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Tribes by Seth Godin – I have read it & it is good 03/20/2009

Posted by mritsema in Blogroll, social web.
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I have read the book Tribes by Seth Godin and it is good.

Seth Godin writes in a ‘stream of consciousness’ format.   There are no chapters in this book.  There are a whole lot of bold headings.   There are many stories and examples.  The book is short – around 150 pages and can be read in a single sitting … or a couple nights … or a week for a reader like me.

The book made 2 points to me:

  1. Social networking and the Internet are changing people, groups, companies and organizations right now.
  2. Anyone can step up and lead – bring initiative – change your personal, corporate or organizational impact immediately.   Take initiative!   Take a risk!    Step up & lead!

The book is rife with examples of those who took a risk, went outside the box and changed the world – or their part of the world.

The ‘barriers to entry’ for leadership have come down.     Social networking, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogs, etc. are changing our ability to impact virtually any part of the world.

I find the book both educational & motivating.   I enjoyed it so  much that I bought 1/2 dozen books, am sharing them with the entire company here at i3 Business Solutions and we will discuss its impact next month at our quarterly meeting.

I highly recommend Seth Godin’s - Tribes.

Michael Ritsema
i3 Business Solutions, LLC

‘The blogosphere throws all sorts of patterns into disarray’ 05/11/2005

Posted by thaadsma in Blogroll.
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Welcome to BtoBOnline.com: “‘The blogosphere throws all sorts of old patterns into disarray,’ said keynote speaker Robert Metcalfe, a partner at Polaris Venture Partners. As an engineer at Xerox Corp.’s Palo Alto Research Center in 1973, Metcalfe invented Ethernet, and 20 years later served as a publisher, columnist and CEO at IDG’s InfoWorld and InfoWorld Publishing Co.

Noting there are currently 10 million blogs worldwide, a number that is predicted to double in five months, Metcalfe stressed the technology�and its impact on publishing�was ‘still playing out and will be evolving for a long time.’ Specifically he said to watch for developments in the delivery of blogs to mobile devices, as well as the emergence of video blogs and new search mechanisms for blogged content.”

WSJ.com | Enterprise: Blogging can reap big traffic increases 03/02/2005

Posted by thaadsma in Blogroll, analytics, web.
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WSJ.com – Enterprise: “Starting a blog can reap big increases in Web site visitors within months, thanks largely to search engines’ enthusiasm for the medium. Quality blogs tend to rise higher on search-results pages because other Web sites link to them. Engines like Google consider those links virtual popularity votes and use them to help determine display order.”