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Motivations for Corporate Blogging

Posted by samzenpus on from the blog-for-business dept.

ringfinger writes "Ross Mayfield just posted an interesting blog essay entitled Fear, Greed and Social Software that examines the motivations (Fear and Greed) for corporate blogging. How many slashdotters blog for their companies? Do their companies fear that they might say something embarrasing? Or are they filled with greed for the additional exposure it generates?"

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  1. They fell for a buzzword by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny


    enjoy your website

  2. Re:Personal blogging... by Ziviyr · · Score: 3, Funny

    Blogging is the ultimate vanity... a public diary about "me" that the rest of the worls is just *dying* to read. I mean, really... who wouldn't want to know what I had for breakfast this morning?

    Yeah yeah, but what about your ongoing internal struggle about choosing which different wattages of lightbulbs to buy?

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    Someone set us up the bomb, so shine we are!
  3. Re:Personal blogging... by NineNine · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah yeah, but what about your ongoing internal struggle about choosing which different wattages of lightbulbs to buy?

    You're absolutely right... the world needs to know! I am *that* important, that the rest of the planet is hanging on my every word. Now, let me tell everybody about my last trip to the bathroom...

  4. Will blog for food by Timesprout · · Score: 2, Funny

    and a nice cardboard box to sleep in.

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    Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
    What truth?
    There is no dupe
  5. My blog by mrselfdestrukt · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hello. Today is stardate 26-05-2005

    I work for a large company. We are greedy, we steal and we overprice our products.
    Today I had meetings about how we can enter other markets by utilizing our evil techniques.
    I also tried to get a gmail account, but my name was already taken.
    Tomorrow I will think of a new way to charge customers for all the security holes in our software. An antivirus combined with spyware-removal tool updated daily by my company maybe? hmm. I like that. I hope nobody reads these blogs. That's all for today

    William Gates.

    PS: I hate this FSCKING "confirm your not a script"!

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    "I used to have that really cool,funny sig ,but it got stolen."
  6. Re:Bloggin' for the Man by tomhudson · · Score: 1, Funny
    You can smell them a mile away.

    Atroturfer blogger:

    Well, we've got this new product in dev., its going to be sooo cool, bhah blah blah, I just had to let you in on some of the advanced features blah blah blah
    Real-life
    The fucking morons where I work REALLY nead to get a clue. The stooopid lazy bastards ... I swear, their vcr is stuck at 12:00, they can't make change for a $20 without using a calculator, but put them in front of a PC and they're suddenly smart? Fuck them, they want to open attachments, I'm signing them up to a dozen farm-sex pr0n sites. "Gee, sorry, guy ... I *told* ya not to click on attachments ..."
  7. Comedy, not tragedy? by AussieVamp2 · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can always be read and cause tres amusement though :-

    Hi,

    I'm bobDrone from NoNewsHereCorp, blogging for all you funsters today.

    Today I'd like to tell you about why its great that we own everything but the radio stations in this city.

    Fantastic news though, PoliticoBot approved our purchase of all the radio station, so everything you see, hear and read will now be produced by NoNewsHereCorp.

    I of course, will be having cheese at my lunchbreak (which is now) so blog to you later happy joy NNHC readers!

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    Not Free SF Reader
  8. Re:Personal blogging... by SysSupport · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, a self-licking ice-cream.

  9. Re:corporate 'greed' by NewStarRising · · Score: 2, Funny

    sounding ridiculous has never been a block to legislation/litigation.

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  10. Re:Personal blogging... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    So the "community" ends up being a bunch of people patting themselves on the back.

    You mean like this thread?