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Microsoft turns a new page in the book business with its own publishing imprint

GeekWire

The logo for 8080 Books, a new publishing imprint from Microsoft, announced Monday. Microsoft Image) Microsoft will attempt to find the sweet spot between the speed of social media and the lasting impact of books with its own publishing imprint, 8080 Books — aiming to bring new titles to market much faster than traditional publishing allows.

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2020 Book Reads: Agile, Innovation, and Transformation

Social, Agile and Transformation

For the second year in a row, I share with you all the books that I read as part of my GoodReads challenge. My top books from 2019 included reads about transformation, including The Ride of a Lifetime and The Technology Fallacy, books for entrepreneurs such as Lost and Founder and Inspired, and AI books such as AI Superpowers.

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Write, Design, and Publish: Your All-in-One Guide to Effortless Digital Book Creation

Kitaboo

The rise of digital book creation software has provided authors and publishers with the tools required to not only swiftly craft literary works but also aid their publishing and promotion. This transition has been made easier by digital book creation, which gives writers never-before-seen freedom and creative control over their own work.

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Can ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ and other tabletop games help youth build social skills?

GeekWire

(Game to Grow Image) A new whitepaper from two Seattle organizations exhibits research into how tabletop roleplaying games, such as Wizards of the Coast’s Dungeons & Dragons , can be used to help children and teenagers develop their social skills. ” The use of role-playing exercises for therapy goes back over a century.

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Epub Book: Best Practices in 2022

Kitaboo

Epub books, popularly known as interactive ebooks, are the newest trend in education institutions and industrial training platforms. Besides, Epub books let you add interactiveness to the content, which increases student concentration and the learning curve. . This is where epub books come in. It’s Time to Move on From PDF.

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Dark secrets of developer motivation

CIO Business Intelligence

Developers are also looking for meaning, the sense that their work has purpose, but they have unique ways of finding it that may not always obvious. If you yourself are not a coder, then much of what you think about the unique nature of development work may be incomplete. Measure the right outputs.

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Announcing my new book Thriving on Overload!

Trends in the Living Networks

I am delighted to share that my book Thriving on Overload is being published by McGraw-Hill, and is available for pre-order for its availability on September 6, 2022. It has been far, far too long since my last book. I had resolved only to write a book if I could sell it to a top publisher through an agent. More than a book.