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  • wenxin
    Kevin Wen on 2006-07-31
    Businessweek converage of Blog
  • inetguy
    Dennis on 2006-08-02
    A good intro article on how to use a blog for business.
  • davekilleen
    Dave Killeen on 2006-08-03
    Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up...or catch you later
  • jontiver
    Jennifer on 2007-02-27
    This article came from Ranaji55's Diigo bookmarks.
    In a Business Week cover story titled “Blogs Will Change Your Business”, writers Stephen Baker and Heather Green start off by addressing that many people, believe it or not, don’t care very much for blogs. One survey found that only 27% of Americans actually take the time to read blogs. Although the blog world may be insignificant, or even non-existent, to some people, blogging is actually becoming more popular than even before. Currently, there are about 9 million blogs on the web, and approximately 40,000 blogs are born each day. Blogs cannot be, and should not be, overlooked. They provide an enormous amount of information that can not only be useful, but can also be entertaining and self indulging. The question is, are blogs of some benefit to companies? The answer is yes. Although most blogs may appear to be silly, and of little use to organizations, there are some blogs that provide companies with information that would have been very difficult, or even impossible, to obtain through conventional methods. For example, blogs can leak information about a competitor’s strategies and future plans. Blogs can provide insights on consumer’s likes and dislikes. Blogs allow a company to learn about unsatisfied and satisfied customers, dissatisfied and satisfied employees, and most importantly, blogs provides a company with an immediate link to global news. Most recently, companies have been using blogger’s space to advertise and reach more individuals in their target markets. Therefore, in order to be an effective competitor in the business world, Baker and Green highly recommend that companies use blogs as a valuable source of information. These sources have the potential to spark new, innovative ideas that can very well lead to huge profits.

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