I was at the The "Twitter for Dummies" and Baveo.com Party! tonight and got a peak at the book, which I'll pick up, and got to talk with one of the authors, Michael Gruen, of Twitter for Dummies. The Twitter for Dummies book was published yesterday, July 7th, 2009 (funny, isn't that the same date that Chris Anderson's FREE book came out? - see my recent post on"Free" Problems and Social Media Forensics using Radian6 and Blogpulse for my take on Chris Anderson and the whole "Free" thing - which you can read for "free" here).
While we didn't talk about Twitter, or really, much about the book (and that's the funny thing, but sometimes Tweetups tend to be "unstructured" and there is a role for announcements - and maybe a short talk about the book, as part of a PR event, having some books on hand, would be optimal).
Laura Fitton, @Pistachio, wasn't at the Twitter for Dummies Tweetup, but she's probably smiling because her new startup got funded last month - and I did see her speak at Jeff Pulver's 140 Conference around the same time, as well.
Laura "Pistachio" Fitton's TechStars project, OneForty, has received an angel round of funding to the tune of around $250,000 just 15 days into the business accelerator session.
Getting back to the Twitter for Dummies book - according to the Amazon Description - it covers...:
Twitter, the simple-to-use microblogging service, offers immense benefits for businesses and organizations. Fire departments, political candidates, and C0EOs have used Twitter to share up-to-the-minute information. Laura Fitton, maybe better known by her Twitter handle - @Pistachio, has more than 10,000 followers on Twitter, and gives presentations on how to use Twitter to build business and personal opportunity. She's joined by Michael Gruen and Leslie Poston to share Twitter expertise in this easy-to-follow guide.
Here's co-author of Twitter for Dummies book, Michael Gruen and a friend, Cecilia, showing off the new book - it's about time we had a Twitter for Dummies book as we've had so many other of the Dummies series - and I've bought a few over the years, even the Web Analytics for Dummies book - which was good, at the time it was published.
In fact, I just bought Twitter for Dummies for my iPhone (Kindle Reader) and when I'm done reading the book I'll review it here.
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