I tried to reach technomontreal.com at their webmaster address about the numerous WordPress errors displayed throughout their blog, but the address bounced back. I now tried info@. We’ll see.

sorry for the delay

for me, it’s exaclty like you are doing with the AMM blog. also I would be blogging in french, and reaching people who previously didn’t have access to Montreal Tech Watch. Obviously, there are no short-term advantages, but like most of the thing I do (like this blog), it’s more on the long-term.

I would ask the same question to you: why do you blog at michelleblanc.com? you don’t have advertisements in your blog, nobody is paying you to blog, you spend hours every day to update it etc… obviously you write to build your profile, and prove your expertise. and it is exactly the same thing when you guest-blog at other blogs.

About the second part of your comment, it’s true. Touché. You are smart and obviously, you have more experience than I have about blogging. I might lose more than I gain with blogging at technoMontreal.

There are one difference though: you view it from a blogger’s perspective, or shall I say as a professionnal blogger, a blogging consultant, and an internet specialist. You get your revenues from that. Whereas my profile is an entrepreneur and a “technologist”. And as such, I view blogs as another channel to promote what I am doing, and the upcoming services we will launch. The more channels I have, the better.

By the way, I do understand the power of traditional media since I have collaborated for a long time to LesAffaires and since I “freely” give numerous interviews to various types of electronic, radio waves and print media. My own blog gets me those interviews and I do not have to kiss anybody’s ass to do so. Another thing, Technomedia would not be the first Quebec “classic business” to blog. TD bank for instance, already blog and even podcast and La Bourse de Montréal and several other prominent “classic type of business” already blog. It makes me think of all those phony political party blogs that we had at the last election. If a corporation wants a blog, it should work hard to achieve its business goal. And it should put the effort, the sweat and the money to reach its goal. Another thing, I also know Lyne Bouchard and Eric Kucharsky and told them in their face that a “so called” collective blog was an idea that could not work. I told them that they should start blogging themselves, on a regular basis, and then maybe, they could attract attention and the participation of outside bloggers once they proved themselves. If they chose to suck up to bloggers to do their job for them, it is their choice and I certainly do not agree with it. Now, if you are looking for a wider audience for your content, I would certainly agree that this could potentially be a great opportunity. But then again, you’re a smart and witty blogger. They’ll get to you somehow anyway. You have been blogging for only a couple of months, be patient, your star is already shinning anyway and will glow even more in the near future. Now do not lecture me about giving back to the community. I do a hell of a lot of freebees to AMM, Interlogiq, HEC, Yulbiz, beggars on the street and in my own blog. I hope I still have the right to choose my endeavour and to whom and under what condition I give my free time and spirit. So if their offer has struck a chord within you, I am happy for them since you have great content, but I just happen to be a less cheaper date… Under those conditions anyway…