Kindle Free Pick of the Week: The Intern

A free pick for anyone that has been an intern.

It's 1995. Things are going great for new Washington, DC intern Trent Norris. He's out on his own, he's found a fabulous woman to date, and if he doesn't love his internship, he doesn't hate it either. Life is nice.

But things can change in a moment in DC, and Trent finds himself the prime suspect in two murders.

Kindle Free Pick of the Week - Management Secrets from the Pyramids

A quick read today that may be able to help.

A discussion of the ancient pyramids of Egypt and how they can solve all your management problems. Make no mistake, the Egyptians were excellent pyramid builders, and here, for the first time, Otto von Fussbuggler shares the secrets of these mysterious structures, through an absorbing yet thankfully brief exploration of how large piles of ancient stones can be relevant to YOU and YOUR management skills.

Kindle Free Pick of the Week - Conscious Calm

Conscious Calm: Keys to Freedom from Stress and Worry

Who isn't stressed out these days? With stress and anxiety so common, most people worry too much and wish for lasting stress relief. But while there is plenty of external stress, there is also what we do on the inside with stress, often without noticing it. Conscious Calm: Keys to Freedom from Stress and Worry reveals the internal world of stress and stress reduction. This practical book describes the internal stress traps you can fall into without even knowing it, and shows you how to get free from those traps for good. Combining psychology and wisdom from both East and West in clear, accessible language, psychologist Dr. Laura Maciuika describes 9 Stress Secrets that can keep you stuck in stress and worry cycles, and reveals 9 Keys to Conscious Calm, with simple steps for lasting stress management and real stress relief. A free, downloadable Action Steps guide is included to help you transform stress and worry into greater calm, inner peace and happiness.

Give this book a try.

Kindle Free Pick of the Week - Black Flagged

Book One of the Black Flagged series.

A graduate of the Department of Defense's experimental Black Flag program, Daniel Petrovich carries secrets he'd rather keep buried. Secrets his government has hidden in the deepest vaults of the Pentagon. Unfortunately for Daniel, someone is trying to raise Black Flag from the dead and bring Daniel back with it. Someone who knows all of his darkest secrets.

In exchange for the promise of a clean slate and a chance to keep the life he has built with the woman he loves, he agrees to carry out one final mission.

Daniel's life is about to disintegrate, as he becomes the focus of a relentless FBI manhunt and the target of a vengeful CIA agent. To survive, he'll be forced to release a dark side he fought for years to keep suppressed. A dark side with few boundaries, and even fewer loyalties.

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Black Flagged lays the foundation for a gritty, unapologetic series exploring the often unceremoniously brutal world of covert operatives and government agency politics.

Tech Accessory Holiday Gift Idea Day 23: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Facebook Marketing

The core of Facebook marketing comes down to really one question: do they like me? It sounds childish, and it probably recalls days of pimples and sweaty hands. But this is what Facebook is all about: connecting with past friends and new colleagues, becoming visible to your community, and potentially - being the most popular.

Being likeable is key to an established presence on Facebook.

What Makes a Likeable Business? The question that a consumer will ask regarding your business on Facebook is this: will this company care more about making a profit than my well-being?

Translation: Do they even care about me enough to talk to me and respond to me? Great products and services help influence people to like business but it's the people behind the business that really make the business likeable. Not a logo, or a cool product-although these are important, too.

Social media marketing has opened the gates to a more social world online. Consumers are able to reach businesses and have conversations with them 24/7 now in a form where everyone can see the conversation. If people representing the company are unpleasant or even mean-spirited, everyone sees this and it hurts the likeability of the brand. When we think about the businesses we like the most, we think about people within the businesses that are completely selfless, who give help at a moment's notice, and who go above and beyond their normal duty.

It's the attendant at the ice cream parlor who gives me an extra large scoop of mint chocolate chip, the waiter who brings my little girl a balloon, or the bartender that knows what I like to drink and hands me my favorite beer as I sit down.

You can do the same nice gestures on Facebook.

• You can congratulate fans for any successes they may post with a big thank you, happy birthday, happy anniversary
• You can supply fans not only with a short answer to their question, but a link to a page on your website, blog, or video that talks more in-depth about the topic they asked about
• You can make them 'fan of the month' by the amount of interaction they have taken on your Facebook page in a given month and promote them
• If a fan has posted a question, and you don't know the answer. Ask all of your fans the same question to see if the greater audience might know
• You can encourage your fans to network with each other by asking them to all introduce themselves

By developing relationships with your fans, you will get to know them and that will make the difference in loyal fans versus just another metric. And, you'll have a picture of that fan to help you remember who they are and what they look like.