Category: Books

  • Knowledge-enhancers from IABC

    I’ve just received my copy of the May/June edition of Communication World, the magazine on communication management published by IABC for its members. It’s a very late arrival this month. But, some really compelling content makes that better late than…

  • Surely conventional wisdom can’t be right

    Jeff Jarvis says: […] The problems with books are many: They are frozen in time without the means of being updated and corrected. They have no link to related knowledge, debates, and sources. They create, at best, a one-way relationship…

  • Plagiarism costs Raytheon CEO dearly

    Some months ago, I ordered a copy of “Swanson’s Unwritten Rules of Management,” a free book by William Swanson, the CEO of US military contractor Raytheon Company, from the company’s website. It hasn’t arrived yet and it now looks as…

  • New book on blogging for business

    Among the pile of mail yesterday awaiting my return from the US was a package from Kaplan Publishing containing a copy of Shel Holtz‘ and Ted Demopoulos‘ new book, Blogging for Business: Everything You Need to Know and Why You…

  • Podcasting book deal with McGraw-Hill

    In our podcast yesterday, Shel and I talked about some news that’s exciting for us and might be of interest to you. We’ve just concluded a deal with business book publisher McGraw-Hill to write “Everything To Do With Podcasting,” a…