Steve Cunningham of Polar Unlimited posted recently on Mashable with a list of Top 5 Must-Read Social Media Books – it was a great post and defines the books in terms of major lessons to be learned from each. Here is the list of books but read the post on Mashable for the full scoop.
- Trust Agents by Chris Brogan and Julien Smith
- The Whuffie Factor by Tara Hunt
- Six Pixels of Separation by Mitch Joel
- Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuck
- The New Community Rules by Tamar Weinberg
It is a great reading list for 2010, but to be honest I will likely read more than that next year. So I will add 5 more books to my social media reading list in the new year. I am interested now in the needs of a very professional company and must employ social media within very strict confines while still fostering communication between vendors, clients and potential clients. I will base the rest of my reading list on these needs as the above list covers much of the basics.
6. The Corporate Blogging Book: Absolutely Everything You Need to Know to Get It Right by Debbie Weil
7. Facebook Cookbook: Building Applications to Grow Your Facebook Empire by Jay Goldmann (this is more for development, but it is social media development)
8. Email Marketing By the Numbers: How to Use the World’s Greatest Marketing Tool to Take Any Organization to the Next Level by Chris Baggott and Ali Sales
9. SocialCorp: Social Media Goes Corporate by Joel Postman
10. Building Social Web Applications: Establishing Community at the Heart of Your Site by Gavin Bell
What I am reading right now? Socialnomics: How social media transforms the way we live and do business by Erik Qualman and Winning Results with Google Adwords by Andrew Goodman (bought it at SES Toronto… forgot all about it until recently).
What is on your social media reading list for 2010?
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