Will You Share Facebook, Twitter Business Success Stories?

I need your help to counter a claim that Twitter and Facebook are a waste for business, and specifically flooring related businesses. Do you have a success story to share?

Learn more by clicking on this link:

Twitter and Facebook For Business Face-Off: 

Help Requested!

Thank you!

Best,

C.B.

Alltop and Simple Marketing Blog: Yeah, Baby!

More wonderful news for Simple Marketing Blog! I received notification from Alltop.com that "we" are now listed on Alltop in Marketing. Yeah, Baby!

Are you familiar with Alltop? It's a fabulous resource for discovering new blog and news resources. I regularly refer to it in presentations.

It's user friendly, intuitive and comprehensive beyond belief.

Especially now that Simple Marketing Blog is included ! ;-)

Ok. Thanks for sharing this moment with me.

Back to work now.

Unless you are busy researching something for work. In which case, you definitely want to spend more time on Alltop!

Best,

C.B.

The Blog Tree: New Growth Includes Simple Marketing Blog!

Joy! Simple Marketing Blog has been included in a magnificent visualization [aka infographic] titled The Blog Tree: New Growth created by Eloqua, and the brilliant JESS3 about business bloggers.

The infographic brilliantly simplifies how the ~70 blogs offer meaning and relate to one another. It's a brilliant combination for discovering fresh resources!

I invite you to visit the JESS3 blog article about The Blog Tree: New Growth.  It takes you through the various iterations that led to the final Blog Tree visualization.

Interestingly, Edelman’sBlogLevel measurement tool was used to identify, evaluate and spotlight "young blogs that stand out in a saturated blogosphere by consistently producing remarkable content." As I learned during a recent demonstration, BlogLevel paints a more holistic picture of influence or remarkableness because it examines frequency of posts, subscribers, SEO value and more, rather than only focusing on traffic and inbound links.

Per the press release,

"Like its predecessor, the New Growth edition of The Blog Tree explores the relationship between marketing, technology and data visualization bloggers, envisioning blogs as leaves on various branches and rooted by high traffic news and technology blogs. The new tree is made up of about 70 fresh blogs – those that were introduced after January 1, 2009 – to recognize their achievement in earning trust, influence and popularity in a mature and crowded market."

I can't describe how thrilled - and honored - I am that Simple Marketing Blog has been included.

At the same time, I'd like to call attention to the other blogs included. They represent brilliance and intense inspiration and include several wonderful online friends, too!

By the way, if you would like to have your blog considered for the next iteration of The Blog Tree, visit the Eloqua Facebook Page and tag yourself in the image. 

You can also follow all of these resources on Twitter via the Blog Tree Twitter List. 

Design/Data Visualization:

Cool Infographics	http://www.coolinfographics.com/
Fast Codesign	http://www.fastcodesign.com/
Datavisualization.ch	http://datavisualization.ch/
Visual.ly	http://visual.ly/
Pop Chart Lab	http://popchartlab.tumblr.com/
Column Five Media	http://columnfivemedia.com/news/
The Inforgraphics Blog	http://www.infographicsblog.com/
Information is Beautiful	http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/
Making Data Work	http://visualization.geblogs.com/

Established Company:

It’s All About Revenue	http://blog.eloqua.com/
Cloud Blog	http://cloudblog.salesforce.com/
Lewis 360	http://blog.lewispr.com/
verbatim	http://blog.communispace.com/
Q1 Blog	http://blog.q1labs.com/
Cloud Net Suite	http://www.netsuiteblogs.com/blog/
Openview Blog	http://blog.openviewpartners.com/
Technically Marketing	http://www.technicallymarketing.com/
Compendium	http://blog.compendium.com/
Chatter blog	http://blog.chatter.com/
The Employer Solutions Blog	http://blog.sageabra.com/
Simple Marketing Blog	http://www.simplemarketingblog.com/

News/Commentary:

