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Google bl0g somewhat less than 'bl0ggy'

Google bl0g somewhat less than 'bl0ggy' 05/11/2004 08:51 PM
The search king and Blogger owner debuts a company Web log that promises "regular, bloggy things." But a post on Google's recent expansion to India is apparently a bit too offhand.

Google bl0g somewhat less than 'bl0ggy'
| CNET News.com

Google bl0g somewhat less than 'bl0ggy'
| CNET News.com 05/13/2004 09:26 AM
Google PR is already editing stuff written on the official Google Blog .. Google Has Already "Edited" Its First Blog Posting .. appears

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What Should Your Corporate Policy Be On
Blogs?

What Should Your Corporate Policy Be On
Blogs? 06/22/2005 02:38 AM

Many corporations, prodded by magazines like BusinessWeek talking up blogs as an important and enduring phenomenon, and by cases where companies have been embarrassed by employee blogs and responded by firing the employee, have been rushing to decide what, if anything, their policy on blogs should be. Such a policy needs to address: (a) employees' personal blogs that refer to or reflect in any way on their employer (b) 'official' corporate blogs (c) internal blogs on the corporate Intranet, and (d) reading blogs as part of business research Here's my unsolicited, cautious, and perhaps controversial advice to businesses considering such a policy, covering all four bases: Develop a knowledge-sharing policy that covers all information communications, not just blogs: Blogs are just the tip of the iceberg of of such extra-corporate communications, which are increasingly essential to relationship building and to the exchange of useful business information among organizations, employees, outside stakeholders and experts. But casual extra-corporate communications may inadvertently divulge confidential information, contravene the law, or embarrass the company. As the line between business and personal communications and relationships blurs more and more, your policy must draw the line clearly, with clear and specific examples of what is, and what is not, appropriate. That line must balance the advantages of open sharing of information against its risks. Respect employees' rights: Any behaviour that is inappropriate for an employee to do in any other circumstance or environment (e.g. betraying confidentiality, or holding the employer up to ridicule) is equally inappropriate on a blog. Your existingemployee conduct policy should therefore already cover unacceptable online behaviour. Beyond that, respect employees' rights to their own opinions, and have your legal counsel make sure that your corporate policy does not violate these rights. Dissing the boss and the company publicly may reflect poor judgement, and limit career advancement, but it's not legal grounds for dismissal or harassment. Understand that overstepping your legal grounds not only will get you into embarrassing court cases that will be PR disasters no matter the outcome, it will also drive the criticisms underground, onto anonymous blogs and discussion forums, and might drive some of your best employees out the door in the process. Insist that employees' personal blogs stress that that's what they are: Personal blogs should not carry the corporate logo (unless they're those of an executive specifically approved to do so) and if any mention of the employer is made (or is readily ascertainable) the blogger should make it clear that opinions expressed are not those of the employer. Don't have a policy on whether or not employees should or can have personal blogs: It's not your business, any more than anything else an employee does or doesn't do in their private life. Encouraging personal blogs is as paternalistic as prohibiting them. And counseling employees on matters of taste and discretion, or asking them to pre-clear content with you, is insulting and overstepping. Telling employees they can't blog on company time is redundant and offensive -- terms of employment should already cover this. With rare exceptions, don't have an 'official' company blog: Most people are skeptical of anything they read on official company sites, and that will usually negate any value they might have in making your company appear more personable and responsive to customers. Blogs are personal and casual. Most business communications are not. Be cautious and talk to your marketing people before proceeding. Don't forget, blogs are a significant time commitment to maintain, and a blog that is not frequently updated or not well maintained is worse than not having one at all. If you do decide to have a company blog, make sure you know who its intended audience is and that this intended audience is the group who will actually be reading your blog. Blogs (like other corporate websites) are more likely to attract potential recruits, alumni, competitors, potential allies and the media than customers. If your actual and intended audiences are very different, you're wasting your time -- and your readers'. Do experiment with blogs on the Intranet: Encourage at least the three groups who have the most to share (your company's subject matter experts, internal newsletter publishers and community of practice coordinators) and any individuals in the company who express enthusiasm in having an Intranet blog, to set one up. Use my 12-step program to manage your Intranet blog pilot. Encourage internal bloggers to focus their content on matters that others in the company will find of interest, such as the subjects in the illustration above. Evaluate the possibility of editing or repurposing the content of Intranet blogs for use on the public corporate website, but keep in mind point #5 above. Read blogs and encourage employees to do likewise: Find the blogs and blog posts that are most valuable to your organization, subscribe to their RSS feeds, and circulate them to others in the organization. Assign your researchers and reward employees for identifying and circulating useful articles from blogs, and for bringing to your attention online comments from customers and others about your company. Reading others' blogs can be useful to your company as a source of education, synopsis, analysis, competitive and customer intelligence. But don't over-invest in reading blogs either: Without focus, this can be a huge time-waster, and use caution when reacting to what you read, since blogs are often not well fact-checked, and they usually represent just one person's (often atypical) perspective. This advice is a lot less aggressive than what you may be hearing from either enthusiasts or detractors of the blogging phenomenon. But I think it's prudent for business not to over-react. Blogs are not going to single-handedly revolutionize business, nor do they pose new or significant threats to it. With the seven steps above, your company can explore blogs' opportunities, mitigate the risks, and take them in stride.

