Preface: Okay this review is seriously past due. Last September, I published a post about a book entitled Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs which was to be released in October.

Not only was I excited that the book was coming out within my prime time as a web designer taking on more inbound marketing responsibilities, but I was one of the chosen people to receive a free copy in return for my ‘blogging review’! Thank you HubSpot!! And a super thank you goes to Rebecca Corliss! (Not only did she help hook me up with my free copy, but due to Amazon having technical difficulties with my email address and the hassle from it, she helped hook me up with 3 additional copies of the book. I passed those copies to my co-workers so we can all be on the same inbound wavelength.)

As I just mentioned this review is long over due, but there is a reason for that. My day job teammates and I have been super busy taking all of the wonderful knowledge found in the Inbound Marketing book and applying it to our company’s websites and soon to be social media portals.

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I found this fascinating infographic:

Are you new to social media? Are you unsure about how to engage your audience via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and the rest? Here’s a handy infographic that doubles as a roadmap of the social Web. Created for CMO.com by 97th Floor, it analyzes the top social media sites in the U.S. and tells you how each one stacks up in terms of: pamorama.net, Social Media: A Cheat Sheet [Infographic], Mar 2010

Download your copy of this social media infographic !

Continuing with the in-house sharing interesting articles, eBooks, books, and what-not my boss drops off a book at my desk and encourages me to read it. The book entitled Crush It!: Why NOW Is the Time to Cash In on Your Passion by Gary Vaynerchuk just so happened to be the same book I saw in the latest round of webinars at Inbound Marketing University.

I ended up skipping that webinar because I was not up for an hour long open Q&A about how to Crush It!. But in the five minutes I did see of that webinar, my take away was that some people digest things in different ways: some through videos, some through written text. I am definitely one who was going to snatch up the book to digest Gary’s message rather than look at a handful of random photographs with audio streaming over them. Yea, I could have continued to do other things while I listened, but it was my lunch. And coincidentally, I didn’t have to go buy the book. The book found me. How cool is that?

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In the days of being a kid, oops, I meant child, I remember making up words that fit the context of what I was talking about. Nevertheless, I was consistently corrected by my English teachers and parents: “If it’s not in the dictionary, it’s not a word.” Did that stop me from making up words that fit the needs of my sentence? Ah, no. I was going to be an active participant in evolving the English language.

The classic word that I am sure everyone could agree with as being not a word is “funner”. Examples of this misuse have been “It’s funner than that.” But, wait! “funner” is a word! It’s defined as “one who funs cloth”.  Maybe one day, the dictionaries would include this new definition into their books just like Merriam-Webster included “staycation” or “frenemy” into theirs this year.

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Coming to a store near you on October 19, 2009 is a book that I’m eager to pick up. It’s entitled Inbound Marketing: Get Found Using Google, Social Media, and Blogs.

I’m currently reading various books already about the “getting found” topic, and this book looks like one to definitely have on the desk, next to the keyboard, ready for action. After I read it, I’ll give you my review.

Topics covered in this “getting found” how-to book include:

• improve your Google rankings & get more traffic
• promote a blog for your business
• nurture a social media community and more.

Be sure to check out the Inbound Marketing book! Better yet, reserve your copy today.