Last Friday I attended the first ever GTD Summit, which was a conference about personal and managerial productivity. GTD stands for “Getting Things Done” which is also the name of the best-selling book by David Allen. What’s ironic, as collaboration consultant Oliver Marks explained, is that this conference was about talking about productivity rather than […]
Books
New book: ‘Social Network Business Plan’
Interesting new business book, The Social Network Business Plan, is out, written by David Silver. (You can get it on Amazon and elsewhere.) It looks interesting because, in my humble experience, most people go into the world of Social Media and Social Networking with no business plan at all by either winging it or by […]
Smashwords tries to democratize book industry
San Jose Mercury News: Written any good e-books lately? A Q&A with Mark Coker, the founder of Smashwords, a free digital publishing platform launched last year that allows anyone to become an e-book author. As regular readers know, I’ve been an advocate of pushing the book industry into the digital age long before my book […]
Book review of ‘Viral Spiral’
We needed someone to chronicle the creative ferment and astonishing changes whipping around us in the Web 2.0-enabled commons. And now David Bollier has done so in his meticulous and very readable new book, Viral Spiral (New Press, $27 hardcover), whose publication date is either tomorrow or next week. (Disclosure: I’ve known the author since […]
Review of ‘Groundswell,’ ‘Reality Check’
Two of the best-known names in Silicon Valley have new books out: Charlene Li (twitter: charleneli) and Guy Kawasaki (twitter: guykawasaki). Both fall into socialmedia.biz’s sweet spot, so here are quick reviews. ‘Groundswell’ Groundswell: Winning in a world transformed by social technologies, by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff, is the definitive guide to how businesses […]