Content Nation - The Book

Content Nation: Surviving and Thriving as Social Media Changes Our Work, Our Lives and Our Future

How will you survive and thrive as social media changes our world?

What are the best ways to use social media to succeed in our work, our lives and our future?

"Content Nation" is a wide-ranging look at what makes social media tick, offering case studies and practical tips as to how we can conduct our business, our politics and our personal lives using social media and a look at how a future shaped by social media will be very different in many ways than the civilizations of the past several thousand years.

In the process of changing our world, social media will bring us back to our pre-historic roots and simultaneously thrust us into a magnificent future in which the very DNA of human society will change forever.

Best of all, chances are you're a part of that future already as a publisher of social media - a citizen of Content Nation.

You can read the book here as a free online resource or order it for your own library in print or for reading on Amazon's Kindle e-book device.

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"Content Nation" has been written with input from members of the Content Nation online community by John Blossom, a publishing and technology industry analyst and noted speaker who is president of Shore Communications Inc., an award-winning research and executive consulting firm. The table of contents for the full draft text is below, with links to each chapter.

The book will be available always as a "Live Book" here for your viewing and commenting as we harvest content from Content Nation members that fits. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has released an edited print edition of this online book. Contributions from members will be attributed in the print edition. We envision this cycle going on fairly endlessly, with new community content generating new content that in turn will prompt new trade publishing events capturing the best of Content Nation's insights.

Read, contribute your insights, enjoy - and help everyone in Content Nation get smarter about social media!

Table of Contents

Preamble - Chasing the Mammoth

Acknowledgements

1. Content Nation - A World of Influential Publishers Declares its Citizenship
   
   
2. What Makes Social Media Tick - Seven Secrets of Social Media
   
   
3. Social Structure in Content Nation - Changing Tribes, New Leaders
   
   
4. The New Media - Content Nation Challenges the Fundamentals of Marketing
   
   
5. The New Work - Content Nation Challenges the Future of Today's Enterprises
   
   
6. The New Politics - Content Nation Redefines How Citizens Influence Governments
   
   
7. The New Society - Content Nation Redefines How People Live Their Lives
   
   
8. The New Survival - Content Nation Redefines the Future of Humanity
   
   
9. The New Success - How to Survive and Thrive in Content Nation
   
   
10. The New Epoch - Life in a Future Built on Content Nation
    
    
11. Conclusion - The Evolving Conversation of Content Nation
    
    
12. Bibliography and Bookmarks