Book Summaries
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by Chuck Martin
Item #:
3327
The Third Screen defines the strategies and tactics businesses will need in a world gone mobile. Marketers and businesspeople who don't understand the untethered consumer risk becoming obsolete. This breakthrough book links the technological developments of m-commerce to the behavioral changes that accompany them, and reveals how key mobile innovators are becoming the mobile platform providers of the future.
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by David Meerman Scott
Item #:
3310
In this eye-opening follow-up to The New Rules of Marketing & PR, David Meerman Scott reveals the proven, practical steps to take your business into the real-time era. Find out how to act and react flexibly as events occur, position your brand in the always-on world of the Web, and avoid embarrassing mistakes and missteps in this executive book summary of Real-Time Marketing & PR.
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by Andrew McAfee
Item #:
FBR1010A
A Soundview Featured Book Review
One of the first business books to tackle Web 2.0, McAfee's treatise on the next wave of social technology remains a good read for its overall business arguments. This Featured Book Review is intended for any executive that wants to learn the business applications of the social technology tools that captivate his or her employees and customers alike. There's little doubt that hours are being spent interacting with this technology. McAfee helps executives put
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by Adam L. Penenberg
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3211
Many of the most successful Web 2.0 companies, including MySpace, YouTube, eBay and Twitter are prime examples of what journalist Adam Penenberg calls a “viral loop” –– to use it, you have to spread it. All kinds of businesses –– from the smallest start-ups to nonprofit organizations to the biggest multinational corporations –– can use the paradigm-busting power of viral loops to enable their business through technology.
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by Chris Brogan, Julien Smith
Item #:
3208
Trust agents aren’t necessarily marketers or salespeople; they’re digitally savvy people who use the Web to humanize businesses using transparency, honesty, and genuine relationships. As a result, they wield enough online influence to build up or bring down a business’s reputation. This book will show you how to build profitable relationships with trust agents, or become one yourself.
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by Charlene Li, Josh Bernoff
Item #:
FBR0808
A Soundview Featured Book Review
The groundswell is defined as a social trend in which people are using technologies to get what they need from each other instead of from companies. The authors explain the groundswell and then lay out basic tools to understand it. The final section of Groundswell shows how you can successfully make use of the groundswell within your company now and in the future. Solid research backs up this timely book.
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by Ben McConnell, Jackie Huba
Item #:
2916
“Citizen marketers” are forming growing communities of enthusiasts and evangelists, getting the word out about what products they love or hate.
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by Shel Israel, Robert Scoble
Item #:
2819
Scoble and Israel argue that every business can benefit from smart "naked" blogging, whether the company is a small town plumbing operation or a multinational fashion house. By ignoring the “blogosphere” you ignore what others are saying about you, they write. The authors have assembled an enormous amount of information about blogging: from history and theory to comparisons among countries and industries. They also lay out the dos and don'ts of the medium and include extensive statistics, case s
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by Mukul Pandya, Robert E. Mittelstaedt Jr., Eric Clemons, Harbir Singh
Item #:
2523
The Internet can be a powerful tool if companies and consumers learn how to use it creatively and imaginatively. Case studies and articles from Wharton’s Knowledge@Wharton online journal support the authors’ strategies for building value through the Internet — including how to use the Web’s inherent communication, brokerage, and integration effects to your advantage.
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