Seth points me to a posting by DreamHost - a company with some recent troubles and a very straightforward way of talking about them. The comments to the post and reactions of other bloggers are illuminating.

At first, it was curiosity that led me to fill in all the little personal bits. It was the amusement factor that made me send it…

Our Sales Veep sent around a highly amusing - and educational - email this morning: from Second Derivative, a list of the top ten ways to create a Stunningly Awful Demo.

Seth re-posted a blog entry the other day that I thought contained a good reply to the question: why should we try this new channel (be it blog, RSS, eMail, mobile, what-have-you).

Jeanniey Mullen at ClickZ shares some tools she’s been introduced to for use in email marketing efforts. After presenting her list o’ links (near the bottom), she says:
Even if these are technologies that have been around in some form or another for years, these types of technologies and offerings give us hope that even our [...]

JackRabbit from Intuit gets a glowing review from Anita at Small Business Trends. If you are starting or have recently started a business, read her review and check it out for yourself.

When the web was new(er) and online ads were novel, you could catch some clicks with flashy banners and popups. Now, experience has jaded us and these intrusive tactics are a surefire way to turn off your prospects.

There is a good bit of buzz going on over the launch of Dell’s blog - one of their efforts to improve their customer service image and community relationship.