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Book List Update 04.26.11

My list keeps growing and growing but I’ve successfully completed two more books. One review has been posted and another will be on its way this week. While I’ve crossed off two books, I’ve added eight more!

  • Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
  • Switch by Chip Heath and Dan Heath READ 01.26.11. Review here.
  • Brewing Up a Business by Sam Calagione
  • Empowered by Josh Bernoff and Ted Schadler
  • What Americans Really Want…Really by Dr. Frank I. Luntz
  • The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down by Anne Fadiman READ 04.15.11 Review Coming Soon
  • Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky
  • The Communicators, Leadership in the Age of Crisis by Richard Levick with Charles Slack
  • The Lost City of Z by David Grann READ 01.15.11. Review here.
  • Open Leadership by Charlene Li
  • Unmarketing by Scott Stratten
  • On The Mend by John Toussaint and Roger Gerard
  • Marketing in the Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
  • The Geography of Nowhere by James Howard Kunstler
  • The Rhythm of Life by Matthew Kelly
  • Bowling Alone by Robert D. Putnam
  • Digital Activism Decoded:  The New Mechanics of Change by Mary Joyce
  • Hands-On Social Marketing: A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing Change for Good by Nedra Kline Weinreich
  • The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
  • Branding Yourself by Erik Deckers and Kyle Lacy (thank you for the signed copy for our office, Kyle!)
  • The Nature of Marketing by Chuck Brymer
  • Slide:ology by Nancy Duarte
  • The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
  • Closing the Engagement Gap by Julie Gebauer and Don Lowman
  • Viral Loop by Adam Peneberg
  • Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web by Brian Solis
  • The NOW Revolution by Amber Naslund and Jay Baer
  • You Were Made to Make a Difference by Jenna Lucado and Max Lucado
  • Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill Added back to list. Tim Sanders references it too many times in “Today We Are Rich” not to give it a read. :)
  • Wealthy and Wise: how you and America can get the most out of your giving by Claude Rosenberg, Jr.
  • The 8th Habit: from effectiveness to greatness by Stephen R. Covey
  • Brains on Fire: igniting powerful sustainable word-of-mouth movements by Robbin Phillips, Spike Jones, Greg Cordell, and Geno Church
  • The Next Evolution of Marketing by Bob Gilbreath
  • What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
  • The Shack by William Paul Young
  • Jesus, CEO by Laurie Beth Jones
  • The World is Flat by Thomas L. Friedman
  • Presidential Courage: Brave Leaders and How They Changed America by Michael Beschloss
  • The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker by Mike Rose
  • A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
  • The Missional Mom: Living with Purpose at Home and in the World by Helen Lee
  • One Thousand Gifts: A Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are by Ann Voskamp
  • Welcome to the Urban Revolution by Evan O’Neil
  • Mobile Marketing: finding your customers where they are by Cindy Krum
  • Never Eat Alone by Keith Ferrazzi
  • The Master Switch: rise and fall of information empires by Tim Wu
  • Resonate: present visual stories that transform audiences by Nancy Duarte
  • Drive by Daniel Pink
  • Today We Are Rich by Tim Sanders READ 04.10.11 Review Here
  • Love Leadership by John Hope Bryant and Bill George - I’m interested in reading to see how it compliments by all time favorite business/personal book Love is the Killer App by Tim Sanders
  • StrengthsFinder 2.0 by Tom Rath
  • Built to Last by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras
  • Start with Why by Simon Sinek
  • Triumph of the City by Edward Glaeser
  • Strategy and the Fat Smoker by David Maister
  • The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
  • The Dragonfly Effect by Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith
  • The Networked Nonprofit by Beth Kanter
  • Just Do Something by Kevin DeYoung

How are your 2011 reading goals? Do you have any books you’d recommend?

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Posted at 7:38 PM 26 April 2011

Book List Update 02.24.2011

Woot! New books arrived and have been added to my bookshelf at work…

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As soon as February hit, my book reading took a hit as well. For such a short month, I seemed to find many things to put on my calendar. That said, I promise my reading and review hiatus will conclude. It had better consider the book list continues to grow!

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Posted at 4:47 PM 24 February 2011

UPDATE Book List: 26 in 2011

Two down. Twenty-four to go in my goal to read twenty-six books in 2011. Let’s be honest though: my list was more than 26 and I keep adding to it! I’m now treating this as a running list of books I want to read, re-read and finish reading. I will read 26 of them in 2011. 

