Next Wednes­day evening, the Can­berra and Syd­ney web com­mu­ni­ties are both get­ting together to cel­e­brate the end of yet another very busy year at their respec­tive Web­Blast events. For me, it’s been a year of sig­nif­i­cant change; I went from work­ing for SMS Man­age­ment and Tech­nol­ogy to start­ing and run­ning my own company.

As a spon­sor of Web­Blast Can­berra ’07, I’m giv­ing away some books as door prizes. If you’re keen on grab­bing your­self a copy of any of them, make sure you turn up. Last year’s inau­gural event was heaps of fun, this year should be big­ger and better.

Here are the books I’m giv­ing away. They’re all books I own myself and value for the insights, teach­ings or help they’ve given me.


“Cubi­cle Com­mando by Lisa Mes­sen­ger and Zern Liew”


“The Fifth Dis­ci­pline: The Art & Prac­tice of The Learn­ing Orga­ni­za­tion” (Peter M. Senge)


“Get­ting Things Done: The Art of Stress-​​Free Pro­duc­tiv­ity” (David Allen)


“Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Sur­vive and Oth­ers Die” (Chip Heath, Dan Heath)


“The Myths of Inno­va­tion” (Scott Berkun)


“Pur­ple Cow: Trans­form Your Busi­ness by Being Remark­able” (Seth Godin)


“The Tip­ping Point: How Lit­tle Things Can Make a Big Dif­fer­ence” (Mal­colm Gladwell)


“The World Is Flat: A Brief His­tory of the Twenty-​​first Cen­tury” (Thomas L. Friedman)

Other spon­sors are giv­ing away plenty of other schwag, so you should def­i­nitely turn up to see if you can win your­self a prize!