Social Media B2B	http://socialmediab2b.com/
About Foursquare	http://aboutfoursquare.com/
Content Marketing Institute Blog	http://www.contentmarketinginstitute.com/blog/
B2B Bloggers	http://www.b2bbloggers.com/
Savvy B2B Marketing	http://www.savvyb2bmarketing.com/blog
Pushing Social	http://pushingsocial.com/
Tech Busy	http://www.techbusy.org/

Personal (Marketer):

B2B Marketing Insider	http://www.b2bmarketinginsider.com/
The Sales Lion	http://www.thesaleslion.com/
Brian Vellmure’s CRM Strategies Blog	http://freecrmstrategies.wordpress.com/
Mack Collier	http://mackcollier.com/
Helicopter to Work	http://www.jchernov.com/
Kidogo	http://www.christinacacioppo.com/blog/
Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics	http://liesdamnedliesstatistics.com/

Personal (Author):

Brass Tack Thinking	http://www.brasstackthinking.com/
Pam Moore The Marketing Nut	http://www.pammarketingnut.com/#
Pros in Training	http://www.prosintraining.com/
The Dragonfly Effect Blog	http://www.dragonflyeffect.com/blog/
The Change Agent	http://thechangeagentblog.com/

Personal (Journalist):

Communications Conversations	http://www.arikhanson.com/
Jolie O’Dell	http://blog.jolieodell.com/
Villagers with Pitchforks	http://www.villagerswithpitchforks.com/
Robin Wauters	http://robinwauters.posterous.com/
Chris Koch’s B2B Marketing Blog	http://www.christopherakoch.com/
Social Nerdia	http://socialnerdia.com/
A New Generation Marketer	http://kdmedianow.com/
Jessica Lawrence	http://jessicahlawrence.com/

Start-up:

Y Combinator	http://ycombinator.posterous.com/
Brain Traffic Blog	http://blog.braintraffic.com/
The Official Klout Blog	http://corp.klout.com/blog/
Webbiquity	http://webbiquity.com/
The Empire Avenue Blog	http://blog.empireavenue.com/
Instagram	http://blog.instagram.com/
Perfect Market	http://perfectmarket.com/blog
Likeable Media Blog	http://www.likeable.com/blog/
Brafton Blog	http://www.brafton.com/blog
the “er” blog	http://smarterer.com/blog/
Tippingpoint Labs Blog	http://tippingpointlabs.com/blog/
Spark Boutik	http://sparkboutik.com/blog/

Root System:

Marketing Sherpa	http://www.marketingsherpa.com/
MarketingProfs	http://www.marketingprofs.com/
Mashable	http://mashable.com/
Venture Beat	http://venturebeat.com/
TechCrunch	http://techcrunch.com/
Read Write Web	http://www.readwriteweb.com/
The Next Web	http://thenextweb.com/
GOOD Magazine	http://www.good.is/magazine

Here's my official badge! A cross between a leaf and a bird. I'm thrilled to pieces and have already added it to my blog sidebar as well as to the Simple Marketing Now website page about the Simple Marketing Blog.

If you'd like to download or embed The Blog Tree, it's available atIt’s All About Revenue today.


Enough about me... what's your reaction to The Blog Tree? Do you find it effective for learning about other blog resources? Does it draw you in? 


Let me know in the comments.

Content Talks Business Blog on SimpleMarketingNow.com

Change is afoot with Simple Marketing Now and I'd like to share that with you.  Namely, I've launched a new blog titled the Content Talks Business Blog. It's intensely focused on content marketing and social media marketing for business.

I'm still at the early stages of building content there and here is what I've published so far. Several of these posts may be of interest to you...

Generating Leads With Social Media relates to my presentation at MarketingProfs B2B Forum 2011.

At that same conference, I enjoyed hearing about Facebook success stories. Here is my recap: Facebook Marketing for Business Tips: MarketingProfs B2B Forum 2011.

I added to my How Do I? series with How Do I Get More Business? 13 Tips and summarized the series in 'How Do I' Social Media Marketing Series.

[BTW, I've been revisiting the How Do I? series and creating from it a series of Tip Sheets and Getting Started Guides that I'll share with you in more detail in a separate post.]

