The following is links to resources for attendees for Todd and my panel (along with Six Apart’s Deborah Schultz) blog panel at the WOMMA conference in Chicago today.
Useful Blog Tools for Market Intelligence
Blogs About Business Blogging
- Business Blog Consulting
- A Penny For…
- Micro Persuasion
- Big Blog Company
- Blog Business World
- Debbie Weil
- Lots of others in the left margin of this site, under "From Whom We Steal"
Examples of Business Blogs
- Many, many, many, including (among those we discussed in today’s presentation):
- Captain Morgan’s Blog
- Jonathan Schwartz, president of Sun Microsystems
- Microsoft’s Robert Scoble
- Stonyfield Farm
- General Motors
- Boeing
- Atomic Books
- Green Cine
- Signs Never Sleep
- 800 CEO Read
Blog-Related Research
Todd Sattensten has also been posting a few relevant posts for this presentation, including "Using Blogs for Word of Mouth Marketing" and "Blogging Panel Live at WOMMA – Before"
Deborah Schultz, marketing director of Six Apart, also offers this perk, supposedly for attendees to this panel, but she also encouraged me post this here, a life-time 10% discount code to a TypePad account: "womma05"
UPDATE:
Sitting in the session Customer Evangelists: Motivating Customers to Talk About You, which followed ours on blogging, Ben McConnell of Church of the Customer
, and he asked for a show of hands as to how many people have been to a Build-a-Bear Workshop. Now, as someone without kids, I’ve never heard of this fast-growing company, which, as you may gather, lets you build your own personalized toy bear. Half the hands in the room went up. A few minutes later, Ben showed a screenshot of Robert Scoble’s Microsoft blog and asked how many people in the room had been to the site. This, bear in mind, at a conference about customer-evangelism marketing, and for any of you first-time readers, "The Scoblizer" is perhaps the most widely read business blog. Maybe five hands went up, two of which were mine and Todd’s. Wow. That puts things a bit in perspective. Why am I always drinking the koolade of "the next big thing" while oblivious to what Middle-America actually cares about (the conference is in Chicago, after all).
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Comment by Steve Rubel — March 30, 2005 @ 11:37 am
I’d like to point out that while the conference was in “middle America”, the audience was from all over.
Comment by Jake — March 31, 2005 @ 3:52 pm
Rick — I suppose the show of hands about Scoble awareness was a good reality check about blogs in general. It may be at least a year or two before blogs assume a higher level of importance with marketers.
Comment by Ben McConnell — March 31, 2005 @ 9:26 pm
Rick, one of my chief goals in life is to get the RMG blog added to your “From Whom We Steal” blogroll. Should that day ever come, it will be one I’ll cherish for years. (Well, weeks anyway.)
Comment by Paul Chaney — April 5, 2005 @ 8:16 am
Steve: fixed.
Jake and Ben: check and check
Paul: an oversight. Fixed.
Comment by Rick Bruner — April 5, 2005 @ 3:54 pm
Hey Rick, thanks for including me. Also useful as a resource is my BlogWriteForCEOs blog. Click on my name and you’ll get to it. – d
Comment by Debbie Weil — April 5, 2005 @ 4:53 pm
Thanks for mentioning us. We use your blog as a resource, heavily. Great stuff. 🙂
Comment by Adriana — April 6, 2005 @ 2:40 pm
My boss has been encouraging me to blog. Sometimes I just don’t have any idea what to blog about. You just gave me some ideas and thanks for the great resources.
Comment by Dana White — April 12, 2005 @ 8:31 am
Charles on Google and Weblogs
Charles has a great post. Read it. The web does not exist to serve Google. The web should not stay…
Trackback by Bill's Log — May 24, 2005 @ 8:02 am
Hi Rick,
I’m new to your site, and I appreciate all the links and resources you’re posting.
I’m interested in doing my own blog sometime soon, and all the tips you’re posting are helping me a heap.
Thanks
Casey
(PS. Is there any way you can delete the blog spammers that are hitting your site? Like the one posted on the 13th of May?)
Comment by Business Coach — July 11, 2005 @ 3:02 pm