Business Blogging

I started blogging about a year and a half ago and have watched the world of blogs grow and continue. They say about 40,000 more blogs are started every day and the whole thing is exploding. With that kind of growth there is no way to keep track of the whole thing and see what is going on. <br />n<br />nBlogging started out as personal than moved into the political realm very quickly and now I see that businesses are starting to look at it.<br />n<br />n<a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_18/b3931001_mz001.htm?campaign_id=rss_magzn" target="_new">Blogs Will Change Your Business</a><br />n<br />nBusiness Week has a cover story this week about the blogging phenomenon and how businesses could start using it. Interesting, a whole new arena of blogs exploding out. I found the article very interesting since how business utilizes this phenomena will be new territory for many. I am sure there will be many misstep's but a lot of interesting things to come.<br />n<br />nThey also have a second story that is an online extra which is <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_18/b3931007_mz001.htm?campaign_id=rss_magzn" target="_new">Six Tips for Corporate Bloggers</a>. I read this and thought these same rules should be used by the hard-core political bloggers that are only around to push one candidate, and maybe even being paid for it.<br />n<br />n<blockquote>No. 1: Train Your Bloggers<br />nNo. 2: Be Careful with Fake Blogs<br />nNo. 3: Track Blogs<br />nNo. 4: PR Truly Means Public Relations<br />nNo. 5: Be Transparent<br />nNo. 6: Rethink Your Corporate Secrets</blockquote><br />n<br />nYou look at these and they could easily apply to hard-core political bloggers to. As we've seen here in Montana these types of people are trying to run roughshod over everybody but they should stop that and look at these good rules to follow and people would trust them more when at least they are telling the truth. Oh well, the world just doesn't work that way. Lie, cheat and steal is the way it's done in politics which is why I get so frustrated with the whole thing. Democrats or Republicans are no different. Thier agendas might be different but they both go about them in dishonest ways. <br />n<br />nHopefully businesses will get this whole blogging thing right. I doubt it though. Most of the time it seems like they think lying is the way to go too. Then they wonder why people don't trust them anymore than they do politicians. Nobody trusts, or likes, a liar.<br />n<br />n<b>The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. Samuel Butler</b>