The Writing Style of Your Company’s Blog

I was honored to speak yesterday on corporate blogging in DC, as a joint event put on by Merry Bruns and DC Web Women. The two other speakers, Scott Briscoe of ASAE, and Lorelei Brown of the Natl Association of Realtors, are both longtime bloggers and we had a great time sharing our experience on how the business world looks at blogging.

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In Brief: Semel Smiles, Google Surges, And More

Yahoo managed to please its CEO while holding serve in comScore's search engine rankings for February 2006, but Microsoft, Ask, and Time Warner/AOL gave up some ground. Among brands people sought through search in 2006, MySpace topped a Hitwise list of searched brand terms

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Google Sneaks Embedded Text Link Ads Into PPA

What's been called an assault on click-fraud, or affiliate networks, or both, could also carry with it a little controversy. Google's recent beta launch of pay-per-action AdSense, available only to US advertisers, was released overtop another new product: the text link format ad unit.

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OpenAjax Alliance Welcomes MSFT, Google

Microsoft has joined the OpenAjax Alliance, along with thirty-one other companies.  And although thirty of those corporations were named in the official press release, a rather big one was left out: Google. The omission is more of an embarrassing slipup than an insulting snub, however.  John Ferraiolo, the Alliance’s blogger, writes, “Unfortunately, we became aware of Google after the press release went out.” 

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Flickr User Photos Disappearing

Well I just got an unpleasant surprise about 20 minutes ago when I tried to log into DMU on Flickr. I couldn't get in. Even though I'm an admin of the group I'm locked out.

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