About the Authors:
Robert Scoble helps run Microsofts Channel 9 Web site. He began his blog in 2000 and now has more than 3.5 million readers every year. Scobles blog has earned acclaim in Fortune magazine, Fast Company, and The Economist.
Shel Israel played a key strategic role in introducing some of technologys most successful products, including PowerPoint, FileMaker, and Sun Microsystems workstations.Hes been an expert on innovation for more than twenty years.
An Excerpt from Naked Conversations:
Bloggings's Six Pillars: There are six key differences between blogging and any other communications channel. You can find any of them elsewhere. These are the Six Pillars of Blogging:
1.Publishable.Anyone can publish a blog.You can do it cheaply and post often. Each posting is instantly available worldwide.
2.Findable. Through search engines, people will find blogs by subject, by author, or both. The more you post, the more findable you become.
3.Social. The blogosphere is one big conversation. Interesting topical conversations move from site to site, linking to each other. Through blogs, people with shared interests build relationships unrestricted by geographic borders.
4.Viral. Information often spreads faster through blogs than via a newsservice. No form of viral marketing matches the speed and efficiency of a blog.
5.Syndicatable. By clicking on an icon, you can get free "home delivery" of RSS- enabled blogs into your e-mail software. RSS lets you know when a blog you subscribe to is updated, saving you search time. This process is considerably more efficient than the last- generation method of visiting one page of one web site at a time looking for changes.
6.Linkable. Because each blog can link to all others, every blogger has access to the tens of millions of people who visit the blogosphere every day.
You can find each of these elements elsewhere. None is, in itself, all that remarkable. But in final assembly, they are the benefits of the most powerful two-way Internet communications tool so far developed.
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From the creator of the number one business blog comes a powerful exploration of how, and why, businesses had better be blogging: Naked Conversations.
According to experts Robert Scoble and Shel Israel, blogs offer businesses something that has long been lacking in their communication with customers -- meaningful dialogue. Devoid of corporate-speak and empty promises, business blogs can humanize communication, bringing companies and their constituencies together in a way that improves both image and bottom line.
The authors use more than 50 case histories to explain why blogging is an efficient and credible method of business communication. You'll find yourself excited about the possibilities blogs present after reading just a few pages. Discover how:
- Prominent business leaders, including Mark Cuban of the Dallas Mavericks, Bob Lutz from General Motors, and Jonathan Schwartz of Sun Microsystems, are beginning to use blogs to connect with their customers in new ways.
- Blogging has changed the rules of communication and competition.
- You can launch an effective blogging strategy and the reasons why you should.
Customer Reviews
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- Unabashed admiration of nakednessA simply unputdownable book that I read over the weekend and finished during an extended lunch hour on a Monday. Filled with anecdotes and case studies that cover the half decade 'history' of blogging, this is a must read bible for all bloggers. A no-nonsense conversational writing seems as if one is reading the Scobblizer blog! Highly recommended for newbies and even review worthy for experts. Hope to incorporate some of the learnings on my blog at ebizocp.blogspot.com !!
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- Leading through transparent communicationRobert Scoble changed the face of Microsoft with his authentic and transparent blog. His blogging ideas should inspire other companies to engage in more conversations with their customers.
Author, "Trust is Everything: Become the leader others will follow"
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- Makes you thinkNaked Conversations gives the great background information for anyone new to Blogs and their impact. The examples and links are powerful examples to anyone considering tipping their toe into the rising waters of blogs.
From a technicians point of view, I also enjoyed the book. I enjoy any book that makes me think. This book made me think of other ways blogs would be valuable to the business and IT "inherit friction." Because of this book, I'm testing my theory.
I LOVE ... Read More
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- Great for business owners and media and web junkiesThe first book on blogging I read was Blog! How the Newest Media Revolution is Changing Politics, Business, and Culture by David Kline, Dan Burstein, Arne J. De Keijzer, and Paul Berger. The second was this title. If you're really interested in blogging as I am (I run a forum for bloggers at WebLoggers.ORG), try them both, in that order.
This book is more suited to serious bloggers and to business owners and managers. (I say that as the owner of a 12-person web design, internet ... Read More
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- A Must Read for All Want-to-be BloggersA whole new business is built around blog coaching (being built) and is it really necessary? Do Scoble and Israel provide enough? I would say they provide a great framework through which any writer worth his salt in expressing his thoughts can work from and thrive.
At what point do we need to have our handheld by a "coach" in something that is so subjective? Naked Conversations provides insight into what has been done right and what has been done wrong in blogging. The book is a book ... Read More
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