“I also ran into Stuart Henshall, who is the editor of SkypeJournal. Now here is an example of a blogging business model. The blog is maintained by a team of writers, has ads from Google, and also points users to all things Skype (equipment software). But Stuart told me that a growing part of his business is working with companies grappling with how to think about Skype – what the impact will be, if they should use it, and if so, how to deploy it. So using the blog to demonstrate thought leadership and then hiring oneself out. Very cool model. – Charlene Li, Forrester

“An eight-minute video interview with Stuart Henshall, editor of the Skype Journal, about why businesses and ordinary individuals should look into the Internet phone service Skype . The market for Internet telephony is expected to explode in the coming years. – interview by J.D.Lasica, co-founder and executive director of Ourmedia.

“Funny how I cannot think ‘Jazz’ now without thinking of Stuart Henshall, who (in his Unbound Spiral weblog) is fond of talking about jazz — “jazz communities,” “jazz blogging,” “jazz in the blogosphere,” “‘actionable’ jazz,” “group jazz,” “jazz quadrants” — you get the picture”. Judith Meskill, Editorial Director, Weblogs,Inc

“To the contrary, we rapidly outgrew our previous blog infrastructure and needed to build a new one. To that end, we hired Stuart Henshall to architect our new blog and give us “room to move.” We had no idea what a smart idea that was. It’s taken two months, and we’ve been aching to blog, so I was very impatient and grouchy. He moved us from Blogger to Moveable Type, taught us the importance of category tags, blog rolls, news readers and a host of other useful concepts and tools. He’s coached us how to use blogging as both an internal as well as an external tool. And he’s excited a whole new group of bloggers here at Cheskin”. Christopher Ireland, Principal, Cheskin Research

”The need to evangelize Skype to use it, also helped the products success. Also, blogs like Unbound Spiral kept the meme alive and kept pumping new information about the product”. Design Media

“To conclude: Skype/eBay/PayPal find themselves developing a platforming strategy for conversational markets. At first, this will create new experiences and encourage new developer solutions at the intersection of the three businesses. How open the enlarged business is to the innovation in the developer community could well determine its success. There is a shared opportunity for the company and independent developers. Ebay will undoubtedly find ways to achieve a return on the huge investment it has made in Skype, but the rewards could be all the richer if it opens the platform to outside influences.” Stuart Henshall in an article for the Financial Times

“Stuart Henshall is a man who knows innovation in products when he sees it. He cofounded Skype Journal while blogging with his own blog, Unbound Spiral. Now he’s admitting the N90 will be the tool that gets him back into his own Unbound Spiral. His review is a clever read and typical Stuart. Insightful. Whimsical and witty. It’s not a traditional product review with disection. I’m guessing that will come later. Instead you get slice of life and unabashed enthusiasm for something new and different”. – Andy Abramson at the official Nokia N90 Blog.

“Subscribe to Stuart Henshall’s “Unbound Spiral” blog for leading-edge thinking on the future of presence and collaboration” W. David Stephenson, Homeland Security Strategist.

“Stuart Henshall at Skype Journal has a brilliant idea for helping Katrina victims put their lives back together through restored communications. You can read it here and a follow up here”. – Tom Evslin, who conceived, launched, and ran AT&T’s first ISP, AT&T WorldNet Service.

“From MicroPersuasion.com, Skype, Firefox Build Following Through Word of Blogs. The source of the Skype info is SkypeJournal. Stuart Henshall’s pub. I think it’s safe to say that no one has blogged about Skype more than Stuart. Talk about customer evangelism”. – George Nemeth

“Skype’s popularity in Japan and China, where eBay has a relatively small presence, was one of the reasons eBay bought the company, says Stuart Henshall, founder of the San Francisco consulting firm Mosoci, and the blog Skype Journal” – CIO Insight

“I have only recently made the acquaintance with Stuart thanks to a truly creative and well thought out idea he had built around the availability of Skype as an immediate and easy-to-use-mean to interact with other, like-minded people. Sprung by curiosity I contacted him and found him to be a truly fascinating character. Stuart has strong point of views and truly rides ahead of the majority of normal users, at least when it comes to collaboration, interaction, publishing. As he says himself, he is an “early adopter”; someone that tries out early the emerging tools while immersing himself in heavy and continued use of those tools already on the cutting edge. Nonetheless it idiosyncratic corners, to me Stuart has been a true master artist. Master because he appears to have used extensively what he talks about, and artist because he has opened for me new ways to look at how I do things with new technologies and at how this can truly affect and improve the results that I want to achieve.” Robin Good, MasteNewMedia

“For example, a dozen Indian bloggers launched an excellent group blog called The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog, posting news tidbits and information about resources, aid, donations, and volunteer efforts. It has attracted readers from around the world—people in the region who need help, people elsewhere interested in helping out, and journalists.”

