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How To Think Like...

Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 6:48 AM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/04/30/how-to-think-like.aspx'; Several years ago I attended some course delivered by Nicholas Bate of Strategic Edge. If I’m brutally honest Nick and I didn’t hit it off during the first course. Read More...
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Paul Arden RIP

Posted Sunday, April 06, 2008 10:04 PM by stevecla01
I only came across Mr Arden’s work in the last year but even so this came as a shock. One of my favourite books is It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be and if you’ve not read it, now is a good time to as a mark of remembrance. Read More...
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A Day Of Free Stuff

Posted Tuesday, February 26, 2008 3:07 AM by stevecla01
Hot on the heels of Chris Anderson's Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business post at Wired comes TrendWatching's latest report " Free Love ". FREE LOVE: the ongoing rise of free, valuable stuff that's available to consumers online and offline. Read More...
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The Big Switch(off)

Posted Monday, February 18, 2008 7:09 AM by stevecla01
  I had a good look at The Big Switch tonight in Barnes and Noble here in Bellevue. As I often do with books like this, I flipped to the appendix to see who was covered and ended up reading a few pages on Bill Gates and Ray Ozzie. Then I put the Read More...
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Kindle is Software + Services

Posted Sunday, November 18, 2007 11:32 PM by stevecla01
  Admittedly with some hardware there too but even Jeff Bezos agrees with the notion of S+S in a Newsweek interview The Kindle's real breakthrough springs from a feature that its predecessors never offered: wireless connectivity, via a system called Read More...
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Live Search Books...wow

Posted Tuesday, October 16, 2007 7:54 AM by stevecla01
I've been playing around with our Live Search Books this evening and for some reason I wasn't expecting too much - I've always thought if I want to check out a book I'll go to Amazon and read some reviews. That just changed a little and turned my book Read More...
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Beyond Buzz

Posted Tuesday, September 11, 2007 7:33 PM by stevecla01
I'm reading a new book at the moment Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing by Lois Kelly. Her publisher was very kind to send me a copy after reading my post on Seven Reasons why Small Firms Should Blog and thinking I would enjoy Read More...
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The Art of Schmoozing II

Posted Monday, June 11, 2007 9:30 AM by stevecla01
Of course this book isn't for you - it's for your friends :) Guy Kawasaki has a good interview on his blog with Susan RoAne wrote the book on schmoozing: How to Work a Room: Your Essential Guide to Savvy Socializing and boils things down to the Top 10 Read More...
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Inspiration: on sale for $8

Posted Tuesday, May 29, 2007 9:56 PM by stevecla01
A great friend of mine gave me this book about 6 years ago. I only just remembered how great it was and I guess I'm in need of inspiration so I'm off back to read it. If you haven't got it in your collection, you should. It's terrific and for £4/$8 you'd Read More...
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PTS-TV on Soapbox

Posted Saturday, October 14, 2006 12:55 PM by stevecla01
I'm not sure if this will work for those who don't have a Soapbox account but let's see. I got my beta invite last night and I really like the user interface and features of Soapbox - definitely more community features than YouTube. I decided to test Read More...
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Scoble knocked off the top of my recommended list

Posted Sunday, October 01, 2006 3:22 PM by stevecla01
Over the last few months I've bored people to death with Naked Conversations as a "must read" so much so that my manager used this is a headline in his recent planning presentation to our entire group. When you put that as a slide title is gets a few Read More...
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Should Hugh MacLeod do a Banksy?

Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 1:52 PM by stevecla01
Off topic but hey it's Sunday. I just posted a reply to Hugh's GapingVoid site about the commercial potential of his cartoons/art/stuff. I know Hugh is happy with giving his stuff away but I think he could make a wee bit of cash here and not compromise Read More...
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Top 10 Best Presentations Ever?

Posted Thursday, August 31, 2006 4:24 PM by stevecla01
A cool Top 10 list that is going to be useful for me - I have to give a presentation at our UK Partner Conference in late Sept and need to make an impact. Off to learn from the masters! Maybe I need to buy Beautiful Evidence too? Link to KnowHR Blog » Read More...
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Successful marketing on a shoestring: Bannatyne style

Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 11:29 AM by stevecla01
I like Duncan Bannatyne from Dragons Den - much more so than some of the other presenters, as I think Duncan shows a real interest in even the wacky stuff and isn't quite so heartless. He's kind of like a UK Seth Godin and I just dropped him an email Read More...
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The Long Tail - remix under Creative Commons

Posted Sunday, August 13, 2006 10:03 PM by stevecla01
Okay, the book is super cool but now the UK arm of Random House has produced a brilliant video to showcase the book and it's author, Chris Anderson. What's even better is they have made the component graphics and animation files used to create this video Read More...
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