Category: Books

  • A voluminous reading list

    One of the benefits of being a blogger and podcaster is that writers (and publishers) of business books are happy to let you have a copy of their work in case you might review it. I’m always willing to read…

  • Creating a business book made of tweets

    I’m taking part in an interesting experiment to create a business book entirely via 140-character comments posted on Twitter. It’s the brainchild of Toby Bloomberg: So what’s a Twitter-book you may be asking? It’s a book written using Twitter as…

  • Christmas reading list

    A package from Amazon UK arrived this morning with a copy of The Huffington Post Complete Guide to Blogging that you see pictured here. I first heard about this book last month in a post by Darren Rowse, so I…

  • FIR Book Review: Groundswell

    Groundswell is the highly-anticipated book by Forrester Research vice presidents and principal analysts Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Subtitled “Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies,” the book seeks to show organizations how to tap into the power of…

  • The legitimacy of print on demand

    Earlier this year in an episode of our FIR podcast, Shel and I discussed legitimacy of print on demand, a topic that resulted from some emotional and critical posts about print on demand and vanity publishing. Essentially, the original poster…