Over the years I’ve been one of the primary writers for a number of corporate blogs for my employers. Those posts and articles represent a substantial portion of my professional portfolio and provide insights into what the prevailing conversations were at the time as well as how I viewed the blog medium and what I was doing with it.
Over the last week or so I’ve worked to make sure this site represented that history and experience as best as possible.
Bacon’s Blog
While I got my hand-slapped a couple times, the effort overall was a success, I thought. It not only helped establish Bacon’s “new media” credentials but gave me a platform where I could write posts like this that responded to conversations about the company in a full and complete way. Monitoring blogs and keywords also allowed me to find situations, where people were upset with Bacon’s for some reason and reach out to them, leading to stories like this, were someone’s previous comments were retracted.
Unfortunately, Bacon’s deleted the blog a few weeks after I left the company since there was no one there who wanted to keep it going. Thankfully I archived all those posts and have republished them here for the sake of completeness.
MWW Group’s Open the Dialogue
So when I came on board it was natural that I’d join him on that blog. Over the next two years we kept up a pretty steady cadence of writing there, each of us contributing as we had time, even if it was just one of our “LOTD” (Links of the Day) roundups of quick-hit stories we weren’t able to give more attention to. We live-blogged BloggerCon, BlogOrlando and more, reviewed books, weighed in on general industry conversations and more. Writing with Tom both there and at AdJab continues to be one of the highlights of my career, even outside of the incredible client work we pulled off.
Again, though, those archives were taken off the internet shortly after both of us left MWW in mid-2008. The site was redesigned and replatformed, which is why I’ve republished my posts, which I grabbed on my way out the door.
Voce/Porter Novelli/PNConnect
Thankfully both Voce and PN have kept their blog archives alive, even if the activity waxes and wanes as time allows. While many of the posts are excerpted here you can read them in their entirety on the Voce, Porter Novelli and PNConnect sites. If that changes, I have the exports and can add the full posts here at a later date.
Chris Thilk is a freelance writer and content strategist who lives in the Chicago suburbs.