Articles for October 2006
Are you a tabber?
Haha! I was checking out the nice new features that bundled with IE7… no… I’m not talking about the Bloglines plugin that make your browser an RSS reader - I’m talking about the ‘lil Quick Tabs feature beside all the tabs.
Fancy the features your Mac friends have when they hit a key on their [...]
Fortune 500 Blog Review: The Hershey Company
I thought of doing one Fortune 500 Blog Review a day, but since I’m in the momentum, I might as well get another review done. Up next.. sweeet The Hershey Company!
Company Website
The Hershey’s website is beautiful! Lots of nice pictures, kids, fun, and guess the base color of the theme? *Duh* [...]
Fortune 500 Blog Review: Capital One
Since this is my first Fortune 500 blogs review, I’ll just type anything and everything I do and observed as I make my journey to unravel any blogging business in Capital One or the lack of.
Capital One Website. Front page - no sign of the word blog. Searched “blog” … The reply was [...]
The Fortune 500 Blogs Project
Finally, I’m more or less done with the miscellaneous stuff I have to settle, and I can get started on the work for the Fortune 500 Blogs Project. I came by this project after surfing on to Business BlogWire and the author Easton was asking for volunteers for a corporate blogging group project.
So I [...]
Modelling the Experts for Success
I spent some time in the past few days looking around and modelling from the best blogs out there in the blogosphere, and made tweaks to this blog to model after these professional bloggers.
Look and Feel
I’ve made the titles bigger, and changed the font, so they stand out more from the text itself - well, [...]
Internet Explorer 7
Internet Explorer 7 is launched, with a new look, tabbed browsing, improved printing (now you don’t get off the page printouts like before), RSS reader, better security, and more…
And if you haven’t read my previous post about designing your blogs to be W3C compliant, and its implications with the release of IE7, then its time [...]
Googlebot Activity Reports, and Crawl Rate Control
The Official Google Webmaster Central Blog announced three days ago about a new feature in their Webmaster Tools - Googlebot Activity Reports, and Crawl Rate Control.
The Googlebot Activity Reports show the bot’s activity for the past 90 days, listing down the number of pages crawled per day, number of kilobytes downloaded per day, and the [...]
How Valuable is Original and Quality Content?
Today, with more and more individuals making their way online to make money, there is a HUGE demand for good content. Afterall, it is a good content that draws readers back to a website every day. People search online for information - information that is useful for their own use.
Fortunately or unfortunately, the [...]
Now that CEOs are blogging, what is the role for PRs?
I came by this article this morning: The role of PR in CEO blogging.
The question posed:
Should PR stay completely out of the picture when the CEO starts a blog for public consumption? Or should PR be an element in planning how and what the CEO blogs?
My personal thoughts on this are much similar [...]
Keep Blogging, Keep Talking
I think one of the key challenges faced by bloggers is that they run out of things to blog eventually. That happened to me before when I was working on my other blogs.
I followed MicroPersuasion.com today and he brought me to an article on the OrlandoSentinel - Keep those Weblogs Crackling.
The key [...]
Tan Kian Ann is blog marketer based in Singapore. He now works with individuals and small businesses reach out to the world using blogs. 

