Back in 2005, when blogging for business was a fairly newly new thing, The Businessweek cover story was titled “Blogs Will Change Your Business.” Now, just one week ago, the now Bloomberg Businessweek comments: “Go ahead and bellyache about blogs. But you cannot afford to close your eyes to them, because they’re simply the most […]
Desk #95 at the back of the U.S. Senate Chamber is where you find the candy. When George Murphy came to the U.S. Senate in 1965, he brought along his sweet tooth, and, even after he lost his seat five years later, the “Candy Desk” kept going, maintained today by Senator Mark Kirk of Illinois. […]
There are two types of big questions, remarks @jessanne, editor of Mental Floss magazine. There’s the really, really big kind, the philosophical questions Plato fretted over, and then the ones we’re driven to Google to find out. These “how?” and “why?” questions are at the very heart of blogging for business. Online searchers arrive at […]
“The tape guns are not for customer use!” was the headline on the poster my National Speakers Association colleague Todd Hunt saw in his local UPS store. There was more text on that sign, Hunt reports: “For liability reasons, it is prohibited for customers to use our industrial tape guns. If you need something taped […]
Too organized for in medias res type business blog writing (that’s where you intrigue readers by going right to the conflict, then jump back to an earlier, quieter part of the story to deliver the information they need to understand the concepts)? Novelist Cheri Laser has at least three other suggestions for ways to begin […]
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