"10 Rules for Corporate Blogs and Wikis"

"10 Rules for Corporate Blogs and Wikis" 04/14/2004 09:03 AM

Corporate bl0gs and fear of the boss

Corporate bl0gs and fear of the boss 06/27/2004 11:59 PM
Scott Rosenberg writes about the future of corporate blogging. Here's an excerpt: I'm sorry to be the pessimist at the party. But for large numbers of workers in America, particularly those at big companies, the dominant fact of life remains don't piss off your boss. And, in an era of health-insurance lock-in and easy outsourcing and offshoring, many U.S. workers remain doubtful that they can simply waltz into a new job should their activities displease the current hierarchy to which they report. So the odds of them feeling at ease publishing honest Web sites about their work lives are extremely...

10 Rules for Corporate Blogs and Wikis

10 Rules for Corporate Blogs and Wikis 04/13/2004 02:17 PM
i don't know that I agree that blogs are like marriage, but the advice is pretty good overall

Internal and External Corporate Blogs

Internal and External Corporate Blogs 08/13/2004 06:06 PM
Fredrik Wackå categorizes enterprise weblogs: The reason I draw your attention to this is the important distinction between internal and external. Many articles and posts fail to make this distinction, leading to confusion over what is a corporate weblog. Instead...

The Power of Corporate Blogs and RSS - A
Marketing Guide

The Power of Corporate Blogs and RSS - A
Marketing Guide 02/01/2005 09:10 PM
Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is the best internet marketing strategy to pursue in 2005, say tech pundits [PRWEB Feb 1, 2005]

Duplicate posts in .Text bl0gs

Duplicate posts in .Text bl0gs 01/05/2004 11:31 PM
For anyone that noticed a lot of duplicate posts recently in .Text weblogs, this is not a SharpReader bug, but rather a result of some changes in the rss generated by .Text in a recent version. These changes are: <guid>, which went from http://{site}/{blogname}/posts/{post-number}.aspx to http://{site}/{blogname}/archive/{year}/{month}/{day}/{post-number}.as px <link>, which was changed in the same way. <description>, which now adds an invisible... (245 words)

Blogs, Boards, and Posts: Capturing
Consumer Buzz Online

Blogs, Boards, and Posts: Capturing
Consumer Buzz Online 04/07/2005 10:51 PM

Google Goes Corporate

Google Goes Corporate 06/02/2004 03:16 PM
Plus, Walgreen's mellow May, and is safer smoke a joke?

Google slammed for corporate sleaze

Google slammed for corporate sleaze 08/23/2004 10:23 AM
SEC to investigate as space cadets return to earth

Google PageRank - Democracy or Corporate
Muscle?

Google PageRank - Democracy or Corporate
Muscle? 01/15/2003 07:57 PM
PageRank is Google's big drawcard. But how does PR impact on your rank in the Google results? And which sites benefit the most from this unique system? Tony investigates - and draws some unexpected conclusions!

