I am happy to announce that Francois Gossieaux is the third member of our “BlogBridge Experts” panel.
He has agreed to contribute his collection of recommended Marketing and PR blogs. Francois of course was the Chief Marketing Officer of eRoom Technology, which is where we met. Here are Francois’ recommended list of the very best blogs about marketing and PR:
Marketing
PR
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We are adding a very cool new feature, SmartFeeds. (You can try phase 1 of it in our most recent, paint-still-wet weekly version 1.6.)
With SmartFeeds, you can automaticallyscour the blogosphere for information of various kinds based on your criteria, depending what you are interested in. SmartFeeds tap into the capabilities of different public services like Technorati, Feedster, Del.Icio.us, Findory, and Flickr to deliver information directly into BlogBridge.
An example: Create a Flickr SmartFeed for images about “rock”. What you get is generated by Flickr and is a really cool collection of photographs from around the world with Rock as a tag. It could be “bonaire”, “nature”, “red” or any other tag you come up with.
Play with it. It isn’t done yet, but it’s working enough for you to tell us what you think!
N.B. Of course a slightly sophisticated user could do this ‘by hand’ because each of the services is generating an rss feed and we are displaying it like we would any other feed. BlogBridge is for the non-technical user who more than likely has never heard of any of these services.
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The most common question I get from blogging newbies is “where do I find blogs?” BlogBridge actually includes a collection of blogs and feeds that we think people will find useful starting points.
When you create a new Guide, a list is provided of Feeds that you could use to put into your Guide. Click on the box below “Choose some feeds to put into this Guide” and you will see a bunch of collections. I am sure you will find something of interest!
This is where you will find the Feed collections from our BlogBridge topic experts as well
There’s a similar suggestion button when you click “Subscribe to a Feed”, as well as when you first install the product. We are always adding and editing the lists to be the best of the best as far as we know.
If you have suggestions, please send them in!
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So, here it is, finally in its glory. We hope you like it and find it most informative.
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Mark Johnson, from hotelchatter.com, agreed to become a BlogBridge Expert on travel. His first top 5 recommendations for travel blogs, which can be selected by creating a new feed in BlogBridge (or if you only want a few, you can drag and drop the link below on your BlogBridge reader) are:
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Bill Ives (here), over at Portals and KM (here), agreed to become a BlogBridge expert on KM.
Bill Ives is a writer and consultant in knowledge management, blogs, and other uses of technology to support busiens processes. He was recently the knowledge management practice lead for the Human Performance Service line within Accenture and is the co-author, with Amanda Watklington, of Business Blogs: A Practical Guide.
Of course, and if you are running BlogBridge, you can just go to create a new feed and Bill’s feeds will be available there as well (or if you only want a few, you can drag and drop the link below on your BlogBridge reader).
The KM blogs which he recommends are:
[Technorati Tags: KM portals]
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Michael Feldman over at Dowbrigade has a great post on what we’re doing here at BlogBridge (here - you’ll need to scroll a little since I could not find the permalink, but it a delightful blog anyway).
“…it took us a while to discover the utility of moving feeds into channels and groups, but now it seems second nature. There are suggested sample groupings to get beginners started, pre-packaged packets of feeds, which you can easily modify by adding and dropping feeds.”
Michael is also one of the first people to agree to become a BlogBridge Expert! We will make a series of announcements on that topic pretty soon.
Thank you Michael!
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Thank you for stopping by - you must have read about this on my other blog (here).
In the spirit of participating in “market conversations” (after all, I was one of the very early cluetrain manifesto signatories) I have been tinkering with the idea of moving away from the “traditional” corporate web site metaphor and towards a more “conversational” web site for awhile - and finally decided to try out it with BlogBridge. I am sure I am not the first one to come up with this, but if you have some cycles to look around, I would really appreciate the feedback. The new and experimental site still has some technical issues and lacks the “in-depth” content for now (and some broken links), but you should be able to get the gist of what we’re trying to do and tell us what your initial reaction is.
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The most common question I get from blogging newbies is “where do I find blogs?” BlogBridge actually includes a collection of blogs and feeds that we think people will find useful starting points.
When you create a new Guide, a list is provided of Feeds that you could use to put into your Guide. Click on the box below “Choose some feeds to put into this Guide” and you will see a bunch of collections. I am sure you will find something of interest!
There’s a similar suggestion button when you click “Subscribe to a Feed”, as well as when you first install the product. We are always adding and editing the lists to be the best of the best as far as we know. If you have suggestions, please send them in!
Technorati Tags: blogbridge, RSS
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Dear users,
During the last couple of days we’ve received several reports about the problems with restoration of read states of articles. The problem appears after migration from older versions to new weekly 1.5. Yes, we are aware of this problem and wish to say sorry for any inconveniences.
Any article in application is identified with unique key. We store these keys for read articles on the service when you do “synchronize – out” operation. In version 1.5 the keys generation algorithm has been changed because of new (improved) memory model (you could already notice reduced application footprint which in some cases up to 30% lower than before). The improvements lead to slightly incompatible keys and that’s why not all articles after “synchronize – in” operation right after migration procedure were marked as read as it was expected.
I made everything to express that as clear as I can, but I guess that it will be hard for non-techies to get it right. In short, after saving new state to the service everything should run fine again. And also we will try to avoid such confusions in the future – it was jus a necessary step.
Please fill free to report anything you see going wrong. The messages like this is our means to answer all of you at once and clear things up before you get completely confused and decide to leave us.
Stay tuned!
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