Comments on: Book Proposal Submitted to Publishers

By: The Social Tools Weblog

The Social Tools Weblog — Sun, 09 Jan 2005 03:29:08 +0000

Ensight’s Jeremy Wright fired for blogging?
As he tells it, Ensight’s Jeremy Wright was fired yesterday for blogging. Wright, known to most as a prolific blogger, lost his job over a posting he made a year ago, something about getting paid for blogging and surfing the…

By: Patrick

Patrick — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:51:08 +0000

I agree with Mr. Kukral. And… not all coporations are “evil”.

Jeremy,

The O’Reilly thing is interesting. I read through all of their required reading for new authors and really got the feeling that my book idea would not fit in with them at all (non coding, Internet related theories/passion), despite how much I like O’Reilly.

Would be interesting if they wanted to publish your book.

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 16:02:12 +0000

Athyrius said…. “Dear Lord.. please keep corporations out of Blogging. There is no quicker or easier way to screw up a good thing than let corporations grasp it in their greedy little paws.”

I think that’s a really negative, and wrong attitude, and one that is so 2003-04. How can you say that blogging, which is essentially a communication tool, could be bad for a corporation? Don’t we want more communication? Don’t we want corporations to open up?

It’s time to lose this attitude that blogging is simply some geeky, behind the scenes thing that only a few of us know about. Instead of worrying about it, let’s make sure the corporations do it right. In other words, get over it.

By: Athyrius

Athyrius — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 08:37:33 +0000

I see that you mention this aspect as part of your book: “The future of corporate blogging: communication & customer relationships”
Dear Lord.. please keep corporations out of Blogging. There is no quicker or easier way to screw up a good thing than let corporations grasp it in their greedy little paws. But alas, it seems that with everything that starts out interesting enough for humans to endeavor toward- corporations always jump on it as soon as a buck is being turned. And generally they simply leave a bloody, steaming mess where once bloomed human individuality and creativity.

By: Zooey

Zooey — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 08:18:52 +0000

I am in the middle of collating stories from my blog for a book. I wish you great luck – it can be a bitch finding a good publisher.
LifeofZooey

By: shel

shel — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 06:03:44 +0000

Good luck to you, Jeremy. May you pave a glorious trail.

By: dru

dru — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 03:43:17 +0000

congrats dude; hope you’re really successful!

By: BusinessBits

BusinessBits — Wed, 05 Jan 2005 01:14:55 +0000

Bring in the business books
The following .. experts? .. have posted their proposals for their business-blogging-books.
Jeremy C. Wright – Through the Looking Glass -The Business of Blogging & Awareness Publishing
Robert Scoble and Shel Israel – Blog or Die –If blogging can im…

By: Jim Kukral

Jim Kukral — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:11:13 +0000

Good for you. I wish you much luck. With passion, anything is possible. Please keep us aprised of your book writing experiences. I’d love to hear how it goes.

By: Jeremy C. Wright

Jeremy C. Wright — Tue, 04 Jan 2005 23:07:07 +0000

Passion.