An interesting perspective on corporate blogging from gapingvoid: Every market has an internal and external conversation.

The cover story about blogs in last week’s Business Week (magazine cover date today, 2 May) has been widely commented on in blogs around the world.

The more I think about Intelliseek, the more I think they’ll either try to muscle Technorati out of their market or they’ll buy ‘em.

Steve is Vice President Client Solutions at CooperKatz, a New York PR firm, and author of the Micro Persuasion blog. He is arguably the most prominent and influential blogger in the PR profession either side of the Atlantic.

Brewster Kahle is my new geek hero. He made a ton of money selling Alexa to Amazon. Now he is giving away free Internet space.

In yesterday’s edition of The Hobson & Holtz Report, our bi-weekly podcast show, Shel and I talked a little about IABC.

Yesterday, Shel and I interviewed Robert Scoble, the Scobleizer, in the March 7 edition of The Hobson & Holtz Report.

Blog Herald asks “Is tracking links dead?”. I hope not. I have wished for better tools to track conversation before, but we’re still stuck with Technorati, Feedster or PubSub.

I honestly can’t remember if it was Tuesday or Wednesday of this week but I had a great conversation with Robin Hopper, the CEO of iUpload.

If you read threadwatch, you must be prepared to accept the fact that you will often not agree with the posts …

How much can you say in your corporate blog … A reader contacted me to get my view on this question.

So the Superbowl happened yesterday. In scanning my RSS feeds this morning, I see that sporting event has …

Just when you thought SEMPO had inhaled its last breath and quietly slipped away, we hear that they’re not only still around, by very much scared of the newly created SMA-NA.

A lively discussion is bubbling on Jason Calcanis’ blog on the issue of how others use content you have produced where copyright enters into the picture and, in essence, what’s right and what’s not.

Inevitably, with the launch of a new search engine, especially one the size of MSN Search, there is an outcry of people wanting to know how to improve their result position. Questions like “How do I optimize my site to rank well?” and “Does this engine base more relevance on in-bound links or on-page content?” are quite common.

Where many marketing conversations get off-track are the ones you have with yourself, before you even pick up the phone or initiate the handshake. As independent professionals, usually at the helm of solo businesses, we sometimes find ourselves facing daunting internal obstacles as we try to begin our day’s marketing activity. With no one in our office-of-one to help with a confidence booster, an important resource to have in our self-management toolbox is a means of submitting the negative self-talk for an internal Second Opinion.

When a conversation is not working out there is the potential for massive frustration or a breakthrough depending on how you look at it.

Managers are hired for their technical skills and experience but fired due to a lack of leadership ability. Most do not know that leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment.

A master of metaphor, Sean D’Souza writes articles that astound readers. He gives readers what they want, and then some.

You might think writing articles as powerful as D’Souza’s would require epic talent, but in fact, D’Souza says, it all starts with a headline.

When the Israelites heard that God was going to take them to the promised land they were excited as I’m sure you would be too. The road to the promised land however turned out not to be, what they expected. They expected to be taken there speedily and in comfort, but instead the road took them through the desert and they endured all kinds of hardships.