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My picks for #sundayread for Nov. 1, 2015:

• Email marketing (2 of 3): Expand your reach
• 100 Illustrators You Should Know Right Now (via @18thStreetArts)
• Y’all Connect: Ike Pigott on great brand interactions in the moment
• What happens when all-star chefs get in bed with Big Food? By @MikeSula
• E.O. Wilson, ant man
• 8 stories emblematic of Grantland — read ’em while you can
• Free bookmark, please!
• How the Ivy League is Forcing Out Student-Athletes, by Joon Lee @iamjoonlee
• Flashback: Vote 2014: How Alabama re-elected Dr. Bentley
• Garden & Gun profile of artist/Bham native Lonnie Holley, by @NicBrownnn (via @pinxy)
• Running Deep, the Roots of King Sunny Adé, by @FemkevanZeijl (RT @AfrikaReads)
• There Are No Innocent Black People, by @GregHoward88
• First, Let’s Get Rid of All the Bosses, by @RogerDHodge
• On the loss to readers when photojournalists fail, by @jterhaar (via @mikewmott)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Happy Halloween!
• The Birmingham channel: Looking out for others

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My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 25, 2015:

• Email marketing (1 of 3): Start spreading the news
• Complete Guide to Never Quitting Anything Again, by @heyseankim (RT @Kit_studios)
• Why food allergy fakers need to stop, by @NeilSwidey
• Want a free bookmark mailed to you?
• How design, branding helped app beat competition by @awilkinson (via @GreenhouseAds)
• Myanmar and the game nobody wins, by Spencer Hall @edsbs (via @majikwah)
• Y’all Connect: Taylor Robinson on better stories for brands
• iOS 9 & Allure of Ad-Free Internet by @AdrienneLaF & @yayitsrob (via @GauchoProd)
• Danny Meyer will drop all tipping at his restaurants. By @qualityrye (via @kickpointinc)
• Flashback: Books: Excerpt from @sthig’s “Trail Magic and the Art of Soft Pedaling”
• A Very Revealing Conversation With @Rihanna, by @Miranda_July (via @evaschulz)
• Deep inside the futility of modern content factory, by @samstecky (RT @jayrosen_nyu)
• Mass. police chief’s new approach in city’s fight against heroin, by @cbsweeney
• On Tinder, Off Sex, by @AliRachelPearl (RT @delfuego13)

More posts from Wade this week:

• Contest results: Wade on Birmingham’s 10th anniversary
• The Birmingham channel: A ukulele and a dream

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My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 18, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Kerry O’Shea Gorgone on livestreaming apps
• Is this 8-year-old girl’s newspaper better than yours? By @JoePompeo
• Chapter excerpt from “My Unsentimental Education” by Debra Monroe (via @TheLeanLab)
• ★★★★½ … Reviews for “The Future of Birmingham” are terrific!
• This art forger donated pieces to 50+ museums (incl. @bhammuseum), by Alec Wilkinson
• Nietzsche on Journey of Becoming, What It Means to Be a Free Spirit, by @brainpicker
• Y’all Connect: David Wilson on determining your company’s value proposition
• Study: Many Psychology Findings Not as Strong as Claimed, by @BenCareyNYT
• Chapter excerpt from “Voices from Chernobyl” by Svetlana Alexievich (h/t @BooksLIVESA)
• Marketers, what’s fun about what you do?
• Ermahgerddon: The Untold Story of the Ermahgerd Girl, by @DarrynKing
• How the Violence Began, by Ashley B.
• The Fake Traffic Schemes That Are Rotting the Internet
• “Netflix and chill,” the complete history of a viral sex catchphrase, by @KevinRoose

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: It’s nice to have filmed you in …

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My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 11, 2015:

• Wade on Birmingham’s 10th anniversary
• What happened when 7 news sites got rid of reader comments by Justin Ellis @JustinNXT
• Banned Books Week is a crock / No, it isn’t
• Sponsoring Y’all Connect in 2016
• Music education out of tune with how kids learn by @SarahDerbyshire (via @soundandmusic)
• 8 Steps to Getting What You Want … Without Formal Credentials, by @MichaelEllsberg
• My book The Future of Birmingham: Ebook | From Amazon
• From Jamaica to Minnesota to Myself, by @MarlonJames5 (RT @AfrikaReads)
• Why I’ve Stolen 1000+ Menus & What They Teach Us About Cleveland Cuisine by @DougTrattner
• Flashback: Content Curation for Smarties
• Full digital archive of National Lampoon magazine, 1970-1998
• Your Guide to Dieselgate: Volkswagen’s Diesel Cheating Catastrophe by @byPatrickGeorge
• Gun violence costs America $229 billion a year, $700+ for every man, woman and child
• A teacher, a student and a 39-year-long lesson in forgiveness, by @THallmanJr