Google, now wealthier after IPO, enters
a new corporate phase

Google, now wealthier after IPO, enters
a new corporate phase 08/21/2004 12:52 PM
Canadian Press Aug 21 2004 4:15PM GMT

Google advertises in Line56, sounds very
corporate

Google advertises in Line56, sounds very
corporate 07/01/2002 08:30 AM
I just saw a text ad in this article (it might not be here anymore due to rotation):"Sponsor Spot:Your customers use Google throughout the buying cycle. Advertise on Google and stay with them all the way. Google does 1/3 of all searches, with more than 10 billion B2B searches a year and keyword-targeted ads that reach an in-market audience. Learn more by clicking here or email b2b@google.com."The choice of place (Line56) and copy shows they want to reach out enterprise customers. Seems organic growth can only take them so far, and they eventually decided to start advertising as well (did you ever see an ad for Google before?)Update: Robert tells me Google started advertising its search appliance last month, and he saw ads for Adwords on Clickz about two weeks ago.

Google Fights Off Corporate
Quasi-Censorship

Google Fights Off Corporate
Quasi-Censorship 04/27/2004 10:23 AM

I've been tough on Google for what I see as failings (or possiblities of doing the wrong thing), but now that the company is nearing mega-power status it's drawing ridiculous attacks. The latest is this lawsuit by a French company, AXA, that objects to Google's competitors buying Adwords when its name is searched. On its face, this lawsuit is absurd. There's no hijacking going on. The main search will return the company's site. The links on the site offer a variety of information -- including this third-party page from a site that offers information to potential employees. The AXA case isn't the first of its kind. Google has been sued in the U.S., too. See this Links & Law article for a summary. (Google has already lost one such case (in France, where freedom of speech seems increasingly meaningless to the authorities there). The stakes are high, not just for Google. This kind of thing tortures trademark law and assaults free speech.

Google, now wealthier, enters new
corporate phase

Google, now wealthier, enters new
corporate phase 08/19/2004 07:09 PM
Tulsa World Aug 19 2004 11:23PM GMT

Google Corporate Information: Software
Principles

Google Corporate Information: Software
Principles 05/19/2004 02:52 PM
A proposal to help fight deceptive Internet software .. Google are trying to make the internet honest

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Google introduces updated corporate
search appliance

Google introduces updated corporate
search appliance 06/03/2004 05:10 AM
Content.sina.com - Thu Jun 3, 08:44 am GMT

Google to sell shares at up to $135
each, rivaling corporate stalwarts

Google to sell shares at up to $135
each, rivaling corporate stalwarts 07/26/2004 09:35 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Jul 27 2004 1:57AM GMT

Adviser identifies flaws in Google
corporate governance

Adviser identifies flaws in Google
corporate governance 08/22/2004 09:02 PM
Irish Times Aug 23 2004 0:35AM GMT

Google Loves Blogs Again.....Why?

Google Loves Blogs Again.....Why? 03/20/2003 01:01 PM
I've now moved up to the number 9th position for 'gar y'. That's five places gained in a month.

Google snaps up bl0gs

Google snaps up bl0gs 02/18/2003 10:28 PM
For example, Google might display travel-related links from advertisers that wanted to reach Web surfers visiting a travel blog that relies on the Blogger ...

Google Announces Availability of
Next-Generation Corporate Search
Appliance

Google Announces Availability of
Next-Generation Corporate Search
Appliance 06/05/2004 05:53 AM
Google Announces Availability of Next-Generation Corporate Search Appliance
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Google Inc. announced the availability of its next-generation Google Search Appliance, an integrated hardware/software search product that enables corporations, universities, and government agencies to deliver Google-quality search results on their intranets and public websites. This latest version of the Google Search Appliance, available in three models, is designed to offer better search performance, including increased capacity for more than 300 queries per minute and expanded collections that scale from 150,000 to 15 million or more documents. In addition, the new Google Search Appliance features a continuous crawl that is designed to automatically maintain the freshness of document collections as they deliver relevant results based on Google's latest search algorithms.

