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Against You: A Manifesto in Favor of Audience
By Andrew Keen
If a tree falls in the forest, and there is no one there to hear it, does it make a sound? Andrew Keen asserts that the same riddle can be applied to Web 2.0. While new Internet technology has revolutionized traditional media and allows everyone to be writer/creator, if everyone is writer/creator, then just who is left to listen to the cacophony?
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
10 Guidelines for Effective Brainstorming
By Porchlight
Brainstorming is a powerful tool, if used correctly, but just like any power tool, you must read the manual, follow instructions and use the thing correctly...or you're wasting time. Randah Taher presents 10 guidelines to optimizing the power of brainstorming.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / ChangeThis
Presentation Revolution: Changing the Way the World Does Presentations
By Porchlight
Today we live in a business culture that abuses the art and science of public speaking. We power up our PCs and present dull presentations to audiences who want to be inspired but never get fulfilled. Schwertly believes an effective presentation can change the world.
Categories: changethis
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Blog / News & Opinion
We're back from BEA
By Porchlight
Last week 30,000 booksellers flooded New York City's Javits Center to attend the annual Book Convention (known to insiders as BEA). This is where people wait in endless lines for an autograph, where people compare their tradeshow loot like Halloween candy (in this case, advance copies of books), and where Stephen Colbert, Rosie O'Donnell, LL Cool J and Khalid Hosseini can be seen under one roof. With 90-degree New York heat and a temperamental air conditioner, booksellers struggled to stay cool.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
ChangeThis: Top 10 Downloads for May 2007
By Porchlight
A new batch of ChangeThis manifestos will be up this week, but in case you missed these popular manifestos, here's your chance to check in with what our readers are reading. Growing Great New Managers by Erika Andersen 10 Unwealthy Habits - Alicia Castillo Manifesto to Accelerate: 15 Truths by Dan Coughlin What Must Starbucks Do? by John Moore 100 Ways to Kill a Concept: Why Most Ideas Get Shot Down by Michael Iva Few and Far Between: Black Swans and the Impossibility of Prediction by Nassim Nicholas Taleb How To Be Creative by Hugh MacLeod The Bootstrapper's Bible by Seth Godin Managers Ignite!
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
We are leaving town.
By Porchlight
The whole blogging crew is heading to New York City today. Book Expo America, the annual booksellers convention, is taking place on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. If we see or hear something interesting, we will drop a post here.
Categories: news-opinion, the-company
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Blog / News & Opinion
Title for A New Book
By Porchlight
Richard Florida of Rise of the Creative Class and Flight of the Creative Class is looking for some help on the title for his next book. Some of the ideas include: The Wealth of Place Who's Your City? Where Location Factor Why Place Matters Geography is Destiny What's Your LQ (Location Quotient) I suggest in the comments that they keep working on it.
Categories: news-opinion, publishing-industry
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Blog / News & Opinion
links for 2007-05-30
By Porchlight
BusinessWeek | The Working-Mom Quandary "Out now are four books that deconstruct the underlying causes of stopping out and formulate some smart solutions beyond HR pablum. " (tags: businessbooks organizational_development personaldevelopment) The BusinessWeek Best-Seller List April 2007 bestsellers (tags: businessbooks lists) BusinessWeek Bestsellers - Slideshow ". .
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
Bridging the Generational Divide
By Porchlight
The author of Motivating The "What's In It For Me? " Workforce, Cam Marston, offered us the essay below for our web site. (It reminds me of this essay by Anna Quindlen and this blog entry by our very own Kate.
Categories: news-opinion
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Blog / News & Opinion
How to Work a Room Interview with Susan RoAne
By Porchlight
I had the pleasure of talking with Susan RoAne last week. There is a new edition of her classic How To Work a Room that Collins has just put out in paperback. Susan has updated alot of the antecdotes and adding a chapter on working the "virtual" room.
Categories: news-opinion