Archive for the ‘About the Book’ Category

The New Marketing and Having Something Cool To Talk About

Wednesday, December 26th, 2007

Blogger and cartoon pundit Hugh McLeod (that's some of his excellent work) wrote a list explaining his take on "the new marketing" or "marketing 2.0". The post is full of wisdom, but there's one item that definitely resonated with me: The most important asset in The New Marketing is "having something ...

Become a Fan on Facebook

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Of course we couldn't launch a social media marketing book without making a page for it on Facebook. Incidentally, we've got a decent chunk of content on Facebook in the book. If you're not already, you might consider becoming a fan of Getting to First Base: A Social Media Marketing Playbook ...

The Best Error in the Book Thus Far

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Readers have been helpful in identifying a few small items that fell through the cracks in our editing and revising. The best one thus far has been that instead of writing lonelygirl15, I wrote lovelygirl15. That's a bit of a Freudian slip, I guess. Though I may have been thinking ...

Our Big List of Thank-Yous

Sunday, December 9th, 2007

The last page of the book features a really long list of people “we consulted in our research, and also the mentors, thinkers, movers and shakers who have taught and influenced us”. It's a big ol' blogroll, and so we figured we might as well post it here as well. ...