I’m really excited to see some of my own friends take this as inspiration for starting their own reading challenge. In fact, I’ve added to my list based on theirs. (See Courtney’s and Brian’s. Anyone else?) And, one of my original sources of inspiration recently shared 47 books he thinks are worth reading. (Of course, a few have found their way to my list as well.) Good thing I love to read! For now, here is my book list (in no particular order).

Have you started a book list for 2011? What is on it?

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Posted at 1:00 AM 27 January 2011

Book Review: 1of26.

“The Lost City of Z” by David Grann

I received this book in our office’s White Elephant gift exchange. The rules of the exchange were to bring one of your favorite things that good be enjoyed by a male or female. I must say, this female enjoyed this book.

I usually go for Fiction or business related books. This was a stretch for my normal reads but I’m glad I stretched. I learned so much from this paperback. I learned about history from around the world. I learned about injustice. I learned about progress and innovation. I learned about tradition. Mostly I learned that it’s so good to learn.

If you’re looking for a bit of adventure or to learn more about periods of time and areas of the world you may have never considered before, do yourself a favor and give this book a read.  I’ve already decided who to pass it on to next.

Isn’t that one of the best parts of reading learning? Gaining something and sharing it with others.

Did you take the 26 book challenge as well? How are you doing with it? What is your first book and will share a quick review?

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Posted at 10:22 PM 16 January 2011

Lists: Intrigue

What a funny blog title.  I bet you were expecting a list of NYE resolutions for the first of the year, weren’t you.  Well, here’s the only one I’ll give: resolve to learn more from others.  That’s what I hope to do in 2011.

As far as where I gain inspiration, it’s often from people I know and interact with as well as those I follow via my Google Reader.  (See more about that in this post.)  For some additional inspiration to be intrigued, here’s my list of the blogs that inspire and intrigue me the most, as categorized in my Google Reader.

BRANDS and MARKETING

BUSINESS

FRIENDS and other INDIVIDUALS

HEALTHCARE

LEADERSHIP

PHILANTHROPY

SOCIAL MEDIA

VISION 2020

What sources intrigue and inspire you?

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Posted at 11:19 PM 03 January 2011

List: Books

I am a complete book worm. Have been since I was little. Give me a good novel, and I can have it finished in just a few hours.

Books

But, add in two children, a husband, a job and volunteer work and my reading is non-existent to start-and-stop.  All the good reading ends up hanging out on my nightstand (as pictured above).  There are so many books on my list to read! 

I came across this post by Dave Fleet on how to read 26 books in one year and was intrigued.  I’m not sure I could actually accomplish this, but it’s worth a try right?

I look forward to facilitating some of my reading via book clubs.  We have a leadership reading group here at work.  And, I hope to participate in a local women’s leadership book club, as well as Chris Brogan’s 2011 Business Book Club (get info by signing up for his newsletter).  With a book club, there’s some type of accountability and that may be just what I need to get some of these books off my “to read” list and onto my “have read” list.

Here is the list of books I hope to read in 2011 either for the first time, finishing it or reading as a refresher (plus any others I discover along the way):

What will you be reading in 2011?  Will you try the 26 book challenge?  Want to join me in my reading list?

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Posted at 11:06 PM 29 December 2010

List: Tops

Wow.  Could there be any more lists of the “top…” whatever?

I love research. I love reading about trends and figuring out how they relate to me, my work and those I know.  Here are a few of the “top” lists I came across.

Here are my “top” observations after reviewing them:

  1. We are concerned.
  2. We are concerned about privacy.
  3. We are concerned about others.
  4. We concern ourselves with how to do things better. Different. More efficient.
  5. We concern ourselves with things that don’t make us think about what concerns us.

So many of the top posts were about how to protect our privacy or similar issues. The Gulf Oil Spill and Haiti Earthquake were both in the top five trends on Twitter and Facebook.  Considering Twitter defined two of its most powerful tweets as Ann Curry leveraging the USAF to help secure Doctors without Borders in Haiti and another being a cyclist tweeting for help in Connecticut - we see that we can and do leverage the social power for good. 

