2008 Age of Conversation Author List Finalized

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Drew McLellan and Gavin Heaton have finalized the list of contributing authors for the 2008 edition of the Age of Conversation. Natural attrition pared down the original list of 275 to 237 finalists. And the list reads like a who’s who of the blogging, social media and online marketing realm.

This means the book is one step closer to final publication, currently slated for later this summer. In the meantime I can offer you a sneek peek inside.

Check out some of these blogs from the list below. Be sure to subscribe to the any that strike your fancy. Read more

Contributing to The Age of Conversation: Why Don’t People Get It?

About a year ago Drew McLellan and 100 other bloggers collaborated on a groundbreaking book called The Age of Conversation. With such a distinguished contributer list and all the proceeds of the book benefiting Variety - the Children’s Charity it was a fabulous project.

If you’d like to get an insight on how some of the thought leaders in social media are engaging in conversation during the course of their businesses grab yourself a copy of the book. You’ll be helping a good cause while you’re at it.

Head Down

While all this was going on last year I was up to my eyeballs in SOBCon07 preparations. Between that and general life craziness I didn’t even catch wind of the project until it went to publication. I was head down focused on my business.

Perhaps that was a good thing because I was pretty stretched out at the time. Adding one more thing might have pushed me over the edge!
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Six Ways to Make People Like You

Most of us want to be liked by others.

The trouble that the vast masses of humanity have with this is that they run smack into their own selfishness. Because of their own self-fixation, they end up repelling the very people they want to like them. Sometimes that selfishness comes out in down right rudeness. But more often it is more a case that they bore people to death.

Did you know you can even be a very exciting speaker and still bore people to death? People who are successful in their relationships know it.

Successful people who relate well with others have learned a simple truth. And that is this: People are more interested in themselves than any other subject.

If you want to have more success in your relationships here are six simple things you can do.

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