Webolutionary Business by James Key Lim
Surviving the web revolution of business

‘KEY’ TAKE AWAY: I would highly recommend this book to get pros and cons of blogging and read real world case studies on how others have used blogging to improve their business and how some other businesses have disregarded blogging to their detriment.
I’m essentially doing a Matrix style upload of as much information as [...]

Just something that popped in my mind that John Furrier mentioned in his recent talk at Third Thursdays that surfaced and I think is important to remember.
A way to measure online success is how much buzz there is offline. As an example, when you get phone calls about what you wrote online, then you’ve succeeded [...]

‘KEY’ TAKE AWAY: Find and hire a top notch online community evangelist now. It will be one of the most valuable investments you’ll ever make in your company.
This is how fast (agile if you will) the world is changing. There is a person that you need to hire today into your company, but there is [...]

I just finished The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood today. Aptly described on the cover as “practical advice on creating and maintaining your blog”.

I’d definitely recommend this book to anyone who is thinking about starting a blog as Jeremiah Owyang had recommended to me.
I always like summaries so I typically pull out a few key [...]

At the invitation of Jeremiah Owyang, Karen O’Brien and I had attended a great Third Thursday meetup hosted by Giovanni Rodriguez and with John Furrier, CEO of PodTech as the main speaker on the topic ‘the press room of the future’.

It was the first time that I had ever met John or heard him speak. [...]

Kleenex creates a community for people to share your most emotional moments with others and named it ‘Let it out’
Web 2.0 tools and features used:

Community
Blogging
Video submissions
Photo submissions
Tags
Content ratings
Most viewed
Top rated
Search
Embed object
Send to a friend
Add to my favorites

In addition, they even combined customization into the strategy mix by allowing users the ability to print custom Kleenex [...]

Orbitz.com does it right. Give a user added value, but don’t require them to do anything to benefit from the new service.

It’s called Orbitz TLC. As the website states, it’s FREE service that you get when you book thru Orbitz.com. With it, Orbitz will text to you truly valuable information to anyone who has traveled [...]

I have to admit, when I first heard about Apollo, I was thinking Apollo Creed from Rocky

and not the new rich internet application (RIA) from Adobe Systems.
Now that I’m clear on the conversation, I’ve been running across some good summaries of Apollo and its power to champion the next evolution of web 2.0 technology.

KEY TAKE [...]

I had lunch with a good friend the other day and we were talking about just how ‘noisy’ the world is today and what that means to building (and sustaining an online community). Both people and companies are looking to get users to spend their time on their site. With sites growing by the thousands [...]

I’ve been fortunate to have been introduced to Jeremiah Owyang by Karen Obrien recently.

Yesterday, Jeremiah was kind enough to take the time to meet me at a cafe near Pier 38 in San Francisco. I’ve read a lot about Jeremiah and had seen him moderate a panel at Web 2.0 Expo this year, but had [...]