Speaking as a corporate communication professional, I can honestly say this is the most stimulating business book I've read. The premise is that organization leaders must go beyond simply seeking buy-in from their employees to a more iterative, interactive (and, ultimately, much more inspiring and effective) process of continually reinventing the organization. This argument is supported with great examples and enough detail to be actionable.

Mary Boone has authored a wonderful resource for implementing a knowledge-sharing culture in the Enterprise. Things to pay special attention to in the book include the ten key competencies for mastering new methods of communication and management, her insightful analysis of trends and obstactles affecting corporate communication, and the way she uses interviews with CEOs and executives to show you how others have implemented effective collaborative strategies.

On the lighter side of things, read her story about "George" in the "Get Over Yourself" chapter. She uses this story to point out how personality differences can be a show stopper to implementing innovation and promoting creativity. Furthermore, she explains how collaborative technologies can help bypass some of these differences.

I really liked this book due to its breadth and attention to examples. Since the book goes from basics to advanced topics, it was easy to understand. The authors did a good job in bringing up theory and tying it to practical applications. The diagrams and tables were very useful as I seriously did not plan to read every page! The IT manager notes and tips boxes were nice so that, again, I did not have to read every single page!

The other thing I liked was the actual layout of the material. It was relatively easy to read and the diagrams, text size, and headings all made it useful as a reference book. I do plan to refer back to this as it seems to have very interesting material that can be used as a basis elsewhere.

This book is awesome - it is easy to understand, well layed out and covers practically all aspects of security within the mobile commerce space. It has well written case studies and hands-on implementation examples throughout the chapters. Managers and Developers - buy it - you will enjoy it! It hits the sweet spot of mCommerce, from wi-fi and bluetooth to so many applications and industries. My favorite portion are the case studies - I haven't see so many in one book for a while, covering most major tools and technology sectors.

So many books attempt to capture the essence of Napa Valley. This book stands out from the rest, with a remarkable combination of photographs and words that convey the soul of the Napa Valley. If you were to choose only one introduction to Napa, this would be your best choice.

We have lived in this valley for 6 years, and buy books for our guests to familiarize themselves with the valley before they go exploring. We were pleasantly surprised to find this book as a stand-out from the crowd. The photographs by Nancy Kerby are beautiful, and the writing by Tony Kilgalin is both entertaining and enlightening. If we didn't live here, this book would tempt us to move here! We recommend this book for your library or for your new home in Napa. Enjoy!

Sellers and buyers on the Internet today have rarely ventured beyond the boundaries of print and broadcast metaphors in the Internet medium. While Internet uptake is dramatic, the business revolution has hardly begun. The real power of this new medium lies in its ability to allow the buyer and the seller to connect, communicate and negotiate in a faster, more efficient way. The dramatic rise and fall of "dot-com" companies was very much rooted in over extending the wrong metaphor, and that misconception largely continues.

In Net Benefits, Wingham Rowan has dared to think beyond the traditional broadcast metaphor and consider how marketplaces that exploit this new medium might operate. In their most highly developed state electronic marketplaces would act like the automated exchange behind international currency trading, or the automated exchange recently introduced to the Pacific Stock Exchange. These systems efficiently and impartially match buyers and sellers, and price becomes a function of current supply and demand. The revolution comes in their potential to replace the current marketing techniques designed to exploit the fragmented and inefficient matching of buyers and sellers inherent in paper and broadcast media.

This book forces us to question the attention paid to the recent dot-com model, the new Internet superstores, portals and the struggle for megamarkets. It suggests that perhaps these are just comfortable diversions along the way to the real revolution. Just as the Industrial Revolution grew out of the cottage industries so the new Interactive Revolution will grow from the seeds of atomized capitalism. The use of the web by small and local businesses for local and regional commerce will quietly undercut the current order of mega-merchants.

