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Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 9:52 pm PT

Carter Lusher announced he is departing HP. Adding to HP’s loss of voice in the AR community, no one will be taking the reigns of the HP Corp AR blog. Instead, it will be discontinued.

The AR community also saw the departure of Jonathan Yarmis from his high profile AR position at Hill & Knowlton, earlier this year.

On the PR/AR blogging front, Jonny Bentwood lamented earlier today about the recent loss of high profile PR bloggers.

I’ll be interested to see who steps up to take the places of these AR statesmen.

Meanwhile, enjoy your time off, gentlemen. And, stay in touch.

Update Nov 12: AMR Research has brought Jonathan onboard as a vp (Tekrati story).

Written by: Barbara French

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Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 5:28 pm PT

Several industry analysts leverage their blogs for building business and reputation. When you think about it, blogs are a natural communications tool for achieving many influencer business goals. Assuming that you are already doing what it takes to create a blog worth reading, why not go the extra step to get the most bang — the most marketplace exposure — from the blogging effort?

One tactic that I often recommend to analysts is to syndicate (republish) blogs on 3rd party sites, with appropriate demographics and an appropriate roster of contributors. It’s a good way to ensure that a wider audience encounters the blog.

Here’s the starter list of my personal recommendations. Your comments on the experience of re-publishing on these media sites — plus additions to this list — would be great.

Bloor’s IT-Analysis
eBizIQ
IT Business Edge
ITtoolbox
Knowledgestorm
ZDNet

Some analysts/consultants have banded together for self-syndication. Two examples:
Enterprise Irregulars
Technology Pundits

The one caveat I’d put on this is that syndicating blogs on 3rd party sites complements — but does not replace — fundamental blog presence tactics. I wouldn’t neglect links and feeds at the analyst company website, Tekrati and other directories, Technorati. Plus, no skimping on tagging, blogrolls, participating in blog conversations, trackbacks, and the like.

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