In B2B Social Media Assessment Questions, I recap many of the questions that come up during a client assessment session. I love the additions included in the comments! Perhaps you'll think of a few more to add.

If you're looking for practical SEO perspective, you'll enjoy The Business of SEO: Get Found which captures highlights from a CBSAC/NY event.

Finally, an official announcement - Press Release: 25 Women in Flooring Industry Includes Whittemore - about the news you read first in 25 Flooring Women to Reckon With! and a Welcome to the Content Talks Business Blog!

That's it for now...

I invite you to check out the Content Talks Business Blog.

Let me know what you think.

Do the blog articles bring to mind burning business topics you'd like me to address?

If you like what you see, perhaps you'll subscribe for updates and let others know, too.

Thank you!

Best,

C.B.

25 Flooring Women To Reckon With! FCN Anniversary Issue

Talk about exciting news!...  Floor Covering News has just published its 25th anniversary issue - dated May 16/23, 2011. It's an impressive 132 page issue filled with milestones recapping the last twenty-five years in the floor covering industry. It also highlights 25 flooring women to reckon with!

Check it out by clicking on this link for the digital issue of Floor Covering News' 25th anniversary edition.

This issue of FCN includes reference to each of the 25 amazing women who are propelling the flooring industry forward... [And, I am included. Wow!]  Several are women I have interviewed for my Women in Flooring series:

• Jenny Cross
• Kim Gavin
• Bethany Richmond
• Olga Robertson

Deb Binder was a very early contributor to Flooring The Consumer with her post Putting Women in Their Place - Front and Center.

Vickie Gilstrap has contributed color stories and carpet style inspiration to the Carpetology Blog.

I've worked with Dana Teague because of Hanley Wood's Surfaces Education Advisory Council.

And, I've desperately wanted to tour Emily Morrow's floor covering showroom for visions of the future of flooring.

Other women included in FCN's 25th Anniversary edition are:

Georgina Sikorski
Kathy Young
Ann Wicander
Jane Walker
Donna Mudd
Jeanne Matson
Kimberly Matsoukas
Ann Knight
Andrea Greenleaf
Terry Gray
Patricia Flavin
Patti Faisan
Rosanna Chiadez
Lisa Browning
Pam Bowe
Maryanne Adams

I am honored to be in such company!

Congratulations and Thank You, Floor Covering News!

Best,

C.B.

Survey: How Do You Generate Leads? Need Your Help!

I need your help! Could I impose on you for a few minutes for a survey?  This is to find out how you generate leads for your business.  I'm hoping you're willing to share with me your insights on and experiences with what has worked best for you in generating leads. Also, have you seen successes in integrating social media into your lead generation process?

I'm conducting this research for a presentation that I'm putting together [more on that in a separate post] and expect that this will also lead to a blogpost or two... I will definitely share with you what I learn.

To participate, please click here to take the "How Do You Generate Leads?" survey.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. Responses due ASAP or by Friday 5/13/11.

Feel free to share this link with others, too.

Many thanks!

Best,

C.B.

5/10/11 NJ American Marketing Association Presentation: Managing Your Reputation in a Social World

Exciting News! The New Jersey Chapter of the American Marketing Association [AMA] has invited me to present "Managing Your Reputation in a Social World" on Tuesday, May 10th, 2011, at the Marriott Hanover in Whippany, NJ. The event starts at 5:30pm and ends at 8:30pm.

You may remember that this is the topic I addressed during my MarketingProfs inaugural online seminar on March 10th - "Managing Your Reputation in a Social World". For reference, here is my summary of  links and references: Managing Your Social Reputation: Highlights.

I'm looking forward to doing this event in person and hearing what questions come up.

The Agenda for the 5/10/11 New Jersey AMA Presentation is as follows:

5:30 – Registration Opens
5:30 – 7 pm Dinner and Networking
7:00 – 7:15 AMANJ Meeting
7:15 – 8:15 Presentation
8:15 – 8:30 Q&A

To register for the event, visit EventBrite for Managing Your Reputation in a Social World.

