Today I had the opportunity to give a crash course in social media to a group of publishing colleagues at Wiley’s European headquarters. The talk was only an hour, so we covered a lot of ...
Topics: backtype, board reader, facebook, feed my inbox, google alerts, ning, rss, social mention, Social Networks and Media, tweetdeck, twhirl, twimailer, twitter

{"title":"Social Media Tools For Publishing Professionals","post_url":"http:\/\/ckwebb.com\/social-networks-and-media\/social-media-tools-for-publishing-professionals\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/chriswebb","author":"ckwebb","date":"2009-03-12 08:07:49","summary":"Today I had the opportunity to give a crash course in social media to a group of publishing colleagues at Wiley’s European headquarters. The talk was only an hour, so we covered a lot of ..."}

I witnessed an interesting use of Twitter today by  Chelsea Green Publishers who promoted their website and books with a very simple contest.The premise was very straight forward - tweet about a book from their ...
Topics: books, contest, Publishing and Business, Social Networks and Media, twitter

{"title":"Interesting Twitter Strategy from Chelsea Green Publishers","post_url":"http:\/\/ckwebb.com\/social-networks-and-media\/interesting-twitter-strategy-from-chelsea-green-publishers\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/chriswebb","author":"ckwebb","date":"2009-02-18 13:31:20","summary":"I witnessed an interesting use of Twitter today by\u00a0 Chelsea Green Publishers who promoted their website and books with a very simple contest.The premise was very straight forward - tweet about a book from their ..."}

This week I had a lively conversation about Amazon’s recent Kindle mobile phone announcement with Wiley Author Reto Meier. I invited Reto to share his thoughts with readers on why he believes digital books have ...
Topics: Books and Writing, digital books, drm, e-book, ebooks, iphone, kindle, sony

{"title":"Digital Books: Digital FAIL?","post_url":"http:\/\/ckwebb.com\/books-and-writing\/digital-books-digital-fail\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/chriswebb","author":"ckwebb","date":"2009-02-11 07:03:55","summary":"This week I had a lively conversation about Amazon’s recent Kindle mobile phone announcement with Wiley Author Reto Meier. I invited Reto to share his thoughts with readers on why he believes digital books have ..."}

Did you feel that? That was a tremor in the publishing world. There have been many of them over the past several months, but yesterday’s announcement from Amazon could be especially game changing in my ...
Topics: amazon, ebooks, Featured, iphone, kindle, Publishing and Business

{"title":"Pulling the Sword from the Stone: Amazon\u2019s Kindle Books to be Available on Mobile Phones","post_url":"http:\/\/ckwebb.com\/publishing\/pulling-the-sword-from-the-stone-amazons-kindle-books-to-be-available-on-mobile-phones\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/chriswebb","author":"ckwebb","date":"2009-02-06 07:26:25","summary":"Did you feel that? That was a tremor in the publishing world. There have been many of them over the past several months, but yesterday\u2019s announcement from Amazon could be especially game changing in my ..."}

10 Trends in Media &amp; Publishing(tags: Publishing Media)Apple Removes DRM Shackles. Books Next?<div class="entry-title-go-to"></div>(tags: DRM Apple Music E-books)The Problem of Media Economics: Value Equations Have...
Topics: Shared

{"title":"From Around the \u2018Net on 01\/08\/09","post_url":"http:\/\/ckwebb.com\/shared\/from-around-the-net-on-010809\/","feed_url":"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/chriswebb","author":"ckwebb","date":"2009-01-08 19:03:54","summary":"10 Trends in Media & Publishing(tags: Publishing Media)Apple Removes DRM Shackles. Books Next?<div class=\"entry-title-go-to\"><\/div>(tags: DRM Apple Music E-books)The Problem of Media Economics: Value Equations Have..."}