thoughts on the upcoming english digital book “return on involvement” and stuff.
I am in the process of turning my Danish “handheld” book (entitled “return on involvement – how to use social web to create business unusual”) into a digital book in English – it’s so much fun and a very creative process for me. Also it’s frightening me a bit that I won’t only have to be completely open in Danish – but in English as well. That means that my book will be available to every english speaking person around the world (and that, my friend, is a huge deal to me – even though I know I have blogged here since 2005 in english) – then I see the digital book as a huge thing and one I am really excited to do.
So while I have been reading the book through in Danish, a lot of new ideas came up that I will add to the english version – it’s ok. I can. I have published the book on my own “press” because I hate when people tell me what I can and cannot do, so the world is open for everything and who says that the english version has to be the same as the Danish.
I have moved a lot personally in the last year and the english digital book will reflect that as well. I want to make it really concrete and really Henriette (because that’s how I roll and what excites me =). So in addition to the Danish book “just” being translated I am working on a workbook to accompany it and some interviews. Thanks to the magically wonderful Danielle LaPorte for making me realize that I could do this. That the world really needs more of me =) (and I have to love myself and all that jazz – well you know.. )
Also I can announce that for the 1st birthday of my book – I will make it available as a Danish e-book and as an audiobook =)
One of the things that I am really coming back to is the “abundance of stuff”. I did a talk about this at the amazing #ton40 un-conference in Enschede a couple of weeks ago. That in this world we can get everything we want. That we for example are so plastic abundant that we have it drifting around in a large part of our ocean. That we keep getting new. Luckily it seems like upcycling and adding value is becoming a bigger and bigger way of looking at products and life cycles. To me its super weird that we keep talking about abundant life, and getting the things we want – when we have so much already and we throw it away again and again..
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