Tod Shuttleworth

Tommy Nelson Social Media Efforts

This post is part of a continuing series on how we are using social media at Thomas Nelson. We have looked at Max Lucado’s Community, BookSneeze and Amish Fiction. This post looks at what we are doing with Tommy Nelson, our Children’s products.
Tommy Nelson’s site is a place for parents who are looking for guidance [...]

Thomas Nelson’s Amish Living Community

Thomas Nelson’s fiction division gets the essence of social media: Find a passionate tribe and feed that passion with valuable content and services. That is what our fiction division is doing with their new community site Amish Living.
Amishliving.com is an online community created for those people who love “All Things Amish.”  Members can create a personal page, post content, [...]

Thomas Nelson’s BookSneeze

BookSneeze is a website where bloggers can register to receive free Thomas Nelson books in exchange for an honest review on their blog and on a consumer website like Amazon.com. Currently we have 13,000 registered bloggers from around the world.
Here’s how it works: Bloggers sign up for a free account, choose from a list of [...]

Max Lucado’s Community

So many love Max Lucado’s messages. I can personally say that few authors impact me like Max does. Susan Ligon, David Moberg, David Schroeder and team thought, “What if we built a place where those who love Max’s messages can connect?” Thus the Max Lucado Community built by Jon Dale.
The Max Lucado Community exists to provide [...]

The Inevitable Decline of Traditional Book Publishing

The book market is in perhaps its most interesting transition of its 700 year life span. Take the gunfighters’ stare down between Macmillan and Amazon last week. It was a game of chicken that may have seen Amazon blink. Maybe. A bit of me wonders if Amazon doesn’t have yet another surprise in mind.
More importantly, however, I [...]

Blogging AHA! Building A Long-term Asset

I was at Digital Book World in NYC this past week and it hit me: Social Media, especially blogging, is one of the few forms of marketing that create a long-term asset for the writer or the company.
Consider how we are building our online communities at Thomas Nelson, which are essentially replacing traditional web sites. These [...]

DigiReady Editor Recognition

We implemented DigiReady across Thomas Nelson in August 2009. (Four editors started a pilot in March 2009.) Our editors are the pioneers on the front lines driving and implementing Thomas Nelson’s digital strategy. They create each new title utilizing our DigiReady process, making them ready for publishing across multiple formats.
Since implementing DigiReady, our editors have [...]

The Apple Snobs

By most measures, Apple makes some great products. Their customers are amazing fans. The Apple tribe tells everyone about the greatness of their products. As an owner of an iPhone, I get it. Apple has made “WOW” products, and is reaping the benefits from truly great innovation.
Like most energized tribes, however, there is a [...]

Google Publishing Lawsuits Miss Key Point

It is interesting to watch the opposition authors and their agents are having to the Google settlement. There are lawsuits and threats of lawsuits despite this being a much vetted agreement by several leading industry groups representing nearly all interests.

Most don’t understand it, as they have not read the agreement’s hundreds of pages and then [...]

Digital Leadership

On July 23rd I posted a blog titled R U DigiReady? The blog discussed what DigiReady means, and why we are implementing the DigiReady process at Thomas Nelson. As the post indicates, this is why we are training our folks on DigiReady:

Increase Sales
Reduce Cycle Time
Improve Productivity
Better Marketing

DigiReady will allow us to simultaneously [...]