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Sep 14, 2009 A Good Laugh, Family and Friends
I want Blueberries, and I know how to get them
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The Great Business Book List
Sep 13, 2009 Books, Social Media
I made fun of the Indigo sign, but I am a big fan of the book store. Any book store. But, I have a soft spot for Chapters-Indigo since I spend over three years working there while I went to university. It doesn’t hurt that I have an addiction to books. I love fiction (the type you can imagine the characters so vividly that even years later you can tell a friend about the novel); and the odd summer junk novel (usually crime / mystery novels like Kathy Reich), I have also been known to read a thoughtful history book or gripping book on pop culture. But, my biggest fixation is my collection of business books. I love books on marketing, social media, Internet culture, management….and I believe I own more than I have actually read. It is always my intention to read, but I also read about 200 blogs.
That said here are some of my recommendations for great business books (chances are I own them if you need a loaner)
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t – Jim Collins
- Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything – Don Tapscott
- Growing Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing Your World – Don Tapscott
- Purple Cow: Transform you Business by Being Remarkable – Seth Godin
- Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers Into Friends – Seth Godin
- A Whole New Mind – Daniel Pink
- Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions – Dan Ariely
- Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder – David Weinberger
- Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual – Locke, Weinberger,
- The Tipping Point: How Little things Can Make a Big Difference – Malcolm Gladwell
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking – Malcolm Gladwell
- Outliers: The Story of Success – Malcolm Gladwell
- First, Break all the Rules – Markus Buckingham
- The Long Tail – Chris Anderson
- Here Comes Everybody – Clay Shirky
- Citizen Marketers: When People are the Message – Ben Mcconnell
These are just a few of the ones I haven’t yet read but own:
- Tribes – Seth Godin
- Six Pixels of Separation – Mitch Joel
- Truth Agents – Chris Brogan & Julian Smith
- Meatball Sundae – Seth Godin
- Free: The Future of a Radical Price – Chris Anderson
- Twitterville – Shel Israel (getting this on Tuesday)
And, if you are looking for gift ideas these are books that I would like (and may buy on a whim while in a bookstore)
- Whuffie Factor – Tara Hunt
- New Rules of Marketing: Marketing on the Web – Tamar Weinberg
- Art of Community – Jano Bacon
- Socialnomics: How Social Media Transforms the Way We Live and Do Business – Erik Qualman
Now, perhaps time for a trip to my favorite book store…
Do you have any favorites I missed?
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Books. Gifts. Goats
Sep 7, 2009 A Good Laugh, Consumer Brands, Retail Marketing
I don’t know if this is a new sign – or I am just noticing it for the first time. I thought it was “Indigo Music and Books” – but they have the right to change their tagline.
However, this is just weird.
Books – check (picked up Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julian Smith and Six Pixels by Mitch Joel).
Gifts – check (picked up a gift certificate for my sons teacher).
Kids -didn’t see any for sale there. Couldn’t they just say “Toys”? Books and Gifts will cover any other children’s products they sell.
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Mobile Picture of the Week
Sep 6, 2009 A Good Laugh, Family and Friends, Short and Sweet
Out for a Sunday drive at Centreville
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Camping
Sep 5, 2009 Family and Friends, Vacations
Every year since 2002 my husband and his work friends have gone on an annual camping trip. The first year they went it was just the “boys”. In 2003, the girlfriends started attending, and starting in 2004 the wives arrived, and in 2005 so did the kids.
Over the years the camping trip has obviously changed – both the attendees and how the days played out. Certainly the men still pretend that they are cave men and can do anything – like start fire (argh!) And, the women try to find free time to relax and read a book. But, now with kids on the trip it is less about relaxing and more about finding activities to keep the kids busy.
At the end of August we went on the annual trip – and this year including the kids there were 25 of us. Over 7 or 8 campsites. We left the baby at home with his grandparents since neither of us wanted to spend the weekend chasing a crawling baby through the sand, soot and woods. We were looking forward to taking Bear for a canoe trip, hike, and swim at the beach.
We were able to accomplish one thing on that list.
Unfortunately, this summer has not been kind to us. We have planned weekends away – but they never work out as planned. This one was no different. Friday we arrived set up, had dinner with friends and then hit the air mattress (we camp in style). We woke up on Saturday morning and discovered over cast skies, and of course this was followed by RAIN.
Bear and his friends didn’t seem to mind and chased each other around in the mud with their umbrellas. We grumbled but made delicious eggs and bacon (they always taste better when camping!).
A trip into town for coffee, ice and firewood was next – where we discovered that everyone else had decided to the same thing. I counted 36 people in line at Tim Horton’s. It was a long wait – but Bear was kept happy by promises of chocolate Timbits
Back at the camp site we gathered the troops and headed on a hike while it wasn’t raining. It was mild out – which made for decent walking weather, but the winds were high along the beach. There wouldn’t be any swimming at the beach this camping trip, the sun wasn’t out and the water was chilly and the waves were powerful. No canoeing it turned out either – after we finished the camping trip Bear got a fever….so day 2 ended up being our final day as we packed up the tent and gear and headed home.
There is always next year.
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