Do you have a New Year’s Resolution to network more and seek out alternative avenues of professional development? Join us for ELNYA Book Club in 2010!
No book reports or pop quizzes – I promise. Sometimes (often times) people don’t even finish the book.
We just use the book as a conversation starting point, but really Book Club is an excuse to meet in an informal setting and discuss issues we deal with in our work and personal development as arts administrators.
Depending on your schedule, you can attend one or all gatherings. We meet every other month on the third Tuesday from 6:30-8:30pm.
SAVE THE DATES for Book Club in 2010:
January 19
March 16
May 18
September 21
November 16
Now, what should we read…
Book suggestions are welcome year-round. You can email them to the Book Mistress at any time.
Based on the titles collected in recent months, we will identify at least the next three books by popular vote.
Here they are in no particular order (links to each book’s Amazon page has been provided, free of charge):
- Mass Career Customization: Aligning the Workplace with Today’s Nontraditional Workforce by Cathy Benko, Anne C. Weisberg (230 pages)
- The Art of Woo: Using Strategic Persuasion to Sell Your Ideas by G. Richard Shell, Mario Moussa (312 pages)
- The Pirate’s Dilemma: How Youth Culture Reinvented Capitalism by Matt Mason (288 pages)
- Media Rules: Mastering Today’s Technology to Connect With and Keep Your Audience by Brian Reich, Dan Solomon (230 pages)
You can vote online by following this doodle link. Please respond before Monday, December 14.
Let me know if you have any questions or if you would be interested in hosting Book Club. We’ve met all over NYC from living rooms to board rooms. Each event is potluck so we bring our own food, are housebroken, and clean up after ourselves.
Read on,
Christy Bolingbroke
(aka The Book Mistress)
christy@mmdg.org
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When Christy says, “Sometimes (often times) people don’t even finish the book,” she means me.
I’d love to see a these books added to this list.
Here Comes Everybody by Clay Shirky
We the Media by Dan Gillmore
It’s available free chapter by chapter as a PDF here: http://oreilly.com/catalog/wemedia/book/index.csp
Another great book (that’s also available free as a podcast):
Free: the Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
Here Comes Everybody is on my shelf waiting for someone to make me actually read it. Thumbs up to Free too.
Here Comes Everybody! Yes.
and just came across this one -
“Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies”