Thank you for helping me to write The New Rules of Marketing & PR! (You are in the book)

Note: If you’ve been linked to in this post, I have an early copy of my book ready to send you. Please read below for details!

This is indeed one of the most unique blog posts I’ve ever done.

In August 2006, I announced that I was starting work on a new book and that I would blog snippets of the book throughout the process.

And I asked for help.

Hundreds of you jumped in to comment on my work, email me with thoughts and suggestions, meet for lunch, or you took the time to chat at a conference. And many others of you wrote great stuff on your own blogs that made me think.

Some people argued with me. (Some pissed me off).

But in the end, drawing on the ideas of many people has made my book much, much stronger.

In the blog world, when someone writes a great post, you link to it. It’s a virtual pat on the back and acknowledgement that the effort was worthwhile. And it recognizes the original idea.

Unfortunately in a hardcover book, that’s not possible. Well, not exactly. What I’ve done is turned the standard book acknowledgements on its ear a bit and have included everyone in this post in my book acknowledgements together with your blog URL.

Yes, I still did the standard thank you messages to my agent, my editor, my wife, and the other people associated with the book. But I also wanted to thank all of you. So, you’re in the book with my thanks.

So not only are you mentioned in the book but my publisher has kindly agreed to supply early copies of my book for each of you. If you’re in the list below, just send me an email to david (at) davidmeermanscott (dot) com with your postal mailing address and I will ship you a book.

Alas, you won’t get the spiffy hard cover with a dust jacket because it is still at the printer (you can order that on Amazon and get it in early June). Instead you will get an early paperback version ahead of the rest of the world.

Cool? Just send me an email!

And thanks for your part in creating my book.

Oh, and one more thing. I’ve met some cool bloggers since the manuscript was due to my publisher. Sorry you didn’t make it into the list. And if I forgot someone (which I’m sure I have), I’m really sorry. My bad.

So, in no particular order, a big thank you to:

Robert Scoble Scobleizer
Adele Revella Buyer Persona Blog
Joe Wikert Publishing 2020 blog
Steve Johnson
David McInnis
Mark Levy
David Hamm
Mike Levin
Colin Delaney epolitics
Steve Goldstein Alacrablog
Todd Van Hoosear
George L Smyth Eclectic Mix
Mark Effinger
Michelle Manafy EContent magazine
Kevin Rose Diggnation
Grub Street Writers
Dave Armon
Britton Manasco
Jordan Behan
Nettie Hartsock
John Havens
John Blossom ContentBlogger
Larry Schwartz Newstex
Steve Smith
Melanie Surplice
Nate Wilcox
Ian Wilker
Cody Baker
Dianna Huff
Brian Carroll
Ken Doctor
Jonathan Kranz
Barry Graubart
Steve O’Keefe
Ted Demopoulos
Debbie Weil
Paul Gillin
Matt Lohman
Seth Godin
Rob O’ Regan
Steve Rubel Micro Persuasion
Paul Gillin
Joan Stewart The Publicity Hound
Dave Schmidt Word Currency
Glenn Nicholas Small Business Inspiration
Mac McIntosh B2B Sales Lead Expert
Jill Konrath Selling to Big Companies
Guy Kawasaki How to Change the World
Court Bovée and John Thill Business Communication Headline News
Grant D. Griffiths Kansas Family Law Blog
Robin Crumby The Melcrum Blog
Jim Peake My Success Gateway
Eli Singer Refreshing the Daily Grind
Duane Brown Imagination+Innovation
Scott Monty The Social Media Marketing Blog
Ian Lamont
Blog Campaigning
Rich at Copywrite Ink
John Lustina SEO Speedwagon
Adam Tinworth OneMan+HisBlog
Dave Schmidt Word Currency
Scott Clark Finding the Sweet Spot
Amanda Chapel Strumpette
Jennifer Veitenheimer reinventjen
Morty Schiller Wordrider
Matthias Hoffmann the power of news
Erin Caldwell’s PRblog
Ferrell Kramer Talking Communications
Anita Campbell Selling to Small Businesses
Rugjeff
Karl Ribas’ Search Engine Marketing Blog
Tony D. Baker Advanced Marketing Techniques
Tom Pick The WebMarketCentral Blog
Tina Lang-Stuart
Bryan Eisenberg Jeffrey Eisenberg Robert Gorell and the rest of the team at Grok Dot Com
Michele Miller WonderBranding
Publicity Ship Blog
The Media Slut
Brad Shorr Word Sell
Sasha Where Business Meets the Web
Ellee Seymour ProActivePR
Chris Kenton The Marketers’ Consortium
Paul Young Product Beautiful
By Ron Miller
Michael Morton
James D. Brausch
Janet Meiners Newspapergrl
Andrew B. Smith The New View From Object Towers
Cristian Mezei SeoPedia
Jim Nail Cymfony’s influence 2.0
Denise Wakeman and Patsi Krakoff The Blog Squad
Forward Blog
Ben Argov
Zane Safrit Duct Tape Marketing—Business Life
Will McInnes Online Marketing Guide
Robbin Steif LunaMetrics
Mike Boss
Marc Gunn Music Promo Blog
Nancy E. Schwartz Getting Attention
Kami Watson Huyse Communications Overtones
Todd Defren PR Squared
Michael Stelzner Writing White Papers
Dee Rambeau Adventures in Business Communications
Glenn Fannick Read Between the Mines
Owen Lystrup Into PR
Morgan McLintic
Mark Batterson Evotional
Jay Coffelt
John Richardson
Robin Good MasterNewMedia
Shel Israel Naked Conversations
Robert J. Ricci Son-of-a-Pitch
Mike Sigers Simplenomics
Dan Greenfield Bernaisesource
Brian Clark copyblogger
Lee Odden TopRank Online Marketing Blog
David Weinberger
Carson McComas
The FutureLab blog
John Bradley Jackson Be First Best or Different
Wired PR Works by Barbara Rozgonyi
Mark Goren Transmission
John Wall Ronin Marketer
MarketingProfs Daily Fix Blog
John Koetsier bizhack
Steve Kayser Squareballs Entertainment
James Robertson's Smalltalk Blog
Linas Simonis
Dale Wolf The Perfect Customer Experience
Eric Mattson Marketing Monger
Scott Sehlhorst Tyner Blain
Seeds of Growth blog
Hugo E. Martin
David Phillips leverwealth
Terry Affiliate Marketing Blog
Gavin Heaton Servant of Chaos
Mark White Better Business Blogging
Eric Eggertson Common Sense PR
Michelle Golden Golden Practices
Liz Strauss
Tony Valle Small Business Radio
Chris Heuer’s Idea Engine
David Evans The Progress Bar
Todd Andrlik The Power to Connect
The New PR Wiki
NewPR
Pelle Braendgaard Stake Ventures
Lisa Banks Search Engine Optimization Eblog
Chris Brown Branding & Marketing
Graeme Thickins Tech-Surf-Blog
Ardath Albee Marketing Interactions
Lauren Vargas Communicators Anonymous
Lori Smart Lemming
Dane Morgan
Jason Leister Computer Super Guy
Bill Trippe
Jason Eiseman Jason the Content Librarian
Reuben Steiger Millions of Us
Taran Rampersad Know Prose
John Richardson Success Begins Today
Valentin Pertsiya Brand Aid
Bill Belew Rising Sun of Nihon
Joe Beaulaurier An Ongoing Press Release
David Koopmans Business of Marketing and Branding
Chris Anderson The Long Tail
Roger C. Parker Design to Sell

