Transcript: Blogs In Plain English

You’ve seen the word, you've seen the web sites and you may even have one.  But have you ever wondered:  What's the big deal about blogs?

This is blogs in plain English.

To make sense of blogs, you have to think about news and who makes it. We'll look at news in the 20th vs. the 21st century to make our point.

In the 20th century, the news was produced professionally.  When news happened, reporters wrote the stories and a tiny group of people decided what appeared in a newspaper or broadcast. Professional news was mainstream: general and limited.

Blogs-n-Dogs Day One

By leelefever on December 5, 2005 - 3:05pm.

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• friends
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I'm struck by how big the subject of blogs has become. A blog itself is one thing, but the world of products, tools and services that accompany blogs is very nearly overwhelming. Subscribing to a tag on flickr with RSS is not something that tanslates easily to people new to blogging.

There has been a great mix of cool tools and practical points today. Here are some highlights in list form...

Darren Barefoot and Susie Gardner related these points about blog writing...

Blogs'n'Dogs: A Workshop in Banff, Alberta, Canada

By leelefever on October 20, 2005 - 10:14am.

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Rain City Studios and the Banff New Media Institute (BNMI) have put together a very, very cool event. It’s called Blogs-n-Dogs and it’s a four day event in Banff, Alberta, Canada that includes workshops and information sessions on topics like:

Microsoft is Serious About Blogging

By leelefever on September 29, 2005 - 9:10am.

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• ourwork
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been working with the folks at Microsoft, like Bill Reid, Korby Parnell and Jonathan Grudin, to learn more about blogging at Microsoft for a related project at the company. Here are some of my broad observations:

Global PR Blog Week 2.0 and Our Paper

By leelefever on September 20, 2005 - 7:53pm.

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Nancy White and I have been continuing our work on the March of Dimes "Share" online community. We're about to finish a second phase of updates- the last for a while. What a great project.

Dell and The Business Experiment

By leelefever on July 12, 2005 - 5:36pm.

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I got an email today from Robert May of Business Pundit. He is creating a new site that is called TheBusinessExperiment.com. As you might expect, it is an experiment. Here’s how he describes it:

Audio from "Blog Conversation" with Andy Wibbels

By leelefever on June 22, 2005 - 8:49am.

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• business
• friend
• interview
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Andy Wibbels at Easy Bake Weblogs invited me to participate in one of his regularly scheduled "Blog Conversations" calls. The audio and call notes are here. I had a great time and got to wax philosophic on some of the things I'm most passionate about. Thanks for the opportunity Andy!

James Farmer's BlogSavvy

By leelefever on June 2, 2005 - 8:31am.

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• friends
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I've been meaning to talk about James' new site BlogSavvy. I've been keeping up with James for a while through his site Incorporated Subversion (IncSub) and we've corresponded a few times.

James recently played both sides of the"comments or not" argument in two different posts:

Upcoming Call with Andy Wibbels of EasyBakeWeblogs.com

By leelefever on May 23, 2005 - 8:34am.

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Andy Wibbels of Easy Bake Weblogs has asked me to participate in a call in his series of "blog conversations". We'll be talking about how the weblog world listens, partially based on this post. The call happens tomorrow (Tuesday) night - sorry for the late notice.

Here is the information as posted on EasyBakeWeblogs.com:

The Weblog Elevator Pitch- One Year Later

By leelefever on April 27, 2005 - 3:27pm.

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• business
• communication
• explanation
• plainenglish
• simplicity
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It was one year ago that I won my first contest as a writer. The challenge was to create the "perfect corporate weblog elevator pitch". It was put on by the folks at Weblogs Inc. via the Social Software Weblog and Judith Meskill.