April 10, 2003

Using RSS for corporate communications

Via Jon Udell I’m happy to see that the PR Industry is starting to preach the value of blogging and the versatility of RSS.

For example, Phil Gomes writes in MediaMap’s ExperPR article:

“Today, companies — and, by extension, the agencies that represent them — can publish their corporate communications content in their online press rooms using RSS-supported, weblog-rooted principles. While perhaps not in widespread use now, the day will come when the online location of a company’s RSS feed will be just as much of a PR proÂ’s email signature file as his or her email address, homepage, and phone number.”

April 9, 2003

Five steps to finding the perfect dog

My wife Catherine stated today what I hope will be an ongoing series of articles about pets. (So please encourage her :-)

The first article outlines the five steps to finding the perfect dog.

Of course she knows this because we found our “perfect” dog, but on top of that she has much more particle experience by volunteering at a shelter and studying canine massage.

April 8, 2003

Blogs, dialogue and identity building

Lilia Efimova nicely pulls together various opinions on how blogs and the dialogs they produce provide a perspective into ones identity not necessarily found in the office.

April 7, 2003

Wi-Fi and cell phones

Martin Cooper, the father of the first cell phone call, has the following to say about Wi-Fi:

“”Wi-Fi is wonderful. It is a superb local area network–what it was designed to do–and it does that very well. When you try to make Wi-Fi cover a wide area, it’s absolutely the worst way to do it. Think about it. In order to cover a city, you need a million sites; we actually did an analysis of that. And every one of them has got to have backhaul. So it turns out it’s neither economical nor practical.” (via cnet)

April 7, 2003

SharePoint Portal to be bundled with Office 2003

I’m not surprised by the following announcement and in my opinion, this could make SharePoint Portal as ubiquitous as Office; if Microsoft can find the pricing sweet-spot.

“Microsoft plans to add its SharePoint business portal software to its Office bundle, as the company looks to broaden the appeal of its desktop software. ” (via cnet)

April 6, 2003

Corporate Portal Single Sign-on via Jabber

Bryan over at SourceID posts about the Jabber + PingID single sign-on solution:

“Single sign-on, from corporate portal website, to 401k provider website, to Jabber window.” (via Doc)

April 5, 2003

BBC Reporters Blog

I’ve been trying to avoid posting about the war, but I just have to say that IMHO the BBC Reporters’ Log has been some of the best reporting about the war.

April 4, 2003

NextDraft Blog

Good news … Dave Pell has turned the NextDraft newsletter into a Blog.

However, it’s a shame that the new blog doesn’t have an RSS feed yet.

April 3, 2003

Outlook 2003 Beta 2

I installed Office 2003 Beta 2 the other day and for the most part I’m very pleased and feel much of the hype is justified.

In particular, I see a lot of potential with the native XML capabilities — especially with respect to InfoPath. Although, I’m puzzled by Microsoft’s recent announcement that InfoPath will not be included as part of the retail Office 2003 “system”.

Otherwise, I think they did an excellent job with the updated visual prioritization of information in Outlook 2003.

April 2, 2003

WiFi Community Networking

“… an innovative project within Linksys. Called the LinkSysCommunity Network, the company will provide fast, powerful and inexpensive solutions for Community LANs.”