The Butterfly Effect: A Book Review

Posted on September 7, 2010 by Jeff

How significant is my life?  Do I make a difference?  When I move…when I act…when I do something…does the universe notice?  Do I really matter? Thus begins the new book from Andy Andrews called The Butterfly Effect: How Your Life Matters. Few books of significance are as brief as this one.  Totaling a little over [...]

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The Portable Patriot: A Book Review

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Jeff

While Independence Day may be behind us, that doesn’t mean we have to put our patriotism on the shelf until next year.  A recent e-mail I received from a PR agent tipped me off to a new book from Thomas Nelson Publishers called The Portable Patriot: Documents, Speeches, and Sermons That Compose the American Soul and [...]

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No Size Fits All: Video Book Review No. 2

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Jeff

I first became aware of this intriguing new book at Mark Ramsey’s blog Hear 2.0.  If you’re so inclined, I highly recommend you take some time to read his analysis of what the book has to offer. If you’re in the business of figuring out your industry’s or company’s digital future, and are fascinated by [...]

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The Only Book on Social Media Marketing You’ll Ever Need

Posted on November 30, 2009 by Jeff

Several months ago I promised Tamar Weinberg I’d do a video review of her book The New Community Rules: Marketing on the Social Web.  My apologies to her for taking so long to get around to it.  After all, how hard can a video book review be, right? After being sidetracked with other projects shortly [...]

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Find Your Strongest Life by Marcus Buckingham: A Review

Posted on October 5, 2009 by Jeff

Okay, I’ll just come out and say it. It’s been really hard to Find My Strongest Anything lately.  There have been two deaths in my family in the last week,  yesterday my one and only laptop hard drive crashed (I’m on a borrowed one now) and, I realized just moments ago that this review is actually due [...]

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A Million Miles in a Thousand Years by Donald Miller: A Review

Posted on September 29, 2009 by Jeff

If you watched a movie about a guy who wanted a Volvo and worked for years to get it, you wouldn’t cry at the end when he drove off the lot, testing the windshield wipers.  You wouldn’t tell your friends you saw a beautiful movie or go home and put a record on to think [...]

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Chris Brogan, Trust Agents and Social Media: Old-Fashioned Common Sense

Posted on September 25, 2009 by Jeff

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of sitting in on a presentation made my Chris Brogan.  Through Thursday you can purchase a DVD of the event.  Christine Taylor and JTMar partnered with Stage Post Studios to not only make Chris available in person to several hundred Nashvillians, but they also streamed the event online, including incorporating [...]

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Don Miller: Tour and New Book

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Jeff

I’m as excited as I’ve been in a long time.  88.7 WAY-FM is partnering with Chaffee Management Group to bring author Donald Miller to Nashville to speak in November.  He’s probably best known for his New York Times best-selling book Blue Like Jazz. As a book review blogger for Thomas Nelson Publishers, I also confirmed [...]

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The Noticer by Andy Andrews: A Review

Posted on April 27, 2009 by Jeff

The Noticer: Sometimes, all a person needs is a little perspective. by Andy Andrews Thomas Nelson Publishers In a matter of minutes, Jones, as he prefers to be called (no “Mr.” just Jones), can completely disarm the most stubborn stranger he encounters with little more than a few probing questions and several common sense, but [...]

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The Noticer Project: 5 People That Have Impacted You Most

Posted on April 26, 2009 by Jeff

If  you’re anything like me, you pretty much suck at noticing your surroundings.  Any time my wife makes a change to something within our home (a new wall hanging, rearranged furniture, a different brand of toothpaste even), it usually requires her pointing it out to me.  Let’s just say I’ve missed my share of “Your [...]

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