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The New Rules for Marketing & PR
A great social media resource is David Scott Meerman’s book “The New Rules of Marketing & PR” (published in 2007, but still feels fresh). It’s one of those books on social media that gets behind...
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HighTalking: How Social Media Can Get You a Book Deal
J.C. Hutchins is the author of “7th Son: Descent” – a science fiction thriller filled with action. It features a presidential assassination, cloning, and a villain that would J.C. says “make Cobra...
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Writing is a Slippery Art: 5 Must-Have Writing Books
This quote from Cyril Connolly, a British literary critic and writer, could be the blogger manifesto (even though Connolly died in 1974): “Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write...
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Do Hyperlinks Endanger Reading?
I’m reading Nicholas Carr’s “The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains.” Generally, I’d include a hyperlink to Carr’s book, but I’m not going to do so until the end of this blog post....
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Why I Still Read Books
I keep a journal of my reading and have done so for nearly nine years. I jot down the date, the title, author, the type of work (fiction, non-fiction, poetry), date it was published and a brief...
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Next Generation Content – Sooner Than You Think
I have three daughters age seven and under. They are already experiencing content in ways I never dreamed possible when I was their age. Here are several things they will never do as adults:...
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When a Book is No Longer a Book
The book of the future may look something like this: Digital format available on: mobile device, tablet or computer screen Non-linear presentation of content Videos embedded into the text – some...
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Reading Endangered
It is technically possible to read a book on a computer. Or on a smartphone or tablet. I’ve done it. Once. When I was a subway commuter a few years ago I read “The Sign of the Four” by Arthur Conan...
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Technology is the Enemy of Creativity
Everyone loves Apple. And Google. There’s a warm fuzzy about Facebook, too. When people see Amazon walking down the street they give it high fives. Everyone hates the music industry. And...
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The Unintentional Comedy of Bad Amazon Reviews
User generated content is one of pillars of the social web. Without the forces of user-generated content there would be no such thing as Rotten Tomatoes, Yelp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and dozens...
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