Comments on: blogging and self-interest http://gapingvoid.com/2005/05/29/blogging-and-self-interest/ "cartoons drawn on the back of business cards" Wed, 23 May 2012 20:07:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Heiko Hebig http://gapingvoid.com/2005/05/29/blogging-and-self-interest/#comment-6277 Heiko Hebig Thu, 09 Jun 2005 02:50:52 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1524#comment-6277 My question: Is successful blogging about avoiding landmines? Or is it about stepping on them? My question: Is successful blogging about avoiding landmines? Or is it about stepping on them?

]]> By: Loic http://gapingvoid.com/2005/05/29/blogging-and-self-interest/#comment-6276 Loic Wed, 08 Jun 2005 05:11:36 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1524#comment-6276 Hey Hugh thanks again for asking me to join your super panel ! Hopefully this time we can have dinner together unlike in Paris... Looks like my trackbacks failed: <a href="http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2005/06/reboot_70_this_.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.loiclemeur.com/english/2005/06/reboot_70_this_.html</a> and <a href="http://www.loiclemeur.com/france/2005/06/rendezvous_224_.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.loiclemeur.com/france/2005/06/rendezvous_224_.html</a> Hey Hugh thanks again for asking me to join your super panel ! Hopefully this time we can have dinner together unlike in Paris…
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]]> By: Loic Le Meur Blog http://gapingvoid.com/2005/05/29/blogging-and-self-interest/#comment-6279 Loic Le Meur Blog Wed, 08 Jun 2005 05:09:40 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1524#comment-6279 <strong>reboot 7.0 this week looks really cool</strong> I will be speaking at reboot 7.0 this week, the speakers and participants list is impressive. I will prepare a presentation on european blogging and pick cases around Europe as much as possible. However I have been focusing much reboot 7.0 this week looks really cool

I will be speaking at reboot 7.0 this week, the speakers and participants list is impressive. I will prepare a presentation on european blogging and pick cases around Europe as much as possible. However I have been focusing much

]]> By: Loic Le Meur blog [FR] http://gapingvoid.com/2005/05/29/blogging-and-self-interest/#comment-6278 Loic Le Meur blog [FR] Wed, 08 Jun 2005 05:08:13 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1524#comment-6278 <strong>Rendez-vous</strong> En fin de semaine, j'interviens Rendez-vous

En fin de semaine, j’interviens

]]> By: steven streight aka vaspers the grate http://gapingvoid.com/2005/05/29/blogging-and-self-interest/#comment-6275 steven streight aka vaspers the grate Mon, 30 May 2005 13:40:41 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1524#comment-6275 I feel like I'm too harsh and impatient, but a blog is so obviously about candid conversations with a target audience. Why would a CEO have trouble grasping this, and how it can benefit his organization? Something is fishy here. Smell it? Wait. Are we sure they really want to get down and dirty on the shop floor and customer service center and meet face to face (figuratively) with customers via blogs? Are we often optimistically assuming too much? Are some business leaders loving their ivory towers too much to climb down? Do they seriously have nothing to say to customers...thus an exciting, easy, interactive connection is shunned coldly? I feel like I’m too harsh and impatient, but a blog is so obviously about candid conversations with a target audience.
Why would a CEO have trouble grasping this, and how it can benefit his organization?
Something is fishy here. Smell it?
Wait. Are we sure they really want to get down and dirty on the shop floor and customer service center and meet face to face (figuratively) with customers via blogs?
Are we often optimistically assuming too much?
Are some business leaders loving their ivory towers too much to climb down?
Do they seriously have nothing to say to customers…thus an exciting, easy, interactive connection is shunned coldly?

]]> By: hugh macleod http://gapingvoid.com/2005/05/29/blogging-and-self-interest/#comment-6274 hugh macleod Mon, 30 May 2005 08:33:52 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1524#comment-6274 Not sure if I agree, Nicole. I've done plenty asking over the years ;-) Not sure if I agree, Nicole. I’ve done plenty asking over the years ;-)

]]> By: Nicole http://gapingvoid.com/2005/05/29/blogging-and-self-interest/#comment-6273 Nicole Mon, 30 May 2005 07:22:19 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1524#comment-6273 Hm. I was just thinking: if they have to ask how to make them working for them, I am farely sure they will not get them working for them at all. ;( This is like being able to paint. You either can or you can't. Hm. I was just thinking: if they have to ask how to make them working for them, I am farely sure they will not get them working for them at all. ;(
This is like being able to paint. You either can or you can’t.

