Executive Update

The Pitfalls of Corporate Blogging

Posted August 14, 2007 | Leadership | Technology | Leadership |

"How big are blogs?" asked BusinessWeek back in 2005. "Try Johannes Gutenberg out for size. His printing press, unveiled in 1440, sparked a publishing boom and an information revolution" [1]. To compare blogs with Gutenberg's invention of moveable type is, perhaps, mildly hyperbolic. A blog is more of a literary style than a new form of information technology, and the World Wide Web itself bears much more conceptual resemblance to the printing press than do blogs.

About The Author
Mark Choate
Mark S. Choate is an author and Senior Consultant for Transparensee Systems, a company specializing in search and discovery tools that provide fuzzy matching, faceted search, data visualization, and free text search. He is the author of Professional Wikis. Prior to joining Transparensee, Mr. Choate was cofounder of The Choate Group; a lecturer at Georgetown University's Communication, Culture, and Technology (CCT) graduate program; and former VP… Read More
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