Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Recommended Social Media Books

Hello Students of Social Media--

Rich Hauer asked a very good question. He wanted me to recommend the top 5 books from the many I referenced in class Monday. Here they are in no particular order:
Comm, Joel, Twitter Power, John Wiley and Sons Publishing (ISBN#: 978-0-470-45842-6)

Holzner, Steven, Facebook Marketing: Leverage Social Media to Grow Your Business, Que Publishing (ISBN#: 978-0-7897-3802-8)

Li, Charlene and Bernoff, Josh, Groundswell, Harvard Business Press (ISBN#: 978-1-4221-2500-7)

Miller, Michael, YouTube for Business: Online Video marketing for Any Business, Que Publishing (ISBN#: 978-0-7897-3797-7)

Webber, Larry, Marketing to the Social Web, John Wiley and Sons Publishing (ISBN#: 978-0-470-12417-8)

With honorable mention going out to:
Ash, Tim, Landing Page Optimization, The Definitive Guide to Testing and Tuning for Conversions, Wiley Publishing, Inc. (ISBN#: 978-0-470-17462-3)

Remember you can buy these right from the links on our Web site: http://www.rbtagency.com/books.shtm

Also, I plan on posting reviews of these books. Watch for this -- I hope you find it valuable.

Thanks for asking Rich!

Tim

3 comments:

Deborah said...

Tim, I haven't had time to review these books yet, but I do really appreciate the article you mention at right, "Creating a Social Media Plan," is fantastic.

Tim Callen said...

Hi Deborah-- Great. Thanks for the feedback. TC

Bruce said...

Thanks for the reading list.