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Your Thoughts on Book Titles, Influence, & More

Your Thoughts on Book Titles, Influence, & More

Posted August 7th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Clout, Content Strategy, Persuasion and Influence, Trends, Writing | No Comments

Several weeks ago, I asked you about a book title. More than 130 of you responded within just few days. Your insights were thoughtful, smart, [...]

Writing a Book Is a Great Excuse to Buy Books

Writing a Book Is a Great Excuse to Buy Books

Posted July 28th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Books, Clout, Persuasion and Influence, Writing | 1 Comment

I’m milking that excuse for all it’s worth! Here’s my take on two recent reads while writing Clout.

Audience, Relevance, and Search
I [...]

InfluencERS vs Influence (Or, a Clue to Clout)

InfluencERS vs Influence (Or, a Clue to Clout)

Posted July 10th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Clout, Content Strategy, Essays, Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, Psychology, Rhetoric | 1 Comment

Fast Company just launched The Influence Project, which kicked up some controversy. The gist is Fast Company is forming a quantitative influence metric [...]

CLOUT

CLOUT

Posted May 6th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Books, Clout, Content Strategy, Marketing, Persuasion and Influence, Psychology, Research, Rhetoric, User / Customer Experience | 1 Comment

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1. Influence or pull

2. A book I’m writing

Yep, I’m writing a book! My goal? To blend persuasion research and theory into [...]

Practice, Not Talent, Is the Thing

Practice, Not Talent, Is the Thing

Posted April 28th, 2010 | By Colleen | Categories: Books, User / Customer Experience | 1 Comment

What makes our performance great? It’s not talent. Or inspiration. It’s lots of practice. And not just any practice—intentional practice. The kind that [...]

Slides from Book Chat + Preview of 2010

Posted December 9th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Books, Content Strategy | No Comments

Yesterday, dedicated members of Atlanta Content Strategy braved the cold wind and rain to talk about Content Strategy for the Web at

How We Decide

How We Decide

Posted December 1st, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Books, Content Strategy, Psychology, Research, Rhetoric | No Comments

If you like to keep insightful nonfiction on your reading list, consider adding How We Decide. It’s the best explanation of making decisions that [...]

“Push ‘User Experience Design’ Off the Pedestal”

Posted October 19th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Books, Content Strategy, User / Customer Experience | No Comments

That’s one of my favorite quotes from Content Strategy for the Web by Kristina Halvorson. Do I hate design? No. But I don’t hate [...]

Texting 4 Health Is Here!

Posted May 28th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Books, Mobile, Persuasion and Influence, User / Customer Experience | 1 Comment

Remember that insightful interview with Nick Sabadosh about mobile persuasion in the health space? Well, the much-anticipated book Texting 4 Health—with Nick’s chapter [...]

Influential Mobile Design – A Conversation with Nick Sabadosh

Influential Mobile Design – A Conversation with Nick Sabadosh

Posted February 7th, 2009 | By Colleen | Categories: Books, Interaction Design, Interviews, Mobile, Persuasion and Influence, Usability, User / Customer Experience | 1 Comment

Mobile technology has amazing potential as a persuasive medium for business, public health, and more. B.J. Fogg astutely predicted that mobile technology would [...]