Beneath the Surface

I did an inter­view with Stewart Manley, CTO of Mediasurface, yes­terday. The company makes Content Management software for pro­du­cing business websites, whether they be internet, intranet or extranet sites. Their cus­tomers tend to be quite heavy­weight, such as the Environment Agency, NATO, Oxford University Press, and SSA Global. A far cry, in other words, from

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10 Free eBooks About Web 2.0

I expect you’re fed up of waiting for my book to appear. I know I am. In the meantime, stay up to speed and save money with ten free e-​​​​books about Web 2.0 and Social Media. In no particular order…

1) Social Media or, “How I learned to stop worrying and love com­mu­nic­a­tion” by Australian PRs Trevor

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Rules of Engagement

Some inter­esting dis­cus­sion over the last couple of days about the neces­sity for a new kind of metric for meas­uring the effect­ive­ness of blogs. Robert Scoble talks about the dif­fer­ence between getting page impres­sions (bad) and engage­ment (good):

There’s another stat out there called “engage­ment.” No one is meas­uring it that I know of.

What do

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Large and white; clean and bright

What is Edelman doing to repair the mess of the last couple of weeks? (Edelman, at the very least, sanc­tioned the undeclared spon­sor­ship of a blog about trav­el­ling round the US and staying in their client’s, Wal-Mart’s, carparks. It also goes further). Richard Edelman posts tonight about a new series of initiatives:

# We

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MyBlogLog is Watching You

The out-​​​​of-​​​​beta relaunch of MyBlogLog was covered twice today on Techcrunch. On the front page Marshall Kirkpatrick notes that the site func­tions as an auto­mated social network around your blog using cookies to show the members visiting your site and allowing users to mine inform­a­tion about what sites they visit.

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Inside Intel (or Behind the Bunny Suit)

Understandably enough, IT com­panies are rep­res­ented heavily in the short list of 40 Fortune 500 com­panies that blog. Joining them, Intel launched its own official blog last week, IT@Intel.

Like Dell and EDS, it has gone for a group blog with a number of authors. Other com­panies like Sun and Boeing have

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