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Quick Summary: Be a part of social media history: buy the one-of-a-kind ‘The Age of Conversation’ collaborative book on Amazon today and the proceeds will go to Variety, the children’s charity.
‘The Age of Conversation’ Collaborative Book
‘The Age of Conversation’ is a one-of-a-kind collaborative book conceived by Drew Mclellan and Gavin Heaton -
- 100 authors. We’re a few but need more.
- The overriding topic is “The Age of Conversation” — where you take it is up to you.
- The items are short - one 8.5″ x 11″ page — it can be words, diagrams, photos (again up to you) If it is words - about 400, give or take a couple.
- We write it quickly and get it out there. We publish electronically.
- We make it available online for a small fee and we donate 100% of the proceeds to Variety — the children’s charity.
Over 100 of the world’s leading marketers, writers, thinkers and creative innovators responded to their call, resulting in a unique one-of-a-kind project, which first became an e-book, then a self-published book on Lulu, and now a potential best-seller on Amazon.
I was fortunate to be a part of the project and I’ll always look back at ‘The Age of Conversation’ as my first book.
Three Reasons You Should Buy ‘The Age of Conversation’ on Amazon Today
Now, all of us are trying to push ‘The Age of Conversation’ to the top of the Amazon best-sellers lists through another path-breaking collaborative project — The Age of Conversation Bum Rush –
With the infinite amount of social sites and connections on the web… the idea is to generate as many touch points around the web as possible so that it will be hard not to spot the Age of Conversation activity.
Before I tell you how you can help, here are three reasons you should buy ‘The Age of Conversation’ on Amazon today –
1. You’ll be the proud owner of a one-of-its-kind collaborative book with insights from over 100 of the world’s leading marketers, writers, thinkers and creative innovators.
2. You’ll help a good cause because all proceeds from the book will go to will go to Variety, the children’s charity.
3. The book, and the bum rush to promote it, is a live case study on social media collaboration. By participating in the project, you’ll become a part of the social media history.
Now that you have made up your mind to buy your copy of ‘The Age of Conversation’ on Amazon, here are three other ways in which you can help us –
1. Ask your friends to buy ‘The Age of Conversation’ on Amazon today itself.
2. Blog about ‘The Age of Conversation’ and ‘The Age of Conversation Bum Rush’.
3. Share the Amazon link for ‘The Age of Conversation’ on social media sites like Digg, StumbleUpon, Del.icio.us, Facebook and Twitter.
All the authors and well-wishers of ‘The Age of Conversation’ will be grateful for your help.
‘The Age of Conversation’ Author List
Here’s a complete alphabetical list of the contributors with links to their blogs -
- AJ James
- Amy Jussel from ‘Shaping Youth: Media and Marketing’s Influence on Kids’.
- Andy Nulman from ‘Pow! Right Between the Eyes!: Andy Nulman’s Blog About Surprise’.
- Ann Handley from ‘Marketing Profs: Daily Fix’.
- Anna Farmery from ‘The Engaging Brand Blog’.
- Arun Rajagopal from ‘Arjun Rajagopal’.
- Becky Carroll from ‘Customers Rock!: A blog about how businesses make their customer experiences rock!’.
- Bob Glaza from ‘One Reader at a Time: Why not bite off more than you can chew?’.
- Bob Hruzek from ‘Middle Zone Musings’.
- Brian Reich from ‘Thinking About Media’.
- Cam Beck from ‘ChaosScenario: Providing information, insight and commentary on marketing in a new age.’
- Carolyn Manning from ‘Thoughts & Philosophies: Business thoughts, business philosophies’.
- C. B. Whittemore from ‘Flooring the Consumer’.
- Cedric Giorgi from ‘Carnet Web de Cedric Giorgi: Don’t Be Famous, Be Useful!’.
- Chris Corrigan from ‘Parking Lot: Cultivating an open space worldview in everyday practice’.
- Chris Newlan from ‘Talking Point: Sharing ideas and encouraging debate on media and public relations trends’.
- CK from ‘CK’s Blog’.
- Colin McKay from ‘Canuckflack: It’s about public relations, marketing, retail quirks, government communications and oddities’.
- Connie Reece from ‘Every Dot Connetcs: Connection through conversation’.
- Cord Silverstein from ‘Marketing Hipster: Understanding the Relationship between the Marketers and the Market’.
- Craig Wilson from ‘Sticky Advertising: Make your advertising sticky’.
- David Armano from ‘Logic+Emotion: Creativity, insights, ideas’.
- David Berkowitz from ‘Inside the Marketers Studio - David Berkowitz’s Marketing Blog’.
- David Brazeal from ‘JournaMarketing: Doing great journalism to sell your ideas, your organization and even yourself’.
- David Koopmans from ‘Business of Marketing and Branding: Making sense of Marketing and Branding in the Information Age’.
- David Pollinchock form The Experience Economist: Brand Experience Lab’.
- David Reich from ‘My 2 Cents: Musings on marketing, media, public relations and life’.
- Dr. Graham Hill from ‘Customer Think’.
- Drew McLellan from ‘Drew’s Marketing Minute: Where Strategy and Passion Collide’.
- Dustin Jacobsen from ‘Shake Gently: A Technologist’s View on the World of Advertising’.
- Ed Cotton from ‘Influx Insights’.
- Emily Clasper from Library Revolution.
- Emily Reed from Conformists Unite: Celebrating the unique and personal in business’.
- Faris Yakob from ‘Talent Imitates, Genius Steals: Some naked thoughts on brands, media, communication and technology’.
