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Naked Conversations
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Naked Conversations

How Blogs are Changing the Way Businesses Talk with Customers

Wiley, 2006 more...


Editorial Rating

9

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

Recommendation

Successful blogger Robert Scoble and co-author Shel Israel push people in business to get involved with blogging as a means of communication and of staying on top of conversations that affect their companies. The authors summarize blogging’s history and provide examples of how companies have benefited from it, including interviews with high-ranking corporate bloggers. Their easy-to-read and easy-to-understand writing style ensures that even those who know little about blogging can grasp it. The book covers how to blog and how to participate in conversations, rather than always talking and never listening. getAbstract recommends it to businesspeople who blog or are thinking about it, and to executives who want to know why blogging is important and how it can build their companies’ bottom line.

Take-Aways

  • About 70,000 new blogs start every day, says a Technorati survey.
  • About 50 million Internet users regularly read blogs, a Pew study finds.
  • Blogs are not considered a fad.

About the Authors

Robert Scoble started blogging for Microsoft in 2000. He helps run its Channel 9 Web site. Innovation expert Shel Israel helped launch many technology products, such as PowerPoint.