Blogging

Communication Director profiles 12 comms blogs

by Allan Jenkins on October 9, 2008

Communication Director magazine has a little feature on 12 European communication blogs in the latest issue. “Out of over 113 million blogs worldwide, a few stand out as being some of Europe’s leading, most interesting and useful sources for information…

Desirable Roasted Coffee is four years old… now what?

by Allan Jenkins on October 8, 2008

Desirable Roasted Coffee is four years old. It seems like a lifetime … maybe it does to you, too … but it is a long time in the blogosphere. Thank you, friends! Blogging is a selfish thing, requiring only a…

Kathy Sierra, a prominent blogger, has received what she sees as death threats from other bloggers– and takes them seriously enough to cancel speaking engagements and call on law enforcement. If you aren’t already familiar with the story, I urge…

Communitelligence has feeds after all (mea culpa)

by Allan Jenkins on May 9, 2006

Weelll… I sure stepped in it. Yesterday, I wrote about Communitelligence, the pretty cool communication portal set up by John Gerstner. Readers will remember that I had some nitpicking to do about the blogs: smart writers, but no RSS feeds….

Communitelligence: smart people, but no RSS

by Allan Jenkins on May 8, 2006

What do you do when smart people write blogs, but don’t provide RSS feeds? Well, if you’re me, that special effort to go read them can be hard to make. Today, I wandered over to Communitelligence, a “for pay” communication…

Goodbye RocketPost, Hello again, Ecto!

by Allan Jenkins on April 9, 2006

Neville Hobson and I were on the same wavelength, today. [Update: I see Lee radiated the thought yesterday from Australia... are we all joined at the brain?] I’ve been mentally composing this post about why I am dropping the utterly…

Common Sense Blogging Thoughts from NewComm Forum

by Allan Jenkins on March 3, 2006

Shel Holtz has written a great summary of Debbie Weil’s Corporate Blogging Case Studies at the New Communication Forum (wish I was there soaking it all up). It’s all good, but one line I like came from Paul Rosenfeld, general…

Social media & PR education

by Allan Jenkins on January 22, 2006

I’ve signed on again to be a contributor to the Marcom blog, the blog of Robert French, his PR students at Auburn University and a handful of lucky contributors. It’s a terrific initiative that must be getting Robert some serious…

Model Corporate Blog

by Allan Jenkins on November 17, 2005

Via friend Shel Holtz (apparently, Holtz got a little Kryptonite on his recent vacation; at any rate, he’s finding the gems): Niall Kennedy has seen enough of both to cobble together a demo blog to display the way a business…

Say what you will about Technorati — it still thinks Desirable Roasted Coffee is not a “PR” or “public relations” or “Copenhagen” blog despite my repeated admonitions it’s all three and more — it’s a pretty good tool for finding…