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My 2012 Reading Challenge: 36 Books

Dave Fleet

For the last two years I’ve set myself a challenge – one I adopted from Julien Smith - to read at least 26 books per year. In 2010 I managed 26 books; last year I managed 32. Stand-out books for me last year included: Fiction: The Hound of the Baskervilles. A Game of Thrones Series (4-Book Set).

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Not Tracking Social Media ROI is Your Fault

Convince & Convert

Last week, Susan Etlinger from Altimeter Group published the Social Media ROI Cookbook. It contains significant quantities of solid thinking, and provides a useful framework of six primary ways to measure social media effectiveness. click here to view and download the Social Media ROI Cookbook on Slideshare).

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Why Influence Mining is the Next Gold Rush | social crm | Social.

Convince & Convert

Hope the book writing is going well! We're in the final edits of the book now, so I can't complain about that at all. We're in the final edits of the book now, so I can't complain about that at all. Customer service? Knowing whether to respond to or ignore negative comments on a blog? link] jaybaer Thanks David.

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UNcanny Insights From UnMarketing | Book Reviews | Social Media.

Convince & Convert

Here’s what makes UnMarketing an unusual, yet worthy use of your marketing education time: UNpretentious Unlike so many marketing books, Stratten doesn’t overcomplicate the subject matter. UNstructured Like Gary Vaynerchuk’s Crush It , Stratten dictated some of the book, and it reads very conversationally.

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Convince and Convert Blog: Social Media Strategy and Social Media.

Convince & Convert

I’m delighted to have had the chance to interview technology consultant and author Phil Simon about how technology and social media adoption is changing companies. Check out Phil’s blog too ) Your new book The Next Wave of Technologies deals with how organizations can adopt and adapt to new processes and advances.

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Cognitive Surplus - Use Social Connectivity to Change the World.

Convince & Convert

In his piercing new book Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age Shirky asserts that the technological revolution has enabled us to work together to conquer challenges big and small, if we’d just watch less TV and commit to participating in something other than our own mental decay. Who we are. Who we want to be.

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102 Compelling Social Media and Online Marketing Stats and Facts for 2012 (and 2013)

Webbiquity SMM

Social CRM is still confusing. Only 16% of companies say they currently have a social CRM system in place. 21% plan to implement such a system in the coming year, but another 17% “don’t know what a social CRM system is and why businesses need it.” iMedia Connection ). eMarketer ).