New Online Destination Debuts for People Seeking a Little Serenity for the Holidays
Welcome to Serenity website features recipes, decorating tips, gift ideas, shopping lists, tips on how to beat the holiday blues and ways for you to join in
How many times during the holidays does the average woman wish she could just slip away for a few moments to someplace beautiful and serene?
That’s the impetus behind a new on-line destination designed to put serenity into every woman’s holidays: http://www.welcometoserenitybook.com/.
There New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods has created a virtual holiday oasis holiday menus, recipes and associated grocery shopping lists; gift ideas for friends, relatives and co-workers; suggestions for holiday traditions; resolution ideas for creating a serene New Year; and even a compilation of serene quotations to buoy spirits after a day of long lines at the mall.
The site was inspired by the author’s new book, “Welcome to Serenity” (MIRA Books, December 2008), a novel about women’s friendships and second chances at love set in the fictional town of Serenity, S.C. There, Jeanette Brioche works at The Corner Spa and tries to hide that she’s something of a grinch an almost futile effort in a town given to celebrating rather than observing the holiday season.
In the book, Jeanette’s friends and spa co-workers believe most problems of life and stress are best addressed with comfort food, conversation and tradition, so Woods says the website spinoff was a natural.
“This website will carry you all the way from a Thanksgiving dinner filled with traditional treats to your New Year’s toast,” promised Woods.
The website also provides places for visitors to share their own traditions, gift ideas, New Year’s resolutions and ultimate serene moments, she said.
As with the women in “Welcome to Serenity,” Woods hopes the website will become a place of community and friendship for all of those who could use a little serenity for the holidays.
To learn more, visit: http://www.welcometoserenitybook.com/.
New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods is author of more than 100 books, including the Sweet Magnolias series. “Welcome to Serenity” is the fourth book in that series, which also includes “Stealing Home,” “A Slice of Heaven” and “Feels Like Family.”
Docstoc Releases Email Document Publishing
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Publishing Your Documents Online just got even easier. Docstoc has released their newest feature, Email Document Publishing.
You can simply email any document(s) from your registered email account on Docstoc as attachments to uploads@docstoc.com and the are instantly published on docstoc for all the world to share.
Users then get an email confirmation back with links to all the documents they have uploaded, that they can they pass on and share with any contacts.
Other recent improvements include an enhanced Onsite Upload tool which maked embeding documents even easier. Simply upload any documents onsite, and in the upload process as they are converting they generate an “embed link” so that you can instantly upload and embed documents anywhere around the web.
Now users can also embed documents as presentations (It did this by default for all .ppt files, but you can select .pdf or .doc or.xls to display as presentation as well).
Since the release of Docstoc Sync and Docstoc OneClick there has been a 250% growth in number of contributors to the site each month with contributors uploading over 100 documents each on average.
Monster Pairs with Best-Selling Career Success Author Marcus Buckingham for The Truth About You National Book Tour
Buckingham’s Fifth Book Reveals Important Message to Young Professionals about Career Choices and Life Improvement
Monster, the leading global online careers and recruitment resource and flagship brand of Monster Worldwide, Inc., today announced its sponsorship of best-selling author Marcus Buckingham’s The Truth About You national book tour. With a shared philosophy on the importance of work and life satisfaction, Monster and Buckingham deliver a strong message on the correlation between career decisions and life improvement.
Buckingham, one of the world’s leading experts in career success, speaks predominately to a Gen-Y audience in his fifth book, The Truth About You, Your Secret to Success (Thomas Nelson Publishers, $29.99), which challenges readers to put their strengths and passions to work. Through his book and university tour, Buckingham hopes to offer college students and the American workforce the ultimate edge in work and life. as he reveals that there is a science to success that can be achieved by those who fine-tune their work to focus on their personal strengths.
Throughout October and November, Monster will sponsor Buckingham as he continues his tour across 13 American cities, showing people how they can achieve true satisfaction and lasting success by pursuing careers in areas where they have a passionate interest. Monster and Buckingham are the perfect complement to each other as The Truth About You helps people shift the way they think about their work life while Monster helps people find opportunities that cater to their strengths and have the potential to provide the most job satisfaction.
“We are thrilled to sponsor The Truth About You tour as the book’s ‘living in your strengths’ empowerment message perfectly aligns with our efforts to help job seekers find the balance between work and life,” said Ted Gilvar, Executive Vice President and Global Chief Marketing Officer, Monster. “We are committed to the promise of inspiring people to improve their lives and in The Truth About You, Marcus Buckingham challenges his readers to do just that – seek careers that match their strengths and interests.”