Pricing is as follows:

• $40 for current AMA members
• $35 for students with a valid current student ID
• $55 for guests

NOTE: If you aren't a member of AMA, but would like to attend as my guest, simply enter VIPGuest when you register and you'll be eligible for the AMA rate rather than the guest rate.

Please let me know if you have any questions. The EventBrite registration page includes a great deal of information on the event. If you'd like to read more, here's a link to the press release: NJ AMA Presents 'How To Manage Your Company’s Reputation in a Social World' 5/10, Marriott Hanover.

Thank you and I look forward to seeing you at the Marriott Hanover!

Best,

C.B.

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Simple News & Insights - Fall 2010

The latest issue of Simple News & Insights, Now Available... and I hope you enjoy it!

Released on 11/11/10, the Fall 2010 issue of Simple News & Insights from Simple Marketing Now is available for your reading pleasure.  You can access it by clicking on this link to the 11/11/10 archive of Simple News & Insights.

This issue explores the role content plays in making your marketing work harder for you so you can more effectively connect with potential customers.

I'd love to hear what you think.

If you like what you read in the Fall 2010 issue of Simple News & Insights, please consider subscribing.

To do so, simply click on this link to subscribe or look for the eNewsletter subscription form in the right sidebar of this blog.

You can review archives of Simple News & Insights by visiting the Simple Marketing Now News page and scrolling down to the left sidebar.

Thanks for reading!

Simple Marketing Blog: Junta42 #11 Top Content Marketing Blog!

Back in April 2010, when I shared with you that Simple Marketing Blog had become a Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blog, I never imagined that the delight could become even more simply intense. But, it has!  Simple Marketing Blog is now ranked #11 among the Junta42 Top Content Marketing Blogs...

I am very excited and honored.

As Joe Pulizzi explains in Brian Solis Rocks Latest Junta42 Top Content Marketing Blogs, his post announcing the latest ranking, the list of blogs included in the ranking has grown from 350+ to over 400.

I like how Gavin Heaton puts this listing into perspective in Content Marketing and the Junta42: it's a "handy reference to some of the leading content marketing blogs – a very useful resource for those marketers working with social media as part of their strategy."

For reference, the Junta42 Top Content Marketing Blogs are based on these criteria.

Here are the August 2010 Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs:

Rank	Blog Name	Focus
1	Brian Solis	Social Media/Public Relations
2	Copyblogger	Copywriting - Blogs/Blogging
3	Conversation Agent	Marketing - General
4	TopRank Blog	Search Engine Marketing
5	PR 20/20	Public Relations/SEO
6	Marketing Experiments	Research
7	Convince and Convert	Social Media
8	Spin Sucks	Marketing and Advertising
9	Marketing Interactions	Content Marketing
10	ConverStations	Blogs/Blogging
11	Simple Marketing Blog	Social Media Marketing
12	Influential Marketing Blog	Marketing - General
13	Direct Marketing Observations	Direct Marketing
14	Post Advertising	Content Marketing
15	Web Ink Now	Content Marketing
16	Social Media Explorer	Social Media
17	Writing on the Web	Content Marketing
18	Inbound Internet Marketing Blog	Internet
19	Rexblog	Content Marketing
20	eMedia Vitals	Online Media
21	Vertical Leap	Search Engine Marketing
22	Conversation Marketing	Internet
23	WeBlogBetter.com	Writing and Blogging
24	Mack Collier	Social Media
25	Buzz News	Buzz marketing
26	FASTforward Blog	Social Media
27	IdeaLaunch	Content Marketing
28	Site Booster	Online Marketing
29	Freelance Copywriters Blog	Writing/Copywriting
30	Social Media Examiner	Social Media
31	Priority Integrated Marketing Blog	Marketing - General
32	Branding & Marketing	Branding
33	Shopper Culture	Branding
34	Vertical Measures	Internet Marketing
35	Proactive	Public Relations
36	Web Marketing Therapy	Internet Marketing
37	ContentMarketingToday	Content Marketing
38	Servant of Chaos	Branding
39	Ducttape Marketing	Marketing - General
40	TippingPoint Labs	Social Media
41	Sparksheet	Content Marketing
42	The MineThat Data Blog	Marketing - Multichannel

I encourage you to go explore these content marketing resources!