Look at the music trends: country and hip-hop lead the charts. Two genres that excel at storytelling and exposing some of the hard emotions in life.  Examine further the top ten most retweeted tweets.  The list is full of musicians and celebrities often being sarcastic and humorous.  We may be concerned but we’re looking for ways to lighten our load.  Do we do so to the point of over-sharing?  Does this lead to the appearance that we’re infatuated with celebrity or, in fact, are we?

In the end, I gather we are concerned about our own current state of being and that of others.  I am encouraged to see a caring, generous spirit happening online.  In my opinion, it’s more obvious online than off and I hope that 2011 allows us to be bold with our caring and generosity to those we come in contact with daily - not just via our screens and fingertips.

What would you list as noteworthy from 2010?

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Posted at 9:36 AM 28 December 2010

List: Toolbox

What’s in your toolbox?  Not the red one in the garage, but the virtual one you pull out and use all day, every day.

Do you use Outlook?  Entourage?  Mail?  Google Voice?  Dropbox?  Wunderlist?  LinkedIn?  Twitter.com?  Facebook?  Firefox?  Chrome?  Or dare I say, Internet Explorer? 

I came across several end of year lists that do us all a favor by listing out several resources and strategies to use tools we may or may not be aware of. While reading through the lists, I discovered some new tools and strategies for myself and look forward to giving them a try in 2011.

Here’s a quick list of the tools I use every day from a computer - both personally and professionally.

  • Outlook (on work PC) - I love using the full features from color-coding my calendar into categories and flagging emails based on priority for follow-up.  Organization makes me feel better, but do wonder if it increases my productivity.
  • Firefox (on my Macbook Pro or work PC) - it’s my go-to web browser. I often have several tabs open and find it to be a simple, clean interface that allows me navigate easily.
  • Hootsuite - my favorite social media tool.  I connect my personal and professional Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn accounts here so that I’m only generating information one time to post to the various channels.  I also appreciate the schedule feature and URL tracking it provides.
  • Google Reader - easiest way to gain information from a variety of sources.  Simply add multiple RSS feeds to your Reader and have all the sites there in one spot.  I organize my Reader into various topics, etc. that I am interested in.  I also use the “star” option and tags to keep my reader organized for easy reference.
  • Tumblr - the blog platform I’ve chosen. Easy to use with several features.  I’ve learned that I like some features better depending on the theme I choose.

Here are the tools I use on my iPhone:

  • Echofon - Twitter manager.  I will say that as of late, I’ve encountered some problems with it crashing.  As an alternative, I’m going back to Tweetdeck but I don’t like that it doesn’t sync with Twitter.com as well.  I have the same problem with the Hootsuite iPhone app crashing as well, which really disappoints me.
  • Clock - There is no longer an alarm clock on my nightstand thanks to the wonderful alarm function on the clock.
  • Foursquare - I don’t check-in everywhere, but I usually do at least once a day. (Note about my strategy: often times, I’m by myself or with my kids. For safety and privacy, I often “check-in” when I’m actually checking-out.)
  • Facebook - this app gets used to access Facebook more than facebook.com.
  • 1Password - a wonderful investment of $9.99 if you need to remember more than one password.  At work, each of our passwords change regularly for the multiple programs we utilize.  This app easily and securely stores all those passwords so that I can easily access them and update them as necessary.
  • Wunderlist - I’m checking this app out as comparison to Evernote (now moved to the second screen on my iPhone).  I like Evernote but don’t have need for several of its features.  From what I’ve read about Wunderlist (via some of the links above and here), it sounds like it might fit my needs better.  I’ll let you know.
  • For Photography, I use the following apps: CameraBag (simple way to create nice effects); PhotoShop Express (for cropping and other adjustments); and Wink or Pocketbooth (for photo-strip style photographs. Upside to Wink is that you can print via Shutterfly).

How does this compare to your toolbox?  What’s your #1, most used, can’t live without tool?

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Posted at 12:53 PM 27 December 2010

Tis the Season for….Lists?

If you’re in any line of business at all, you’ve surely discovered that the end of year is the time when all the lists come out.  No - not the lists that are made and then sent to Santa.  You know the ones.

The Worst Logos of the Year.  The Most Influential Social Media Peeps.  The Best Online Videos of the Year.  The Most Active Non-profits on Twitter.  The Best Campaigns of 2010.

In honor of the season, I’ll be sharing a list a day with you until the new year.  I may even throw in a list of my own.

Any lists you love that you think are worth sharing with others?

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Posted at 10:54 AM 23 December 2010