{"id":30485,"date":"2009-11-13T14:19:53","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T13:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/blog\/?p=30485"},"modified":"2009-11-06T15:26:43","modified_gmt":"2009-11-06T14:26:43","slug":"corporate-blogging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.corporate-eye.com\/main\/corporate-blogging\/","title":{"rendered":"Corporate Blogging?  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it\u2019s about your customer<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cHonest and transparent blogs will get noticed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So&#8211;what\u2019s special about those 15 companies that \u201cget it\u201d?\u00a0 The answer is absurdly simple:\u00a0 They provide interesting\/useful\/meaningful content.\u00a0 \u00a0Or as Sitepoint put it\u2014\u201cinformative, fascinating, and a joy to read even for people who aren\u2019t die-hard fans of the company.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I actually visited every one of the 15 companies, although not every one of their blogs, which would have added up to dozens.\u00a0 I covered at least 20 blogs, though, and at each one, I applied a simple test:\u00a0 \u201cIf I were thinking about a career at this company, would their blog(s) encourage me to apply?\u201d\u00a0 Here\u2019s what I decided:<\/p>\n<p>Yes, in almost every case.<\/p>\n<p>At Southwest Airlines, I found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogsouthwest.com\/blogsw\">\u201cBlogSouthwest,\u201d<\/a> with some great Halloween posts extolling the fun quotient of that SWA-perfect holiday.\u00a0 (I can testify\u2014it\u2019s all true.)\u00a0 At Lenovo, I discovered a smart, wide-ranging blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/lenovoblogs.com\/designmatters\/\">\u201cDesign Matters,\u201d <\/a>which I would probably subscribe to if I had any time left for more feeds.\u00a0 BBC has a substantive blog called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/blogs\/theeditors\/\">\u201cThe Editors,\u201d<\/a> offering a behind-the-scenes view of current events.\u00a0 The <a href=\"http:\/\/fastlane.gmblogs.com\/\">\u201cFast Lane Blog\u201d<\/a> at GM looks like paradise for a techie auto junkie.\u00a0 And it was oddly seductive to read the supposedly inner thoughts of Marriott\u2019s apparently tireless CEO at <a href=\"http:\/\/fastlane.gmblogs.com\/\">\u201cOn the Move.\u201d<\/a> Even Quicken\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whatsthediff.com\/\">\u201cWhat\u2019s the Diff\u201d<\/a> was fairly charmful, with its mission of \u201cexposing the gap between average and excellent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At a couple of companies, the blogs seemed perfunctory\u2014lacking enthusiasm and\/or substance.\u00a0 A couple of others offered blogs so super-technical that I couldn\u2019t make a connection (though they probably have appeal for their target audiences).\u00a0 But on the whole, my cruise through this group of corporate blogs was more interesting than I expected.<\/p>\n<p>And I\u2019m sure there are many other good examples out there.\u00a0 Plenty of bad ones too, though!\u00a0 So I\u2019ll close with another highlight from the Forrester paper:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u201cIf your strategy is to create a blog about your company and its products, give it up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But if your strategy is to offer something of value to readers\u2014information, ideas, insights, inside intel, or just plain fun&#8211;then it\u2019s worth the effort.<\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/restlessglobetrotter\/2052228257\/\">Jason Rogers<\/a> for sharing his trip to the Grand Canyon.)<strong> <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><br class=\"spacer_\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hard to believe it\u2019s been over a year since I bookmarked this post on the Sitepoint blog:\u00a0 15 Companies That Really Get Corporate Blogging.\u00a0 But now that I\u2019ve come across it again, the information is still interesting.\u00a0 The author referred to a then-recent Forrester study that looked at 90 blogs from Fortune 500 companies, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,25],"tags":[173],"class_list":{"0":"post-30485","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-best-practices","7":"category-careers","8":"tag-corporate-blogging","9":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Corporate Blogging? 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