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• The Birmingham channel: A seasonal shift in song
• Blogging for collegians 2015

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My picks for #sundayread for Oct. 4, 2015:

• The Future of Birmingham: Strong Leadership #bham #futureofbham
• Rise of Next-Pats: How tech helps us live global lives by @scurtsy (via @BillDiscount)
• Y’all Connect: Shaun King on deeper connections with your social media audience
• Mystery of Mingering Mike, soul legend who never existed by @JonRonson (via @majikwah)
• 400 posts and counting on the Birmingham Blogging Academy blog
• Design Meets Production: 2 Minds Are Better than 1, by @ShelaghPS (via @GreenhouseAds)
• Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 36 #haiku
• On the Pleasures of Not Reading, by @DanPiepenbring (via @glennybrock)
• Flashback: Bham mayor has left Alabama more times than Obama has traveled abroad
• Decoding the Southern belle, by Cintra Wilson @xintra
• Stealing Jokes Is Big Biz on Internet. The Thieves Aren’t Ashamed. By @AmandaHess
• Broke, by Spencer Hall @edsbs
• CIA’s profiles of dictators, by Dave Gilson @daudig (RT @majikwah)
• Excerpt from Bill Bryson’s “A Walk in the Woods” (h/t @BooksLIVESA)

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• The Birmingham channel: Flights of fancy

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My picks for #sundayread for Sept. 27, 2015:

• The Future of Birmingham: Big ideas, photo essay by @hughbudhunter #futureofbham #bham
• A Humble Pope @Pontifex, Challenging the World, by @JimBYardley (via @aneebsharif)
• How Are Great-Grandkids of Richest Gilded-Age Americans Faring? By @shorterstory (RT @vsisson13)
• Y’all Connect: Laura Creekmore on building better content
• Interview with a founder of Bottletree & artist Merrilee Challiss, by @BDMccarley1
• Stop and seize: Aggressive police take hundreds of millions from motorists not charged w/ crimes
• The Future of Birmingham: A media wasteland #futureofbham #bham
• The Myth of Authentic Travel, by David Sze @Davadin (RT @AfrikaReads)
• Flashback: From 3 years ago, review of the biography “Steve Jobs”
• What your future employees need to know about blogging
• Network TV’s Ultimate Survivor Les Moonves, by Joe Adalian @TVMoJoe
• From 2010, Blueprint Birmingham: A look at the City of 2015
• 12 cognitive biases preventing you from being rational by George @Dvorsky (RT @SMTuffy)
• I love the Victorian era. So I decided to live in it. By Sarah A. Chrisman (RT ‏@pinxy)

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• The Birmingham channel: Small lives matter

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My picks for #sundayread for Sept. 20, 2015:

• The Future of Birmingham Is Compassion, by @JoeyKennedy #futureofbham #bham
• Growing Up Black, Female Meant Depression Was Forbidden, by Margo Jefferson (RT @ColumbiaSchArts)
• 7 hard-won lessons from creating my latest blog series and ebook
• The birth and evolution of the bicycle, by @AlexQArbuckle (via @PamelaWilton)
• The Future of Birmingham: a special Wade’s 101 #futureofbham #bham
• The Meaning of Serena Williams, by Claudia Rankine (RT @ColumbiaSchArts)
• Kary Delaria on the secrets of social selling
• The Timothy Hunt Witch Hunt, by @JonEForeman (via @KipkemboiKoech)
• My Life as a Telepresence Robot, by @EmilyDreyfuss (via @kickpointinc)
• They Pretend to Be Us While Pretending We Don’t Exist, by @Jennybagel (RT @KateBomz)

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• The Birmingham channel: Their causes and ours

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My picks for #sundayread for Sept. 13, 2015:

• The Future of Birmingham Is Pride, by @jfaustin, part 3 of 26 #futureofbham
• The Myth of Quality Time, by @FrankBruni (RT @rescuetime)
• Y’all Connect: The way to top-of-mind presence
• Dora Charles Moves on from Paula Deen, by @KimSeverson
• My new series/ebook “The Future of Birmingham” is free: http://itswa.de/futureofbham #futureofbham
• “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” marks end of an era for TV animation, by @timoneil5000
• Flashback: From 2012: Tuscaloosa woman held captive 70 days and counting
• Millennials Are Out-Reading Older Generations, by @AdrienneLaF (RT @melaniesiow)
• Virtual delegation and the speaking tour
• The Dubious, Brand-Led Surge of Fake National Holidays, by @JuliaRubin (RT ‏@kickpointinc)
• Flashback: From 2009: Happy trails, “King of the Hill”
• Katrina, 10 years later: The Yellow House, by @SarahMBroom (RT @melaniesiow)
• DC domestic violence survivors’ affordable housing crunch, by @mhbaskin (via @AndrewGiambrone)
• Sabbath, by Oliver Sacks (RT @ColumbiaSchArts)