Comments

[Richard Becker]

Congratulations David!

[Duane Brown]

Congrads David. I'm enjoying the book and need to get some more time in with it this weekend.

[Michael A. Stelzner]

David;

Congrats on finishing that book!

Brilliant PR move with this post by the way!!

Mike

[Glenn Nicholas]

Can't wait to read the book David. Your approach to writing it has been fascinating. And the launch - well, Google will have to plug in a few extra servers just to cope with the viral juggernaut you have unleashed. We almost need a new word to describe this kind of launch!

[Steve Kayser]

Congrats Dave - good luck. I'll link to your book in Expert Access.

The link above to me is for James Robertson's Smalltalk Blog.

He's a good blogger. I'm not. But... I do have a writing page now, skbigm.googlepages.com

Once again,

Thanks

Steve

[Grant Griffiths]

Congrats on finishing the book. I can't wait to read it.

[MN Web Design]

Congrats! I actually just read about this on Todd And's blog (www.toddand.com). Very cool!

[Linas Simonis]

Congratulations! I hope it will be bestseller and will start new age of new thinking about PR in 2.0 age.

Congratulations once more!

[Jeff Phelps]

Best of luck. I'm sure this is going to be an absolute hit. Thanks for the inclusion.

Rugjeff

[Gavin Heaton]

Hope it is a raging success!

[Barbara Rozgonyi]

What a way to launch! Can't wait to read your book and start following the New Rules. Thanks so much for the mention -
Barbara Rozgonyi
Wired PR Works

[Dan Schawbel]

Congrats!

[Ann Handley]

Wow...that's a lot of thanks!

Congrats, David. Well done. Looking forward to seeing the book.

[Ellee]

Hi David, Thank you for the honour of including me in your new book. I'm not sure where to leave my address, it is:

20 Top Street
Stretham
Ely
Cambridgeshire
CB6 3JL
United Kingdom

Good luck - best of British, as they say over here.

[John Richardson]

David, You are the master of PR. What a brilliant way to get the word out about your new book! Thank you for the mention!

John

[Denise aka The Blog Squad]

What a wonderful surprise and generous offer. Thanks so much for including a mention of The Blog Squad in your book. We'll be in touch with an invitation to be on our radio show, Blogging and Beyond.

[Joan Stewart, The Publicity Hound]

David, your public thank-you to a list of bloggers a mile long, and the free book offer, is absolutely brilliant. And I've never seen this done before.

I hope your books fly off the shelves.

[brad shorr]

Congratulations on the book.--I can't wait to read it. I'll bet it's fantastic. Thanks for mentioning me, and your generous offer. Great PR move!

[Graeme Thickins]

David, from one surfer to another...way to go, dude!

I hope you didn't write any of this in Hawaii -- you were supposed to be in the water :-)

cheers,
Graeme

[Nettie Hartsock]

Great congrats on the book and thanks for sending it on early, I'm looking forward to reading it. Hope to see you at BEA this year!

Nettie

[Matthias Hoffmann]

Herzlichen Glückwunsch! I can't wait to read your book.

Thanks
Matthias

[Jim]

David: congrats on the new book. Thank you for your participation, support and mentorship. Let me know how I can support your book sales efforts.

Warm regards,

-- jim

[Zane Safrit]

Thanks for the shout on your blog and in your book! Mailing address is:

Conference Calls Unlimited
1734 Jasmine Ave.
Building 18, Suite 155
Fairfield, IA 52556

[Brian Carroll]

David,

Congratulations on another big accomplishment! I got your book in the mail and I can't wait to read it!

[Mac McIntosh]

David,

If your new book is half as good as your first book, Cashing in With Content, it will be another must read!

Warm regards,
Mac McIntosh
The Business-to-business Sales Lead Expert(tm)