The Cluetrain Manifesto

• Author(s): Rick Levine,
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Pages: 190
• ISBN_10: 0738204315
  ISBN_13: 9780738204314
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / General , Business & Economics / Customer Relations , Business & Economics / Marketing / General , Business & Economics / Economics / General , Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior , Business & Economics / E-Commerce / General , Business & Economics / E-Commerce / Digital Marketing , Computers / Information Technology , Computers / Networking / Intranets & Extranets , Computers / Electronic Commerce ,

Description:... How would you classify a book that begins with the salutation, "People of Earth..."? While the captains of industry might dismiss it as mere science fiction, The Cluetrain Manifesto is definitely of this day and age. Aiming squarely at the solar plexus of corporate America, authors Christopher Locke, Rick Levine, Doc Searls, and David Weinberger show how the Internet is turning business upside down. They proclaim that, thanks to conversations taking place on Web sites and message boards, and in e-mail and chat rooms, employees and customers alike have found voices that undermine the traditional command-and-control hierarchy that organizes most corporate marketing groups. "Markets are conversations," the authors write, and those conversations are "getting smarter faster than most companies." In their view, the lowly customer service rep wields far more power and influence in today's marketplace than the well-oiled front office PR machine. The Cluetrain Manifesto began as a Web site (www.cluetrain.com) in 1999 when the authors, who have worked variously at IBM, Sun Microsystems, the Linux Journal, and NPR, posted 95 theses that pronounced what they felt was the new reality of the networked marketplace. This book is for anyone interested in the Internet and e-commerce, and is especially important for those businesses struggling to navigate the topography of the wired marketplace.