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'Chucking Daisies' or How I Learned to Love Defensible Disposition
Records managers, how do you start the defensible disposition conversation? Say it with flowers. Chucking Daisies: Ten Rules for Taking Control of Your Organization’s Digital Debris by Randolph A. Kahn, Esq. and Galina Datskovsky, Ph.D., CRM, is a 2013 publication from ARMA International.
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Book Review: Social Marketology & The Study of Customer Engagement
How does a brand become more of a person and become a part of the conversation? This is one of the first questions Ric Dragon asks in his book Social Marketology: Improve Your Social Media Processes and Get Customers to Stay Forever. In order to answer it, Mr.
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New Book: The Collaborative Organization, a Strategic Guide
A new book has hit the shelves this week. The Collaborative Organization, A Strategic Guide to Solving Your Internal Business Challenges Using Emerging Social and Collaborative Tools comes from Jacob Morgan, co-founder of Chess Media Group and if you are one of the many organizations struggling to understand how to
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Book Review: Social Media in Business
When I cracked open the e-pages of Steve Nicholls' new book, Social Media in Business, I was immediately hooked, especially when I read this: "Organizational problems are really cleverly disguised people issues. Social media is a people issue; the technology is the enabler.
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The Future of Publishing: Storytelling & Content Monetization
RocketSpace and Pearson Publishing put together a panel discussion in San Francisco this week on "The Future of Publishing ". They assembled an esteemed group of progressive publishers attempting to tease-out the future of our dear publishing industry.
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Apple Hits 1 Billion Apps a Week, Starts 2012 With Focus on eBooks
As Apple celebrates its part of 1.2 billion app downloads last week, those centuries-past, paper-based tomes are the focus of the company's first big news in 2012.
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Amazon Publishing to Launch Book Line, Cutting Off Publishers, Agents
Amazon is adopting a new business model, and it might hurt longtime relationships with publishers in the process. But will this be the future of publishing? Earlier this year, Amazon announced the establishment of a new publishing house under a new division, Amazon Publishing.
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Print Publishers Restrict Access to Digital Books
As we wrap up Read an E-book Week, e-books continue to make headlines. As it turns out, while technology has made it possible to read many books from one device, publishers and other traditional venues of book distribution have yet to catch up.
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Read an E-book Week: Examining Digital Reading Trends
It’s Read an E-book Week and as we celebrate authors, readers and the devices that help make reading electronically possible, we are also taking a look at emerging digital reading trends. The State of E-textBooks According to the study, Digital Textbook Sales in U.S. Higher Education – A Five-Year Projection
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Book Review: Clout: The Art & Science of Influential Web Content
Colleen Jones’ new book, Clout, could have been called “The Internet is Not Magic.” The book, which is actually about the art and science of influential web content, is straightforward and useful.
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Book: Kentico CMS 5 - Website Development Beginner's Guide
Kentico (news, site) offers a manual for its Web CMS to help beginners get the most from their sites. Chapter and Verse This Beginner's Guide to Kentico Website Development is a new release, available as either a paper book an ePDF from Packt Publishing, that offers
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O'Reilly and MSFT Press Books for Sale at Apple iBookstore
Here's an all-new level of geekery: Now you can purchase O'Reilly and Microsoft Press Books from the Apple iBookstore. Download the iBooks app to your iPad, iPod touch or iPhone, and you've got a massive searchable reference pool on the go.
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Impelsys Showcases iPad Content Delivery Module For iPublish Central
The last time we covered the Frankfurt Book Fair, 70 percent of active readers were ready to go digital. Two years later, they will get a first look at Impelsys’ new iPad module for its publishing platform, iPublishCentral. A Content Delivery Module The new iPad module lets publishers access
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The Way We E-Read: Do You Read Fast, Slow, More?
Are e-Readers changing the way we read? According to new research, it seems that it is. A study of 1,200 e-reader owners found that 40% read more than they did with print books. e-Readers Increase Accessibility The study, which aimed to look at the behaviors of owners of three devices:
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