5 mistakes your company blog should avoid.
“Blogs are about people talking with other people – not a time for corporate speak. Dull, dull, dull. Show some passion about what you do. Engage your reader – don’t write at them.”
A Roundup for “Developers, Developers, Developers…
“…a compilation of products that developers may find useful.”
Clear Blogging: How People Blogging Are Changing the World and How You Can Join Them
“Almost overnight, blogging has become a social, political, and business force to be reckoned with. Your fellow students, workers, and competitors are joining the blogosphere—and making money, influencing elections, getting hired, growing market share, and having fun—to the tune of 8,000 new bloggers a day.”
“…a new application for the Mac OS X that lets you visualize and organize your computer activities like never before. Slife observes your every interaction with applications such as Safari, Mail and iChat and keeps tracks of all web pages you visit, emails you read, documents you write and much more.”
“Being at a fairly small company, most everybody plays several different roles that would justify several different titles. Naturally, we all have our primary role, but that only covers about 75% of what each of us does.”
“The first rule about the Arepa Cabal is that you don’t explain what the Arepa Cabal is.”
“The act of pimpin’ products, on the other hand, never involves any kind of questionable tactics. Pimpin’ means putting your product’s best foot forward. Accen-tuate the pos-it-ive. It means not shirking from self-promotion, and shouting your product’s position, features and benefits loud and clear.”
Research Is a Method, Not a Methodology
“Like other tools in the designer’s toolbox, research should be used only when necessary, not applied to every project unthinkingly.”