It has become popular for businesses and companies of all types to express interest in creating a business blog so that they can better communicate with other companies, their customers, and a variety of other target markets out there. By looking at what corporate blogs are doing it right, and which need a little push, a new corporate blogger can get a better feel for how to obtain corporate blogging success right out of the gate. By scouring the internet for good corporate blogs and taking note of what makes them great, you can make decisions about your own corporate blog and act accordingly. Here is a small list of excellent corporate blogs that we feel are “doing it right”. This list is by no means exhaustive, as there are hundreds of excellent corporate blogs out there, but these are well worth noting.

- The GM Smallblock Engine Blog, which can be found at http://smallblock.gmblogs.com/. Though this blog is currently under construction, it normally offers plenty of insight into the GM company and its products, as well as news within the industry.

- The Ford Motor Company Blog, which can be found at http://blog.ford.com/index.cfm?resetcountry=false. The Ford Motor Company blog offers excellent insight into the industry.

- The Xbox Live blog, which can be found at http://www.majornelson.com/blog/blog.html. This is an unofficial blog for Xbox Live and the gaming industry, but is still well worth checking out.

- The Maytag Skybox Blog, which can be found at http://www.maytag.com/page.jsp?name=homepage.

- The Ofoto blog which is offered by Kodak, which can be found at http://www.kodakgallery.com/Welcome.jsp and is used to get feedback and resolve issues relating to a new beta Mac application called Brownie.

- Perception Analyzer, which can be found at http://perceptionanalyzer.typepad.com/, offering a nice mix of blog entries on their product, along with information and news for their target audience and other readers.

- BPlans Blog, which can be found at http://bplans.typepad.com/blog/, is an excellent blogging extension of the BPlans.com website which is owned by Palo Alto.

- 800 CEO Read blog, which is found at http://800ceoread.com/blog/, and gives excellent reviews on the business books that the CEO Read website sells, giving the blogs’ target audience excellent insight into which business books are well worth picking up and more importantly, why.

This collection of corporate blogs is an excellent selection of blogs from a multitude of different industries. By looking at this list of blogs, you should be able to tell that any company within any industry can create a solid, popular and informative corporate blog. If you are looking to create your own corporate blog, then looking at other corporate blogs within your chosen industry will be a large help, hopefully granting you enough inspiration to come up with your own unique idea for an informative corporate blog.

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Originally posted 2009-01-09 05:42:47. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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