While the book considers detailed scenarios of how this revolution might impact a number of service areas, it stops short of perhaps the most profound impact, our concepts and opportunities for corporate ownership and investment in this new world. If you buy Rowan's view of the future, one wonders what will happen to a world of personal investment that relies on ever higher profits and stock values of large and growing corporations. Individual and small scale operations do not require the capital ownership or offer the individual growth potential of today's corporations. The stock portfolios of today may begin to look like the castles and estates during the last economic revolution as their ongoing value slips below their cost of maintenance. The dislocation would be as severe as the Industrial Revolution.

Whether the revolution takes the form of guaranteed electronic markets as Rowan envisions, or follows some other variant, is immaterial. The real electronic commerce revolution will be much more subtle in its approach and more devastating in its impact than anything we have seen so far. Net Benefits, at the very least, starts us thinking outside the traditional metaphors.

This is one hell of a vision. I read Small is Beautiful which was a great idea but not really workable in advanced countries. This guy seems to have worked out how to make "atomised capitalism" more efficient than what we think is going to happen with e-commerce. I can't stop thinking about it.

Having seen and read all too many Internet business books over the past few years, Net Markets is a standout. The authors do a great job of articulating a roadmap for the business leader that is not only rigourous and well thought out, but more important, is practical.

Industrial markets have changed significantly, and this is a great expose on what that blueprint for change is going to look like moving forward. Very highly recommended.

Dagenais and Gautschi have blended analytical rigor with straightforward pratical advice for the busy executive. Net Markets puts an enormous topic into perspective--it is easy to read, interesting, and very applied. I especially appreciated the CEO playbook at the conclusion of each chapter. Highly recommended.

~Despite the dot.com bust, and the topping of the Clinton boom in 2001, the revolutionary transformation of global markets gathers pace. This is particularly the case for B2B markets. Dagenais and Gautschi have built up a wealth of practical managerial experience and advise, and distilled it in a readable format for
managers. This is an invaluable reference for anyone seeking to
keep up with the impact of the net on marketing. A most important read.
Jonathan Story
The Shell Fellow in~~ Economic Transformation
Professor of International Political Economy
INSEAD
Boulevard de Constance
77300 Fontainebleau, France~

Any book that can have me chuckling through an explanation of how to create a web page deserves special mention. The Net User's Guide ups the reader's giggle quotient while deftly communicating the how-to's of not only simple web site construction, but the whole, intriguing world of collectibles and the Internet. I'm a relative newcomer to collecting, and I appreciated the depth of information, and especially the inside tips! Having access to the Members Only section of the author's supporting web site is a major bonus, too. I believe even seasoned 'gatherers' will find much to satisfy their thirst for ever more knowledge about their own particular (and, as R.J. Gulliver points out, sometimes peculiar) passion.

This is a wonderful book that gives a very thorough introduction to collectibles on the internet. Mr. Gulliver has really done his research! He includes information on why we collect, and has sections on buying, selling and trading. The author gives lots of examples from his own experience, and gives the reader hints on how to be successful and careful. He gives detailed advice on using internet auctions as a safe and exciting way to find or sell a special item.

One of my favorite parts is the appendix! Mr. Gulliver has a large list of web sites for companies that deal in collectibles, making it easy to check into them. He also lists many of the internet auction sites, complete with a review of the good and bad points of each.

Another part of the book I liked was the very detailed instructions on how to build a web site of your own! The author gives easy to follow information on basic html, plus how to link pictures and upload your site from your computer. The pictures throughout the book are a real plus!

I strongly recommend this book to anyone that is involved in any way with collectible items on the internet! While it is geared to those that are new to auctions, message boards and internet buying and selling, it is a valuable resource for experienced collectors as well! I have been buying and selling on auction sites for some time and really enjoyed the book. I sure wish I had had it when I first got started! I will keep this book close to my computer as a handy reference!

From how digital commerce and democracy affects taxation, privacy and free speech to legal platforms for protecting and regulating property rights and documents online, Netpolicy.com provides a social examination of how the internet's capabilities are creating new public agendas for change. An important title for any social issues class.