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My picks for #sundayread for Sept. 6, 2015:

• Blogging fear: Looking stupid / writer’s block
• Stephen Colbert, the Late Night Hope, by Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff
• The Truth of “Black Lives Matter”
• Flashback: Birmingham’s Best Eats: Three lessons from the series #bham
• Librarians on Bikes Deliver Books, WiFi to Kids in “Book Deserts,” by @UrbanMuseWriter
• How I Earned $4,500 in 2 Days from One Blog Post and One Email, by @PeterShankman
• Apply now to be the #yallconnect Volunteer Coordinator
• Secret history of “Y’all”: Origins of legendary Southern slang, by @CameronMcNabb
• Butter in Coffee & Other Cons: Tales from Fitness Insider, by @DickTalens (via @sthig)
• Flashback: Y’all Connect – The story of a city continues
• Why Scandinavian children’s books have no taboos, by Ingelin Røssland @ringelin
• Neb. gave post-Katrina start to family. They need rescue again. By @EliSaslow (via @nelson_aj)
• Bart Starr’s drive to honor fellow Packer great Brett Favre, by @Ian_OConnor #bham
• The Late, Great Stephen Colbert, by Joel Lovell @lovelljoel

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My picks for #sundayread for Aug. 30, 2015:

• Flashback: A year ago, I gave up football. Giving up crimson
• The Coddling of the American Mind (via ‏@LGallitz)
• Wendell Berry: The Pleasures of Eating (RT @SignpostsJwM)
• Y’all Connect: Bloggers share lessons from 2015 conference, part 2
• Libraries on the front lines of the homelessness crisis in the United States
• The Simple Numbers That Could Change How You Hire (RT @luthermarius)
• Blogging fear: Getting started
• Are libraries re-making themselves? By @FallowsDeb (RT @gsisson64)
• What it’s like to actually eat the food in Detroit’s Oakland County Jail
• Flashback: On Katrina 10 years later. My love affair with New Orleans
• 25 years ago, “Pump Up the Volume” and the birth of podcasting, by Ron Hart
• Inside Amazon: Wrestling Big Ideas in a Bruising Workplace
• Science Isn’t Broken — Science Is Hard, by @cragcrest (RT @RafMBatista)
• Wonderfully Weird Southern Town Names, by @HeatherRichie (via @pinxy)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: An august showing

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My picks for #sundayread for Aug. 23, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Bloggers share lessons from 2015 conference, part 1
• The Singular Mind of Terry Tao, by Gareth Cook @GarethIdeas (RT @luthermarius)
• A Birmingham Reading List
• How I’m listening to improve my communication: An update
• Writers: Stop reading, start writing.
• Why Does the National Enquirer Suck at the Internet? By @MikeLeePearl
• Flashback: Adding video easily into WordPress posts (and pages)
• Trades, movement hard on baseball families, by Zach Buchanan @azc_zachb
• The Lions of Street Food, by Matt Goulding @mdgoulding (RT @robertgor17)
• Flashback: Tuscaloosa’s Deontay Wilder wins bronze medal in boxing at 2008 Olympics
• How the Muppets created Generation X, by @ElizHydeStevens
• Exclusion of Blacks From Juries Raises Renewed Scrutiny by @AdamLiptak (RT @vsisson13)
• River of Booze: Inside college town’s embrace of drinking, by @karinfischer & @erichoov
• When Two Decide to Live Together and Combine Bookshelves, by @AlexanderChee

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: The heat is on

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My picks for #sundayread for Aug. 16, 2015:

• Addictive content
• The Slate interview with Camille Paglia, by @DaveDaley3: http://bit.ly/1PssSJQ / http://bit.ly/1gLjeWv
• Alabama poet laureate Andrew Glaze and his new book, by @RachelOLindley //Signing at 3
• Flashback: Vote 2007: Mayoral forum on homelessness
• The Web We Have to Save, by Hossein Derakhshan @h0d3r (via @GreenhouseAds)
• How a Law Banning Ethnic Studies Led to Its Rise, by @WestonPhippen (via @actarc)
• Y’all Connect: Gender Avenger Hall of Fame, 2 years in a row
• 10 books that changed the world (h/t @jornalistavitor)
• Year of Racial Tumult Brings Lessons, Risks to Classroom by @DanBerrett (via @pimatweets)
• Flashback: Southern Progress: 41.4 percent staff reduction in 11 months
• How to Get Your Self-Published Book in Bookstores, by Carrie Rollwagen @crollwagen
• The Man Who Shot Michael Brown, by Jake Halpern (via @melaniesiow)
• 35 Women Tell Their Stories About Assault by Bill Cosby & the Culture That Wouldn’t Listen
• 14 tips on practical dating from my grandmother, by @CharleeDyroff (via @priyankasabarwa)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Songs of summer

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My picks for #sundayread for Aug. 9, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: The strength of blogging is community
• Inspiring travel books that could change your life, by @LanceRichardson (RT @kali_studio)
• As Diverse a Conference Lineup as Fans Deserve: Wade Kwon at Y’all Connect
• Barbara Ehrenreich, On Americans (Not) Getting By (Again)
• Books: Excerpt from Emily Brown’s @thechubbybird “Birmingham Food: A Magic City Menu”
• Something You Can Use: Writer’s Self-Healing Wound by Philip Graham (via @BooksLIVESA)
• The lines of communication
• A Kiss Deferred by Civil War, by Nikolina Kulidzan (RT @isalara)
• Flashback: 2 years ago, “Bizarre Foods America” airs Birmingham episode
• Case Studies: How to Make $1 Million Selling E-Books, by Ryan Buckley @rbucks
• “Kids”: Oral History of Most Controversial Film of ’90s, compiled by Eric Hynes @eshynes
• The Last Days of Daniel Linsinbigler, by @SusanEastman
• Liberal Arts Degree: Tech’s Hottest Ticket, by @GeorgeAnders (via @pimatweets)
• Playboy Interview: Stephen Colbert, by @EricSpitznagel

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: With the windows rolled down

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• More #sundayread recommendations from me

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My picks for #sundayread for Aug. 2, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Download our 2015 photo app for free
• These One-Person Businesses Have Cracked $1 Million by @ElainePofeldt (RT @tferriss)
• A Manhattan McDonald’s With Many Off-Menu Sales, by @Kim_Barker (RT @MrEddieHuang)
• Flashback: 4 years ago, Wade’s 101: Haiku retrospective 21
• Recommended books on leadership by female authors, by Kimberly A. White @whiteoi
• Poet Claudia Rankine: “Invisibility of black women astounding,” by @CocozzaPaula (via @ColumbiaSchArts)
• How to make an awesome slide deck, and why you don’t need it
• The Evolving Role of News on Twitter and Facebook (RT @spann)
• The Girl Who Survived The Brain-Eating Amoeba, by Peter Andrey Smith @PeterSm_th
• Books: Excerpt from Carla Jean Whitley’s @inkstainedlife “Birmingham Beer” 🍺
• The Original Ghostwriter Behind Nancy Drew, by Marissa Visci
• The Immigrant Families in Limbo, by @JeffreyToobin (via @melaniesiow)
• Excerpt from @TaNehisiCoates’ “Between the World and Me” (RT @BooksLIVESA)
• Why porn stars are so much better than you on Twitter, by @Kelsey_ML (RT @bsgpr)

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: Such sights to behold

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My picks for #sundayread for July 26, 2015:

• Y’all Connect: Your brand’s story isn’t looney enough
• The Hard Truths of @TaNehisiCoates, by @BenWallaceWells (via @nbj914)
• The Lost Girls: 1 famous band. 1 huge secret. Many lives destroyed. By @JasonCherkis
• Flashback: RIP Jefferson County, Ala., 1819-2009
• @WhitlockJason and “Black Grantland”: By @GregHoward88 / By @ReevesWiedeman
• American recycling is stalling, and profits are falling, by @byAaronCDavis
• Getting the brand back together
• State of the First Amendment 2015 from the @NewseumInst [PDF]
• The cult of Vice: Inside the media brand darling, by @ChrisIptw
• Flashback: Five ways to jump-start your job search with social networking
• Books: Excerpt from @BlakeElls’ “The Muscle Shoals Legacy of FAME”
• How a MS county bet on gambling, won big $$, still lost, by @ChicoHarlan (via @nelson_aj)
• Everything you think you know about disciplining kids is wrong, by @KatherineLewis
• Screen Addiction Is Taking a Toll on Children, by Jane E. Brody

More posts from Wade this week:

• The Birmingham channel: True heritage

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