MICE-Contact International Launches a New Blog – I Think
December 31, 2006 by Des Walsh
Filed under Social Media
Earlier this year I gave a presentation on blogging to a national conference of meeting professionals. There was a lot of interest on the day but I haven’t seen much sign since of people in the industry getting seriously into business blogging, at least from the people who were at that conference.
So my curiosity was aroused today when I picked up a link to a Newswire item MICE-Contact International Announces the Launch of its MICE-Blog .
It helped that I knew that MICE in this context is an industry acronym for Meetings, Incentives, Conferences and Events. But as I searched fruitlessly …read more
Fortune 500 Blog Project Call for Volunteers
December 10, 2006 by Des Walsh
Filed under Social Media
In a previous post I made a passing reference to the Fortune 500 Blog Project, described on the wiki as follows:
The Fortune 500 Blog Project is an independent, volunteer-driven project to identify and evaluate public-facing corporate blogs owned and/or operated by Fortune 500 companies. Secondary purposes of this project include finding out to what degree Fortune 500 companies are using internal corporate blogs, and highlighting blogs that discuss Fortune 500 companies.
This ambitious project is maintained by two people who, judging by their blog posts, probably qualify as among the busiest people I know or know of, Easton Ellsworth of Business Blog …read more




