Canadian Blogs
In a blogging article for the National Post, Danny Bradbury writes about how “Canadian executives are slow to follow U.S. peers in setting up Web logs” and quotes iUpload, a BBS 05 sponsor, DL Byron and Steve Broback. As Steve predicts, it isn’t going to take long for Canadian blogs to catch up.
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Odd. The questions I was asked pertained to the benefits of blogs and blogging, not about how widely blogging had been accepted in Canada. If they had asked, I would NOT have reinforced any notion that Canada was “behind”. Far from it. Based on my experience with the gang from Vancouver, they are on the leading edge!
Agreed. I didn’t get that interview from the article at all. There’s a Canadian contigent attending the event and I’d like to hear what they have to say.
Hi Steve. Thanks for your comments, and apologies if I misunderstood your hockey stick curve comment in the context of the uptake of blogging in Canada in particular.
For what it’s worth, the analyst I spoke to from Jupiter definitely had the idea that Canadian businesses need to blog more (as expressed in his Quebec anecdote). I’ll be interested to hear what the Canadians attending the event have to say, and how many of them are blogging now vs considering the idea.
What I found interesting was the lack of business bloggers depicted in, say, the New PR Wiki (http://www.thenewpr.com/wiki/pmwiki.php/Resources/CEOBlogsList) compared to US business bloggers. I’m sure this isn’t a complete cross section of the market, of course, but it’s a useful insight into who is blogging. The firms in Canada are tech or PR firms. I wonder when we’ll see more non-tech firms engaging their markets in this way?
Anyway, thanks again for the time you took on the interview. I hope that your event goes well.
Hi — The National Post tends to archive articles after only a couple of days. Next time you may want to make a word file of the article, with full notations.
Cheers,
S
Man that’’s just annoying. Other magazines do the opposite. I hope I saved that myself.
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