Archive for the ‘Recommended Reading’ Category

UnMarketing – Scott Stratten

April 21st, 2011 | By Angela Nielsen

I like to read, scratch that... I love to read. I could read before I started kindergarten, and used to win the pizza coupons and ice cream parties from the Book-It program every summer (for reading the most books)! In fact, in 3rd grade my mom had to go down to our local library and ...

Twitter Power 2.0 – Joel Comm

April 6th, 2011 | By Angela Nielsen

Book Review:Twitter Power 2.0 How To Dominate Your Market One Tweet At A Time, by Joel Comm If you are looking for someone you can trust with the big picture as well as the nitty gritty about how to do Twitter with your business, check out Twitter Power 2.0 by Joel Comm. I bought the Kindle version and ...

Inspiring Design Quotes

November 27th, 2010 | By Angela Nielsen

Sometimes we just need a little inspiration. As designers, we get some of that inspiration from quotes on design. We have compiled a list of some of our favorites. If you have some you would like to share, please leave them in the comments. Enjoy! Pretty graphics don't mean a thing unless they align with and support ...

Rework – 37 Signals

May 26th, 2010 | By Angela Nielsen

From Amazon... This book will make you uncomfortable. Depending on what you do all day, it might make you extremely uncomfortable. That's a very good thing, because you deserve it. We all do. Jason and David have broken all the rules and won. Again and again they've demonstrated that the regular way isn't necessarily the right way. They just ...

Eat That Frog – Brian Tracy

February 2nd, 2010 | By Angela Nielsen

Eat That Frog - 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get more Done in Less Time From Amazon... The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 450,000 copies sold and translated into 23 languages) provides the 21 most effective methods for conquering procrastination and accomplishing more. This new edition is revised and updated throughout, ...

Blink – Malcolm Gladwell

January 21st, 2010 | By Angela Nielsen

Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking From Amazon... Blink is about the first two seconds of looking--the decisive glance that knows in an instant. Gladwell, the best-selling author of The Tipping Point, campaigns for snap judgments and mind reading with a gift for translating research into splendid storytelling. Building his case with scenes from a ...

How To Win Friends and Influence People – Dale Carnegie

January 14th, 2010 | By Angela Nielsen

How To Win Friends and Influence People From Amazon... This grandfather of all people-skills books was first published in 1937. It was an overnight hit, eventually selling 15 million copies. How to Win Friends and Influence People is just as useful today as it was when it was first published, because ...

Six Pixels of Separation – Mitch Joel

January 6th, 2010 | By Angela Nielsen

Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business To Everyone. From Amazon... Is it important to be connected? Well, consider this: If Facebook were a country, it would have the sixth largest population in the world. The truth is, we no longer live in a world of six degrees of separation. In fact, we're now down ...

New Rules of Marketing and PR – David Meerman Scott

December 21st, 2009 | By Angela Nielsen

The New Rules of Marketing and PR: How to Use Social Media, Blogs, News Releases, Online Video, and Viral Marketing to Reach Buyers Directly From Amazon... A completely revised and updated edition of the BusinessWeek bestseller on effective, modern marketing and PR best practices The New Rules of Marketing and PR shows you how to leverage the potential ...

The Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell

November 16th, 2009 | By Angela Nielsen

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference From Amazon... This celebrated New York Times bestseller now poised to reach an even wider audience in paperback is a book that is changing the way North Americans think about selling products and disseminating ideas. Gladwell's new afterword to this edition describes how readers can constructively ...