Increase in Fortune 500 Companies That Blog

The Long Tail blog posted yesteday about the number of Fortune 500 companies that are blogging: 27 out of 500, or 5.4%. It’s not a great number, but it is an increase from when The Long Tail first compiled its list:

In the four months since we set up the site, the number of Fortune 500 companies with public blogs has increased 50%, from 18 to 27. That’s a significant increase, but it’s still not a lot in absolute terms.

There’s a wiki set up to track the companies that are blogging. Remember, this is a list of “active public blogs by company employees about the company and/or its products.”

The Long Tail is written by Wired editor-in-chief Chris Anderson.

Posted by Susannah Gardner on 04/05 at 12:02 PM • Blogs -- Blogs and Business
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  1. May still be a small number but in the four months since thelongtail starting tracking, the number of Fortune 500 companies with public blogs has increased 50%, from 18 to 27. Thelongtail cites Amazon's Werner Vogel's response to Naked Conversation's…

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