What started as a conversation on Jonathan Schwartz’ blog at Sun Micro systems has been accepted by the SEC. ON July 30th the SEC voted that a website or a corporate blog is a valid place to post corporate news. There are new guidelines that cover how a public company can use a Web site and/or corporate blog to meet Regulation FD’s public disclosure requirements. What … [Read more...]
MicroBlogging Reaches into the Enterprise
Last night LA Start up Yammer took top honors at TechCrunch50. What is Yammer? It’s a Twitter-like application for businesses. Yammer aims to make companies more productive by making it easier for employees to communicate with one another. Unlike email which goes betweeno nly a few specified peole, on Yammer you can build a company network and have a Facebook, … [Read more...]
Micro PR
There’s been much blogging and Tweeting about TechCrunch50 and DEMOfall- two conferences where tech start ups reveal new products and services. However, you have to keep the product or service under wraps until it is seen at the conference. Which makes sense for the conference, but inventing the better mousetrap does not always mean people will beat a path to your door. … [Read more...]
Gartner Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies
IT industry analysts Gartner published their 2008 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies. It looks like this- So what does all this mean? Gartner, Inc. has identified 27 emerging technologies and predicts that eight of these will have a transformational business impact and should be strongly considered for adoption by technology planners in the next 10 years. Are there any … [Read more...]
News Online – tips from SEO experts at SES San Jose
Image: miso crazy Search Engine Strategies San Jose happens each year in August and this year there was a panel on the mechanics of SEO for news content with online PR experts Greg Jarboe and Lee Odden. It seems that newspaper sites are finally getting the message - NIelsen’s figures for July show four of the top five news and current events Web sites with the most … [Read more...]
