Richard Brandt sees no Google evil
I discussed Richard Brandt and his Google book earlier. He has since posted explaining his view on Google. It's a far better place to leave comments on what you have against Google than this one is.
I discussed Richard Brandt and his Google book earlier. He has since posted explaining his view on Google. It's a far better place to leave comments on what you have against Google than this one is.
My friend Rick (RB) Levin over at PC Talk Radio is looking for people who have used a blog to promote their books. I know there's quite a few of you, so I don't want to leave anyone out.
It you are one of them, please post what you are doing in my comments and Rick will take it from there.
Amazon.com has this feature that I had neither heard about nor noticed until just a few minutes ago. It's calledConcordance and it tells you the 100 most frequently used in a book. It lists them alphabetically and sizes them like words in a Tag cloud.
Here's the ones for Naked Conversations:
2005 ad another best better blog bloggers blogging blogosphere book business change com comments communications company conversations corporate culture customers day employees even example executive fact few find first get good google great help ideas information ing internet issues know let link market marketing may media microsoft might million need new now number often own part people perhaps point post posting pr press product public read real rss say scoble search see services should site something start started still story take team technology things think thought time told tool two use used users want web word work world write years
There are no surprises here, but I do find it fascinating.
Two days ago we were mystified, when someone apparently purchased 243 copies of Naked Conversations by credit card from Amazon.com. Robert just spoke with Richard Edelman, and it turns out, he was the mystery benefactor. Robert says Richard told him it's a great book and he'll be handing them out to his senior managers.
What a very gracious move. I am humbled. And now I'll take all those comments reminding me of what I said previously about linking.
Robert and I would like to thank the six Naked Conversations galley proof readers who have taken the time to post reviews of our book at Amazon.com. These five-star rankings really help. And if others click the little box that says these reviews were helpful to you, that also helps our cause.
A tip of the hat to:
Your words have been universally kind and it touches us. Robert and I are increasingly blown away by the incredible support we are receiving. You have all been so generous to us.
Sun's highly regarded Tim Bray has posted a well-qualified recommendation of Naked Conversations at his Ongoing blog. Tim thinks regular readers of Ongoing will find little new in our book, except some case studies from France that he had not previously heard. he wishes the book had been written more in Robert's style and less my "cool, neutral tone with lots of commas and subordinate clauses." He wishes we had dealt less with business issues and more with blogging's social implications." And for added measure he argues that we screwed up a bit on Google's technical advantages.
Still, he says, Naked Conversations is "Good Stuff · The best thing is that there’s little abstraction or theorizing; it’s all real stories about real people and their ventures into the blogosphere. They do draw some lessons, but never at too-great length, and it never reads like they’re lecturing."
Funny about the voice thing. I was talking this morning with Textura Design's DL Byron, father of Clip 'N Seal, whose co-authoring a How-to blogging book with his Blog Business Summit partner Steve Broback. We were feeling each other's pain over the issue of two collaborating writers finding a common voice. Like Robert and me, Steve and DL seem to find that impossible. In the end, there has to be one voice. There just has to. In the case of Robert and me, I had time and inclination and Robert had a day job.
I'm looking for company stories that have essentially not been told yet. I love the start up stories of Skype, Six Apart, Activewords, ICQ, Mrs.Fields and young Hewlett and Packard in their garage. But I'm looking for new, great untold stories, ones revealing conflict, disruption, wild success, dramatic failure--all the juicy stuff we writers suck into.
From these stories, I'll need to see useful stuff for entrepreneurs to use. but they need to be great untold stories for this new book.
Help me if you can. Self-nomination is just fine.
There are times when we just love traditional marketing efforts and this is one of them. Wiley's PR team has informed us that, for better or worse, the prestigious Harvard Business Review (HBR) will be reviewing Naked Conversations in their March issue, which comes out we imagine in mid-February.
This is a big hit for us. HBR is asked to review just about every business book that gets published, and to be selected is considered an honor. Whether it is favorable, tepid or very negative, we will link to it when it comes out.
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Lance Dutson at Maine Web Design has written a glowing review of Naked Conversations. This one thrills both Robert and I, because it feels like he has captured and conveyed the essence of what Robert and I have tried to communicate in Naked Conversations. This review made me feel at once humble and proud.
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