Friday's Wall Street Journal talked about the efforts Democratic Presidential candidates are making to gain favor with some of the blogosphere's most prominent Democrats. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, blogs really are that influential nowadays. Senator Hillary Clinton has even sent her communications director on television to support Daily Kos, a liberal blog that has been highly critical of her campaign.
This got me to thinking: How much longer before lowly business bloggers like me can make an impact on corporate America? I've always wanted to launch a campaign against incompetent management at a company, and use the power of blogging to effect change. I've made several attempts at this here at BloggingStocks, but didn't generate much interest.
I believe that the internet, social networking, and blogging could be the catalysts for tremendous positive change in corporate governance -- something that I would argue is severely lacking at the majority of America's publicly-traded companies. I know of several small, grass-roots efforts that have generated some waves, but nothing major ... yet.
I believe that our day is coming though. Does anyone else here think bloggers are perfectly positioned to take on greedy and lackluster management?










Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-04-2007 @ 10:04PM
Paul said...
It's a great idea. I think the problem is getting enough people on board and pushing for it. A lot of the stock blogs are, naturally, all about making money and not necessarily out for change.
However, there are many companies that are poorly run and deserve the unwanted attention. I think the devil would be in the details.
8-04-2007 @ 10:20PM
KYJurisDoctor said...
Politicians ignore bloggers at their PERIL!
http://OsiSpeaks.com or http://OsiSpeaks.org
8-05-2007 @ 8:14AM
Michael Schneider said...
Take the Minnesota bridge situation-- if some of the things being covered now were covered earlier in the media then maybe the disaster could have been avoided. Problem is- getting enough readership interest to attend to matters like that before they become bigger events. The bigger media has a lot of power in some areas but even when the New York Times has put out quite a few pieces on stockholder issues- I'm not sure the shareholders are tuned in.
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