Joel Blackwell's Blog – July 2007 Archive (2)

In San Francisco Chronicle July 23 2007 an article on growing trend:

Authors lecture in companies and sell books

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/07/23/DDG3GR3PHE1.DTL

Since the fall of 2005, Google has joined several large West Coast companies such as Microsoft, Starbucks and Yahoo in hosting authors for weekly, sometimes daily, book-selling events that were…

The book features interviews with lobbyists, volunteer advocates, politicians and politicians' staff, all in pursuit of the answer to these questions:

What influences politicians? How do they make decisions? Do they listen to ordinary people or is it all about big-money interest (hint: don't believe the newspapers and tv).

The second section gives step-by-step analysis and proven techniques so you can…