Cool. Take me to the One-Minute Blogging Survey.

It's the pre-publication "bound galley" version - a collector's item! Keep it on your shelf or sell it on eBay (kidding... well, who knows?). I've got TWO copies left that I will sign and send to TWO lucky winners.

All you have to do is enter our 2nd Annual One-Minute Blogging & RSS Survey. It's 10 quick questions.

Cool. Take me to the One-Minute Blogging Survey.

P.S. The real book will be out in just a few weeks -- on August 3rd.…

Live blogging this. I'll pull out a few nuggets from their keynote at Day 2 of WOMMA's WOMBAT 2 (Word of Mouth Basic Training).

Shel's up first.

Shel admits that he started writing Naked Conversations as a reporter -- as a topic to cover - but along the way he fell under the spell of blogging as a force for good.

Robert's loony idea to "blog the book," says Shel, was a touch of brilliance. The people in the blogosphere became the third co-author of the book, fact checking, disagreeing, adding new stories, etc.

What do my…

Great post over on Presentation Zen that includes links to comparison video clips of biz author/gurus Seth Godin, Guy Kawasaki* and Tom Peters.

Good writing is important. But good platform skills are equally important. And they're hard to hone. These guys are tops.

I'm a huge fan of Seth and Guy and have heard them both in person. Have never met Tom or heard him speak. Writes Garr Reynolds:

"If you watch the clips... you'll notice…

"The average time allocated to a newsletter after opening it was only 51 seconds. "Reading" is not even the right word, since participants fully read only 19% of newsletters." - Jakob Nielsen

2.0: the new way to publicize your book release

• press release
• podcast [direct link to MP3]
• blog
• Amazon blog (or is it a "plog"?)
• email blast to colleagues