B2B Memes

MAY 26, 2010

A while back, I lamented how social media seem to lead inevitably to the decline of editing and proofreading. His “freemium” model includes free e-books and audiobooks, donations, a print-on-demand (POD) paperback, a premium hardcover edition, advertisements, and a commission fee for a new short story. Doctorow: Make money with typos.

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B2B Memes

MARCH 28, 2012

.” As Google’s innovative technology evolved and its uses expanded, she would continue updating her book. In fact, the core message of my book is that to thrive in a new-media environment, you don’t have to be a technological wizard or one of those annoying early adopters. We all know how that worked out.

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B2B Memes

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

But that argument worked much better against the previous villain, Crown Books. The difference was that the chains brought book culture to places where independents either wouldn’t or couldn’t go. As a longtime fan of Amazon and a Kindle owner, I appreciate the convenience and long-tail abundance of online bookstores and e-books.

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B2B Memes

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Though the title of Seth Godin’s latest book is We Are All Weird , its premise is that most of us don’t realize or admit it. Related posts: Managing Your Career in the Social Media Era: Sources. Nine Keys to a Robust Editorial Career in Social Media. You might just be wasting your time, or worse, risking your job.

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B2B Memes

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

As I wrote in yesterday’s post , over the next six days I will be discussing six new-media principles, adapted from my forthcoming e-book, the New-Media Survival Guide. Today, for anyone who’s thought much about social media, it verges dangerously on being trite. We ignore it at our peril.

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B2B Memes

SEPTEMBER 1, 2011

I didn’t intend it to be an experiment in social media deprivation, but because I had only a dumb cell phone and the occasional borrowed computer, it turned into one. What did I learn by taking a three-week break from social networks? Well, first, despite my digital savvy, I’m not a social media native.

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B2B Memes

MARCH 1, 2012

Despite having just self-published a book (the New-Media Survival Guide ), my usual reticence restricted my promotional tweets to just 12% of the total for the month. But since my Pinboard social bookmarking account records links in my tweets, I don’t have to remember to bookmark them if I’m tweeting actively.

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B2B Memes

DECEMBER 6, 2011

” He was among the first in the trade press to recognize the significance of social media. ” Paul Conley is one of eight new-media thought leaders profiled in the forthcoming e-book, the New-Media Survival Guide. He is, as he puts it, “hypersensitive to how new technology opens up opportunities in old worlds.”

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B2B Memes

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

are you looking for free content as so many B2B books have done, paying typical freelancer rates, or doing a Demand Media content-marketplace kind of approach)? Is there a significant element of personalization or social input in the technology? Did you meet him initially via work, industry associations, social media?

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B2B Memes

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Doctorow: Productivity Terrorist?

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B2B Memes

JULY 29, 2010

Is compiling a list of words that are overused and vague akin to burning books? Are the myriad gobbledygook terms that so many B2B writers warn against really just “imaginary bogeyman punching bags”? Do the people who make those lists simply want to look smarter than everyone else? They want to ‘ban’ them, or whine about them.”.

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B2B Memes

DECEMBER 8, 2011

For more than eight years, the British trade press editor has blogged about journalism, social media, and much more on One Man and His Blog. Adam Tinworth is one of eight new-media thought leaders profiled in the forthcoming e-book, the New-Media Survival Guide. And often, it’s winning the battle for attention.

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B2B Memes

JUNE 6, 2012

For a case in point, see Smashwords founder Mark Coker’s recent Huffington post article , “Do E-Book Customers Prefer Longer or Shorter Books?” In it, he offers data showing that bestsellers on Smashwords run long, and that “readers go out of their way to search out and purchase longer e-books.”.

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B2B Memes

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Their effort to use their consumer publication experience to add luster to business-to-business books like Adweek and The Hollywood Reporter failed, he writes, because “useful trumps sexy.”. Related posts: How to Save Your Business by Wasting Time: Social Media and B2B. Fair enough. B2B Blog Posts of the Week.

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