“I’m delighted to have Monster’s sponsorship of The Truth About You book tour,” said Marcus Buckingham. The highly innovative team at Monster understands, as I do, that fewer than two out of ten people are ever able to enjoy a high level of satisfaction in their career. The goals of this book and this tour are to help audiences discover those key elements that will bring them the optimal professional satisfaction—and one step closer to learning the secret to their own success.”
Monster will be sponsoring Buckingham at the following leading university campuses throughout the fall. For more information about Marcus Buckingham or to purchase tickets to see him talk live about The Truth About You, visit: http://www.marcusbuckingham.com/site/ttay/tour.php.
Remaining Tour Dates:
October 22, 2008 Dayton, OH University of Dayton / University of Dayton Arena
October 24, 2008 Ithaca, NY Cornell University/The Johnson School, Kennedy Hall, David L. Call Alumni Auditorium
October 29, 2008 Memphis, TN Rhodes College / Bryan Campus Life Center, McCallum Ballroom
November 3, 2008 Nashville, TN Belmont University / Curb Center
November 5, 2008 Stillwater, OK
Oklahoma State University / Wes Watkins Center
November 7, 2008 Azusa, CA Azusa Pacific University / Upper Turner Campus Center
November 10, 2008 Seattle, WA Town Hall Seattle
About Monster Worldwide
Monster Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ: MNST), parent company of Monster, the premier global online employment solution for more than a decade, strives to inspire people to improve their lives. With a local presence in key markets in North America, Europe, and Asia, Monster works for everyone by connecting employers with quality job seekers at all levels and by providing personalized career advice to consumers globally. Through online media sites and services, Monster delivers vast, highly targeted audiences to advertisers. Monster Worldwide is a member of the S&P 500 index and the NASDAQ 100. To learn more about Monster’s industry-leading products and services, visit www.monster.com.
About Marcus Buckingham
Best-selling author, consultant and speaker, Marcus Buckingham is widely considered one of the world’s leading authorities on employee productivity and the practices of leading and managing. Buckingham addresses more than 250,000 people around the globe each year and is routinely lauded by such corporations as Toyota, Coca-Cola, Master Foods, Wells Fargo, Microsoft and Disney as an invaluable resource in informing, challenging, mentoring and inspiring people to find their strengths and obtain and sustain long-lasting personal success. In his role as author, independent consultant and speaker, Marcus Buckingham has been the subject of in-depth profiles in The New York Times, Fortune, Fast Company, Harvard Business Review, USA Today and the Wall Street Journal. The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success follows Marcus Buckingham’s four best-selling books First, Break All the Rules (coauthored with Curt Coffman, Simon & Schuster, 1999); Now, Discover Your Strengths (coauthored with Donald O. Clifton, The Free Press, 2001); The One Thing You Need to Know (The Free Press, 2005); Go Put Your Strengths To Work (The Free Press, 2007).
About Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Founded in 1798 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Thomas Nelson is today the world’s largest inspirational publisher and one of the largest trade publishers in the U.S., releasing hundreds of new books every year in categories as broad as business, current events, history, biography, health and nutrition, spiritual growth, practical living, lifestyle, Bibles, reference, children’s books, and fiction. Thomas Nelson is home to some of the biggest names in publishing, including Max Lucado, William J. Bennett, John Maxwell, Dave Ramsey, Robin McGraw, John MacArthur, Ted Dekker, Marcus Buckingham, John Eldredge, and Donald Miller, many of whom appear regularly on multiple national best seller lists. Committed to international growth, it has offices in China, Brazil, and Mexico, as well as a Spanish language group. For more information, visit our Web site www.thomasnelson.com.
21 Nights by Prince on Sale Now
Filed under: Book Launches, Launch Events, press release
21 Nights with Prince
After 28 albums, music legend Prince has released his first book: 21 Nights with Prince, a photo collection that chronicles his London tour by Prince’s photographer Randee St. Nicholas.
21 Nights–a first book by Prince and celebrated photographer Randee St. Nicholas is a stunning multimedia volume offering a rare glimpse into the life, lyrics and mystique of one of the most notable and prolific musicians of our time. This beautifully designed photographic essay flows from Prince’s sensational, unprecedented, record-breaking, sold-out 21 concerts in 21 Nights at London’s 02 Arena in 2007. Giving insight into his dueling worlds of performance and solitude, 21 Nights incorporates Prince’s evocative poetry and lyrics to new songs and other selections, and 124 full-color, sumptuous never-before-published images by Randee St. Nicholas. As part of the multi-dimensional experience, it will also include “Indigo Night,” a CD–available only with the book–capturing Prince’s after-hours, live after-show sessions–rare and profound moments of musical genius.
