“As of October 2006, about 100,000 new weblogs were created each day” David Sifry of Technorati on his Quarterly “State of the Blogospere“.
With this many blogs created each day, what are they saying about you and your company? Have you joined their conversation? Do you make it easy for them to join yours?
Processes inefficient? Wish you had access to that document? Here are two online project management services that will help you collaborate on projects, become more efficient and innovate faster.
Project Spaces by Forum One Communications
Basecamp by 37signals
Their light versions are both free. Try using one for a small project and see how it affects your communication and efficiency. What are your project management systems?
With most Universities currently in their fall session, I couldn’t help but think of some of the better case studies I reviewed, which ironically happened to revolve around breweries, but I digress.
Well, Nisan Gabbay of Sierra Ventures has been working to compile a list (and a fine list it is) of modern day internet case studies. Great stuff. Well worth the read.
Do you know your Alexa (What’s Alexa?) ranking and how you stack up against your competition in the web popularity contest? Try alexaholic and view all your competition in one place.
Other sites that will give you a pulse on how much your brand is being talked about -
You may have noticed that I am somewhat of a web 2.0 junky. These companies are no different than your company, they are trying to offer solutions that make peoples lives better and facilitate business process.
Two enormous breakout stories that probably don’t get the same kind of mainstream press that the Myspaces and Facebooks get are YouTube and Flickr. Here is a terrific recap of why YouTube and Flickr are successful.
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New web 2.0 technologies and social media applications seem to be popping up as fast as new bloggers. There is a lot of buzz around this new internet, just how do you leverage your small business and possibly focus some of your resources to getting their feet wet?
5 simple ways to put your brand in front of millions -
Start a blog
Create a video and post it on YouTube
Podcast, regularly
Make it simple to be Dugg, Furled, posted to del.icio.us, etc.
Write a company description on Wikipedia
