Awakened Voice

Bill Marriott, the CEO of Marriott Hotels is blogging and podcasting. This news is nothing new. In fact I reported on this over on my Red Room Chronicles blog. What’s really notable is the fact that I think that he’s doing it real well.
There have been four posts to the Marriott On The Move blog [...]

WordPress 2.1 is out and contains some significant upgrades that publishers will really like. Drupal 5.0 was recently released and contains some significant upgrades that make it easier to use and more flexible than ever. So which one should you use to satisfy your web publishing needs?
First off, if you’re currently invested in one package [...]

I gave WordPress.com a real thrashing earlier this week over their turn on of the debatable Snap.com feature. Sorry Matt
Time to give something back. I’m a huge WordPress user (as you might have noticed) and I am very excited about the new features coming up in the 2.1 release. Here are my favorites [...]

File this one under annoyances that need to go away now!
There’s a service out there called Snap that I despise with a passion. Snap enabled websites have links that display a preview image with a search box when you mouse over an item. These preview images are utterly useless and can actually be damaging to [...]

We knew that one day it would come to this. Tech visionary, NBA team owner and blogger Mark Cuban has had enough of being insulted by Donald Trump. So Mark has responded to Donald on Blog Maverick, and in the process called out Donald Trump on his failure to run a good blog.
Cuban refers to [...]

After a bit of a delay I have published my Skype powered interview with blogger and author Ted Demopoulos. Ted has a lot of great insights on how people are using blogging and podcasting to get their message across. Check it out over at A Billion Voices.
[tags]Social Media, Podcasting, Blogging, Interview, A Billion Voices, Ted [...]

A couple of months back I was contacted by Ted Demopolous who was writing a book on blogging and podcasting. I had never met Ted but I was familiar with his first book, Blogging For Business which was co-authored by Shel Holtz. I’ve met Shel and follow his exploits as a social communicator.
Ted wanted my [...]

Just saw the post by Matt indicating that WordPress.com had hit the 500,000 blog mark. That’s a lot of blogs.
They have bulit a good service over there that works for a lot of people. I put my wife on a WordPress.com blog when she wanted to start photo blogging.
What’s wild about the WordPress story is [...]

The folks at Big In Japan list some of the pros and cons of using a hosted blog service like Wordpress.com. Something like this could certainly start an interesting discussion. Here are some of my thoughts.
If you’re a very small firm and just learning blogging I think that hosted services like Wordpress.com, Blogger or TypePad [...]

I recently had the privilege of attending the 2006 Critical Issues Forum which was organized by the Council of Public Relations Firms. This was a very high profile event that included discussion among some of the thought leaders in the public relations, marketing and advertising industries. The topic for discussion was Achieving Engagement in a [...]