Foreward by Tom Peters
Tom Peters has completed his brief and brilliant foreward for Naked Conversations:
I’ve had my Best Year in 20 Years!
Why? On July 27, 2004, I began to Blog. I’ve had a ball. My “constituency” has had a ball.
MY LIFE HAS CHANGED … THANKS TO … BLOGGING.
I’M HAVING THE “CONVERSATION”-OF-MY-LIFE … WITH MY … “COMMUNITY” … WORLDWIDE.
Robert Scoble, single-handedly at first, has given the EVIL EMPIRE (Microsoft, who else?) a “Human Face” … thanks to his Blog.
“Business Blogging” is incredibly important … or at least it can be if you follow some “simple rules” … Openness & Honesty & Cool (not exactly business’ Big Three).
This Foreword (I’ve written over 50 “Forewords”!) is … PERSONAL.
Biz Blogging … WORKS. It is of … MONUMENTAL IMPORTANCE.
(Or can be.)
Scoble knows.
Listen.
Please.
(If you don’t you’re a Damn Fool.)
tom peters (“The Blogging Guru”)
Well, what more do you need to hear?
If Tom Peters says "blog", then you have to be pretty ignorant and mediocre to sit there saying, "But, what is a blog? How can my company use one?"
I have no pity for businesses that are lagging behind.
I prefer not to even address those who are clueless. I prefer to speak to the in crowd, the innovators, the progressive CEOs who know a winner when they see one.
Way to go Tom...and Robert/Shel.
Posted by: Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate | May 27, 2005 at 08:21 PM
What! NO explanation points!!!! What gives? Send it back to tom! and ask for some dang EXPLANTION POINTS!!!!!!
Seriously … I like the forward. Stylistically, it’s very blog-like … something your sample chapters lack.
Posted by: johnmoore (from brandautopsy) | May 27, 2005 at 09:21 PM
Wow. Very cool surprise to get a forward by Tom. Nice!
Posted by: Steve Shu | May 27, 2005 at 09:47 PM
"In classical times when Cicero had finished speaking, the people said, 'How well he spoke,' but when Demosthenes had finished speaking, they said, 'Let us march.'"
—Adlai Stevenson
Lets blog ;-)
Posted by: Jozef Imrich | May 28, 2005 at 08:53 AM
LOL and ROTF.
No "explanation" points.
You mean, John, that tom peters did not fully explain the points he made?
Are "explanation" points similar to Power Points?
Accupressure Points?
Brownie Points?
If you read a book like "The Pursuit of Wow!" which contains a pressure point in its jotted tittle, you will also see photos strewn like dead bodies in Macbeth on Broadway.
Any photos in the Froward?
Fore Word, as in Prior to Words?
Posted by: Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate | May 28, 2005 at 03:04 PM
Well a celebrity endorsement never did a book any harm.
And I was disappointed by this. I'm a bit bored of being hectored by TP and this is more of the same. I wonder if TP has actually read the book?
On the other hand, perhaps it's the froth on your coffee.
Posted by: Johnnie Moore | May 29, 2005 at 12:37 AM
Johnnie, I felt the same way. If I didn't know Robert and Shel, I can't see this being enough to make me buy the book. Even if I knew Tom.
But, I really hope it works out well for you guys. Tom's a huge name, and the name should be enough to get folk to pick up the book (and that's the biggest challenge).
Can't wait to buy my copy though ;-)
Posted by: Jeremy Wright | May 29, 2005 at 12:38 PM
Thanks Jeremy, I can't wait to sell you a copy. When is yours coming out?
Posted by: shel | May 29, 2005 at 12:42 PM
Let's all stop blogging and just write and sell each other books.
How much will you give me for my new collection of science fiction micro stories:
EATING THE EDGE OF THE UNIVERSE
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Posted by: Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate | May 29, 2005 at 09:49 PM
This is a good forward. Its good that you guys hooked up w/Eric at the businessBlog Summit and got this kicked off.
Posted by: /pd | May 30, 2005 at 01:06 PM
The forward would not get me to buy the book. I do not feel that it really speaks to me in a way that would make me go "Wow, I need to read this!" It may feel like a blog post, but I will not be buying a blog. I will be buying a book, and will presumably have had little to no experience with blogging.
Posted by: Blaine Moore | May 31, 2005 at 05:29 AM
That was a forward? It reads like a blurb. And it seems like incoherent yelling to me. I read your chapter 12 and your book, which I would definitely consider reading in its entirety at some point, deserves a better and more thoughtful forward. Cheers!
Posted by: George Girton | May 31, 2005 at 09:59 AM
Dude, we have to yell at CEOs and business people.
They're so sluggish and trapped in mediocrity. Look at how many people in the company you work for are inept. Look at how management tolerates incompetence and sandbagging.
Look at how slow business is to learn from artists, innovators, geniuses, and risk takers.
Look at how people struggle to remain in comfort zones.
Look at how politicians have got us used to lies and manipulation.
A little yelling never hurt anybody, if the yelling is benevolent in intent.
Toughen up.
Tom Peters rocks!
Have you ever read any of his marvellous books?
Sheesh. Gimme a BRAKE!!!!!!
Posted by: Steven Streight aka Vaspers the Grate | May 31, 2005 at 01:59 PM