Business Blogs Need a Sense of Humor

Posted by Marshall on May 28, 2006 | Link It

B.L. Ochman has an article in NY Metro soon about Business Blogs needing a sense of humor (I’m not sure when it actually is going to be published- but I do read NY Metro on my way to work often).   Here’s her blog post (below)

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Paul Berger interviews me today about corporate blogging (page 4) in Metro New York, the free paper given out all over the city. It’s also the biggest newspaper in the world, Berger says, with 61 daily Metro editions in 88 major cities in 19 countries in 18 languages across Europe, North & South America and Asia.

What’s the idea behind Ethics Crisis?

Ethics Crisis was created to promote SRF Global Translations, which specializes in translating ethics compliance and marketing materials for multinational corporations. …we decided to focus on global buisness ethics issues in the blog, providing news, information and resources about translations and ethics compliance. I also added a weird, fun features allowing anonymous confessions of the worst thing people have evver done in business and letting readers rate and comment on the confessions. Bingo!

"Any advice for business owners about blogging?"

Everyone and her dog already has a blog. Make sure you have a good reason to start and sustain a blog. And make it fun. Make your customers smile. Laugh even. … Hardly any bloggers have any sense of humor.



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05/28/06 @ 5:02 pm

She says, “Hardly any bloggers have any sense of humor.” Her comment seems highly inaccurate and slightly offensive.



05/28/06 @ 11:57 pm

Lighten up. Nearly all the business blogs I read at least occasionally interject humor.



05/31/06 @ 1:21 pm

I subscribe to Whatsnextblog and have quoted and met B.L. Ochman in NY this year at Search Engine Strategies (and interviewed her).  Now a fellow Know More Media blogger has a great interview of B.L.Ochman in her blog A-List-Review. Diane Ens…



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