"Most corporate blogging is pretty poor. For the most part it’s slightly reworded press releases put on a blog-styled webpage. A few companies on the other hand break this model such as Lenovo, Sunbelt Software, Sun, and Google’s various blogs (though the official Google blog is rather lame, the product blogs are pretty good as are some prominent Google employees such as Matt Cutts)."

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Anil Dash writes: "I’m here at a technology evangelism event today, and one of the speakers here is Jeremy Zawodny, a long-time Movable Type blogger, one of Yahoo’s most prominent faces in the blogosphere, and a pretty good judge of how to promote things using blogs."

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"The research was carried out among more than 1,600 business executives across 16 European countries, with in excess of 260 responses from the UK. Its results indicate that key business areas – such as employee working methods, as well as customer, supplier and partner collaboration and processes – are neglected and do not meet the needs of a generation that will represent a greater proportion of the workforce by 2010 than people born just after World War II."

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"Consumer-led uses of social networking and "the wisdom of crowds," where the activities of large numbers of other people help dictate your choices, are creeping into enterprise software...And if Wikipedia can tap consumers around the world to compile an encyclopedia, why can't a similar system compile information inside your company, or between your sales force and its prime prospects?"

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"There’s a lot of healthy and well-justified skepticism about the idea of a corporate blogs, even though many of us take the idea for granted. So we spend a lot of time trying to show people how this Business Blogging thing should be done."

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TYPO3 4.0.1 was released to address some bugs as well as make some slight improvements over last April's 4.0 release. The Enterprise content management system contains the following new features and improvements in 4.0.1:

• Compatibility
  • Parameters for showpic can now be disabled
  • FORM submit buttons with images are now valid XHTML
• Installation/Upgrade
  • The TYPO3 upgrade wizard better clarifies the upgrade process and functionality
  • typo3temp/ subdirectories are created automatically now
• DBAL
  • Improved support for Oracle
  • Updated AdoDB to 4.90
• Backend Skin
  • BE admin module provides better support for skins
  • The BE now correctly highlights the current page in IE6.
• Bugfixes
  • Corrected some HTTP status codes
  • Charset for mails works now

The original announcement for TYPO3 4.0.1 can be found here. The page for downloading the new version can be reached by clicking here. Finally, for an additional list of new features that were included in 4.0 you can visit here.

I'm not a TYPO3 user, so I would be glad to hear from any readers who wish to leave comments about this new version of TYPO3 or TYPO3 in general.

"The equity a corporate blogger builds up is portable, in other words. Rather than sticking to the company, it will follow the blogger—even if the blogger heads to a competitor."

-Nicholas Carr, Lessons in Corporate Blogging, BusinessWeek Online