Meredith’s blog post on “shameless self-promotion” really resonated with me. Perhaps it’s because I used to call it “vicious self-promotion” and believed, and still do believe, that it is a critical success factor for information professionals. It is very important to be seen, heard, and have presence — I’ve written about that before in my [...]
Watch for the press release from Lycos which illustrates how they will enhance their blog offering with a new desktop blog editor powered by Qumana. This free downloadable application let’s bloggers publish content to multiple blogs from the desktop. It also gives users control of ads on blogs, and could potentially be used to direct [...]
Blogger Loic Le Meur, EVP, Europe for Six Apart and author of “Blogs pour les pros”, gave a great talk about blogs and the enterprise giving lots of great examples of organizations using blogs. He emphasized:* searching using Technorati, PubSub, Feedster & Blogpulse* evaluting what people think of your organization and products* creating communities of [...]
Eventia’s Intracom Paris 2006 started yesterday “en francais” in windy, cold Paris while demonstrations were going on in another part of the city. A number of Canadian speakers are here: Claude Malaison, formerly with Hydro Quebec and now with Prescient Digital Media, Jon Husband of Qumana and the Wirearchy blog, Real Jacob of Cefrio. And [...]