- Gareth Kay from Brand New: Thoughts on brands and communication’.
- Gary Schoeniger from ‘Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Insights, Ideas & Inspiration’.
- Gaurav Mishra from ‘Gauravonomics Blog: Gaurav Mishra’s Weblog on Marketing, Technology and Social Media ‘.
- Gavin Heaton from ‘Servant of Chaos’.
- Geert Desager from ‘Brandopia: Musings on marketing, communication and technology’.
- Gia Facchini from ‘Biz and Buzz’.
- Greg Verdino from ‘Greg Verdino’.
- Jamey Shiels from ‘Walk On: Interactive branding, new marketing and social media in the new world’.
- Janet Green from ‘Marketing Ideas Blog: Small Business Marketing Ideas’.
- Jessica Hagy from ‘Indexed’.
- Jim Kukral from ‘Marketing Ideas Online’.
- Joe Raasch from ‘The Happy Burro: Intelligent Facts. Brilliant Ideas.’.
- John La Grou from ‘Millenia Music & Media Systems’.
- Jordan Behan from ‘Tell Ten Friends: Marketing the will Start a Conversation’.
- Julie Fleischer from ‘Innovation Ecosystem’.
- Karl Long from ‘Experience Curve: The Experience Is The Marketing’.
- Katie Chatfield from ‘Get Shouty’.
- Kim Klaver from ‘New School of Network Marketing’.
- Kimberly Dawn Wells from Kimberly Dawn Wells
- Kofl Annan from ‘Annansi Chronicles: African Style Worldwide’.
- Kris Hoet from ‘Cross the Breeze’.
- Krishna De from ‘Krishna De’s Biz Growth News’.
- Kristin Gorski from ‘Write Now is Good: Words, Sweat & Inspiration’.
- Lewis Green from ‘BizSolutionsPlus: Featuring Solutions to Grow Your Business’.
- Lori Magno from ‘Moda di Magno - Blog for Stylish Living’.
- Mack Collier from ‘The Viral Garden’.
- Mario Vellandi from ‘Melodies in Marketing’.
- Mark Blair from ‘SMOBlog:A safari into the jungles of Social Media Optimization and Marketing’.
- Mark Earls from ‘Herd - The hidden truth about who we are’.
- Mark Goren from ‘Transmission: Content+Creative’.
- Matt Dickman from ‘Techno//Marketer: Exploring the convergence of marketing and technology’.
- Michael Morton from ‘Marketing Monster’.
- Mike Sansone from ‘ConverStations: Business Blogs as Conversation Stations’.
- Luc Debaisieux from ‘Mindblob’.
- Mitch Joel from ‘Twist Image’.
- Nathan Snell from ‘GiddleBits’.
- Nick Rice from ‘Strategic Design: marketing & branding thoughts by Nick Rice’.
- Nick Wright from ‘Vir(tu)al Marketing and Media: How is social media affecting the world of advertising?’.
- Patrick Schaber from ‘The Lonely Marketer: A discussion for the small business marketing manager’.
- Paul McEnany from ‘Hee Haw Marketing’.
- Pete Deutschman from ‘The Buddy Group’.
- Peter Corbett from ‘Blattner Brunner’.
- Phil Gerbyshak from ‘Make it Great! with Phil Gerbyshak’.
- Richard Huntington from ‘Ad Literate: Radical thinking for the brand advice business’.
- Rishi Desai from ‘Gumptious Design’.
- Roberta Rosenberg from ‘Copywriting Maven’.
- Roger Anderson from ‘Modern Magellans’.
- Roger von Oech from ‘Creative Think’.
- Ron Shevlin from ‘Marketing ROI’.
- Ryan Barrett from ‘Cheap Thrills’.
- Ryan Rasmussen from ‘Collaborative Ideation’.
- Sandy Renshaw from ‘Purple Wren: Tools & techniques for business communication’.
- Scott Monty from ‘The Social Media Marketing Blog’.
- Sean Howard from ‘CrapHammer’.
- Simon Payn from ‘Effective Customer Newsletters’.
- Spike Jones from ‘Brains on Fire’.
- Stanley Johnson from ‘Brand DNA’.
- Steve Bannister from ‘SBannister’.
- Steve Roesler from ‘All Thimgs Workplace’.
- Steve Woodruff from ‘StickyFigure’.
- Susan Willet Bird ‘Smart Talk on COnversation’.
- Tim Jackson from ‘Masi Guy’.
- Toby Bloomberg from ‘Diva Marketing Blog’.
- Todd Andrlik from Todd and the Power to Connect’.
- Tom Clifford from ‘Director Tom’s Blog’.
- Tony D. Clark from ‘Success from the Nest’.
- Troy Worman from ‘Troy Worman’s OrbitNow!:Don’t wait for permission to succeed!’
- Uwe Hook from ‘Uwe’s Blog: Real Life 1.0 meets Web 2.0′.
- Valeria Maltoni from ‘Conversation Agent: Connecting Ideas and People’.
So, what are you waiting for?
Be a part of social media history: buy the one-of-a-kind ‘The Age of Conversation’ collaborative book on Amazon today and the proceeds will go to Variety, the children’s charity.
We started the day ranked #10282 on Amazon and ended it ranked #262 on books and #36 on business and investing books. That’s a jump of over 100000 ranks in one day!
On behalf of all the 103 ‘The Age of Conversation authors, I thank everyone who bought a copy of the book, or helped promote the book. We are deeply grateful to you.
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