Katie Delahaye Paine’s book helps businesses go beyond analytics software to measure what’s important to their organization's success.

Comparing measured business performance data with key benchmarks to measure progress over time will often make the difference between an efficient operation that executes strategic tactical plans and one that flies by the seat of its business attire. Measure What Matters: Online Tools for Understanding Customers, Social Media, Engagement, and Key Relationships offers some ideas to streamline your analytics practices.

The tools, tricks and resources that served us best this past year.

Every year, new gadgets are released, software is updated, new social networks try to woo you. Now that the holiday chaos has settled and we’re heading into a productive new year, we wanted to take toll of what we really used last year—and loved so much that we’re still using this year. We asked around the Mightybytes office and found that the best things aren’t necessarily the newest or the flashiest, but the ones that are clean, lean, and solve real problems.

Clean Food, Extreme Beer, Awesome Holiday.

As book lovers and storytellers as well as foodies and beer geeks, what better opportunity to put our favorite pastimes to the test than Thanksgiving?

Tim’s been in the north country this week working on Mightybytes site content and cooking up dishes like Wild Rice with Lemon, Fennel and Dried Plums and Red Lentil Soup with Turnip and Parsley from Terry Walters’ new cookbook Clean Start while James and Steve were busy bottling the second of three holiday batches of Mightybrew sourced from Dogfish Head brewmaster Sam Calagione’s book Extreme Brewing.

Time to kick back and learn some new things?

Here’s a handy list of links of our book reviews of web design, technology, digital media, workplace, and other book categories from the Mightyblog during 2009-10. See what you may have missed on the bookshelves. Tell us what you think about the ones you’ve already absorbed into your brain. Happy reading!

In Drive, Daniel H. Pink digs deep to discover what really motivates us in our personal and professional lives.

Do you wake up every day and get excited about the idea of going to work? If not, have I got a book for you. In his follow up to A Whole New Mind, Daniel H. Pink explores the many facets of things that motivate us on professional and personal levels. Using the tenets of a phenomena he calls Motivation 3.0, in which our desire to learn, make choices, and achieve supersedes any sort of 'carrot and stick' rewards-based system, Pink offers many rich examples of companies and individuals who have aligned their lives, businesses and culture around these principles to great success.