21 Nights takes the reader from the passenger seat of a limousine zipping through the streets of London to his sleeping quarters in a luxury hotel. In between we see him and his phenomenal band of musicians, singers and dancers backstage in the make up room to onstage, bathed in purple lights and a fog of gray smoke. Like a movie-in-a-book, readers are taken on his journey from London to Prague, in a style that takes glam rock to a new level.
Then there is poetry and lyrics that reveal the heart and soul of Prince–in addition to his incomparable talent. Going beyond the catchy hook, he expresses himself on everything from the destructive forces of war, greed and superficiality the life giving energy of love, beauty, and–of course–music.
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Those who have spent the most time with him are both frustrated and inspired. To know him is to know that you probably will never really know him and to question that is a waste of time…wasting time is something one should never do…and something Prince holds in high disregard. He is passionate and funny and smarter than any of you will probably ever believe…he stretches everyone around him and I’m not sure he even understands why…and those who get it without trying to understand soar and grow creatively in a way they probably could not find on their own…it is not a manipulation for control’s sake as it is often judged…it is a way of being…a way of constantly stirring things up…a conduit to achieve creative exhaustion…so that you just do whatever it is you do, free of the limits of how you think you should do it…you are simply forced to trust yourself and to trust him…and in the end it is a gift, one that you have worked very hard for and there is great satisfaction in that. Now that you know this you will see him as I have seen him over these few weeks during the summer of 2007 in a city we hold synonymous with royalty…fitting for a Prince…a man…a musician…an artist who is truly like no other.
– Randee St. Nicholas,
From the Introduction
Peachpit Releases Web Video Making It Great, Getting It Noticed
Peachpit today announced the publication of Web Video Making It Great, Getting It Noticed, by Jennie Bourne with Dave Burstein. This innovative book shows readers how to take their video from concept to prominence on the Web, getting noticed and making money along the way.
Web Video offers practical, step-by-step instruction and advice from top experts in the field, with hands-on projects and footage available for download at the author’s Web site, www.webvideobook.tv. Readers will learn everything they need to know, including what it takes to turn a video into a viral hit on the Web, how to shoot high-quality video that stands out, editing techniques that draw in viewers, and more.
Web Video: Making It Great, Getting It Noticed is now available at Peachpit.com, Amazon.com, and as an eBook via Safari Books Online.
About The Authors
Jennie Bourne has produced hundreds of short videos for the Web and built a state-of-the-art Web video studio. Her credits include launching PulverTV, creating video profiles for the Marconi Society and a documentary on ecological literacy, field producing for German TV, and editing news film for ABC and NBC TV. She anchored the Evening News at WBAI FM, studied film at NYU, journalism at Columbia University, and taught Web video at Rutgers University. She and Burstein are working on a documentary about Macintosh inventor Jef Raskin.
Dave Burstein is the publisher and editor of DSL Prime. An expert on broad-band networks and an award-winning radio host, Burstein organized Web Video Summit where he wowed insiders with one of the world’s first demos of 6-MB HD video streaming live.
About Peachpit
Berkeley-based Peachpit has been publishing the industry’s best-selling books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web design and development, digital video and general Macintosh computing since 1986. Its award-winning books feature step-by-step explanations, time-saving techniques, savvy insider tips, and expert advice for computer users of all sorts. It is the home of the internationally recognized Visual QuickStart Guide series, the design imprint New Riders and its highly popular Voices That Matter series, and is the publishing partner for Adobe Press, lynda.com, NAPP, Apple Certified, AIGA Design Press and others. Peachpit is part of Pearson, the international media company. Pearson’s primary operations also include the Financial Times Group and the Penguin Group. Learn more at www.peachpit.com and www.pearson.com.
Microsoft Press New Fall and Future Releases
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Zondervan Announces New Biography of Sarah Palin
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Most Talked-About Woman in America is the Model for the 21st Century Leader
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s nomination as vice presidential candidate by John McCain not only changed the landscape of the current election, but also marks a shift in leadership style across our country. Her acceptance speech during the Republican National Convention showcased her personal brand of intelligence, passion, vigor and hope, and explained why she is the most talked-about woman in America.
A new biography, titled “Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader” by Joe Hilley (Zondervan 2008), will explore themes from her career in politics, her life as a hockey mom, and her strongly held Christian faith, explaining how they influence her new style of leadership and align with our changing economy in the information age. The book is scheduled for release nationwide on October 10, 2008.
