Kyle Lacy had a short post today titled What Business Blogging Is Missing. The general idea is that many corporate blogs are more of a PR pitch trying to sell a product:
If you want to become a thought leader in you industry you need to talk more about What You Do not about your product.
For [...]

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I have talked about the importance of backups before. With YackTrack, I had a planned maintenance outage extend due to database issues. Because I had a database backup, I was more willing to try “something risky”. Magnolia had backups but did not realize that the backups were corrupt or unusable. Prior to the holiday season, [...]

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As you may have guessed, I do not put much personal information on this blog. I have tried to keep this as close to a technical blog as possible, that way it does not lose focus. However, I have been tagged by Mona on the 25 things you may not know about me meme. Given [...]

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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone! I wanted to make sure I led with that in case I forget by the end
Since the year is coming to a close, I wanted to write a post about what was going to happen in the next year. This is not a prediction post on [...]

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I woke up this morning to find some interesting news in my email. XING AG acquired socialmedian. I have been calling for their purchase since late-summer, and have been surprised that it really took this long. The official press release, the socialmedian blog and the XING blog do not list any details of the purchase [...]

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