Comments on: Evidence of the Value of a Blog

By: Antalya

Antalya — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:39:29 +0000

The real benefit of a blog to the masses is the fact that they are simple to use and understand. Blogs are an easy way to get online, the rest is only as good as the person on the keys.

By: Julie White

Julie White — Wed, 28 May 2008 16:38:24 +0000

Congratulations Andrew! Your blog deserves this high honor.

I found your blog from the Sloan article and have been an avid reader ever since. I linked to your blog on my own blog and have an active RSS feed so I can always see what’s new. (http://juliemwhite.spaces.live.com/) Once, I read through your blog and became inspired to start an open discussion on LinkedIN where many people debated topics from your blog. This was a great debate and I enjoyed many of the questions and answers from the discussion. (http://www.linkedin.com/answers/career-education/occupational-training/CAR_OCT/206827-5395894?browseIdx=4&sik=1211992373215&goback=%2Eamq ) Thank you for continuing to inspire the world!

PS – I always wanted to go to a big university, but I could never even dream of affording it. I adopted a child when I was only 18 because of her story and it put me in a situation where schooling became a lesser priority than putting food on the table Â– TODAY! I am so excited to have the opportunity to feel like I am passively continuing my education by being an active reader. Thank you for teaching the world. You have made a big impact on my life.

By: Iain Goosebumps Horrorland Simmons

Iain Goosebumps Horrorland Simmons — Fri, 23 May 2008 16:51:15 +0000

Congratulations Andrew! What a nice company you’re in…I assume you’ve met in person at least half of these people, havent you? And you’ve got good neighbours in the list – Tim Berners-Lee is 35th and Marc Andreessen 45th…I do remember days prior to emerging WWW – first Mosaic browser, X-Windows on our Free BSD (or was it BSDi one?) machine, pre-ICQ days of chatting via “talk” and so on.

By: Mouse Cursors

Mouse Cursors — Tue, 20 May 2008 00:15:12 +0000

holy cow, you’re ahead of Mark Suckabugler and Jack Ma! awesome.

I’ve also always thought that large scale projects in enterprise could function much much better through use of some of the things that make the web so great – wiki’s, forums, and blogs.

wiki – imagine ppl on the project could collaborate and post up known solutions to common problems faced on the project… how to setup your pc, how to connect to the lan, what to do when hit problem x y z, etc.,

forum – ppl on forums often feel like that are part of a community, imagine being on a project where you had that same feeling.

blogs – would love to read the project manager’s blog on how they perceive the project to running, complete with comments and Q&A from project members.

Enterprise 2.0 – wish I could have coined that up! :p

By: build a bear

build a bear — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:06:16 +0000

i started reading your blog from Feb and untill now, i’m satisfied with the content and i wish i could write like you…you’re one of my best mentor so far, being the center reference for enterprise 2.0

By: Auctions

Auctions — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:45:34 +0000

Blogs are in fact very much like regular run of the mill websites, there are good ones and bad ones. A blog is nothing more than a conduit for information and that is where the real value lies. The real benefit of a blog to the masses is the fact that they are simple to use and understand. Blogs are an easy way to get online, the rest is only as good as the person on the keys.

By: Overland Park Real Estate Expert

Overland Park Real Estate Expert — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 02:47:14 +0000

Congratulations.

I have found blogging to be a very beneficial way to further my business. Not only is it a way to connect with the public, it is also a great way for me to learn from other bloggers. If it were not for blogging, I probably would have never found your articles.

By: Asia'h Epperson

Asia'h Epperson — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:17:42 +0000

Congrats on your great achievement.

I learn a lot about enterprise 2.0 reading your article here. Thank you.

By: Anand Sharma

Anand Sharma — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 05:07:16 +0000

I am one of the many who religiously visits your site, Prof. McAfee. Why? I am an IT Architect/E2.0 Evangelist in Cisco Sytems whose sole goal in professional life for the moment is to understand and clearly document “usage patterns” that a company like Cisco can learn from and cherry pick to apply both internally (within our firewall, amongst its 60k employees) and externally (with our channel partners and customers).

I read you, Mike Gotta (from Burton Group) and a few Forrester Analysts quite regularly. I am also currently reading Charlene Li’s book – “Groundswell” – in hopes that it will help me craft my presentation deck titled “Enterprise 2.0 Usage Patterns” (kinda like Gang-of-Four’s Design Patterns)

Would love to hear from you on how you think I should proceed on this.

Anand

By: Paul Carruthers

Paul Carruthers — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:52:54 +0000

Congratulations – 38th most influential person in IT, a great achievement.

In general businesses do not always see the true value of a blog, it can be used in so many different ways to benefit companies.

On the other hand a blog which is not regularly updated or provides little value to the end user is a blog not worth penny.