The Inc.com article below noted that Groove founder/CEO Ray Ozzie has posted a blurb on Personal Website and Weblog Guidelines for employees. Looks reasonable to me.

“A number of people at Groove have started blogs, and I’m really trying to encourage more to do the same. The more we live it, the more that we’ll [...]

In the July issue of Inc. Magazine’s Inc.com: Blogging for Business: Blogging has been popular with teens, geeks, and flamboyant extroverts for years, but today, they’re garnering more attention from businesses as a way to connect with customers and prospects.

“What makes a good b-blog? The best are lively, relevant, straightforward, and, though informal, relatively well-written. [...]

Encouraging Accountability through Personal Publishing
by Anil Dash from Six Apart, the company behind Movable Type and the new TypePad.

“There’s an increasing sense today that many of our most powerful institutions have become disconnected from the ordinary citizens they are supposed to represent. From questions about the accuracy and bias of the media to concerns over [...]

Ciceron CEO Andrew Eklund: A Daring Voice: Fighting the “blah, blah, blahs”

Since my article on blogging appeared in last month’s newsletter I’ve talked with many folks about what’s truly possible when it comes to organizations being “able” to have anything other than a purely impersonal corporate voice. Almost to an organization I found that [...]

I’m thrilled to announce that David Bly, DFL opponent to Republican Representative Ray Cox in last fall’s District 25B House race here in MN, will soon have a weblog.

His old web site will eventually be mothballed in favor of a new site at DavidBly.com.

Bly has not formally announced whether he’ll challenge Cox in the 2004 [...]

A site called Up2Speed (“The single source for no-nonsense Internet marketing news (formerly MarketingFix) “) has a weblog category devoted to weblogs as marketing tools that’s done well.

They’ve also just launch a free I-Blog Discussion List moderated by Rick Bruner, longtime Internet marketing guru. It’s focus: “How to Use a Weblog to Connect With Customers.” [...]

The Guardian: Parliament goes wireless for bloggers’ summit

ZDNet UK: Weblogs help create a political hot spot

From the MarketingProfs web site: 5 Key Questions (You�ve Been Dying) To Ask About Business Blogs

In the Wall St. Journal’s online section for entrepreneurs called Startup Journal: Online Journals Can Help Slash Marketing Costs

The same article appeared in the May issue of INC magazine: Blogging for Dollars: Blogs may be the cheapest way to communicate with your customers.

Today’s NY Times has a piece on Blogs in the Workplace and focuses on internal use of weblogs at larger organizations. One manager sees it as a tool for reducing his internal email.