Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki

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Welcome to this directory of Fortune 500 companies that have business blogs, defined as: active public blogs by company employees about the company and/or its products. John Cass is currently the volunteer community organizer for the Fortune 500 Business Blogging Wiki.

According to our research, 64 (12.8%) of the Fortune 500 are blogging as of 11/15/08. The table below lists these companies, a sampling of their blogs, and links to Fortune 500 business blog reviews.

If you would like to volunteer to write a review of a Fortune 500 corporate blog, simply post that review on your own blog and then link to the review from this wiki. As a courtesy please also mention and link to the wiki in your review. See the Volunteer Signup page for details.

Pull links from: http://www.businessblogwire.com/f500bp/ Learn more at the About this wiki page.

Blogging F500 Company Example Blog Example Social Media Use Reviews
Accenture Accenture Blogs Twitter Ben Benson on May 16, 2008
Advanced Micro Devices AMD Developer Blog, AMD Notebook Tester   John Cass on March 11, 2008
Agilent Technologies Nano Measure    
Amazon.com Amazon Web Services Blog    
American Airlines Blog discontinued Travel Bag Shel Holtz on April 13, 2008
American Express Open Forum    
Aon Corporation DiversityExchange, Aon Consulting RPO Blog    
Avaya Avaya Contacts Center Insights Blog   John Cass on Feb 7, 2008
Best Buy Blue Shirt Nation Blog    
Boeing Randy's Journal    
Chevron Chevron Blog at World Petroleum Congress    
Cisco Systems Cisco High Tech Policy Blog    
Countrywide CreditDemystified.com    
CSC Team CSC    
Coca Cola Coca-ColaConversations   Li Evans on Nov 10, 2006, Mack Collier on Aug 7, 2008
Cox Communications Digital Straight Talk Blog on Hiatus    
Dell Direct2Dell   Easton Ellsworth on Jul 13, 2006, Drew Meyers on Oct 23, 2006, and Mack Collier on June 13, 2007
Delta Airlines Under The Wing  

Rich Young on April 25, 2008
James Lutes on May 11, 2008
Emerson Electric Emerson Process Experts Modeling and Control    
Eastman Kodak Company

A Thousand Words
A Thousand Nerds

   Li Evans on Nov 17, 2006, Laura Spencer on January 30th, 2008, and Mack Collier on May 30th, 2007
EMC Corp; EMC Employee Blogs    
eBay eBay Developers Program Blog   Alison Nicole Grise on April 28, 2008
Electronic Data Systems EDS' Next Big Thing Blog    
Ford Motor Company Bold Moves    
General Electric Company GE Global Research blog   Easton Ellsworth on Sept 20, 2006
General Motors Corporation FastLane Blog   Easton Ellsworth on Sept 11, 2006, Easton Ellsworth on Sept 12, 2006, Liz Fuller on January 16th, 2008
Google Google Blog   Bryan Saxton on May 14, 2008.
Hewlett-Packard Company HP Blogs    
Honeywell International HoneywellBlogs   Cornelius Puschmann on Oct 19th, 2006
ING Group (not in F500) My Cup of Cha    
Intel Corporation Intel Geek Blogger   Robyn Tippins on Oct 19th, 2006
International Business Machines Guide to IBM Blogs   Easton Ellsworth on Sept 25, 2006
Johnson Controls Your Energy Forum   Easton Ellsworth on Oct 27, 2006
Johnson & Johnson JNJBTW  

Stacey Rogers</http> on May 11, 2008
Rich Young on May 12, 2008
Marriott International, Inc Marriott on the move   Li Evans on Jan 17, 2007
McDonald's Corporation Open For Discussion   Laura Spencer on April 15, 2008
Microsoft Corporation Microsoft Blogs   Jean Kim on April 28, 2008
Molson Molson in the Community    
Motorola Broadband Insights    
Newell Rubbermaid Graco blog Adventures in Organization   Susan Iskiwitch on April 11, 2008
Nokia

N-Gage Mobile Gaming Blog
Mobile Web Server Blog

    
Nike Nike Basketball Blog   Sarah E. Essary on April 29, 2008
Oracle Corporation OraBlogs  

Li Evans on Dec 10, 2006
John Cass on May 26, 2008
Owens Corning The Pink Panther Energy Blog    
Proctor & Gamble Notes from the Front line    
Pitney Bowes Open Mike   Vincent McBurney on Oct 30, 2006
Southwest Airlines Nuts about Southwest Twitter Mack Collier on Oct. 04, 2007, Paul Chaney (TBA)
Sprint Things That Make You Go Wireless    
Starbucks My Ideas In Action My Starbucks Idea John Bell on April 15, 2008
Starwood Hotels & Resorts The Lobby   Laura Spencer on February 21, 2008, Mack Collier on September 11, 2008
Sun Microsystems Inc Jonathan Schwartz   Nigel Vanderford on May 12, 2008
Texas Instruments Video 360 Blog    
Time Warner Jason Calacanis' Blog, Ted's Take    
The Clorox Company Dr. Laundry   Easton Ellsworth on Nov 6, 2006
The McGraw-Hill Companies Blogspotting    
TJX Companies, Inc. HomeGoods Blog    
Tribune Company The Swamp    
Tyson Hunger Relief    
Viacom International MTV News Correspondents    
Wal-Mart Stores Wal-Mart Facts and Wal-Mart Checkout Blog  

Easton Ellsworth on Sept 8, 2006
Krishna De on 10 December 2007
Liz Fuller on March 11, 2008 Mack Collier on May 1, 2008
Wells Fargo & Company Guided by History   John Bell on April 15th, 2008
Whole Foods Market Whole Foods Blogs  

Katrina Heilman on May 12th 2008
Olga Walsh on May 20th, 2008
Xerox Corporation Palo Alto Research Center    
Verizon Communications PoliBlog   Robert Longert on July 16th 2008
Yahoo! Yahoo! Search Blog   StephaStephanie L on April 29th, 2008
Yum! Brands KFCNation Citizen Blogs    

Social Media F500 Company No example Blog Example Social Media Use Reviews
H&R Block No Corporate Blog Digits  

About this wiki

This site began as a collaboration between Chris Anderson (Wired Magazine) and Ross Mayfield (Socialtext). A post giving the background of the project is here. Original data compiled by Wired Magazine. See the About page for more details.

As of October 2007 Easton Ellsworth (We Know Media) and John Cass (PR Communications) working with Ross Mayfield (Socialtext) have instigated a volunteer effort to expand on the existing wiki and combine the wiki with the Fortune 500 Blog Project Wiki, another wiki project that sought to review all the Fortune 500 companies that blog.

Once we've got this list in pretty good shape, we plan to add share price data to create a Business Blogging Index, comparing the stock performance of companies that blog with those that don't. Here's why. A spreadsheet version of that with a snapshot of this list from 12/30/05 is here.

This wiki also contains information about Global 1,000 Business Blogging efforts.

We are exploring the Spectrum of Corporate Social Media for further classification.

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