“Regardless of your political persuasion, it is clear that Sarah Palin has quickly electrified the 2008 election and sparked a nationwide dialogue and debate,” said Moe Girkins, president and CEO of Zondervan. “We are honored to publish this book that will provide readers with a comprehensive look into the life and rising political career of Sarah Palin.”
In “Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader”, Hilley explores traits from Palin’s background and experience, including her maverick integrity, electrifying communication style, career agility, and perpetual education, to establish his argument for Palin as an exemplary leader in our rapidly changing cultural landscape. By exploring the leadership principles that have catapulted Palin into the national spotlight, Hilley explains how she models a fresh paradigm of leadership that will guide the United States through the 21st century.
“We live in an age that values relationship over authority and instant information over accuracy, so breadth of knowledge and depth of conviction are the most prized commodities for our leaders,” said Hilley. “Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin brings both of these qualities and more to her new role as John McCain’s running mate and I’m eager for readers to have the opportunity to know her and her brand of leadership more thoroughly.”
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About Joe Hilley
Author Joe Hilley holds a Bachelor of Arts from Asbury College, a Master of Divinity from Asbury Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Jurisprudence from Cumberland School of Law, Samford University. In 1999, he quit the practice of law to write. A lifelong observer of politics and social issues, Joe is the author of five critically-acclaimed novels. He has used those novels as a vehicle for addressing such topics as judicial and political corruption, trafficking in women, and the scourge of meth labs on rural America. His novels include Sober Justice, Double Take, Electric Beach, Night Rain, and The Deposition. He lives in Alabama where he writes full time.
About Zondervan
Zondervan is the world’s leading Christian publisher of books, whose authors are noted for their excellence in the craft of writing as well as their worthy contribution to the ongoing global evangelical conversation. The works published by Zondervan not only confirm readers’ faith and understanding, they also challenge and stretch readers’ thinking. For more than 75 years, Zondervan has delivered transformational Christian experiences through general, ministry, and academic resources by influential leaders and emerging voices, and been honored with more Christian Book Awards than any other publisher. Headquartered in Grand Rapids, Mich., Zondervan publishes bestselling books, audio, video, curriculum, software, and digital products in such categories as biblical languages and studies, biography, business, contemporary issues, counseling, cultural, devotional, evangelism, family, fiction, history, inspiration, leadership, ministry, pastoral, personal development, prayer, philosophy, reference, relationships, textbooks, theology, youth and more. Zondervan resources are sold worldwide through retail stores, online, and by Zondervan ChurchSource, and are translated into nearly 200 languages in more than 60 countries. Visit Zondervan Books on the Internet at www.zondervan.com/books .
Source: Zondervan
Olympic Opening Ceremonies Through The Years (pics)
Filed under: Book Launches, Product Launches, Uncategorized, VC Funding News
Check out these historic and AMAZING photographs of the OlympicOpening Ceremonies dating back to 1920.
Booklert - Track a Book’s Rank on Amazon
Track One Book. Track Many Books
Once you’ve signed up with Booklert, you can start tracking books. Any books that are in Amazon’s catalogue. Your books; your competitors’ books; your favourite books; the books you hate… Booklert doesn’t care. It will send you the rank of whichever books you’re tracking at the times you’ve chosen, and tell you whether each book is climbing the chart, or falling from grace.
Choose When and How You Get Updates
From your settings page you can decide how frequently you receive the updates and how the updates should be delivered. You can get them as often as every hour (although that’s only for the rank addict) or as infrequently as once a week. You can even configure a “quiet time” when Booklert will stop sending you updates each day.
There are two different ways that updates can be sent - the obvious method is via email, but if you have a twitter account then you can receive the updates there too (which means you can even get them sent to your phone).
Show Off Your Rank
If you want to promote your book on your own website or blog then you can use the Booklert badges. Follow the simple steps and you’ll soon have a badge showing your book’s cover and its latest rank on your site. Then if web visitors click on the book they’ll get taken straight to the book’s page on Amazon where they can buy themselves a copy.
You Don’t Need a High Rank to Top Our Charts
And as a final bonus, every Sunday we work out the Booklert rank chart. Rather than just show the books with the highest rank, we look at the fastest movers in the rankings over the previous week. If your book is soaring up the rankings (even if that’s because it started at the bottom…) then it will feature in the “Top Climbers” chart, and similarly, the books dropping like a stone will have a last glimpse of the limelight in the “Going Down” chart.
Who vs. how many
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Quality vs. Quantity - Definately quality wins for me….