it mean for a brand to mature? The same thing as when people mature... we become... 13328@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Business blogging - external 2005-02-08T12:00:51+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2005/01/09/gms_bob_lutz_starts_blogging.php GM Chairman Bob Lutz has started his own official blog, FastLane Blog, neatly illustrating that such blogs do not have to be sterile and rammed full of marketing speak, nor do you need to be an angsty teenager to... 13309@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blink › 2005-01-09T15:42:28+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2004/12/02/building_online_brand_communities_strategies_and_implications.php Very interesting set of slides from Dana VanDen Heuvel’s presentation, Building On-line Brand Communities: Strategies and Implications. One only ever gets half the story from slides - pity there’s not an mpeg to go with them.... 13296@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blink › 2004-12-02T16:38:16+00:00 http://strange.corante.com/archives/2004/12/02/business_weblogs_are_doubleedged.php Business Weblogs Are Double-Edged: Michael Gartenberg writes sensibly about external business blogs on Computerworld, although I still get the urge to cry “But marketing blogs aren’t the sum total of business blogging!”.... 13294@/home/corante/public_html/strange/ Blink › 2004-12-02T15:25:33+00:00