Whither Apple, Google, Blogs, and DVRs

Whither Apple, Google, Blogs, and DVRs 01/04/2005 08:44 AM
Business2.com - Tue Jan 4, 10:09 am GMT

Google News Refuses Blogs

Google News Refuses Blogs 11/06/2003 06:29 AM
News blog refused listing at Google News due to the nature of its content delivery system.

more on google adsense search for bl0gs

more on google adsense search for bl0gs 06/22/2004 10:40 AM
the typepad example site linked in the story has a good demo of how it works

Porn Blogs Manipulate Google

Porn Blogs Manipulate Google 08/03/2004 05:18 AM
Wired.com - Tue Aug 3, 09:41 am GMT

Evan Williams Posts Official Google Blog

Evan Williams Posts Official Google Blog 05/11/2004 02:56 PM

Google Plans Video Blogs For Consumers

Google Plans Video Blogs For Consumers 04/05/2005 12:10 PM
Advertising Age Apr 5 2005 3:22PM GMT

Update: Google posts strong Q4 growth in
revenue, net income

Update: Google posts strong Q4 growth in
revenue, net income 02/01/2005 09:41 PM
Google closed the quarter, ended Dec. 31, with $1.032 billion in revenue, up 101 percent compared with 2003's fourth quarter, the Mountain View, California, company said in a statement. Meanwhile, the company generated $204.1 million, or $0.71 per share, in net income, up from $27.3 million, or $0.10 per share.

Wired News: Porn Blogs Manipulate Google

Wired News: Porn Blogs Manipulate Google 08/04/2004 09:28 AM
using bogus Blogspot blogs to boost the Page Rank of their own porn sites .. wired news on porn blog spamming .. reports .. Wired

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Yahoo Mail, Blogs, and Flickr Challenge
Google

Yahoo Mail, Blogs, and Flickr Challenge
Google 03/26/2005 09:27 PM
Search Engine Journal Mar 27 2005 2:01AM GMT

OuterBay CFO to Present at National
Association of Corporate Directors
Conference on the New Corporate Governa

OuterBay CFO to Present at National
Association of Corporate Directors
Conference on the New Corporate Governa 06/17/2005 04:31 PM
Market Wire Jun 7 2005 3:19PM GMT

The amount of office space that
corporations allocate to their libraries
has fallen by 8.36% over the past five
years, according to a new survey of
corporate libraries "Corporate Library
Benchmarks, 2004-05 Edition" ISBN:
1-57440-069-X.

The amount of office space that
corporations allocate to their libraries
has fallen by 8.36% over the past five
years, according to a new survey of
corporate libraries "Corporate Library
Benchmarks, 2004-05 Edition" ISBN:
1-57440-069-X. 09/03/2004 02:51 AM
Reports on results of a major survey of corporate and other business libraries. Gives extensive data on management policies and practices and details on spending trends for salaries, electronic and print materials, and library services. [PRWEB Sep 3, 2004]

Woof Woof - Google Forum Passes 50,000
Posts

Woof Woof - Google Forum Passes 50,000
Posts 08/15/2002 04:34 AM
The prime internet source of Google news and discussion passes 50k messages.

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over

Boston.com / News / Blogs / David
Weinberger bl0gs the Democratic National
Convention on Boston.com: Blogging
crosses over 07/29/2004 05:21 PM
fun post about the blogger breakfast

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Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs?

Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different
From External Blogs? 03/29/2005 07:22 AM
Internal Blogs: So, Are They Different From External Blogs?
http://www.llrx.com/features/internalblogs.htm

Dennis Hamilton shares his experience with launching a blog behind the corporate firewall, and suggests parameters that focus on content value to ensure its successful implementation. This is an feature article appearing in the March edition of Sabrina I. Pacifici's LLRX.com.

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs

Reading bl0gs, writing bl0gs 06/06/2004 06:45 PM
Kansas City Star (subscription),MO-9 hours ago• BlogPulse.com offers a blog search engine. Just type in keywords of interest. Or use Google to search for “blog” and keywords of interest. ...
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