Archive for May, 2006

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Leslie’s Got A New Blog

Leslie Gaines-Ross, who recently made the move from Burson-Marsteller to become chief reputation strategist at Weber Shandwick has a new blog. Similar to her last one it focuses on CEO Reputation stuff.

“An Exchange (like the New York Stock Exchange or London Stock Exchange) is a market where securities, options, futures or commodities can be bought and sold. In my world, reputation is its own form of currency. An organization, leader, company or country trades its reputation on the open market for the best talent, partners and investors that it can attract. The entity also uses its reputation to bolster its standing and win support in times of crisis or uncertainty.”

Thanks to Paul for the pointer.

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On the Hunt For A Channel & Community Marketing Pro

Not sure if you know anyone but I am on the hunt for a great channel & community marketing person to join LogLogic. We’re 100% committed to our channel partners and developing a global community of log management experts. You’ll use your 8 plus years of marketing experience to ignite channel and technology alliance partners globally – and contribute to the implementation of our marketing programs. You can read more here .

LogLogic is a red hot Silicon Valley-based start-up We’re a Red Herring 100 winner with multiple awards under our belt and are growing at upwards of 300% per quarter. LogLogic offers attractive compensation, and excellent benefits including pre-IPO stock.

Any thoughts would be appreciated and all hires via you are rewarded with an iPod! Drop me an email!

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Apple Ruling…

Apple lost in its effort to have bloggers disclose sources. The nature of the ruling leaves it wide open to appeal, moreover, it miscategorized bloggers as journalists. There are journalistic sites posing as blogs, and using blog technology to power their presence. Then there are bloggers – Citizen Journalists as Dan once called them. And in this is the rub, citizens are subject to a different standard than the media. Like it or not, we are. Thats the law. I doubt this ruling will last long.

Andrew over at The Reg summarized some of the rulings more bizzare elements:

However Apple has struck gold in finding a techno utopian in a state of raptue. Judge Rushing cites Wikipedia as a source, a mistake which earns students an ‘F’ grade today. He talks about the need to disregard economics and sociology in favor of a “memetic marketplace”, and allows himself some flights of technological rapture.

“While it may be tempting to think of Asteroid as a mere gizmo for nerds,” he writes, “such a device may also be the means by which the next Bob Dylan, Julia Ward Howe, or Chuck D conveys his or her message to the larger world. Music is of course a form of speech, from the stirring hymns of Charles Wesley to the soaring meditations of John Coltrane.

This ruling does a diservice to the rights of companies to protect their intellectual assets, and the responsibility we have as citizens to respect privacy and intellectual property. And, by blurring the lines, it potentially weakens the media’s rights.

Here is the full ruling. And The Merc

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When Employees Blog…

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…

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The Age Gets It…

The Age has hired big blogger downunder, James Farmer, to run its community initiatives. Great move by The Age and good move for James. Congrats. James has been a huge help to me in getting content distributed to the Education audiences I frequently speak to.