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Jan 23, 2007

Beauty and The Geek talks with Freak(onomics)

by Porchlight Author

One of the keys to the success of Freakonomics is the widespread media coverage the book has gotten. Good Morning America did a series of interviews with the authors. The authors were featured on 20/20.

Jan 22, 2007

The Dip: A New Book Coming From Seth Godin

by Porchlight Author

During our October NYC trip, we heard there was a new book coming out from book machine called Seth Godin. Since there wasn't much to say beyond "Hey, Seth has a new book coming out! ", we held off.

Jan 22, 2007

Growing Great Employees Interview with Erika Andersen - Part 2

by Porchlight Author

This is the second part of my interview with Erika Andersen, author of Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People Into Extraordinary Performers. We start talking about the Social Styles Model and how it supports Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence concepts. We spend some time talking about the importance of diversity as it relates to Social Styles.

Jan 22, 2007

Susan Quandt at Mequon Schwartz Bookshops

by Porchlight Author

This is for the Milwaukee area residences in our audience. Local business book author Susan Quandt is doing a talk the Harry W. Schwartz Bookshop in Mequon.

Jan 19, 2007

Books from The Computer Class

by Porchlight Author

Sally (editor of ChangeThis) and I are taking a class on Adobe InDesign right now. We both consider ourselves computer literate, but find the Adobe products start from a different base than we are familiar with. We got a free book with the class for future reference.