The coolest posting, blogs, websites, books for communicators (and other humans) for Dec

So many great sites, so little time. I tried to narrow them down to a small list Here's some of the cream of the crop (social media, branding, marketing, etc).

Branding

Great logo rebranding examples

Inspiring brands and websites

Social media tools, blogs, trends, news

 Essential apps for bloggers

Is the personal blog an endangered species? 

The Enterprise and social media

The Power of blogging with a long term view

The ultimate blogging guide

Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed

Biggest mistakes of social media gurus (good one)

50 ideas on using Twitter for business

 

The Twitter toolbox

 Secrets of Power Friendfeed users

 

Misc

Geeky movies we loved anyway

 

10 Popular sites and how they once looked:

Excellent tips for using Flickr (finding great pics, posting, etc)

 

75 Public Speaking Blogs  (This is a valuable resource for anyone involved in public speaking, a wide array of blogs on every aspect).  

 

Books 

Malcom Gladwells’ new book: Outliers (review) Challenges the traditional notion of the ingredients of success. 

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/11/12/malcolm-gladwells-ne.html

Strategic Alliances: Three Ways to Make  Them  Work (Harvard Business Press) (book I ghost-wrote for Cisco's Strategic Alliances VP, recently published)

Mean Markets and Lizard Brains (different approach  to thinking about investing/financial markets--timely in light of the current  financial market  turmoil

Other locations to find my materials or follow me:

My Google Shared page:http://www.google.com/reader/shared/02487257926426830202

Twitter: http://twitter.com/markivey

ION Group www.ioncorporation.com

We're revamping our website to include these kind of articles and more.