Dogears: Good stuff I pre-read for my favorite readers

Just a few great finds of late to share ... some are sites, some are articles, but all good enough to be worth spreading.

Engage:

• Every week new inspired talks by the world's greatest thinkers and doers are posted at TED. Visit often.
• Great Tree People site for New Zealanders by Genesis Energy. Love how it shows - not tells - community. Check out the Adverblog post for more details.
• New (to me) tools: Track changes on any Web site (RSS enabled or not) and get better free insight into competitive site traffic (or your own if your boss is super cheap)
• Highly passed around already, but worth a watch if you missed: Social Media in Plain English by Common Craft

Read:

• Marketing Charts: Journalists’ Views on Social-Media’s Influence on Reporting Differ by Beat
• Business Week: Beyond Blogs
  
• New York Times: Exposed, Blog Post Confidential
• Found on Adaptive Path ...Harvard Publishing: Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too
• Bokardo: Designing for the Social Web: The Usage Lifecycle
• Marketing Profs: Sean Howard on The Why and How of Engaging Bloggers at Your Event

Comments

[Stan Lee]

There was I thinking I was the only person who checked out TED on a regular basis.