Best User Generated Content Books of 2025

Hook Point: How to Stand Out in a 3-Second World, by Brendan Kane, is a must-read guide for anyone looking to thrive in the digital age. Kane breaks down the most effective strategies to create a compelling brand and grab the micro-attention of potential audiences. With over sixty billion messages shared on digital platforms each day, Kane's communication tool, hook points, helps marketers package their messages in a succinct and attention-grabbing way. As an out of the box thinker and strategist, Kane has worked with Fortune 500 companies like Paramount, Viacom, and MTV, making this book an essential guide for making it in our three-second world.

"ChatGPT for Beginners" is an essential guide for those looking to interact with ChatGPT. The book provides over 600 unique prompts and guides readers on how to create their own prompts using different industry sectors, challenges, roles, activities, and methods. The book also includes chapters on personas, role assumption, and role-playing prompts, exploring lists, step-by-step instructions, and prompts for personal development, creative writing, and copywriting. This book is a must-read for anyone looking to improve their ChatGPT experience and explore different perspectives."

The latest edition of WordPress: The Missing Manual by Matthew MacDonald is a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to create websites using WordPress. The book covers everything from setting up WordPress to customizing themes and using plug-ins to enhance your site's capabilities. MacDonald's jargon-free language makes it easy for both beginners and seasoned web designers to follow along. The book also includes tips on SEO, site statistics, and social sharing to reach a wider audience. Overall, WordPress: The Missing Manual is an excellent resource for anyone looking to build a website using WordPress.

It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office by Dale Beran is a fascinating and bizarre story about the impact of 4chan and 8chan on youth counterculture. Beran, an insider of the anonymous messageboard community, chronicles the journey of 4chan from creating rage-comics to inciting riots to, according to some, memeing Donald Trump into the White House. The book explores how these sites fuel white nationalism, inspire violence, and infect politics. It Came from Something Awful is a must-read for those interested in understanding the impact of the internet on contemporary culture, politics, comedy, and language.

Content Strategy for the Web, 2nd Edition is a comprehensive guide for anyone looking to improve their organization's content strategy. The book provides insights into the processes and people behind a successful content strategy, how to create smarter and achievable decisions about what content to create and how to build a business case for content strategy. The second edition includes updated material, case studies, and new chapters that push content strategy in a more valuable direction. Overall, this book is an essential read for anyone working with content and looking to improve their organization's content strategy.

UX Strategy: Product Strategy Techniques for Devising Innovative Digital Solutions is a hands-on guide that introduces lightweight product strategy tools and techniques to help UX/UI designers, product managers, entrepreneurs, and aspiring strategists devise innovative digital solutions that people want. The author, Jaime Levy, shares simple to advanced methods that can be applied right away. This second edition includes new real-world examples, updated techniques, and a chapter on conducting qualitative online user research. Overall, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants to learn how to build products that people want and need.

Information Architecture: For the Web and Beyond is a must-read for UX designers, product managers, developers, and anyone involved in digital design. The book provides essential concepts, methods, and techniques for creating effective digital products and services. It covers IA components such as organization, labeling, navigation, search, and metadata, and takes readers through processes and methods from research to strategy, design, and IA implementation. The authors, Lou Rosenfeld and Peter Morville, are both experts in the field of information architecture and provide valuable insights. Overall, this book is an excellent resource for anyone looking to improve their digital design skills.

Solving Problems in 2 Hours: How to Brainstorm and Create Solutions with Two Hour Design Sprints by Teresa Cain is a must-read for entrepreneurs, product managers, and business professionals. The book provides a detailed approach on how to solve critical business problems with two-hour design sprints using Figma FigJam. Cain also shares her own insights with 15+ years of experience in product and UX. The adaptation to two-hour design sprints helps organizations increase the frequency and speed of solving small and medium problems virtually or in-person, while still using the five-day design sprint method to solve larger problems. This book is a game-changer in the decision-making and problem-solving category.

The Facebook All-in-One For Dummies, 2nd Edition is an essential guide for anyone looking to make the most out of the world's largest social network. Covering everything from creating a personal timeline to developing Facebook apps, this book is an A to Z guide for users, marketers, and developers alike. With the latest updates on Graph Search, mobile apps, Timeline enhancements, and news feed redesign, this book is packed with helpful information and great ideas. The book is perfect for both personal and professional use, and it offers tips and tricks to make Facebook both fun and useful.

One Piece, Vol. 40 (40) by VIZ Media LLC is a captivating fantasy manga book that follows Monkey D. Luffy and his crew in search of the ultimate treasure, One Piece. In this volume, Luffy and his team band together to rescue Robin and Franky from the Navy's court at Enies Lobby. The World Government is in for an epic battle, but did the Navy deceive Robin into sacrificing herself in order to trap the Straw Hats? This volume is action-packed and full of suspense, keeping readers on the edge of their seats until the very end. Overall, One Piece, Vol. 40 (40) is a must-read for fans of the series and a great addition to any manga collection.