Listen Now: Google+ is Google’s social network, launched publicly in September 2011 following a three-month beta test phase. According to its Wikipedia entry, as of September 2012, it has a total of 400 million registered users of whom 100 million are active on a monthly basis. In What the Plus! Google+ for the Rest of [...]

“Social media has become an invaluable tool in my PR armoury by giving me a direct voice to speak directly to members of the media and the general public,” says Lord Sugar. “This book is a useful guide to using social media effectively.” Gaining such a glowing endorsement for a business book from one of [...]

Gini Dietrich was the guest author for the third installment of the FIR Book Club, hosted by FIR Book Review Editor Bob LeDrew. Gini co-authored Marketing in the Round with Geoff Livingston. Gini Dietrich is the founder and CEO of Arment Dietrich, a Chicago-based integrated marketing communication firm. She also is the founder of the [...]

FIR Book Review Editor Bob LeDrew reviews Marketing in the Round, a collaboration between Arment-Dietrich CEO Gini Dietrich and marketing strategist Geoff Livingston. From the book description: “It’s not about social media. Or new (or old) media. It’s about results – and there’s only one way to get results. You must finally bite the bullet, [...]

The next meeting of the FIR Book Club is on the calendar: Friday June 29, 2012 2pm EDT / 7pm UK / 11am PDT Gini Dietrich is co-author (with Geoff Livingston) of Marketing in the Round. Order the book (hardcover or Kindle edition) so you can read it before the call! Gini Dietrich is the [...]

FIR Book Review Editor Bob LeDrew reviews The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us, by Nora Young, the host of Spark on Canadian Broadcasting Corporation radio. The recent release explores the very real impact of the virtual information we generate about ourselves – on our own lives, our communities, [...]

FIR co-host Neville Hobson reviews the Kindle e-book edition of #FAIL: The 50 Greatest Social Media Screw-Ups and How to Avoid Being the Next One, by Bernhard Warner and Matthew Yeomans. This book lays bare not only the biggest corporate mistakes and miscalculations of the social media age, but also points out where the organizational [...]

FIR co-host Shel Holtz reviews Jane McGonigal‘s Reality is Broken, which argues that the principles of game play can lead to better results than the routine approaches we take to problem-solving in the real world. From the book’s description: “In this ground-breaking exploration of the power and future of gaming, McGonigal reveals how we can [...]