Socialnomics: How social media transforms our lives and the way we do business by Erik Qualman, published by Wiley Publishing, is in bookstores and on eReaders.
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Harry Potter and the World Wide Web
In the summer of 2008 I was invited to Dallas, TX, for Portus 2008, a Harry Potter symposium by HPEF. Below is part of my presentation as the Saturday Keynote Luncheon speaker. Portus special guests also included Jim Dale, Dr. Henry Jenkins, and Edmund M. Kern. It was...
Sociable! by Shane Gibson and Stephen Jagger
This morning Crissy and I attended the Board of Trade Breakfast and the Manager’s Toolbox presentation by Shane Gibson and Stephen Jagger, authors of Sociable: How Social Media Is Turning Sales and Marketing Upside-Down. Check out the First Chapter (PDF). In...
Julien Smith at Third Tuesday Vancouver
Julien Smith, co-author of Trust Agents with Chris Brogan, spoke at Third Tuesday Vancouver this week about the nature of social capital and building tribes. While I was expecting a bland presentation on the importance of building community within social networks, I...
Get Your Boss Excited About Social Media
We spend a lot of our time helping clients get social media marketing efforts and budgets approved by the decision makers—be it board members, CEOs or upper management. Social media is still new territory and many are hesitant to jump on the social media...
8 Tools for 2010: Marketing Tools to Get Your Year Started
The beginning of the year is a great time to reflect on the tools we use and to experiment with new ones that will help make our jobs easier for the next 12 months. These are the online marketing tools that we recommend for 2010. Listening Tools At the heart of any...
5 Marketing Blogs You Should Be Reading
If you’re like us, you subscribe to blogs with the full intention of reading every post but, as your email or RSS reader fills up, you never get around to reading all (if any) of them. If you’re looking to narrow down your reading list for 2010, these are...
Shaping the Future of Publishing
On December 30, my article “Use Clay to Shape the Future of Publishing” was posted on the BookNet Canada blog. The original is missing the proper links and some blockquotes so I’m going to post it again here. Use Clay to Shape the Future of...
Clay Shirky and Jay Rosen Talk About the Future of Publishing
Lift Studios Interviews Monique Trottier on the Future of Publishing
On LSB030 Haig Armen of Lift Studios and I sat down to talk about the common challenges that publishers face, the future of the book and how to augment the reading experience. LSB030-1: Monique Trottier talks about Publishing 1/3 LSB030-1: Monique Trottier talks...