Top 20 Social Media Books

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Crowdsourcing is a wonderful phenomenon. You get the input of many as it pertains to a single point/topic.

In this case, crowdsourcing was used to determine the book suggestions for Designing For Social Media; which is a course in the Masters program in Professional and Technical Communication at New Jersey’s Science & Technology University.

It’s an interesting list and one that I fully subscribe to, in terms of being a great foundation for learning about social media and it’s proper uses in both personal and business applications.

Top 20 Social Media Books

• Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected, Connect Your Business to Everyone. – Mitch Joel

• What Would Google Do? – Jeff Jarvis

• Power Friending – Amber MacArthur

• Gonzo Marketing: Winning Through Worst Practices – Christopher Locke

• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations – Clay Shirky

• Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies – Charlene Li

• Web 2.0: A Strategy Guide: Business thinking and strategies behind successful Web 2.0 implementations – Amy Shuen

• Designing for the Social Web – Joshua Porter

• The Young and the Digital: What the Migration to Social Network Sites, Games, and Anytime, Anywhere Media Means for Our Future – S. Craig Watkins

• Designing Social Interfaces: Principles, Patterns, and Practices for Improving the User Experience – Christian Crumlish and Erin Malone

• Six Pixels of Separation: Everyone Is Connected. Connect Your Business to Everyone. – Mitch Joel

• Enterprise 2.0 – Andrew McAfee

• Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation – Tim Brown

• The Whuffie Factor: Using the Power of Social Networks to Build Your Business – Tara Hunt

• The Cluetrain Manifesto – Rick Levin, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls, and McKeen Jake

• Visual Thinking – Rudolf Arnheim

• Building Social Web Applications: Establishing Community at the Heart of Your Site – Gavin Bell

• The Social Media Bible: Tactics, Tools, and Strategies for Business Success – Lon Safko and David Brake

• Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide – Henry Jenkins

• YouTube: Online Video and Participatory Culture – Jean Burgess and Joshua Green

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