Blogging News
Here’s the latest in blogging news.
MSNBC – Companies start blogging for sales, dialogue.
Communications industry experts say blogging’s fast-growing popularity and user demographics can be beneficial to corporate America, and it’s time for more companies to jump on the blog-wagon. But there are risks, and some companies are better off sticking with tried and true marketing methods.
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Chitika, Inc. ( http://www.chitika.com/ ), a leading contextual advertising services provider, announces the launch of BlogContext, providing the ever- increasing blogging community with an immediately effective way to monetize their blog content and feeds. BlogContext allows publishers the ability to insert contextually relevant ads into the individual posts of the blog, with ease, by pasting in a single line of html code.
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News that Waterstone’s has sacked an employee over blogging isn’t the first and is unlikely to be the last such incident – but it serves to highlight how wrong businesses are getting it when dealing with employees’ personal thoughts online…Blogger Joe Gordon was fired for calling his boss ‘evil’ and referring to his employer as Bastardstone’s on his website.





