June 2006 - Posts

• eBay Canada launch blogs

  from the Qumana blogeBay Canada have introduced member blogs to their community section.  With a bit of further digging these are also available under the .com  address, http://blogs.ebay.com,  and there is a link on the UK site, http://blogs.ebay.co.uk, Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 29 June 2006 09:11 by Andrew Martin | 0 Comments Filed Under: Blogging

• Should CEO's blog?

  Jeremiah has a post about the Supernova conference he recently attended. In this he talks about a question that was asked of Jonathan Schwartz the CEO of Sun. "should CEOs blog?"The notes on his answer are "John, refers to CEOs 5 years ago not Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 26 June 2006 23:01 by Andrew Martin | 3 Comments Filed Under: Customer Advocacy , Blogging

• How important is being ranked 1 on Google?

  Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger links to a post about the difference between being 1st and 2nd on Google for a particular search term. "I can tell you that our site receives approximately 30k of visits on average per day from Google, Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 21 June 2006 22:02 by Andrew Martin | 0 Comments Filed Under: Technology, Measurement

• The value of buzz

  The Church of the Customer Blog has a post about putting Mentos into Diet Coke.  I read about this the other day but it's interesting the responses from the two companies. Mentos: "We are tickled pink by it," says Pete Healy, vice president of marketing Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 19 June 2006 21:07 by Andrew Martin | 1 Comments Filed Under: Random, Marketing

• Data Visualisation

  B L Ochman has an interesting post which links to the Logic+Emotion site and talks about how "blogs are what connect the community clusters".  One of the things that the post includes is this diagram where the green dots are the interaction between Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 13 June 2006 22:11 by Andrew Martin | 0 Comments Filed Under: Technology, Measurement

• Cooking for Engineers

  Lifehacker have a great post about the Cooking for Engineers siteNow my wife is a chef, she went to Le Cordon Bleu, and I'm and engineer, my degree is in Information Systems Engineering and Management, and it's very rare that I cook but the way these Read More   Digg this |   Add to del.icio.us |   Post to reddit |   Add to facebook |   Add to StumbleUpon |   TwitThis posted 08 June 2006 22:43 by Andrew Martin | 0 Comments Filed Under: Random