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The four-letter "b" word

Many organizations want to jump into the "new web" waters. But they are afraid of "the B word."

It’s a geeky word. An ugly sounding word - blog. Blog. It sounds rude.

It’s short of course for "web log" but we Internet types shorten everything so we’re stuck with it as a term. But relax. It’s not rocket science. It’s not complete geekery. A blog is simply a site full of stories / snippets / information. It usually allows comments and is casual in tone and lists items in chronological order.

That’s it. Nothing to be afraid of.

Maybe your CEO doesn’t think they know how to “blog.” But they probably know how to type and be open and honest.

Sometimes getting a project off the ground is as much about selling it internally as it is about making it work externally. Avoid the jargon words and you’ll change a lot of people’s minds and allay their concerns.

What R U doing?

More evidence of the shrinking of content: You can now blog using text messages. It's called Twitter and it attempts to answer a simple question: What are you doing?

You can even monitor what others around the world are doing right now using Twittervision.