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ChangeThis preparations and office birthday celebrations kept me from posting links on Friday, so I thought I'd remedy that by rustling some up for y'all this afternoon. ➻ "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. " So begins Allen Ginsberg's "Howl.
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Gary Vaynerchuk, author of the bestselling books Crush It! and The Thank You Economy, as well as a successful entrepreneur in the wine and media industries, and Joe Sorge, partner with Chris Brogan at Kitchen Table Companies and owner of a Milwaukee restaurant group that utilizes social media to build business (he and his restaurant, AJ Bombers, are profiled in Gary's book, The Thank You Economy), stopped by the 800-CEO-READ offices and talked about how companies can innovate with technology and marketing, and where the focus should be when using social media.
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I was pretty annoyed when RadioShack started calling themselves "The Shack. "* Do they really think that it will make them hip and relevant to people trying to make sense of the digital world. Why not just try to resolve the very real issues in the organization and try to communicate better with customers (something they are notoriously bad at)?
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Seth Godin wrote last October that, "If there's justice, [Kevin Kelly's What Technology Wants] will win the Pulitzer Prize. And, while I think there remains some justice in the world regardless of the fact that it did not, we would agree that it deserved at least a nomination in the general nonfiction category (something another of our favorite books, Nicholas Carr's The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brain, did happily receive). But, I'm sure that the book that won the category—Siddhartha Mukherjee's The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer—is not at all undeserving.
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