Crush IT!
7 Nov 2009
I planned on making two posts this week on “Church Rater’, and ‘Do Christians Spend too Much Time in Church?’ but had one of those weeks where things got away from me, so these will appear next week.
Meantime, a book recommendation. Dave Merwin put me onto ‘Crush It!” by Gary Vaynerchuck.
Aside from the subtitle and idea of the book to help you monetise your online life, beyond that it really is one of the best, and easiest books I have come across to explain social media and how to use it. Not in the technical sense, of how to set up a twitter account, but more the big picture, how and why twitter works.
So for all those people who wonder what the point of facebook, twitter, ping.fm et al are, this might be ‘the’ book to switch them onto to the possibilities and need to engage in social media.
Some creative ways of engaging with the author come from the number of books you buy. A sliding scale from a personal video, an hours skype time, and finally a 2 hour face to face time, is novel, and could work for organisations wanting to get large groups of people up to speed with social media.
Tagged: Books, Resources, Social Media
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Comment by Jim Henderson
9.40 am on 9 Nov 2009
Jason
Looking forward to your Rating of Church Rater!!
“Crush It” is defintitely worth the read – working through it myself right now
Take a listen to the interview I did with Ira Glass from This American Life (NPR Radio)this past weekend – aptly titled “Raw Sex” (now you have to listen). Plus I got to have breakfast with Ira while visiting with our daughter in New York City recently.
THIS WEEK ONLY, click the link below and find the Full Episode streaming option below the image on the left.
http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?episode=394
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10.39 pm on 30 Nov 2009
[...] Blogging about books is always a good idea. And I’ve actually been reading a great book about blogging (and other forms of social media) — Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk. I thought Jason Clark’s review of this book was excellent, so rather than writing my own blah-blah-blah review, I’ll just link to Jason’s: “It really is one of the best, and easiest, books I have come across to explain social media and how to use it.” Yep, what he said. [...]
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