Augie Ray explains why he defends Forrester's new social media guidelines which ask all Forrester analysts to restrict their blogging to Forrester's own blog network. Too draconian?

How Business.com used a combination of blogs and Twitter to increase visibility and understand more of their audience's needs and habits.

Big Blue's answer to the problem of blog fatigue: crowd-source content!

Define your market and your chances for success increase many-fold.

All kinds of Facebook, Twitter and blogging figures including such nuggets as 15% of bloggers spend 10 or more hours each week blogging and Facebook claims to have 175m users a day.

Three bottom line goals for a corp blog: Know your scope and objective, know the audience you want to connect with, and be ready for criticism because it IS coming!

Apparently the adoption of blogging is flat-lining, whilst other tactics (read Twitter) continue to grow. As the article points out, blogging is still growing as a marketing tool for smaller organizations.

This relates more to web content in general, but there's no reason why you can't take these pointers and apply them to blogging.

Newspaper uses students to generate content.

If you read nothing else this year, check out this fantastic post covering all angles of the publication of a successful blog.

Tying up blogs and Twitter from the Problogger guru.

Which bloggers embed what kind of YouTube videos?

Given a conversation I had with someone at Verisign not too long ago, there's no reason why these corporate blogging tips couldn't apply to much bigger corps as well.

If you are looking to engage a social media agency, make sure their strategy is broad (not tools-based) and covers tactics that are measurable.

Tips on how to get round issues of resource and dealing with complaints and criticism. Arm yourself!

Some great tips in here including beware of running fake blogs and dishing the dirt on company secrets.

Interesting discussion from the guys at Forrester on why they blog, and why they blog on the Forrester site.

One of the most flexible themes available for Wordpress.

Your blog strategy should go beyond just constructing blog posts. Look at the Mashable team: they've become a media empire reaching into online advertising and event sponsorship. Look at your blog from a business perspective.

How to turn bad PR into good PR.

If you are a user of the popular blogging platform, this should help you understand more of the key functions, template tags and the underlying server model.

A laundry-list of tactics and tools you can use to engage with your audience out there.

Just in case you aren't familiar with Home Bases, Outposts and Passports.

I haven't had a chance to go through this in detail, but the table of contents is definitely interesting.

You may well be blogging for all kinds of reasons, but you may be one of the legion who somewhere in the back of your mind see search marketing as a great way to drive visibility. If this is the case, then Hobo offers some great insight into some of the posts that have worked for him.

All kinds of angles here. If you have lost steam or haven't even got started with that corporate blog, then here's quite a list.

The Huffington Post throw up a few dictums to help you not get slapped down in the world of social media.

Mario Sundar again: this time taking apart the Posterous system. He comes up with a great set of metrics by which to measure any blogging platform.

Mario does a great job here of pulling out the top blogs from Technorati's State of the blogosphere report and also explains a little about how these rankings are calculated.

Quick tips are great reminders and if you're looking for a mantra for 2010, consider this: build a virtuous circle of quality content. If you have employees blogging for the company, maintain some kind of editorial policy.