]]> By: Robert Scoble http://gapingvoid.com/2005/05/29/blogging-and-self-interest/#comment-6272 Robert Scoble Mon, 30 May 2005 02:32:31 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1524#comment-6272 My part in all of this is documented here: <a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/05/29.html#a10240" rel="nofollow">http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/05/29.html#a10240</a> My part in all of this is documented here: http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/05/29.html#a10240

]]> By: jim wilde http://gapingvoid.com/2005/05/29/blogging-and-self-interest/#comment-6271 jim wilde Sun, 29 May 2005 21:57:31 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1524#comment-6271 Steven: Man, I feel your pain! We've come across that attitude so often. In keeping with the idea of "What makes a successful blog" when discussing business blogs, we've found it easier to sell CEO's/businesses our enterprise blogging system (interconnected, scalable) for use INTERNALLY. When we show them that what they are writing will not be published outside the company - at least at first, and possibly not at all until they're comfortable with it - they relax a little. We stress the idea that blogging within the company has a real purpose - to share knowledge. To break down silos. To create discussion. Now, for us, a successful blog does all of those things but it doesn't necessarily have to have a catchy post title at all. And that makes it all much easier for a CEO to digest. Once they get that idea, they are less stressed about writing to the public. We're still waiting for them to open up to public blogging, but a few businesses are nearing that level, I think. Of course we hear this kind of story once in a while too: <a href="http://www.advancinginsights.com/mybiz/?q=fear_greed_ignorance_liars_blogit" rel="nofollow">http://www.advancinginsights.com/mybiz/?q=fear_greed_ignorance_liars_blogit</a> Steven: Man, I feel your pain! We’ve come across that attitude so often. In keeping with the idea of “What makes a successful blog” when discussing business blogs, we’ve found it easier to sell CEO’s/businesses our enterprise blogging system (interconnected, scalable) for use INTERNALLY. When we show them that what they are writing will not be published outside the company — at least at first, and possibly not at all until they’re comfortable with it — they relax a little. We stress the idea that blogging within the company has a real purpose — to share knowledge. To break down silos. To create discussion. Now, for us, a successful blog does all of those things but it doesn’t necessarily have to have a catchy post title at all. And that makes it all much easier for a CEO to digest. Once they get that idea, they are less stressed about writing to the public. We’re still waiting for them to open up to public blogging, but a few businesses are nearing that level, I think. Of course we hear this kind of story once in a while too: http://www.advancinginsights.com/mybiz/?q=fear_greed_ignorance_liars_blogit

]]> By: steven streight aka vaspers the grate http://gapingvoid.com/2005/05/29/blogging-and-self-interest/#comment-6270 steven streight aka vaspers the grate Sun, 29 May 2005 16:31:34 +0000 http://gapingvoid.com/?p=1524#comment-6270 I have the responses of, as of now, 73 top bloggers on what makes a blog successful, via an email survey I conducted. What is funny to me is how dumb many CEOs and business people are. To even ask "how can I make a blog work for me?" shows a rather inexperienced and illogical attitude. I'm afraid corporate bozos will only want to blog if it increases sales or helps PR for the company. They will not be interested in forming candid conversations with a target audience, just for the sake of sharing wisdom, getting feedback from customers and prospects, expresssing a warm human side of the organization, etc. Comments from blog readers, if enabled, will be ignored or dismissed, if even read at all. We all know a business blog, I won't name here, that outsources the reading of comments. Sheesh. Lots of CEOs and business people have only one thing to say: "Buy my product." And only one thing they want to hear from customers: "Love your product." Idiots. I have the responses of, as of now, 73 top bloggers on what makes a blog successful, via an email survey I conducted.
What is funny to me is how dumb many CEOs and business people are.
To even ask “how can I make a blog work for me?” shows a rather inexperienced and illogical attitude.
I’m afraid corporate bozos will only want to blog if it increases sales or helps PR for the company.
They will not be interested in forming candid conversations with a target audience, just for the sake of sharing wisdom, getting feedback from customers and prospects, expresssing a warm human side of the organization, etc.
Comments from blog readers, if enabled, will be ignored or dismissed, if even read at all. We all know a business blog, I won’t name here, that outsources the reading of comments. Sheesh.
Lots of CEOs and business people have only one thing to say: “Buy my product.“
And only one thing they want to hear from customers: “Love your product.“
Idiots.

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