On being bald and video blogging
	Oops... my Bill Gates April Fool's joke
	Join me at the ContentBiz Summit in NYC on May 8-9, 2006
	More advance praise for The Corporate Blogging Book

On being bald, speaking platform skills and video blogging

By Debbie Weil

The topic of this issue came to me in a light-bulb moment.

I figured what the heck.

I've got nearly 18,000 wonderful subscribers. You're one of them and you're probably sitting at your desk right this very moment wondering WHEN the next issue of WordBiz Report is going to pop into your inbox.

Well, here it is!

OK, just kidding. Or... jk, jk, jk as my daughter writes me in her emails.

But the topic of this issue is a bit... odd. If it's even a topic.

Read my blog entry on Using video clips in your blog. It's my riff on how a video featuring the theme music from the 1976 movie Rocky is an incredibly effective marketing tool. And why it's too bad I'm not bald and BIG.

And how terrific the speaking coach I'm working with is. Her name is Clarice Scriber and she's a former corporate speechwriter.

And...

Go to the blog for heaven's sake.

More...

My Bill Gates April Fool's joke

I was feeling kind of frisky on Saturday morning April 1st (April Fool's Day here in the U.S.) so I posted the following entry to my blog:

Bill Gates hires me for CEO blog coaching and to ghostwrite his blog

Then I emailed the link to a bunch of family members and some colleagues. Within minutes I was getting messages back like:

"OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU JUST SCORED THE BIGGEST EXEC CEO WHALE OUT THERE!!!!!!!!!!"

That's a verbatim message (including every exclamation point) from a friend who happens to be a general manager of a Fortune 1000 company. He tends to be enthusiastic about things. But you get the picture.

People believed me and within minutes the link was making its way - erroneously - around the blogosphere.

That got me to thinking.

A few days later I posted another entry:

My prediction: 2006 will be the year of questioning credibility of the blogosphere

Follow the link above for my riff on credibility in the blogosphere. How to sniff it out, when to doubt, what it means for business, etc.

Yes, I do offer CEO and senior exec blog coaching
To get started, call me direct at +1 202.333.2022 or email me at debbie.weil@gmail.com and put "CEO or Senior Exec Blogger Wanna-be" in the subject line.

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More advance praise for The Corporate Blogging Book

One piece of the publishing puzzle I've enjoyed has been soliciting advance mini-reviews to print on the book jacket. I ended up with 13 "blurbs" as the publisher calls them. That's too many to fit on the back of the jacket.

So I'm hoping there will be an extra page at the front of the book for "More advance praise."

Here are two of my favorite blurbs that you *will* find on the back jacket, when the book is published on August 3, 2006:

Oh, and you can pre-order The Corporate Blogging Book on Amazon. Why not be the first in your office. Your company. Your city. Heck, your country. http://tinyurl.com/gay3m

UK edition of The Corporate Blogging Book
BTW, a UK edition of the book is coming out in September. Here's the Amazon UK order page.

Be among the first and I'll sign your copy. (You ship me the book with return postage. I'll send it back.)

Warm regards,

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