Review: Here Comes Everybody
I’m reading Here Comes Everybody: the Power of Organizing without Organizations by Clay Shirky. I’m about half-way through, but I’m so excited about it I want to talk about it now.
It’s about social media online, basically, and explains the real world effects of social media such as MeetUp, Flickr, blogs and more. One of the things blogging has done for me is that it’s gotten me into social media stuff I might not have done otherwise.
The book explains a lot of things that you sort of knew, or had a gut feeling about, but he explains the how and why of it. I was a communications major in college, so this is right up my alley.
This book probably isn’t of interest to all my readers, but if you’re into blogging, photo sharing and in general life online, or if you’re in an organization and want to know how to grow your group using online tools, then you will enjoy this book. You will find yourself saying, “Oh! I thought so!”
3 comments Elaine | Blogging, Reviews
Methinks I’m going to have to pick this one up too–it sounds really interesting.
I’m totally with you about how my involvement and participation in social media has evolved. The only problem I see is just keeping up with it all. It really can be overwhelming sometimes, especially because so much of it is about “giving and taking,” and reciprocity. –And then you have to go do the work you’re trying to promote!
Thanks for the review!
Elaine.. nice review..
I’m a bit curious.. is this a book you’d recommend to folks who have no current footing in social media? Is it written to the lay person? Or to folks pretty well embedded in social media and generally comfortable with online talk.
I’m still on the lookout of ‘gentle’ ways to introduce clients who have no familiarity whatsover with social media, what blogs are/do, etc. Something that doesn’t feel so scary. Of course language is everything, and I try to explain the basics in plain speak, but sometimes they need a bit of extra reading that won’t scare them.
And just so you know, whenever I have clients thinking of blogging, I point them to my star student..YOU! So Brava for continuing to have a great blog!
Sadelle
Thanks Tamra! Thanks Sadelle!
@Sadelle, no, I wouldn’t call this a good intro-to-blogging book, more a already-heavy-into-social-media-and-want-to-understand-it-better book.
For intro to blogging books, I like books intended for teachers (I reviewed one here on the blog, somewhere) and librarians. Both types of books assume no knowledge, but also assume you’re intelligent. So they’re complete without talking down.
Ah, here’s the review:
http://www.creativetexturetools.com/news/2007/10/10/review-blogs-wikis-podcasts/