The last post of Corporate blog trends is dedicated to several really success corporate blogs. We'd like to present them and we take a closer look to those features that make them so efficient and useful. Besides, below the post you'll find a gallery with print screens from numerous corporate blogs.

American Express Corporate Blog

American Express has one of the most impressing corporate blogs. It’s a part of OpenForum.com and its aim is to offer businessmen information and resources. The blog in Open Forum features trendy design and easy navigation. Besides the main navigation, the left slide menu is used for product promotion. If you pay attention to the posts you'll find that popular authors like Guy Kawasaki and Seth Godin often write posts. With its blog in Open Forum, American Express strives to provide useful information to its target clients – small business owners – and doesn't encourage directly its products' consumption.

McDonald's Corporate Blog

McDonald's blog offer content that is entirely focused on company's corporate responsibility. Here, you won't find any information about the food offered in McDonald's restaurant chain, nor will learn about the upcoming business deals. But definitely, you'll learn about the social activities the company is involved all over the world. McDonald's blog is an excellent example of corporate blog who has specific focus and aims. The design and the organization are quite simple but the blog is branded in corporate colours and logo which communicate the feeling that the company takes seriously its social responsibility.

Best Buy Corporate Blog

Best Buy possesses several different blogs. Holiday Rituals blog provide short post with information about certain products or recommend them for Christmas gifts. Having such content that covers specific products, it's a bit strange that product descriptions are not linked to the page where they can be bought online. Except for this, the blog impress with fresh and finely coordinated colours.

Best Buy has one more blog in AskABlueShirt.net, which offers information about the upcoming digital TV transition. This blog impresses with its branding in corporate colours, logo and so on.

Nike Basketball Corporate Blog

At a glimpse at Nike Basketball blog, it’s obvious that images and graphic details are the leading communicative elements. The background is an enormous image of a basketball playground. The header is an image of famous player ar a designer collage. Every post has a thumbnail next to its title. The blog’s content aims to attract the attention of sportsmen fond of the brand that will eventually lead to sales extension.

Wal-Mart Corporate Blog

Wal-Mart blog has its own domain and visiting the blog for the first time you may not notice the corporate logo. Blog’s content is focused mainly on product information. In contrast to Best Buy blog, the products that presented in Wal-Mart blog are linked to their web pages in Sam's Club, from they can be bought.

Cisco Corporate Blog

The Platform, Cisco's corporate blog was initially used mainly for posting different corporate news. Now, the information posted in it is not directly connected with the corporation. The blog is designed in three columns.

Dell Corporate Blog

Dell uses several different blogs on different topics. This blog network offers links to the last post of each Dell blog.

Lenovo Corporate Blog

like Dell, Lenovo also has a blog network where each blog is dedicated to a different topic. The home page contains links to all Lenovo blogs but at the same time, it possesses features typical for a traditional blog such as Flickr photostream and last post preview.

Google Corporate Blog

Google official website is one of world most popular corporate blogs. Naturally, it is hosted on Blogspot.com.

 Monster Corporate Blog

Monster blog design resembles much the colour scheme and informational architecture of corporate web site. A great deal of its content is informational and it's targeted to those people who look for carrier opportunities.

Johnson & Johnson Corporate Blog

Johnson & Johnson blog includes a diverse content and gives information about company's health care, social activities and so on.