{"id":5769,"date":"2013-09-16T07:21:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T15:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/?p=5769"},"modified":"2013-09-16T07:21:20","modified_gmt":"2013-09-16T15:21:20","slug":"the-impact-equation-are-you-making-things-happen-or-just-making-noise-chris-brogan-julien-smith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/2013\/09\/16\/the-impact-equation-are-you-making-things-happen-or-just-making-noise-chris-brogan-julien-smith\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact Equation. Are you making things happen or just making noise? Chris Brogan &#038; Julien Smith."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22473198@N00\/8288769978');\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22473198@N00\/8288769978\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-img-inserted zemanta-img-configured\" title=\"My next read - The Impact Equation\" alt=\"My next read - The Impact Equation\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.static.flickr.com\/8494\/8288769978_9e4e469396_s.jpg\" width=\"75\" height=\"75\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Impact Equation. Are you making things happen or just making noise? <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.chrisbrogan.com\/about\/');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Chris Brogan\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.chrisbrogan.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Chris Brogan<\/a> &amp; <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.juliensmith.com');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Julien Smith\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.juliensmith.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Julien Smith<\/a>. 2012. ISBN 9781591844907.\u00a0 The authors wrote <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outgoing\/www.amazon.com\/Trust-Agents-Influence-Improve-Reputation\/dp\/0470743085%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dwwwrocketbuil-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0470743085');\" class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust\"  href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Trust-Agents-Influence-Improve-Reputation\/dp\/0470743085%3FSubscriptionId%3D0G81C5DAZ03ZR9WH9X82%26tag%3Dwwwrocketbuil-20%26linkCode%3Dxm2%26camp%3D2025%26creative%3D165953%26creativeASIN%3D0470743085\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"amazon\">Trust Agents<\/a> which was a good read.\u00a0 This book takes from their journeys in social media and develops a theme of around why you do what you do using the tools available\u00a0 (including social media) . The book is more of a journey not a workbook. 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This book takes from their journeys in social media and develops a theme of around why you do what you do using the tools available  (including social media) . The book is more of a journey not a workbook. In this journey you cannot help but develop a better awareness of how you and your business differ and how to better communicate it. A very personal book, it speaks directly to the reader taking no short cuts. Clearly written I do not think you will roar through the book , but it would make for a very pleasant cross country flight companion. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1336,6],"tags":[1809,1861,320,1860,1859],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5898,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5769\/revisions\/5898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.regnordman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}