by Debbie Weil | Mar 17, 2011 | Books, Uncategorized
Poke the Box, the first title to come out of Seth Godin’s new publishing venture powered by Amazon, The Domino Project, is selling like hotcakes. The book has been out less than 30 days and there are already close to 60 five-star reviews on Amazon. As of this writing,...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 16, 2011 | Books, Friending Over 50, Uncategorized
I’ve been wrestling with whether the topic of Friending Over 50 (aka baby boomers and social media) is a book idea – or just a fascinating phenomenon (links to Pew Internet report on Older Adults and Social Media) as well as a great subject for a five-minute...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 12, 2011 | Friending Over 50, Uncategorized
Photo credit: Joey Devilla I’ve been searching for a catchy way to describe the surprising story of baby boomers and their love affair with social media. Sex, Lies and Baby Boomers (inspiration: Sex, Lies and Videotape) has a nice ring to it. And as my journalism...
by Debbie Weil | Mar 4, 2011 | Uncategorized, Writing
It’s hopelessly old-fashioned to care about it’s versus its. Who versus whom. Affect versus effect. But I do. I really do. As I wasted time on Twitter today, I ran across a tweet about National Grammar Day. March 4th. Every year. “Oh happy...
by Debbie Weil | Feb 1, 2011 | Corporate Blogging, New New Things, Uncategorized
One of the reasons I cough up for not blogging frequently enough is that I don’t like to repeat myself. As I’ve been blogging for SIXTEEN YEARS, I’ve said a . lot . of . stuff about business blogging. But it turns out that repeating yourself is a good thing when you...
by Debbie Weil | Jan 11, 2011 | Uncategorized
I’ve attended a handful of Seth’s live events over the 15 years (cf Why I like Seth Godin’s quirky workshops from 2005) and always come away recharged. Today’s was dubbed a practicum on the future of book publishing. It was held at the intimate Helen Mills Theatre on...