Analyzing Social Media With eCairn Conversation

If you're interested in observing what's possible when you take a really powerful social media marketing solution such as eCairn Conversation™ to monitor, listen, analyze and engage in blog conversations, I invite you to take a look at my latest post on the Social Flooring Index Blog.

It's an analysis of flooring industry blogs, their conversations over the last six months and how networked they are.

Will you let me know what you think?

And, if you have questions about eCairn, I'll point you in the right direction.

I think I'm about to have a lot more fun analyzing social media conversations!

Simple News & Insights - Spring 2010

The latest issue of Simple News & Insights, Now Available!

Released yesterday 5/24/10, the Spring 2010 issue of Simple News & Insights from Simple Marketing Now. You can access it by clicking on this link to the 5/24/10 archive of Simple News & Insights. I'd love to hear your reactions.

The issue was inspired by my Social Media Club of North Jersey presentation that took place yesterday morning about customer feedback in a social world...

[I'll recap the presentation separately, but have to share with you that "I love you. I hate you. Customer Feedback in a Social World." was a resounding success with just the kind of intense discussion and sharing of perspectives that I had hoped for. Special thanks to Devon Valenti and Chris Kieff, too!]

If you like what you read in the Spring 2010 issue of Simple News & Insights, please consider subscribing. To do so, simply click on this link to subscribe or look for the eNewsletter subscription form in the right sidebar of this blog.

You can review archives of Simple News & Insights by visiting the Simple Marketing Now News page and scrolling down to the left sidebar.

Thanks for reading!

Simple Marketing Blog: Junta42 Top 42 Blog!

Intense simple delight! Simple Marketing Blog is a Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blog! That means being included with the best and most substantial marketing blog resources around. What an honor!

To put content marketing into perspective, you might want to revisit my post about Joe Pulizzi on Content Marketing. As Joe says, "we are content marketing publishers."

I proudly share with you the list of Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs and encourage you to visit each. First, in case you have specific questions about the Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs, here is more information.

What is the Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blog List?

Here's the official description: "The Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs list highlights the best bloggers on the web discussing content marketing. Each blog on the list has been rated by our expert staff in terms of content strength, depth, regularity and, to a very small extent, popularity."

How does Junta42 calculate the Junta42 Top 42?

As Junta42 explains, "Content marketing is all about the creation of great, story-form content (delivered through any channel) that ultimately influences someone to buy your product, take an action, or believe in a cause."

Junta42 started tracking content marketing related blogs in 2007 with an initial 81 blogs. This list has definitely grown! For this latest ranking, Junta42 began with a list of over 350 blogs through nominations and known content marketing-related blogs and then rated each on the following factors, with a bias toward substance and relationship to content marketing:

1. The number of posts in last quarter that pertained to a content marketing topic.

2. Substantiveness of Posts.

3. Google PageRank. (All blogs were checked on the same day.)

4. Previous Ranking.

And, now....

The Junta42 Top 42 Content Marketing Blogs for April 2010

Rank --- Blog Name --- Focus

1 Convince and Convert Social Media

2 Conversation Agent Marketing - General

3 Online Marketing Blog Search Engine Marketing

4 Web Ink Now Content Marketing

5 Writing on the Web Content Marketing

6 Inbound Internet Marketing Blog Internet

7 Direct Marketing Observations Direct Marketing

8 Connected Marketer Marketing - General

9 Marketing Interactions Content Marketing

10 The Lunch Pail Direct Digital Marketing

11 White Paper Pundit White Papers

12 Marketing with Meaning Marketing - General

13 IdeaLaunch Content Marketing

14 PR 2.0 Social Media/Public Relations

15 ContentMarketingToday Content Marketing

16 Influential Marketing Blog Marketing - General

17 Moola Days Online Marketing [get badge]

18 Buzz Marketing for Technology Social Media

19 Rexblog Content Marketing

20 eMedia Vitals Online Media

21 PR 20/20 Public Relations/SEO

22 Sparksheet Content Marketing

23 Pamorama Social Media

24 B2B Bloggers B2B Marketing

25 Brain Traffic Web Content Strategy

26 Copyblogger CopyWriting - Blogs/Blogging

27 Web Strategy by Jeremiah Social Media

28 ConverStations Blogs/Blogging

29 Simple Marketing Blog Social Media Marketing <--

30 Conversation Marketing Internet

31 Ducttape Marketing Marketing - General

32 Post Advertising Content Marketing

33 Hard Knox Life Marketing - General

34 Social Media Examiner Social Media

35 TippingPoint Labs Social Media

36 Writing White Papers CopyWriting

37 Proactive Public Relations

38 SEOptimize Search Marketing &SEO

39 FASTforward Blog Social Media

40 Social Media Explorer Social Media

41 AriWriter Internet Marketing

42 jaffe juice Marketing - General

Thank you, Junta42! I am honored to be in such company. Congratulations to my fellow Junta42 Top Content Marketing Bloggers!

C.B. Whittemore in New Yorker's Talk of The Town

How simply divine!

I'm quoted in The New Yorker's 4/5/10 issue of The Talk of The Town!

The article is about carpet and more specifically 'psychedelic' Casino carpet as interpreted by New York-based photographer named Chris Maluszynski. It is titled At The Casino FLOORSCAPES and includes a companion slideshow on The Carpets of Vegas.

I include more detail on the article and the conversation with author Lauren Collins in The Carpets of Vegas: Floorscapes at the Casino on The Carpetology Blog - which is how Lauren found me...

Thanks, Lauren!

And, thanks Rich Nadworny for your Tweet about the New Yorker!

Age of Conversation 3: It's Time To Get Busy!

Age of Conversation 3 Brings Together ~300 Authors To Benefit Make-A-Wish - #AOC3

For those of you intrigued about what the tools of social media enable - conversation - then look no further than Age of Conversation 3, the third crowd-sourced book in the series that I am honored to be a part of.

Perhaps you've been following our saga. The first Age of Conversation book was published in 2007, the work of 103 authors from around the world. Here is a link to my chapter, titled The Age of Conversation: The Conversation Age Enabled.

237 authors participated in the second Age of Conversation - They Just Don't Get It!

And, now, Age of Conversation 3: It's Time To Get Busy! with ~300 authors.

Our co-editors, Gavin Heaton and Drew McLellan, have done it again: brought together contributing authors from around the world to provide perspective on this age of conversation, where technology tools enable relationship building and idea exchange.

As with the previous Age of Conversation books, all proceeds from the sale of AOC3 will go to charity. This year, it is the Make a Wish Foundation. Pretty exciting!

Be sure to check out the AOC website. The book will be available for sale soon, so check back regularly to buy your copy here!

Age of Conversation 3 is divided into the following topics:

• At the coalface
• Conversational branding
• Influence
• Getting to work
• Corporate conversations
• Measurement
• In the boardroom
• Pitching social media
• Innovation and execution
• Identities, friends and trusted strangers

My chapter appears in Innovation and Execution.

These are my fellow co-authors:

Adam Joseph, Priyanka Sachar, Mark Earls, Cory Coley-Christakos, Stefan Erschwendner, Paul Hebert, Jeff De Cagna, Thomas Clifford, Phil Gerbyshak, Jon Burg, Toby Bloomberg, Shambhu Neil Vineberg, Joseph Jaffe, Uwe Hook, Steve Roesler, Michael E. Rubin, anibal casso, Steve Woodruff, Steve Sponder, Becky Carroll, Tim Tyler, Chris Wilson, Beth Harte, Tinu Abayomi-Paul, Dan Schawbel, Carol Bodensteiner, Trey Pennington, David Weinfeld, Dan Sitter, Vanessa DiMauro, Ed Brenegar, David Zinger, Brett T. T. Macfarlane, Efrain Mendicuti, Deb Brown, Brian Reich, Gaurav Mishra, Dennis Deery, C.B. Whittemore, Gordon Whitehead, Heather Rast, Cam Beck, Hajj E. Flemings, Joan Endicott, Cathryn Hrudicka, Jeroen Verkroost, Karen D. Swim, Christopher Morris, Joe Pulizzi, Leah Otto, Corentin Monot, Karalee Evans, Leigh Durst, David Berkowitz, Kevin Jessop, Lesley Lambert, Duane Brown, Peter Korchnak, Mark Price, Dustin Jacobsen, Piet Wulleman, Mike Maddaloni, Ernie Mosteller, Scott Townsend, Nick Burcher, Frank Stiefler, Steve Olenski, Rich Nadworny, John Rosen, Tim Jackson, Suzanne Hull, Len Kendall, Amber Naslund, Wayne Buckhanan, Mark McGuinness, Caroline Melberg, Andy Drish, Oleksandr Skorokhod, Claire Grinton, Angela Maiers, Paul Williams, Gary Cohen, Armando Alves, Sam Ismail, Gautam Ramdurai, B.J. Smith, Tamera Kremer, Eaon Pritchard, Brendan Tripp, Adelino de Almeida, Jacob Morgan, Casey Hibbard, Andy Hunter, Julian Cole, Debra Helwig, Anjali Ramachandran, Jye Smith, Drew McLellan, Craig Wilson, Karin Hermans, Emily Reed, David Petherick, Katie Harris, Gavin Heaton, Dennis Price, Mark Levy, George Jenkins, Doug Mitchell, Mark W. Schaefer, Helge Tenno, Douglas Hanna, Marshall Sponder, James Stevens, Ian Lurie, Ryan Hanser, Jenny Meade , Jeff Larche, Sacha Tueni and Katherine Maher, David Svet, Jessica Hagy, Simon Payn, Joanne Austin-Olsen, Mark Avnet, Stanley Johnson, Marilyn Pratt, Mark Hancock, Steve Kellogg, Michelle Beckham-Corbin, Michelle Chmielewski, Amy Mengel, Veronique Rabuteau, Peter Komendowski, Andrea Vascellari, Timothy L Johnson, Phil Osborne, Beth Wampler, Amy Jussel, Rick Liebling, Eric Brody, Arun Rajagopal, Dr Letitia Wright, Hugh de Winton, David Koopmans, Aki Spicer, Jeff Wallace, Don Frederiksen, Charles Sipe, Katie McIntyre, James G Lindberg & Sandra Renshaw, David Reich, Lynae Johnson, Jasmin Tragas, Deborah Chaddock Brown, Mike O'Toole, Jeanne Dininni, Iqbal Mohammed, Morriss M. Partee, Katie Chatfield, Jeff Cutler, Pete Jones, Riku Vassinen, Jeff Garrison, Kevin Dugan, Tiphereth Gloria, Mike Sansone, Lori Magno, Valerie Simon, Nettie Hartsock, Mark Goren, Peter Salvitti

Marvelously, two of the authors from Age of Conversation 2 — Gretel Going & Kate Fleming -- offered to help publish version 3 via their newly started publishing company called Channel V Books.

As Drew' explains: "They work with business thought leaders who need to publish books in order to promote themselves and their businesses, solidify their credibility and attract new opportunities—but don’t have the time (or desire) to learn and manage the intricacies of the publishing business in the process. Channel V Books bridges the gap between self-publishing and traditional publishing by offering the best of both worlds: the highest production quality, distribution channels, visibility, creative flexibility, ease and, most importantly, profitability. To learn more about Channel V Books, visit their website, or contact gretel@channelvmedia.com.

Thank you, Gretel and Kate, Drew and Gavin, and all of my fellow co-authors!

Meanwhile, please stay tuned for more information about Age of Conversation 3: It's Time To Get Busy! It will be available for sale very soon!