The Daily Lark

Loic asks how do you start the day online… this is how this blogger/marketer/entrepreneur does it…
Here is my sequence in general, but it does change depending on the day’s priorities. It’s a mix of reading, replying and chatting…

check email, both gmail and Outlook – scan and empty inbox
check Dell.com and thedailylark
scan Google blog search for [...]

magazine
email
tv

TV right? And so the stupid movement begins its attack on vlogs and Internet video in the workplace… The Wall Street Journal reports that a growing number of companies are thinking about blocking online videos in the workplace — blaming productivity loss and bandwidth (a garbage argument created by the technologically weak). Here are the [...]

The Blog censorship raises its ugly head not once but twice today.
First, from GMSV, the US military is clamping down on bloggers requiring that superiors approve of Blog posts. There are a large portion of US employers that require this if the blog is on company time and about company matters. This clearly doesn’t [...]

Sometimes the V in VC stands for vested. As in vested interest. For this reason, Ray Lane’s comments on press releases aren’t that surprising. In this BusinessWeek interview, Ray Lane of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers calls standard media and press releases “a waste of time.” Instead, they should use “blogs and wikis and podcasts [...]

Sun CEO Schwartz points to a terrific move they are making:
“Which is why you’ll see something very interesting next week start to appear on Sun’s web pages and throughout our our on-line store. You’ll start to see product reviews written by users. You’ll see user defined ratings, right on our products. Just like book or [...]

Interesting look at the ethical issues associated with employees blogging… Brad Rawlins also has some interesting research looking at how much attention stakeholders deserve. More to come…

A&R are one of the most highly regarded independent PR agencies in the Valley. At least one part of that statement stands, but not the independent bit. Edelman is the new owner, completing a much needed strengthening their tech capabilities that makes them a real force now in the Nth American tech market. Bizarrely the [...]

Great quote (thanks for the pointer Ross!) on the power of community – not just to build momentum but also lower operating costs and improve customer experience. Shai is talking about their Software Developer Network:

“…500,000 visitors per month. Aggregation of knowledge that is second to none. slashdot for SAP. SIs in India [...]

One of the side benefits of a good blog reader and sites like popurls is they introduce you to material you might not have bumped into. Some are just good refreshers – like this piece today on Flow. Others flag tips and techniques that are worth remembering or implementing – like this one on time [...]

A new report from Forrester suggests marketers are not rushing to blogs and the like, preferring to stick with more traditional forms of interactive:

Mobile, RSS and advergaming may get lots of media attention, but many marketers are looking the other way. A new Forrester Research report shows that a wide spectrum of interactive marketers is [...]