National Geographic Channel “But many companies shy away from blogging because they are afraid of letting go of hierarchies of power, says blogger Dina Mehta, a researcher with Mumbai’s Explore Research Consultancy. – DNA India

“Mehta has expressed her credo in an article recently: “I firmly believe that blogging is not just about having your own online diary or journal. It is much more than that. Many bloggers will tell you of their addiction to blogging that goes well beyond just writing a piece. How many active bloggers can really say they do not start their day looking for reactions to something they wrote the previous day? Or checking if someone has linked to something they’ve written? Or running their newsreaders to look for interesting pieces by other bloggers in their community? Or checking back at others’ posts they might have left comments at to see how the discussion is evolving? Or checking blog statistics to assess whether more or fewer people are reading what they write? Blogging is about conversations among people in real time and real voices. That’s what makes it sticky. Communities get built around these conversations. Sometimes with spontaneous order, at other times more gradually.””- Darryl D’Monte“Dina Mehta is an Indian blogger who’s helping with the newly created South East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog. She says the blog is not meant to be filled with first person accounts. “What we’re doing is we’re building a resource,” she says. “Anyone who says, OK, I want to come and do some work in India, volunteer in India, or in Sri Lanka or Malaysia, this is the sort of one-stop-shop that they can come to for all sorts of resources - emergency help lines, relief agencies, aid agencies, contacts for them etc.” Ms Mehta also says she wishes that governments in the region would realise the power of blogs. “Imagine if they had this resource available to them, if there was a disaster, how quickly you could funnel aid in, and get people to help,” she says”. - BBC News

“And Dina Mehta Mumbai, explained how a blog set up in the aftermath of the Indian Ocean tsunami prompted hundreds of offers of help from people around the globe and published SMS messages and calls for help from people in the affected areas. “It was one of my experiences that changed my life,” she said. “It wasn’t the television telling you what was going on in some other part of the world; it was real voices.” – The Guardian, UK

“Dina Mehta’s presentation used as its case example the South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog Dina helped organize. Incredible. The team used free (or nearly so) collaborative tools (Skype, IM, IRC) to put together a blog that attracted 1 million visits in the first week. And as the contributions and comments to the blog began (quickly) to become unwieldy, they created sub-blogs, and then a wiki to categorize the information. The team was flat, without titles, with immense passion and, apparently little recourse to sleep. What’s key here is that drive and brains and a willingness to collaborate, not expensive tools and committees, created this site” – Allan Jenkins

“I wasn’t surprised when people used sms, blogs, cameraphones and wikis to organize relief efforts during the first hours after the tsunami of 2005. If you can smartmob political demonstrations, elections and performance art, you can smartmob disaster relief. I observed two of my friends on opposite sides of the world doing just that. Dina Mehta, a blogger who lives in Mumbai, India, was my guest for a day when she passed through California, and Alex Nieminen, who blogs from Helsinki, Finland, has also been a guest in my home, and my guide to Helsinki on more than one occasion. It came as no surprise to learn that they each swiftly mobilized online networks — they are both people-networkers as well as pioneering Internet publishers in their native countries” – Howard Rheingold, Author of Smart Mobs

“Dina Mehta has an interesting entry called Social Networks and Brand Identity where she describes Kapferer’s Brand Identity Prism (a combination of 6 internal & external characteristics that comprise a consumer’s reaction to a brand). It seems as though she’s doing a lot of crunching on ideas in the knowledge management space. Most of what she focuses on are the more business-y approaches, but her entries are a reminder that i need to learn more about the academic theories underlying knowledge management (’cause that’s the type of information management that i want to be playing with” - Danah Boyd , Social media researcher at Yahoo! Research Berkeley

“How about a Channel 9 for Skype? I know the perfect people to do “Skype 9″: Dina Mehta and Stuart Henshall. Skype 9 would be a perfect extension of Skype Journal!
– North American Bandwidth News