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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. 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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  2. 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...

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

    and a nice cardboard box to sleep in.

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  4. 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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  5. Re:Personal blogging... by SysSupport · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah, a self-licking ice-cream.

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

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

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