Archive for the 'Corporate Blog' Category

Technorati’s “Top 100 InfoTech” List

Yesterday Technorati’s Commercial Open Source blog page revealed Techorati Authority 424 and membership in the Top 100 Info Tech list, but with a totally different authority (546, see pictures below). Continue reading ‘Technorati’s “Top 100 InfoTech” List’

Online Communication Strategies: POP Workshops

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Robin Good tomorrow will held his first POP Workshop in Rome, an event dedicated to online publishers willing to design and implement an effective communication strategy. Robin Good invited me to share with his attendees my thoughts on personal branding, and I look forward to join the New Media Strategy session along with Italo CilloAndrea Genovese and  Giulio Marsala.

See you there!

Happy Birthday MasterNewMedia!

MasterNewMedia daily online magazine is 10 years old! Congratulations to Robin Good also for passing the one million revenue mark coming from google ads displayed on MasterNewMedia.

Robin keep up with your great work , and I look forward to learn more from you with POP.

Professional Online Publisher Program is Alive and Kicking!

Almost one year ago my friend and mentor Robin Good told me he was working to launch POP, the first online community and learning program of professional web publishers. Now his program is live, the first course is fully booked and being luckily one of his students I am looking forward to learn more things from him.

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Playing more around with WordPress

I keep updating my blog to organize information in a clearer way, and I made some changes just yesterday, while WordPress was stating that WordPress themes are GPL too.

Matteo Ionescu, who originally brought my blog to 2.0 life, helped me to make more cosmetics changes, especially about new and old widgets, and my K2 template today comes with a slightly new look (new ‘top posts’ box, smaller ‘categories’ box, etc).

Comments and feedback are welcome, more is to come soon!

Italian Blogosphere: Piùblog 2008 meet-up

Piu’blog 2008 , arrived this year at its third edition, aims at spreading the Italian blogosphere out of the blogosphere. Piùblog - hold within the the annual fair of the independent Italian publishersPiù libri più liberi” from the 5th of December until today - offered more than 30 different sessions, ranging from Second Life to social media and networks.

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BarCamp: Piùblog 2008, Rome, 5-8 December

Piublog 2008 will take place in Rome 5-8 December within the event “Più libri più liberi” (eng.: more books, more freedom), the annual fair of the independent Italian publishers.

Piublog 2007 was a great venue to meet in person Italian bloggers and influencers, 2008 edition has three different sessions and seems really promising.

Italo Vignoli kindly invited me to talk in his session - Social Life. Friendfeed, Facebook and Myspace, between fun and usefulness -  about my experiences and impressions about corporate blogging, as observer of the International ICT scene. I am looking forward to meet old and new friends to share our vision of the future.

Commercial Open Source Blog: another year in review

Commercial Open Source blog has completed its second year of life, and it is now time for another one year in review post.

I want start saying thanks to my great friend Antonella Beccaria, who generously took good care of my blog for two long years, and my new appointed webmaster Matteo Ionescu, who is bringing my blog to 2.0 life. Last but not least I want to add also my mentor Robin Good to the list of persons I am grateful.

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Web Publishing Fundamentals: Robin Good Launches POP

Robin Good just launched POP, Professional On-line Publisher, an easy way to learn and find out how to setup and maintain a successful web publishing project.

What strikes me as unique is the new approach, a new video-blog to share his experience. On one hand he doesn’t ask anything to share information that is both personal and valuable, offering even more goodies in exchange for your name and email. I asked him on a skype conversation what he is planning to do with his, and he answered:

For now I am planning to use POP only as video sharing venue where I can provide advice, and my personal discoveries about what I have found out to work when you are a professional web publisher. So you should expect more interesting video gifts in the coming weeks, where I will actually show you things that I have never shared with anyone before. Publishing strategy, monetization, marketing. I cover them all.

If you have a company blog you attend, I would suggest you to follow Robin’s initiative. I have learned a lot from him, and if he goes out of his way to share something about online publishing, I think he has something valuable to take away with you.

Technorati Tags: RobinGood, POP, Professional Online Publisher, web publishing

BlogLab, Learn From Bloggers

BlogLab is a laboratory course held by Stefano Epifani and Antonio Sofi at the University of Rome, Faculty of Communication Science. BlogLab introduces students to blogging and how to blog, allowing students to learn by doing through face-to-face and on line discussions with fellows.

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BlogLab is at its second edition, the course aims at helping neo-bloggers to manage their blog with the aid of experienced bloggers for a period of time. A jury will evaluate the works produced, and the winners will eventually get an internship opportunity by selected companies.

Last year 60 students participated to the course, 50 blogs were opened and managed by the students and 7 companies offered an ad hoc internship program.

This year I am going myself to be a fellow instructor, along with many well-known Italian bloggers like my friends Nicola Mattina, Diego Bianchi and Antonio Pavolini who I just met yesterday afternoon when I got there.

Happy blogging!

Technorati Tags: BlogLab, StefanoEpifani, AntonioSofi, NicolaMattina, DiegoBianchi, AntonioPavolini


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Roberto has over 20 years experience in the computer industry, and has spent the last 10 years working in the intersection of open source software and business development. Roberto has taken an active interest in different open source projects and organizations, he also served on some advisory boards, and helped large IT vendors, open source vendors and customers to design and deploy their open source strategies. He works at SourceForge, and opinions expressed here don't necessarily represent employer's positions, strategies, or opinion.