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HOW TO: Read 26 Books A Year

Dave Fleet

Tweet Late in 2009, Julien Smith’s fantastic approach to reading inspired me to set an ambitious target for this year: to read one book every two weeks throughout the year. I even published my target list of books so people could hold me to account. In fact, I’m on my 28th book of 2010. Why you should try it.

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The Future Of Books And Publishing

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I wish more people would read (more) books. In a world of Blog, Podcasts, Twitter , magazines and more, I still get the most value out of reading and thinking about a good book over anything else. Just recently, he launched a new book (which he co-edited with Brian O'Leary ) for O'Reilly called, Book: A Futurist's Manifesto.

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Good Life Project

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Jonathan Fields from Good Life Project , could well be one of them. When people tell me that they''re down, not sure what to do next or simply looking for some smart new ways to think, I''ll immediately point them to Field''s Good Life Project. business book. good life project. " and I could hardly contain myself.

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The Five Business Books That Permanently Changed My Life

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We buy a lot of books. I''m just as guilty as the next person of picking up the latest and greatest business book, with every intention of devouring every page. It''s easy to be dismissive of the business book genre. The Five Business Books That Permanently Changed My Life: The Cluetrain Manifesto - The End of Business As Usual.

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Not a Full-Length Book? Write a Kindle Single Instead

Debbie Weil

I’ve been wrestling with whether the topic of Friending Over 50 (aka baby boomers and social media) is a book idea - or just a fascinating phenomenon (links to Pew Internet report on Older Adults and Social Media ) as well as a great subject for a five-minute Ignite talk. Beware: a book topic defines your speaking platform.

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10 Brand New Books That You Should Read

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It''s like the brains of the world converged, had a meeting and decided to overwhelm us with a mass amount of brand new books to get our brains frothing. This is, without question, a tough time to figure out which brand new business book you should start with. The book will be out on October 1st, 2013 and I am enjoying it immensely.

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Shift Your Focus Away From Blog Posts and Proceed With Your Projects For a Change!

Kikolani

This “something else” could be the Amazon Kindle book that you’d like to write, the new e-mail newsletter that you have been thinking of creating for your list or a new lead magnet and a landing page, that would increase the conversions and the number of subscribers. Finding time for blogging projects – step-by-step.

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