This book is both scholarly and entertaining, for it describes the history, influence, and possible future of today's most fascinating tool, the Net, and does so through the lens of a person whose career was focused first on telecommunications and later on computers. Just as these have come together in the Internet and elsewhere, so does this story, which for Simon began in 1966. The Net itself is now over a quarter-century old, but for its first two decades was largely ignored by the public. Since 1995, however, an exponential growth in popular and commercial interest has created a similar, and continuing, explosion of the Net. It is difficult to think of any earlier technological development whose adoption occurred so rapidly or with such ease. And unlike most high-tech inventions, the Net developed organically, independent of any master plan or architecure, absent of security considerations or privacy concerns, hardly shaped at all by economic factors. Sharing was, and remains, its goal. Today, however, the Net impacts our everyday life and has become an enabler for business to expand its markets. It is hence now entrusted with private information of individuals and secret proprietary data of business, whose security may be essential to commercial survival. Ubiquitous as it is, the Net cries out for public, and private, policies that address such troublesome issues as equitable access,taxation, intellectual property rights, content regulation, privacy, security, first-amendment rights, and many others.

NetPolicy.Com defines the Net and its impacts and discusses "the bearable lightness of the digital world," the convergence not only within electronics, but the mega-convergence of businesses, e.g., financial services, commerce, and industry. It identifies difficult policy issues and their legal framework and suggests appropriate roles for the public and private sectors. Despite the importance of the Net to business and government, its essential issues have most to do with its potential effects on humankind.

We are reminded of the 1998 celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, largely drawn from the French Declaration of Human Rights and our Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights, quoting from the former document the freedom to "seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." Would that today's policy makers have the prescience of the author of those words!

NetPolicy.Com is recommended for readers with intellectual curiosity, anyone interested in modern technology, observers of contemporary customs, any person who surfs the Net or sends e-mail, indeed for all responsible citizens who wish to learn more about this new world in which we live, interdependent on each other and literally interconnected to everyone else.

Finally, NetPolicy.Com's technical title disguises a book that is an easy and important read.

A must have for Financial Officers.

The definitive exec briefing for channel delivery directors.An essential read.

I purchased this book when it first came out. He gave the name of the company he did this for in his ad for the book at the time. I simply typed in "cell phone" into each search engine and his site was number 1,2 or 3 on ALL of them. It's a great book and since then I've spoken with him numerous times on the phone he's also a consultant...all's I'll say is this guy KNOWS the inside dope on marketing...HIGHLY recommended.

I read through Nothing But 'Net this morning and must say that Michael Campbell has done an outstanding job of explaining the state of the art in Internet promotion techniques, tools and resources.

I think it is one of the best "How To" books on Internet Marketing techniques that I've seen. I highly recommend it.

Any business large or small which would venture into Internet realms should have Online Operator: it covers all the basics of internet business and transactions, from local and federal tax laws and domain names to online copyrights, international laws and exporting, fraud, and home-based Net businesses. Outstanding.

Bear Kamoroff, CPA, is the author of the phenomenally successful Small Time Operator : How to Start Your Own Business, Keep Your Books, Pay Your Taxes, and Stay Out of Trouble. During the past 30+ years, it has been updated and revised 25 times!

Online Operator applies Kamoroff's ability to make accounting easy-to-understand and fun to read. He explains in detail both business and accounting as they apply to the Internet. He shows you how to start your Internet business, discusses e-commerce, describes the law you must know, covers intellectual property, gets into international commerce and discusses your home business.

Bernard (Bear) Kamoroff is a CPA, University of California business instructor and author of seven books on business.

As a publisher, author of 28 Books, 109 revised editions, six translations and over 500 magazine articles as well as a consultant to the book publishing industry, I find keeping track of business is one of the most important things I do.

Do not go into e-commerce with out this book.

--Dan Poynter, The Self-Publishing Manual.