Corporate Communication

This is truly one for the “you can’t make this shit up” file. Let’s see, the story is only three days old, but we have: overnight bankruptcy of IT-Factory, a supposed “best case” company suspected embezzlement of €70-130 million by…

Update. Drug will be used over Mullen’s objections. Andrew Baron, founder of Rocketboom, has published an open letter to Biogen CEO James C. Mullen, begging Mullen to release a Biogen drug, Tysabri, to treat Baron’s dying father. Without the drug,…

Debbie Weil performs liposuction on Alliconnect

by Allan Jenkins on July 11, 2007

You may not have noticed the new Alliconnect Blog,. Alliconnect is a place to discuss weight loss with the creators of alli, an over-the-counter weight control medication, approved for OTC sales in the USA, made by GlaxoSmithKline. I am not…

Ragan Communication has launched MyRagan, a social media/community/watering hole for communicators, yesterday, and it’s no slouch of a place. When I went to bed late last night, there were about 30 members; now there are over 200. Message boards, customizable…

How to use blogs

by Allan Jenkins on March 24, 2006

Elizabeth Albrycht brings us a coolio slide by Ansgar Zerfass. My first sense is that it needs tweaking — crisis blogs might help solve some conflicts, but not complex ones — but I like the idea of mapping this.

There’s a new blog in town: NevilleHobson.com

by Allan Jenkins on February 16, 2006

Friend Neville Hobson — oh, you don’t know Neville? The guy, the guru, the mentor who has pretty much created whatever awareness European biz has for social media? Yes, that guy — has a new blog at NevilleHobson.com. Now, I…

Business Week: Email is so five minutes ago

by Allan Jenkins on November 26, 2005

Clip this article — Email is so five minutes ago — for clients and coworkers: Although all these tools are gaining momentum, it’s easy-to-use and practically free wikis that proponents say offer the promise of collaboration beyond e-mail, even though…

[Update: I published without proofreading, which is always a mistake. The version you see below is an edited version of the original. The message is the same.] Tipped off by John Wagner, I pointed the feed reader at Amy Gahran’s…

Arla Foods, Europe’s biggest dairy, launches 3 blogs

by Allan Jenkins on October 27, 2005

UPDATE: 31 October. A couple of comments to this post have led me to make a new post today. Arla Foods, Europe’s largest dairy, has set up three blogs. All in Danish. I have to come clean: I can’t stand…

Fredrik Wackå, the thinkingest blogger in Sweden, writes that he’s convinced internal blogs will outnumber external ones 10 or even 20 to 1. Reffing a study by the Economist Intelligence Unit, he notes what anyone who’s ever been in a…