Last week was personally a big week for me in terms of hooking personal contacts on business and corporate blogging. I had about six discussions last week. Five of the people hold MBAs. All of them hold either engineering degrees or science degrees as well. Here’s the gist of the key points (the sentences are mine as I’m just capturing the spirit of what was said):
- Your blog may have been the first I’ve ever visited
- He is now hooked on blogging, the GM blogs, etc.
- I’m thinking of starting 3-4 blogs, what platform do you recommend
- Guest authoring seems like a good way to start
- There’s so much political junk around, thanks for introducing me to venture capital blogs and some of the corporate blogs
- There is an impressive amount of information out there on these business blogs. I never knew they existed.
In the end, I expect that only 1-3 of these people will actually get hooked in the next month, but heck it’s a contribution!
Anyway, here’s another consolidated launching point for looking at corporate blogging. It’s a wiki, and it’s located here.
Update (3/20/05): I should also mention that I am a resident blogger for the Sand Hill Group and The CIO Weblog. In the interest of disclosure, I handle some sponsored blogging by HDI and Citrix at The CIO Weblog. I am also under contract to generate marketing collateral (e.g., technology whitepapers and not blogging) with a software vendor in the blogging space that may be disclosed at a later date under mutual agreement with my client.