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And what do you do?

Posted Sunday, October 25, 2009 5:48 PM by stevecla01
  My upcoming flight to Seattle should afford me some time to check out my friend Katie Ledger’s book which was published last week. It’s all about portfolio careers and written in conjunction with Barrie Hopson. What is a portfolio career? You can Read More...
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Trust Agents

Posted Monday, August 17, 2009 9:15 PM by stevecla01
I just bought this great new book called Trust Agents from Chris Brogan*. Why did I buy it? Because Chris asked me to…in fact he asked everyone to and normally I’d be turned off my such a blatant sales pitch but from someone who gives so much away for Read More...
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Get a Cluetrain

Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 2:09 PM by stevecla01
  Cluetrain View more presentations from tecorporation . The seminal work of our Internet times and pretty astonishing that it was written 10 years ago. Now in slide format thanks to tecorporation and slideshare . The challenge here is the people Read More...
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Every job is now temporary

Posted Friday, July 10, 2009 5:29 PM by stevecla01
My friend Katie Ledger has finished up her book and it’s coming soon – available for pre-order from Amazon . The book, co written with Barrie Hopson, covers the topic of portfolio careers. What?   Whether out of choice or necessity, over one million Read More...
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Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity

Posted Monday, May 25, 2009 8:19 PM by stevecla01
  Several people I know are publishing books this year and the first to cross my desk as a reviewers copy is Hugh MacLeod’s Ignore Everybody: And 39 Other Keys to Creativity . This book has hopefully prepared me well for the others as I found it’s Read More...
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Small Business Server God

Posted Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:14 AM by stevecla01
My Microsoft blogging pal David Overton is a god when it comes to Small Business Server – there isn’t much he doesn’t know about this product. No surprise then that he has put this wisdom in to book format with Small Business Server 2008 – Installation, Read More...
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The Sex and Cash Theory

Posted Friday, March 13, 2009 12:49 AM by stevecla01
Ignore Everybody is the title of my pal Hugh MacLeod’s new book . I’m sorta surprised he didn’t get the publishers ready to roll it out at SXSW this week but I suppose that’s publishing for you. It takes time to cut down trees and such. You can get a Read More...
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Ignore Everybody

Posted Tuesday, January 27, 2009 5:00 PM by stevecla01
My buddy’s book isn’t far away… go order it now . You must :) Trust me it’ll be useful and full of top notch cartoons to pee your pants at. Read More...
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What Is Wisdom?

Posted Sunday, November 16, 2008 10:39 PM by stevecla01
  From people who really ought to know. I’d sort of decided I wasn’t going to buy this book but then Charlotte sent me a link to the video and right after Robert Redford I changed my mind. It’s now on my Christmas list as we’re officially in the Read More...
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Two Smarts Guys Do Ten Questions

Posted Wednesday, November 05, 2008 7:17 PM by stevecla01
  A great conversation between two of my pals – in fact two of the smartest guys I know. If you haven’t read David’s book you should go get it (disclaimer – I was interviewed for the book Blue Monster gets several pages). If you want to know what Read More...
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You Need slide:ology

Posted Tuesday, October 07, 2008 9:53 PM by stevecla01
If you present at all in your job, you should get slide:ology . Even if you don’t it’s s great book that is beautifully presented (as you’d expect) and enormously practical. It’s backed up by a great website too with additional resources. O’Reilly kindly Read More...
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My PR man

Posted Tuesday, September 30, 2008 10:45 PM by stevecla01
  My pal David Brain launched his book “ Crowd Surfing ” last Thursday at the Groucho in London. David is my Mr PR – he’s bloody good at what he does and does it with great humour and passion. In this video he talks about Blue Monster and becomes Read More...
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Who Are Crowd Surfers?

Posted Thursday, August 28, 2008 10:55 AM by stevecla01
Crowdsurfing from David Brain on Vimeo . Many of you reading this blog I reckon. Checkout the short video from David Brain about his forthcoming book, Crowd Surfing . Love the use of the Gladiator quote – very apt.   Listen to me. Learn from me. Read More...
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Free Book: Blue Planet Run

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 11:24 PM by stevecla01
You may have heard of this book – I hadn’t and was surprised to see if being given away for free on Amazon. Why would you give away a good book for free? That becomes obvious when you check out the PDF and realise that the book itself is the only way Read More...
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The Blue Monster book club continues

Posted Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:03 AM by stevecla01
The Blue Monster book club expanded last week with Niall Cook’s Enterprise 2.0 . This is the second book that I’m aware of that covers  Blue Monster as a case study – in this case titled Humanizing Microsoft. Niall talks about the role Robert Scoble Read More...
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