Welcome to Our Blog

Hi there, and welcome to the blogosphere! I'm a fellow blogger. I'm glad to see Business Week is finally offering its own blog. This is bound to be an intriguing endeavor.

Good job on the cover feature too. I think it'll be a decent introduction/wake-up call for lots of businesses.

I've advised lots of organizations about blogging issues (publishing their own, and participating in the blogosphere). One thing I've noticed is that many business people have a profound terror of writing, especially informally. If you cover this topic again, please let them know it's OK to hire an editor to make sure your weblog content is always top-notch and on-target.

I thought the blog-posting format of your feature was fun. However, I thought of a way you could leverage that to make the online version of that feature even more effective. See my latest posting for details: http://snipurl.com/e60u

- Best,

Amy Gahran
Editor, CONTENTIOUS

Thank you for your perfect demonstration of how blogs work and what they can mean to every type of business

Congratulations on the blog and welcome to the blogging community. I'm looking forward to watching you grow.

Welcome to a world where inexperienced editors make articles about the wrong topics worse ;-)
- Judge Posner

7:07 am - this is the time I came across your blog is Sydney, Down Under via: http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050421BusinessWeekGivesBlogstheCoverTreatment.html
[BusinessWeek Gives Blogs The Cover Treatment]

The rich tapestry called Bloggosphere is aware more than any other sphere of the good old Cree Saying:

Only after the last tree has been cut down, only after the last fish has been caught, only after the last river has been poisoned, only then will you realize that money cannot be eaten.

And welcome to my feedreader!

I hope you'll be covering the world of trade blogs in addition to citizen journalism. I'm interested in both but, these days, I'm mostly involved with music industry blogging. In any case, I look forward to see what you folks spot.

Clyde
prohiphop.com

Congratulations on starting your blog, and especially on the terrific feature in the magazine - the first news item headline that caught my eye in my RSS reader this morning.

Really direct commentary about blogs in business. Anyone reading this story would get a real sense of urgency to not only find out what's going on but also see how to get involved.

Thanks for adding more push!

Great idea. I really appreciated the cover story on business blogging, which is how I got here.

Good luck with the new blog. I've linked it to SYNTAGMA ~ my own humble effort.

Welcome Blogspotters. I just read the article in the print edition and am excited about tracking the blogosphere along with you. I've enjoyed reading Deal Flow and am excited about keeping up with Blogspotting. I just added the RSS feed to my site. Cheers.

Another Car In The Cluetrain.

I'm adding my congratulations, and I am sure there will be more to follow. The cover article was wonderful, and I have already forwarded it to a number of business associates who could benefit from information in the passenger car that you've just added to the Cluetrain.

You say: "The winners will be those who host the very best conversations." We're hoping that you are one of those winners - and remember...we're watching! Best of luck, excellent work.
Joe

I am in the middle of creating content for a course on Advanced Business Strategy and Competive Dynamics and your article arrives in my in-box. I believe that there are no coincidences, and information about blogging is now going to be included in this course. Thanks.

Kudos to BusinessWeek on the launch of Blogspotting – and on your clever, compelling May 2 cover story on how “Blogs Will Change Your Business.” In the industry in which I earn my livelihood, direct marketing, I have been espousing the benefits of blogs for well over a year now. It has been a long, lonely crusade, but corporate Americans are finally beginning to explore the blogosphere and seeing for themselves that blogs are far from a passing fancy, but rather that they are here, there and everywhere to stay.

One tip: If you're going to blog, you should have your e-mail address on the blog. Just do what all self-respecting bloggers do: Use a gmail account. If you need an invite, send me an e-mail @ Leebow@gmail.com.

Congratulations! Yours is the first MSM blog to make it on my blogroll, and will remain at the top.

One of the things that the Tsunami blog (http://tsunamihelp.blogspot.com/) demonstrated is that there are tens of thousands of people with interesting backgrounds willing to lend a hand in a time of need. I did the imagery analysis and reporting from the early satellite imagery that was made available. Over a dozen software professionals and just plain techies donated time, energy, and professional services to helping out. There's usually someone in the blogosphere who's a professional on any given topic, and can usually be called upon to help for a little link love. After all, hits are the "cash flow" of blogging! Don't hesitate to ask your readers for help - you'll be surprised at their responsiveness.

Blogs are temporary and the hype associated with them will probably disappear during 2006. There are several reasons why they will not last, but the biggest one will be the movement towards mindfulness.

Welcome to the blogosphere!

THANK YOU

Congratulations! I think it's a great addition to the world of the web. It will prove to be very useful.

I read your article with great interest. I am adding a blog to my personal web site. Any suggestions?

Congratulations on a very informative article about blogging. I was stupid on this subject and you have enlightened me. Thanks.

Obviously, there's a lot you weren't able to cover but that's for future articles, I'm sure. Anyway, I sincerely hope that "citzen jouralism" doesn't minimize or deminish the valuable editoral and jouralistic job that writers, editors and publishers do for readers like me. Your value-added is your professionalism and jouralistic standards. I'm sorely afraid "citzen jouralism" will be "junk jouralism" fill with opinions, rumors, lies, falsehoods and unreliable information. Personally, I don't want to spend hours at my computer siffing through that stuff. BusinessWeek and other reputable publishers research good, reliable sources, siff-through and cull-down information and present it in well written artilces like yours. That's VALUE-ADDED AND VALUE. I'm sure blogging will significantly change the way you go about doing this.

Marc,

On setting up a blog, you could try a few things including Blogger.com or Six Apart.

Hey Steve,

Nice story. More informative than you probably intended though. Followed it on-line, connecting to links as suggested. Got to Tuesday 9:12PM and the iPodder link (http://www.ipodder.org/). Woke me up, pretty lady, but learned a lesson- don't think I will be visiting blog sites from the office any time soon.

Frank

I am an avid business week reader...thanks for keeping me abreast of all this stuff,blogging etc. otherwise I wouldn't have a clue...if BW is writing about it (anything)I need to be reading about it...geart stuff...Thanks again

It's interesting how bloggers tend to cluster into interest groups. I read political bloggers who reference each other...business blogs same thing...marketing blogs same thing...etc. It's interesting how the circles don't seem to overlap much. A "blog-star" in one realm is an unknown in another.

I've been blogging for my family's real estate business - and am thinking about ways I can use blogging for a customer service training company I work for.

Let the conversations flow!

Jane N-B
www.TwinCitiesRealEstateBlog.com

One of the largest leftist list on the internet is the multinational, multitendency, multipost, ultrageek, "leftist_trainspotters" list at yahoogroups. This list has existed since the summer of 2001, and has to date more than 1,000 members.

As usual, you dreary capitalist take all the fun out of the clearly superior wit of us mere marxist specters... at least our logo kicks yours from here to the Red Planet...

Hi i read your article on blogs ....great......i have a blog on the visual arts spiritofthings.blogspot.com...retired techie....so i decided to start a biz blog....background is JIT and new product introduction...........best wishes

Um...no. Actually, trainspotters are considered even less socially utile and adept than science fiction fans. Trainspotting, besides being an actual hobby, is also a metaphor for nerdy geeky obsessives who waste their lives in hobbies that no one outside the field can see any real interest in, pursuing useless trivial information instead of getting drunk or laid or at least getting 7 1/2 points on the Bears at Green Bay this Sunday.

I'm surprised you didn't know that.