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The beauty of WordPress is the endless available plugins. The challenge for bloggers is to chose the best: the ones that save you time, while making you more effective and increasing your blog’s attractiveness to readers.

Harsh economic times require effective corporate blogging. The FT ComMetrics Blog Index addresses these issues, evaluating corporate blogs to help improve blogging effectiveness through best practices to follow.

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We provide the intelligence and benchmark data about Fortune 500 or FT Global 500 corporate blogs. Here we explain how the list of blogs were compiled – make sure your firm’s blogs are included in the list by adding a URL in a comment. The index will be published May 13 in the FT.

Economic turmoil, wars and poverty all feature prominently in the World Economic Forum’s Agenda 2009, but will delegates move forward on finding possible solutions to important issues? Read about the navel-gazing going on in Davos, Switzerland.

The current financial crisis illustrates that using social communities to improve your bottom line is a great idea. While it is too late for Waterford Wedgewood, Scotiabank’s social media efforts seem to be flaundering and need a real shake up to be rescued from the brink of disaster. In the age of distraction, the bank’s online community for small business customers fails to gain a real foothold.

Managers prepare for a rough ride in 2009. ComMetrics looks at how market turmoil will continue to put pressure on social media to deliver the goods. This case describes HSBC’s floundering efforts to build a vibrant online platform for its small business clients in the UK. Steps needed for rescuing the sinking ship are outlined and discussed.

British comedian Darius Davies takes Beck’s beer …. or fails with the company’s new blog adventure. This is a case where a brand and its advertising agency have managed to break most good practice guidelines bloggers adhere to. Besides questionable content the blog is not very user-friendly at all – easy navigation remains a pipe dream. This post explains why beer lovers will not want to re-visit this blog is explained below – read and learn.

Launching a corporate blog is only the start. Making it happen – with students – is what counts for the Royal Bank of Canada. This post addresses the Royal Bank of Canada’s approach to blogging that uses content tailored to the needs of a particular group of customers. The post addresses the issue of brand building and getting the cash register to ring with this social media project.

I don’t care if RSS usage is 5% or 25%, stable or growing. To achieve better RSS reader retention I began offering my readers customised RSS feeds.