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Drumroll Please....Blogs 2004 is Here!

As soon as you can, check out www.blogs2004.com.  That's the place where we have agreggated all the top trends, charts, lists and more from 2004.  The charts rock, and our entire team here at Intelliseek -- including those at our suberb Pittsburgh-based Advanced Research Center (ARC) -- put a great deal of passion and expertise into these year end summary charts.  Some of my favorites:

Seven Deadly Sins

Social Networks

E-mail Options

Top Video Files Shared in 2004

Another Blog 2004 Webinar - Don't Miss It!

Back by popular demand.  We're going to schedule a "make-up" webinar this coming Tuesday, December 21, from 4-5 PM.  Sign up here.   Here's a preview clip from Intelliseek analysts Andrew Ferrigno on why blogs were so important in 2004.  Download AndrewSpeaks.wav

12/16 Webinar - 2004 Data Parade

Here's the fun stuff -- a tally of blog data based on careful, systematic analysis of over 3.4 million blogs on BlogPulse.   This is the underbelly of so-called consumer-generated media, or simply put, buzz.  Please let us know if you have any questions.  You can provide comments below.

12/16 Webinar - 2004 Blog Trends

The following slides provide a glimpse of some of the key trends in 2004 related to blogs, from politics to general media coverage.  Again, this is just a short list.  Some of this content can also be reviewed on our BlogPulse CampaignRadar site.  Please use the comment button if you have questions.

12/16 Webinar - Blogs 101

These slides provide a very basic overview of the blog space.  What is a blog?  Why they matter?  Who's using blogs?  We have much, much more -- and again, please use BlogPulse as a resource, but this should get you started.

12/16 Blog Webinar - Intro Slides

Thes slides provide a basic overview of the speaker and Intelliseek.  You can check out the speakers bio here.  As for Intelliseek, we provide technology and services to help marketers promote and protect brands through measurement and analysis of online buzz and word-of-mouth – also known as Consumer-Generated Media (CGM) -- as expressed through online boards, forums, communities, blogs, search engine results, and direct company feedback. Intelliseek manages one of the web’s largest blog portals, BlogPulse.com, and has headquarters in Cincinnati and an Applied Research Center in Pittsburgh.

Today's Webinar

Apologies for the technical difficulties today.  We will schedule a make up in the next few days for those seeking to see the actual "visuals" of the presentation.  We will also post links to the site.  In the meantime you may want to review some of our 2004 summary data from our politics data.

Also, we encourage you to check out our favorite blog link of the day.  Happy holidays.

Blogs - 2004 In Review

This is the official resource guide for our last webinar of the year entitled "2004 in Review -- Blogs."  This is our fifth major webinar on blogs this year, and we hope its our best.  Please consider this blog (yes, we like to "walk the talk") an easy reference guide for getting smart fast about the evolving world of blogs.  We include links to sites we reference,  as well as quick links to many of the charts and graphs we'll cover in the presentation.  Feel free to post a thought or question, or to even disagree with something we said during the webinar.  Enjoy.

Blog Prediction

I recently started writing a column for ClickZ targeted to Chief Marketing Officers (CMO).  My column this morning focused on 2005 predictions, and my opening prediction talked about the blogophere.  Here's a link and a recap of my comment. 

Blogs absorb flak, yet stay on track. Expect 2005 to open with a predictable slew of fashionably righteous articles de-hyping and pooh-poohing all things blog related, some even by bloggers themselves. Many will lament advertisers co-opting the medium, as well as the influx of clumsy, less savvy newbies in the blogosphere. Even so, the blog format will endure and grow, quickly advancing to a powerful rich-media context, punctuated by surprising new capabilities, such as podcasting (define).

Publishers, site managers, and even message board managers will embrace (or in some cases, begrudgingly capitulate to) RSS (define). Big brands and their sites will find the "add water and stir" nature of blog publishing tools irresistible. That will humble overpriced agencies that view platforms such as TypePad and Movable Type as more evil than outsourcing.