Stories about how business blogs help small businesses reach out to customers, get known, attract buyers and grow their small companies are common. Here is a story about how using a blog helped (saved) a small business owner when she was facing a financial crisis. Thanks to Todd Nelson, contributor to the Star Tribune newspaper for […]
Welcome to Small Company Big Image’s new look and new home!
Thanks to Nate Whitehill and the team at Unique BlogDesigns! I met them in November at BlogWorld Expo. Nate is an Internet and Business Blogging Strategist. Also, a top blogger at Nate Whitehill dot com. Nate launched his blog in January of 2007 and is […]
Small business owners—well all of us—need to save time. Especially if you (wish to) follow blogs or other frequently updated sites online. RSS, or Really Simple Syndication, is a little understood time-saver. Many of us associate RSS as a complex “Web 2.0 term” if at all. My friends say, …yeah I’ve heard of RSS…” […]
A picture is worth a thousand words. Or a gazillion dollars. This view of Web 2.0, created by Yael Elish, CEO of eSnips (a cool social content sharing site) and posted at Down the Avenue Blog, is intriguing. The original intent of the Web 2.0 ecosystem image and the posts by a Business 2.0 […]
It’s not just your kids, employees and friends flocking to user generated media, social networking sites such as MySpace, YouTube and Wikipedia. Here is yet another indication that businesses are using these so-called Web 2.0 social networking (social media) capabilities to communicate with both employees and customers and to market to prospects and customers. This […]
This post is a contribution to Jordan Behan’s request for ideas for a presentation he is putting together on how businesses can use social media (Web 2.0) to connect directly with customers. Jordan’s blog is TellTenFriends. I suggest that Jordan’s presentation include examples about business-to-business companies’ use of social media.
Most social media success stories […]
Yesterday, Jeanette Gibson of Cisco’s new media group talked about the launch of their new Web 2.0 site on October 2. (See my post here about the site.) Why did Cisco add Web 2.0 features? They’ve recognized that there is a shift of power in the market, according to Jeanette. They are […]
The Blog Business Summit’s (in Seattle) first set of panelists today was Jeanette Gibson from Cisco, Corporate Communications and John Starkweather of Microsoft. They shared insights about how their companies were adopting the so-called new media—blogs, wikis (web sites that can be updated by web visitors), and podcasts, etc..
At Microsoft the openness started […]
