Managing the Gray – Positive Advice That Everyone Can Use to Succeed

When I first read that Bill Marriott was going to be blogging I wanted to wait and see if he really would be.

Sure, everything is still overly formal and most likely run by PR people before posting, but today’s post about the bombing of one of their hotels really showed me that they realize why a blog exists and how to use it. Now I hope they take the next step and add podcasting. A message such as this would have been even more open and truthful hearing it straight from the man himself.

Kudos Marriott and continuing forward. If you need help to take it to the next level feel free to contact me. I’d love to help. *grin*

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I read about this 2000 Blogger idea that Tino was up to and I loved the idea. Totally open. See who is paying attention to the conversation and open to everyone to join in. Total insanity, but fun to look through and recognize faces and discover new ones. Is it wrong to discover a blog simply from an interesting photo? I don’t think so. Can you find me?

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I get asked this question all the time and the honest answer is that I don’t know. *grin* Sure, I find lots of them and explore whenever possible, but I don’t create landmarks everwhere to return later. That’s part of the fun of exploring.

But, I got thinking about this and wanted a way to share places of interest with other people. Some I might work with. Others just might be friends looking for new places to visit.

Thanks to a cool new tool called BlogHUD this is going to be easy to do.

Koz Farina has developed this tool that you wear in Second Life. Anytime I find something of interest that I want to blog about I just type a command and my blog entry and it posts it to Cleon Goff’s BlogHUD. Not only does it post what I typed up, but it embeds a SLurl on the fly and integrates with the map so that you can easily visit. On top of this it’s even got a feed if you want it.

It’s still in BETA and I haven’t been using it as much as I should, but now I will be much more often. This combined with things like my SL Stats watch and the social networking is emerging.

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So says Jason Calacanis.

It sounds a bit harsh. Perhaps he should say “Blog or Quit!”, but no matter how you say it he is right.

Companies, both big and small, must realize that the world around them has changed. Your customers/consumers are going to have the conversation with or without you. So, why not step up and be part of the conversation?

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