Top CEO Blogs

1. Bill Marriott, Chairman & CEO of Marriott International – well written and connects with customers and employees. I quite like this one.
2. Tom Glocer, CEO of Thomson Reuters – As per Tom, in his blog he is going to “write about what interests me, which is often my work at Thomson Reuters, as well as wider issues like technology and media - two areas that I am fascinated by.” Seems like a genuine attempt to connect with employees and make the leader in Tom more human.
3. Scott Ragsdale, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, naseba – Very un-CEO type blog, written from the heart, couldn’t care less about what people might think. As per Scott, “the main purpose of this blog is to communicate with my 300+ employees, my future employees and leaders of naseba, my clients, future clients, and investors – at the same time helping me stay focused on my climb — to build naseba into a multi-hundred million euro company.”
4. Jonathan Schwartz, CEO Sun Microsystems Inc. – writes mostly with customers as intended audience. Seems more like the Sun website and less like a blog.
5. Kevin Lynch, Chief Technology Officer, Adobe – software development is Kevin’s passion that has led to great products from him and his team.
6. John Dragoon, Chief Marketing Office for Novell – a nice mix of company specific and generic content. Has good content for marketing folks.
7. Sanjeev Bikhchandani, CEO, Naukri.com – a personal blog, unfortunately not updated frequently
8. David Neeleman, Founder and Chairman of JetBlue Airways – “Each week I fly on JetBlue flights and talk to customers so I can find out how we can improve our airline. This is my flight log”, one post a month, however unfortunately last updated in Oct 2007.

Corporate blogs (in no particular order):

• Tata Interactive Systems – combination of blog and corporate website
• Infosys – lots of technology channels
• Wipro Campusarena – surprisingly reads like a blog. Aims to facilitate one-to-one interaction with Wipro’s Campus Hiring Team and Wiproites so that students get a taste of what working for Wipro is all about, the release added. As per their policy doc, “a platform for students to share and discuss information about life at Wipro Technologies and activities”.
• Southwest Airlines – “state of the art use of social media by a big company: a blog, Flickr pics, video, polls, news and more”, could well be a company website, doesn’t quite have the feel of a blog.
• Dell – a blog about Dell products, services and customers

Interesting links about CEO/Corporate blogs

• Should CEOs blog? Seth Godin gives a short and sweet about why blogs work and why CEO blogs might not succeed. He says blogs when they are based on Candour, Urgency, Timeliness, Pithiness and Controversy. Interestingly Seth Godin’s blog does not invite comments.
• Mark White provides an Anatomy of a Corporate Blog: Layers and Building Blocks.
• Top 15 Corporate Blogs (based on Technorai rankings) – on Mario Sunder’s blog (Community Evangelist at LinkedIn)
• Mario Sunder, Community Evangelist at LinkedIn – a great resource for learning about corporate / CEO blogging
• Debbie Weil’s top 8 tips for corporate blogging