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Trust Agents added to my must read list

June 18, 2009

I had been thinking about getting the new book, Trust Agents, by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith but a couple of things kind of kept me from adding it to my must read list. First off, as much as I respect Chris and the work he does I wasn’t really sure if I felt like [...]

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The art of learning

May 19, 2009

I have always been a lover of books. Real books. Real pages that you can turn. For me they are the best gateway for learning. As good as the Web might be it still doesn’t equal the knowledge that can be found between the covers of a good book.
These are the newest additions to my [...]

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Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom Quote #9

March 2, 2009

Yet there’s also a dark underside to the Web 2.0 revolution. Never before have our identities been so exposed to danger – imposture, fraud, cyber-bullying, sexual predation and privacy invasion. When online identities are virtual avatars, the potential for deception is even greater. Parents are increasingly, and justifiably, concerned that their children have access to [...]

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Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom Quote #8

February 22, 2009

Despite the obstacle of status quo organizational cultures, Web 2.0 evangelists persist in their belief that an imminent social revolution is about to transform corporate bureaucracies. The buzzwords employed to describe this e-ruption are numerous: mass collaboration, self-organization, open innovation, distributed co-creation, bottom-up management, networked organization, virtual corporation. When Web 2.0 adoption reaches a tipping [...]

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Throwing Sheep in the Boardroom Quote #7

February 18, 2009

I think this one fits in quite well with the ongoing discussion about news, newspapers and journalist.
The uncomfortable truth, for journalists, is that they are not professionals. Journalism does not, by any formal definition, constitute a profession. What is true, however, is that journalists – especially in North America – have appropriated the status attributes [...]

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The beginning of the web from the horse’s mouth

January 3, 2009

An excellent book to read over the holidays thanks to my Amazon Wishlist and long time WinExtra Community Forum member Joe.
Thank you very much Joe.

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One book publisher who actually gets social media

October 29, 2008

Social media - the big hot buzz word that everyone is either proclaiming as the greatest thing in the world or whining about how it is destroying everything from newspapers to music. Just about every business relating to information and entertainment are having to find new ways of doing business in our growing digital world. Anything that can be created and distributed digitally is finding its way into our lives via the Internet. The Internet is becoming the global distribution channel that is based on having to need only one good copy of a product rather than potentially millions.

One of the businesses being affected by the digital transformation of goods is book publishing. There will always be the need for printed versions of the books we want to read even with the growth of electronic book readers.

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Has the Internet turned us into book surfers?

February 24, 2008

As someone who grew up with books as an integral part of the their life I was a little bemused by something I noticed last night as I was reading The Big Switch by Nicholas Carr. As I was making my way through the book I suddenly realized that I was surfing through the [...]

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Have we lost the essence of what reading really is?

February 9, 2008

There has been a growing debate over whether books have become passe in our modern day and age of e-books, web sites and blogs. News and information is either a click away or and RSS feed delivering a constant flow of new stuff to digest. His Jobness brought the discussion into even clearer focus [...]

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