By Nettie Hartsock on Feb 29, 2008 in Books | 0 Comments
As Mr. T. was prone to say, “I pity the fool…that doesn’t get to come and hang out at SXSW and see all these amazing things happening!” So here are some you just gotta do! I’m up for Gonzo definitely!
The SXSW Film Festival (March 7-15 in Austin) and The Texas Book Festival would like to [...]
By Nettie Hartsock on Feb 28, 2008 in Books | 0 Comments
I love Book Expo America and this year it will be held in Los Angeles and Lewis Black will be there as part of the BEA events! Cool cool cool beans!
I highly recommend if you have not ever attended BEA that you see if you can make it to the “big show.” It’s an amazing [...]
By Nettie Hartsock on Feb 28, 2008 in Online Outreach | 0 Comments
I’m always touting LinkedIn and ask all my clients to re-engage their “linkedin-ness” and this article in the NYTimes today by Michelle Slatalla is a superb take on LinkedIn and building that ever-necessary “web of influence” one ping at a time.
By Nettie Hartsock on Feb 28, 2008 in Creativity | 0 Comments
If you’re an author, musician or even a creative thinker at your company you know there are times when it seems like the world is against you and you can’t possibly find a way to succeed. But take heart and think like an ANT.
In my work with authors or musicians in terms of online efforts [...]
By Nettie Hartsock on Feb 22, 2008 in Books | 0 Comments
I’m thrilled to say that two books I helped do online outreach for are named as finalists for the Axiom Awards!
Lois Kelly’s “Beyond Buzz: The Next Generation of Word-of-Mouth Marketing” and Erika Andersen’s outstanding book, “Growing Great Employees: Turning Ordinary People into Extraordinary Performers”!
Congrats to both of you extraordinary authors and what a [...]
By Nettie Hartsock on Feb 19, 2008 in Books, Creativity, Doing the Greater Good | 0 Comments
If you’re tired of the YouTube videos with someone singing songs to Britney then you might be ready for the site BigThink.com , which officially went live on January 7th. BigThink.com’s founder Peter Hopkins told the E-Commerce Times that his goal in creating the site was to “create a venue to exchange ideas online. Our [...]
By Nettie Hartsock on Feb 14, 2008 in Blogs | 0 Comments
It’s Valentine’s day and I’m in San Francisco doing a Web 2.0 presentation for an amazing group of publicists, authors and marketers, but I still want to send a great shout of heartfelt encouragement to all those folks who want to write and produce a stellar book. You can do it!
I also wanted to address [...]