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Thursday, July 18, 2002

Help! Anyone Out There Have Good Corporate Blogging Examples? I'm finishing a phone interview with John Cox of Network World on blogging and he's looking for corporate or business users of blogs where the blog is being used as part of your organization at any level.  Please email john_cox@nwworld.com. Thanks!  He's a great interviewer -- drilled right down to the key issues.  9:58:01 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Marketing 101 : How to Blow a Sale Cleanly, Clearly and Quickly NOTE: I started this > 1 week ago but held off finishing it until I had the postscript to the story, which happened last night at 6:20 pm approximately.  Details follow at the bottom. I just put my house on the market and I did the obligatory task of getting bids from two agencies.  One was a little tiny agency, the town real estate company, no web site, no nothing.  The other was Hunneman, a Coldwell Banker company, one of the largest agencies in the nation.  Betty was the agent from the little company, Nahant Associates and Sheila was the agent from Hunneman.  Here were the constraints: ==> Read About How to Blow a Sale <== (and there is a happy ending) 6:58:26 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

The Funniest EBay Item Yet You simply have to check this one out.  It's the funniest thing yet on EBay (afaik) ==> Go Forth and Laugh Your Ass Off <== And the hit counter is up to 10,299 hits already... 6:01:35 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Yup. O'Reilly Picked Cats as the Blogging Animal for the Cover The graphic on the right is from the O'Reilly Essential Blogging book cover.  Being a rabid cat owner, I was very, very pleased to see that cats were the animal of choice. Bias Disclaimer: I'm an author of the book so I have an economic interest here.  But how can you not want a book written by either this team of geeks or "a law firm in the making": By Cory Doctorow, Rael Dornfest, J. Scott Johnson, Shelley Powers, Benjamin Trott, Mena G. Trott (I can see the name plate now: Doctorow, Dornest, Johnson, Powers, Trott and Trott). 5:58:21 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This

Very Cool Marketing Article or Thanks Travis! http://www.marketingexperiments.com/transparent_marketing.cfm  Recommended.  5:54:20 AM  Google It!  comment []   IM Me About This