Recently Michael Jensen wrote a post about the Top 5 Useful and Free SEO e-Books and he mentioned how he wanted the story to be about the top ten but he couldn’t find enough worthwhile e-books about which to write. Well Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan have come up with an idea to help with that and I’m happy to say I have the opportunity to be involved. Their idea is to create an e-book discussing this new era of communications that we’re entering (or already entered). The book will be titled The Conversation Age.
Many businesses - large and small - are scrambling to figure out these new mediums of discussion such as blogs, podcasts and wikis in which their target audiences are now participating. These businesses are trying to harness the power of these methods to continue and create new, meaningful discussions that lead to long-term sales and business relationship with their target markets. This new e-book should have plenty of answers for businesses of any size.
Hats off to Gavin and Drew for the unique, fun, and useful idea. Plus, what’s even better, they’re going to charge a small fee for the book and donate 100% of the proceeds to the Variety the Children’s Charity — which serves children across the entire globe. Nice work guys and thank you for the chance to participate!
They’ve gathered over 100 authors for the book. I don’t have the list of final authors, but below is a snapshot of some of the first people to get involved - as you can see there are some very talented writers already committed. (I added me to the bottom, but the ‘talented’ tag is meant for everyone above me!)
- Gavin Heaton
- Drew McLellan
- CK
- Valeria Maltoni
- Emily Reed
- Katie Chatfield
- Greg Verdino
- Mack Collier
- Lewis Green
- Sacrum
- Ann Handley
- Mike Sansone
- Paul McEnany
- Roger von Oech
- Anna Farmery
- David Armano
- Bob Glaza
- Mark Goren
- Matt Dickman
- Scott Monty
- Richard Huntington
- Joe Raasch
- Becky Carroll
- Patrick Schaber
Look out for follow-up posts as the book becomes available. With 100 authors I’m sure there will be some incredible writing and original content!
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Glad you are part of the effort, Patrick!
Thanks for sharing about this and participating. It should be fast, furious fun!
Ann & Becky - thanks! I’m looking forward to being apart of the effort!
Patrick:
Nice to ‘meet’ you. This project will be a great way to get to know other practitioners and their thinking as well as a way to build on ideas — ours and our readers’.
Judging by the list of authors, this eBook is going to be excellent! Thanks for being part of it!
Valerie - very nice to meet you as well! I completely agree with you - not only is this for a good cause, but we’ll come away knowing more about each other. What a great project with which to be involved!
Gavin - Great idea and thanks for getting this going! I’m very happy to be involved!