Just happen to find a few of my favorite public figures and authors in the Social Media World. Here are the links:

Robert Kiyosaki

Twitter: @theRealKiyosaki

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/600.Robert_T_Kiyosaki

Facebook Profile

Facebook Page

John C Maxwell

Twitter: @johncmaxwell

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/68.John_C_Maxwell

Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/JohnCMaxwell

Blog: http://johnmaxwellonleadership.com/

Tom V Morris

Twitter: @tomvmorris

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/11478.Tom_Morris

Blog: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/index.php?author=tom-morris

Author of: “If Harry Potter Ran General Electric” & “If Aristotle Ran General Motors”

Robert G. Allen

Twitter: @bestsellerbob

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/25187.Robert_G_Allen

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Robert-G-Allen/128014057753

Site: http://www.robertgallen.com/

Stephen R Covey

Twitter: @StephenRCovey

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1538.Stephen_R_Covey

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stephen-R-Covey/15653234806

Site: https://www.stephencovey.com/

Marcus Buckingham

Twitter: http://twitter.com/mwbuckingham

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/18731.Marcus_Buckingham

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Marcus-Buckingham/27029436532

Site: http://www.tmbc.com/

Ed Viesturs

Twitter: @EViesturs

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/67681.Ed_Viesturs

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ed-Viesturs/75109555243

Site: http://www.edviesturs.com/

Tim Ferriss

Twitter: @tferriss

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/210456.Timothy_Ferriss

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/timferriss

Blog: http://www.fourhourworkweek.com/blog/

Anthony Robbins

Twitter: @tonyrobbins

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5627.Anthony_Robbins

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2217217024

Blog: http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/

J.K. Rowling

Twitter: @jk_rowling

Goodreads: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1077326.J_K_Rowling

Site: http://www.jkrowling.com/

What are my Top 10? Top 10 of what? Everything:

Top 10 Most Important Habits of Success

1. Regular Planning/Goal Setting Sessions
2. Daily Exercise
3. Early to Bed, Early to Rise
4. Education Driven, Studious
5. Absolute Integrity
6. Belief in and worship of a higher being
7. Humility
8. Clock Builder, not Time Teller
9. Strong Support Team At Home (AKA Family)
10. Charity

Top 10 Personal Development/Business books:

1. 7 Habits
2. 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership
3. Atlas Shrugged
4. Rich Dad Poor Dad
5. Raving Fans
6. The Speed of Trust
7. Good to Great
8. Who Took my Money?
9. Think and Grow Rich
10. The E-Myth Revisited

Top 10 Most Inspirational Movies

1. Rudy
2. Pistol Pete
3. Without Limits
4. Remember the Titans
5. Pursuit of Happyness
6. The Miracle
7. The Legend of Bagger Vance
8. The Truman Show
9. Cinderella Man
10. Forest Gump
11. October Sky

Top 10 Other Favorite Books

1. Porter Rockwell
2. 1776
3. All Harry Potter Books
4. The Count of Monte Cristo
5. The Cronicles of Narnia
6. Hmm…. I guess all I read are the business books

Top 10 Favorite Social Media Tools

1. Ping.fm
2. PixelPipe
3. Tweetlater
4. Twitter Karma
5. My Android cell phone
6. WordPress
7. Email Marketer
8. Commission Junction
9. Google Analytics
10. Tube Mogul

Top 10 Most often used programs on my computer

1. Firefox
2. Skype
3. Camtasia
4. Filezilla
5. Itunes
6. Format Factory
7. Microsoft Office (of course)
8. Quickbooks
9. Gmote
10. Google Desktop

Top 10 Favorite Web Sites

1. Goodreads
2. Twitter
3. Facebook
4. AndroidSocialMedia
5. Start Geocaching
6. WebcastRooms
7. BuddyRunner
8. Youtube
9. My Website
10. Orkut

Getting Personal…

Top 10 things you didn’t know about me (maybe)

1. I’m an avid runner
2. I’m obsessed with guns and wish I worked for the secret service
3. I’m a certified NRA instructor and teach Utah CCW Classes
4. I’m deaf in one ear
5. I read/write/speak Portuguese fluently
6. I live in Utah right now but want to move to Colorado ASAP
7. I don’t really follow any sports at all
8. I think that men without a gun and a dog are not really men.
9. I currently have ownership in 4 business that are not my MLM business
10. I’m Mormon

Top 10 Most Favorite Things (In case you hadn’t figured them out by now)

1. My Cell Phone
2. Porter Rockwell
3. GeoCaching
4. Action Flicks
5. Guns, Security, and related things
6. AudioBooks
7. Dogs
8. US History
9. Eating
10. Making Money

Since my interview with Andrew James two weeks ago I’ve received a lot of inquiries about GoodReads.com In an effort to continue my series of tutorial videos about Social Media Marketing I’ve just completed this new 10 minute video about setting up your account on Goodreads.com Goodreads will be the next BIG thing in Social Media. I guarantee it!

Of all the thousands of different social networking sites out there we can basically categorize them into several main categories such as Social News, Social Bookmarking, Picture sharing, Video sharing, Blogs, mini-blogs, Social Networks, etc.

So far history has shown that the three most effective sites where Social Media experts are spending most of their time are: Facebook, Twitter, & Youtube. Today it is my intention to show you what the next upcoming website is going to be! Here it is:

Goodreads.com

Goodreads is a book review social network. Much like Flixster for movies, goodreads allows people to network together as friends, in groups, etc. Today a good friend and partner Andrew James of andrewjamesinc.com came over to my office to interview me about Goodreads and why I’m predicting its future “fame and glory” among social media. Here is the interview: