A new book has recently been published that I thought some of you might be interested in reading. It's all about how we can use technology for political activism. While many books have already been written about the tools and tactics available for activists online, this is the first book to attempt to map the field of digital activism in its entirety.

This is a great book for non-profit leadership to sink their teeth into.  It's both hi-level and granuar in scope, providing you with content to start a creative fire within your organization to anaylze/implement/adapt a new tool for collaborative endeavors as well as give you prolific, quality examples of how other organizations have increased mutliple capacities by leveraging wiki into their bucket o' resources.

A few years ago I had the distinct pleasure of sitting thru a 7 hour session with Shel Holtz presenting on the topic of using new media tools for all sorts of repurposing communications efforts. Besides getting to see Ray Kurzweil speak for 2 hours, Holtz's presentation was the best I've seen on the topic. So I'm going to review his book, co-authored with Ted Demoplous, blogging for Busines: Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care.

Now, right off the bat, some employees may contend that their blog is not used for business purposes, to which I ask...are you kidding? If you're talking about your company, you're talking about the business of your company, end of story.

Last January, Tessie Guillermo, President and CEO of ZeroDivide, wrote in her post, What's On Your Nightstand?,

"Many of the executives I know have at least two things in common: obsessive multitasking disorder, and an avid appetite for reading. In my particular case, I am a multitasking reader. I often find myself reading three or four books at one time, almost never in chapter sequence; as well as four or five periodicals, and at least a couple of published reports and the like."

What books/magazines/reports are on your nightstand/in your laptop bag/in your beach tote?

Here a few from my pile:

I was given a review copy of "Getting to First Base" a social media marketing how to book by Darren Barefoot and Julia Szabo.    The books provides great advice on the following topics:

• Bring more visitors to your website
  Increase your company’s visibility online
  Engage with online influencers

 

I recently discovered Library Thing, an online service to help people catalog their books.

Here are some of the features of Library Thing:

• You add books by searching Amazon and other libraries.
• You can use Library Thing to find people with similar libraries and get suggestions from people with your interests.
• You can also add tags to your books and find books by tags. (just like del.icio.us and Flickr)
• You can learn more about a user by clicking on their user profile.

There are so many more features about this website. To find out more about Library Thing, check out About Library Thing .