http://www.ireja.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:11:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en My other, (much) more frequently updated website, Japan Economy News, has been featured by the Japan Times as part of its ongoing blogroll series. The Japan Times has been pretty clued in so far in terms of integrating some elements of Web 2.0 into their website. They are using a Technorati ... http://www.ireja.com/blog/blogosphere/2008/01/10/japan-economy-news-featured-in-the-japan-times/ Ever wish you had a place to submit stories about Japan and vote on them? Now you do. I recently stumbled on JapanSoc, a new site that looks like it's putting a pretty good idea to work. On the site's about page, it simply says, "JapanSoc is a social bookmarking site, ... http://www.ireja.com/blog/business-blogging-resources/2007/12/27/japansoc-a-social-bookmarking-site-focusing-on-japan/ Recently I had someone ask me for some examples of blogs with content focused on Japan that I thought were well done. Two examples came straight to mind: Clast and What Japan Thinks. I think these are two good examples because they have such different styles. Clast is a corporate ... http://www.ireja.com/blog/blogosphere/2007/12/14/around-the-blogosphere-clast-and-what-japan-thinks/ Cnet.com is a rocking site if you're into the latest technology and gadgets. However, Webware, Cnet's little cousin, is one of my favorite places to find out about the latest web-based software and productivity tools. A short while ago, Webware announced the winners of the top 100 Webware sites for 2007. ... http://www.ireja.com/blog/business-blogging-resources/2007/12/03/webware-2007-top-100-web-apps/ At a discussion over lunch today, the topic of Burger King moving back into the Japanese market came up. We were talking about how they would handle the marketing for their second time around, and the question as to whether or not Burger King would make use of "the King" ... http://www.ireja.com/blog/marketing/2007/11/20/burger-king-to-bring-the-king-to-japan/ I included this quote in my previous post: If I had asked my customers what they wanted, they would have said a faster horse. - Henry Ford We all know what a faster horse is, depending on what industry we work in. A 'faster horse' may be an advantage or a small improvement ... http://www.ireja.com/blog/change-grow-and-innovate/2007/11/10/faster-horses-and-identity-perceived/ For most web developers, CGI stands for Common Gateway Interface. It's a way to deliver dynamic content, usually using the Perl programming language. But I've decided to rebrand CGI - as Change, Grow and Innovate. Those are the three concepts behind what we do, and the reasons why we even started ... http://www.ireja.com/blog/business-practices/2007/10/26/cgi/ Seth Godin has given us a (perhaps all-too familiar) list of excuses entitled, "Top ways to defend the status quo." We can read them and laugh a bit to ourselves, but they're still painful to hear in real-life meetings, coming from the voices of real-life members of a firm's 'leadership' ... http://www.ireja.com/blog/business-practices/2007/10/11/how-to-prevent-change-growth-and-innovation/ There are plenty of guides to business blogging out there, but I thought I'd share eleven pointers that I've picked up through my own experience. Following these will put any business blog on the path to success - which we should define as carrying a stable, interested readership. 1. Get personal ... http://www.ireja.com/blog/business-blogging/2007/10/02/11-steps-to-better-business-blogging/ For the inaugural post in the Ireja Transform Your Business Blog, we have a short quiz. No cheating! Question: What do the following people have in common? Bob Parsons - CEO and founder of GoDaddy.com Federico Minoli - CEO and President of Ducati Hu Yoshida - Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Hitachi ... http://www.ireja.com/blog/business-blogging/2007/09/20/what-do-they-have-in-common/