Dan McCarthy published his latest Leadership Development Carnival today with links to more than 40 posts about leadership, decision making and accountability. I am honored to announce that a recent post from Lead on Purpose was featured in Dan’s FOGL (friends of Great Leadership) section. Dan’s monthly leadership carnivals bring many thought leaders together in a single forum where you can gain tremendous insight into leadership practices. Reading the Leadership Development Carnival will be well worth your time.
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Lead on Purpose makes Alltop
One of the first blogs that first caught my attention was How to Change the World by Guy Kawasaki. He is one of the foremost thought leaders on entrepreneurism and getting funding through venture capital. He’s also a successful author and entrepreneur himself. A while ago Guy started Alltop, web site that is “an online ‘magazine rack’ of popular topics.” The site has allows you to search for blogs based on topics. “Pick a topic by searching news category or name, and [they’ll] deliver it to you 24×7.” For each blog listed, the five most recent posts appear as links. It’s a great resource to find out what people are saying about your favorite topics.
The Lead on Purpose blog is fortunate to appear under two of the Alltop topics: Leadership and Product Management. It is in great company on both pages. Special thanks to Stewart Rogers for getting it on the Product Management page (still not sure how it made it to the Leadership page, but won’t look a gift horse in the mouth).
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The Product Management Perspective: The Product Management page on Alltop provides a window into the thought leadership of the industry. It’s a great resource for all of us.
New Rules of Marketing
One of the great new books to come of age is The New Rules of Marketing and PR by David Meerman Scott. David writes and excellent book comparing and contrasting the “old rules” of marketing with the new. He writes with compelling explanations about how new technologies have changed the marketing / PR profession from a focus on communicating with journalists, reporters and editors to writing for and focusing directly on the end customer. He says that marketers must shift their thinking from mainstream marketing to the masses to a strategy of reaching vast numbers of under-served audiences via the web.
The traditional “interrupt” (TV-style) advertising does not work in today’s world. Blogs, podcasts, e-books, news releases, and other forms of online content let organizations communicate directly with buyers in a form they appreciate. And the best part of all (if done right)…the customers will find you and they will want to buy your product.
Producing and distributing ebooks is another great concept for which I consider David Meerman Scott the thought leader. He writes his ebooks with great content and puts them out for everyone to download with no obligations (he describes this process in at least one of the ebooks). They are all great, but my favorite is The Gobbledygook Manifesto; this ebook analyzes the most-used and under-meaningful words and phrases in business writing. It’s definitely made a difference in the words I use when I write (though I no doubt still throw in gobbledygook now and again).
I listened to a webinar last week where David answered questions about the new rules of marketing, effectively using blogs, viral marketing and other types of media to get your message out to the masses. We have great technology available now and David is becoming a master at using it effectively and teaching others to use it too. He is not only a leader in using new means of marketing, but he’s also teaching people how to be more effective leaders by using the new media and means of marketing.
David’s work—including his book—has been a tremendous positive influence for me. I am learning much on how to better market products and get the right information into the right forms so that it reaches the people who are looking for it. What have you found that works well for your organization?
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