Lately, it seems a fair percentage of the time that I travel back from links or Facebook groups I find interesting, they rally back to Jeremiah Owyang at Web Strategist. His posts are always laden with insight and great supportive information and data.
Check this one out on how to be a Corporate Blogging Evangelist - I love his ten tips, particularly # 8 -Define the purpose for your blog
1. Delight your customers (you better say yes)
2. Demonstrate corporate openness
3. Express goodwill
4. Thought leadership
5. Mitigate PR damage risks
6. Control the conversation in your market
7. Develop a product with customers in real time
8. Harness a rapid response tool
9. Casually release products and get feedback
10. Word of mouth marketing
11. Amplify a message
12. Competitive positioning tool
13. Delight your customers
Social Media Zealots
Problogger
Conversational Media Marketing
Greg Verdino
Altitude Branding
The Buzz Bin
Being Peter Kim
The Altimeter
CoBrandit
Web-Strategist
Groundswell