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Do you Trust Corporate Blogs?

December 11, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, CEO blogging, Corporate blogs, Online marketing

According to a recent Forrester Research report, people trust emails from who they know most and they trust corporate blogs the least. According to the report, only 16% people trust corporate blogs. I had written about CEO and corporate blogging sometime back and this report presents some interesting perspectives. You can read posts that comment on this report at RWW and Rohit Bhargava’s blog. What do you think? Do you trust corporate blogs? Which ones do you read regularly and why? It would interesting to get some views of corporate…

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Network Feedback

November 4, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, Facebook, Learning, LinkedIn, Social Networking, The Big Question

This month’s Learning Circuits Big Question asks where is the best place to ask if you need input from people, what works and doesn’t work, what did you consider using, what was the outcome, ... Continuing with my experiences with social networking, I have tried to use blogging to connect with people and get answers. However I haven’t been very successful in generating a dialog through my blogs. Perhaps my blog has very small readership, or perhaps people aren’t comfortable commenting. As part of my journey in social networking I…

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My Experiences with Social Networking

November 4, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, Career, Facebook, LinkedIn, Orkut, Social Networking, Web 2.0

I am relatively new to social networking and social media. I remember my first encounter with social media was on a new Indian social networking site about 17-18 months ago. The social networking site’s interface was a combination of Orkut and Facebook-style networking (which I figured later after I started using Orkut and Facebook). So here I was on this social networking site but I couldn’t see anyone to network with (it didn’t let you see anyone’s profile unless you were their ‘friend’). On their open chat room, I asked…

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It is the Content, Stupid!

August 6, 2008
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| Categories: AdSense, Blogger, Blogging, Blogging platform, Content, Making money, postsofthepast, Technology, Typepad, Wordpress

It must be the technology bug in me or just the man in me wanting to play with new toys. In my quest to explore different blogging platforms, I have tried my hand at Blogger, Wordpress.com and self hosted Wordpress. Typepad required me to provide credit card information to sign-up and other platforms just didn’t seem popular enough. I searched and researched the comparisons between Blogger and Wordpress. Most comparison posts compare Blogger and self hosted Wordpress. However I found this really useful post that compares Blogger and Wordpress.com, which…

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My Top 10 Learning Tools and Techniques

August 4, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, iPhone, Learning, Lists, RSS, Social bookmarking, Social Networking, Techniques, Tools

It’s been more than 6 months since I last posted my top 10 tools for learning. I thank Jane Hart for making me think to update the list for Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies’ compilation of top 10 tools for learning of as many as 184 learning professionals. There are some changes since I last wrote, though many of the tools and techniques still remain in my top 10 list. Here are my top 10 tools for learning in Aug 2008. Search engines – though Google is still my…

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New Look at eCube

July 4, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, eCube, Templates

eCube now has a new look and feel. I wanted something bright and refreshing. I used the WP-Polaroid for Blogger template that I downloaded from eblog templates. It took more time than I expected but in the process I created a blog template upgrade checklist. I realized that there is too much code (analytics, tracking, label customization etc.) that is embedded that needs to be ported to the new template code. And the widgets got all messed up in the new template so I had to create many widgets all…

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Blogging & New Media Workshop by IBNMS

July 1, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, CEO blogging, Corporate blogs, Making money

I attended two sessions of the Blogging and New Media Workshop organized by Indian Blog and New Media Society. I was actually surprised to see a relatively large turnout. There would have been approximately 100 people. That’s not bad for a Sunday evening session and a working day Monday evening session. The audience was very varied in terms of their experience as a blogger and I commend how the presenters, Ajay Jain and Abhishek Kant, handled the audience questions with patience. There were also a significant number of women in…

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Moving up the Web 2.0 Ladder

June 25, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, Web 2.0

I am moving up the Web 2.0 ladder to actually posting videos on YouTube :-). I thought it would be hard and I would need to convert mpeg file to flv before uploading. However YouTube allowed me to upload mpeg file without any problem and converted it into YouTube playable version quite seamlessly.Here are my two videos that I shot during my vacation. These were shot with a digital camera meant for stills and not a video camera, so the quality isn't the best video quality.1. Beetle inside a flower2.…

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One Year of Blogging

June 7, 2008
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| Categories: Blogging, Lists

I started blogging rather accidently, responding to a post on another blog. Sometime in June 2007, I wrote my post on my blog on Microsoft Live Spaces. I subsequently dumped that and started this blog on Blogspot. In Feb 2008, I also started eCube, a team blog. In one year, I am completing 50 posts on my personal blog (with this post), and another 19 posts on eCube team blog. I started tracking stats late September 2007. An anonymous commenter on my blog introduced me to Feedburner in Jan 2008.…

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