Celebrating CableFAX's "Best of the Web" award

Forgive me.  I have to brag. 

Yesterday, CableFAX, the cable industry's daily publication that delivers important business and regulatory updates, held their first "Best of the Web" awards ceremony in New York City. I was thrilled to hear that this blog was recognized by CableFAX as the cable industry's best blog. Here's what they had to say about it:

Winner

Insight Communications, Michael’s Insight
Michael Willner, CEO

Yes, CEO blogs often are boring regurgitations of the company line. Not Willner’s blog, which aims beyond Insight subs to, as he blogged recently, “people all around the country who simply are interested in telecommunications issues.” His numerous well-written posts usually comment on policy. But we also love his well-written (ahem) insights about fascinating tech, like Facebook.

I want to thank CableFAX and their judges for this award. I am deeply honored.  Almost a year ago, I started this blog with a mission to challenge the conventional thinking about how a cable company (and more generally, a CEO) should communicate with its customers, policy makers, and others who are just simply interested in our business. So far, thanks to a group of loyal readers that enjoy challenging me and asking great questions, I think this effort has been a huge success. I've learned a lot about what some of our tech savvy readers are looking for, and I share those views with the management team charged with making key decisions.  I hope my readers have learned a bit about the issues that we deal with in providing our customers with cable, phone and broadband services and benefited from my (ahem) insights.

Comments

[Cory O'Connor]

Michael,

As a professor of Internet Communications, I train my students to understand the value of a CEO blog. Yours is an excellent example, and you deserve this award.

Congratulations!

Cory O'Connor
Assistant Professor of Advertising and Public Relations
Chapman University

[Bob Rich]

Congratulations. I'm a new subscriber and I thoroughly enjoy your blog. It's enlightening to see the articles that as you as a CEO find informative for your audience. Bravo!