Gifting the writer: Updated style guides

I get lots of questions about style guides thanks to the blog's weekly writing coach feature--so much so that I've created a special section just for writing style guides in the don't get caught Amazon store.

But this holiday season, I'm mostly recommending style guides that reflect the shorter styles and formats involved in social media.  Here are a few you might want to use to reward that hard-working writer down the hall (or the one behind your desk):

• The Yahoo! Style Guide: The Ultimate Sourcebook for Writing, Editing and Creating Content for the Digital World - a comprehensive desk reference for online content and writing.
• 140 Characters: A Style Guide for the Short Form that hones in on improving your tweets.
• The Twitter Book, not a style guide per se, but shows actual tweets that illustrate different content needs on Twitter. Loads of examples, including one from me (see page 146).
• Associated Press 2010 Stylebook -- updated annually, but this is the first version to make "website" one word. Just in time for the 21st century....oh, snap! Also for the first time, includes a special section on social media. 

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