Good travel industry blog from a business that focuses on frequent flyer mileage services:
Founded in 1986, Frequent Flyer Services has created a unique niche for itself within the travel industry as a company that conceives, develops and markets products and services exclusively for the frequent traveler. Its focus and distinctive competency lie in the area of frequent traveler programs.
First the “Majority Report,” hosted by Janeane Garofalo, had its own blog, now the “O’Franken Factor,” hosted by comedian Al Franken, is the lasted radio show of the new liberal talk radio network Air America to have a blog.
There’s something about talk radio and blogs that is a marriage made in heaven, for the zeolot who has just too much ranting to be contained in a three-hour talk show format. Interesting that Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limblaugh on the right don’t have blogs of their own. (Could RushLimblog.com be a better name for such a site?)
Utterly brilliant example of a business blog from a somewhat surprising source: Microsoft. Brilliant in terms of philosophy (well thought out) and execution. Here is a post that lays out the The Channel 9 Doctrine, and here is the "What the…" schpiel in the left-column of every page:
Channel 9 started as a personal story from one of us about fear of flying. Lenn realized after years of dealing with it, that it was actually a fear of the unknown. The fear was conquered through learning. The more transparency into what it took to fly a plane, the more the fear went away. Lenn got to know pilots who flew planes everyday, and every time he flew he turned on Channel 9 on the in-flight audio system to listen in to the cockpit.
We think developers need their own Channel 9, a way to listen in to the cockpit at Microsoft, an opportunity to learn how we fly, a chance to get to know our pilots. Five of us in Redmond are crazy enough to think we just might learn something from getting to know each other. Were we wrong? Time will tell.
Join in, and have a look inside our cockpit and help us fly the plane.
Welcome to Channel 9.
One of the most innovative features of the blog is the use of video clips of developers interviewing each other. You know it’s the real deal when these not-exactly telegenic gentleman (I haven’t seen any women yet) cite a Star Trek movie as informing their programming considerations. Serious geeks, in addition to the video blog posts, the site comes complete with a moblog and a wiki.
Blog supporting consulting work of Lee LeFever, who helps companies manage online communities and other “social software resources.”
As all non-fiction book authors should be doing, Howard Rheingold is blogging to support his book, Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution. In fact, Rheingold isn’t even doing the blogging: he’s enlisted the help of a team of devotees of the book to do the blogging for him. Smart mob, indeed.
A communications strategy firm:
CRA is a consulting firm devoted to bringing leading research in organizational and interpersonal communication to bear on real-world problems. We are not a PR, media relations, or media production firm–we are a team of consultants educated in Communication Science and devoted to advice that works, responsive service, and lasting client relationships. Our team of fifty–over forty of whom hold their Doctorates–provides applied solutions across three practices:
- Internal Communication Strategy
- Leadership Development
- Organizational Research
Very cool series of blogs by a very cool company. Jones Soda is a quirky softdrink brand playing David to Goliath like Coke and Pepsi. The web site has a lot going on, but blogs are one more way they keep it fun, having Gen Y skateboarders, BMXers and other hip cats writing the blogs.
Weblog supporting nationally syndicated public radio program. Why all public radio shows don’t have blogs is a mystery to me.
Weblog supporing security services firm that has long distinguished itself on the Net by providing statistics about web traffic.
Artist Brandy Agerbeck uses Movable Type Blogger.com to present the merchandise in her store, where she does the fulfillment through Cafe Press. Very clever use of a business blog, where the blog is the business.
Actress and left-wing poltical activist Janeane Garofalo is one of the hosts of the new liberal talk radio station Air America and she and host Sam Seder have also set up this companion weblog. That’s a no-brainer. Talk radio and weblogs are a match made in cyber-heaven.
National Public Radio personality Chris Lydon is one of the only NPR folks blogging, as far as I can tell. His is a political blog, born of a two-hour NPR show on the subject of how blogging would affect the 2004 presidential race.
The Miami Herald’s favorite columnist, humorist Dave Barry, has his own weblog. Interestingly, it took more than a year for the Herald to decide this was worth putting on their own servers, instead of on the free Blogspot service, where it lived previously.
Publishers of the popular Movable Type and TypePad blog publishing tools, Six Apart maintains several customer service blogs, including:
It’s disappointing that Blogger.com, the guys who basically invented blogs (now owned by Google), don’t showcase the potential of business blogs more prominently with their own service, but they do update Status.Blogger.com sporadically, pertaining to system status issues, and Blogger.com’s homepage is itself a blog, though it likewise appears to be updated only once or twice a month. On the other hand, several folks on Blogger’s management maintain their own blogs, including Evan Williams, Jason Shellon and Biz Stone.
A new national magazine and website (it’s not clear, actually, whether this is a print publication at all) dedicated injecting social responsibility and personal fulfillment into the business world: “think Fortune meets Oprah with a dash of Vanity Fair,” says co-founder Anita Sharpe on her bio page. Contributors to the site include a couple of A-List Left Coast bloggers (Halley Suitt and David Weinberger), as well as towering management consulting guru Tom Peters, among others.
“About Us” copy begins: “Garland Coulson, ‘The E-Business Tutor,’ teaches small business and home based business people how to successfully promote their web sites and businesses on the Internet.” The site’s homepage functions as a blog, though I can’t recognize by looking at it what tool Coulson uses (Builder Spot perhaps?).
My first column today on research topics at iMedia Connection. Not surprisingly, I kick things off with a blog theme. Includes original research about the characteristics of blog readers from Quris.
iMedia: Blogging Is Booming
20 solid pieces of advice about business blogging from Microsoft’s A-List in-house blogger, Robert Scoble. Here’s a taste of the top five:
Scobleizer: Corporate Weblog Manifesto
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Lee Odden of TopRank
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Dave Taylor of Intuitive Life for Business
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Dana VanDen Heuvel of BlogSavant
Des Walsh of Thinking Home Business
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