Two terrific posts online for authors:
Jo-Anne Vandermeulen offers tips on blogging in “Blog the Right Way.” While the post is from 2009, it still offers terrific guidelines for how to make your blog interesting to readers.
In “What to Tweet About,” pro book marketer Dana Lynn Smith offers key tips to becoming Twitter-savvy.
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My personal Blogger account got hacked. It’s my own fault, of course, I rarely use it anymore and had wondered if I should just delete it.
While trying to find information for how to deal with this, I came across an interesting post at TheNextWeb.com. The site was hacked and all that showed was a Turkish [...]
Facebook
In a message posted this week, Facebook founder Matt Zuckerberg talks about more changes coming to the popular social networking site.
Regional networks will disappear and privacy control settings will be changed. This is to better streamline sharing controls on the site, which are a bit clunky right now.
Read his letter.
Twitter recently launched a lists function, which will help users separate followers into categories that other Tweeters can follow with the touch of a button.
Mashable wrote an article about Twitter lists (still in Beta) in mid-October. Twitter announced the move in a blog post in September.
When I first started exploring the lists function today, I [...]
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J.R. Turner
In a follow up to yesterday’s post, The Trouble with Trolls, Dead Friends Forever author J.R. Turner talks about her experience with online trolls.
In your online marketing ventures, when did you run into trolls?
Trolls are pretty much everywhere, so it isn’t the venue as much as it is those running the venue that one [...]
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Digg
For those who don’t know, Digg is a social networking site where you share stories you like and give them a thumbs up. Other Digg users can then rate the same story by either "digging" it, or "burying" it (which means they don’t like it). The stories with the most "Diggs" get on the front [...]
My highly-opinionated, redheaded self simply cannot resist sharing my thoughts on politics and spreading the word about potentially bad bills to my social network followers.
During my time in journalism, I was very careful to keep my opinions out of life. I felt like it would be too easy for people to say I was biased [...]
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The first sentence of Tom Matlack’s editorial at The Huffington Post immediately caught my attention. After I read the first paragraph, I was hooked:
Let’s face it — the whole chain bookstore, publishing house, agent, author thing is bankrupt. It’s even more 19th century than newspapers and old-fashioned crank music records. Don’t get me started on [...]
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I saw a Tweet from @RobertMale about Streamy, a social network that had gotten past my radar. With a little research, I discovered that it launched around 2007, but didn’t offer much to savvy social networkers. In fact, ReadWriteWeb said it had to differentiate itself from the vast competition to stay alive in the highly-competitve [...]
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Should You Pitch Your Book in Comment Sections?
November 17th, 2009 · 7 Comments · Social Networking
Should you pitch your book in blog comment sections?
I love comments.
When I receive a comment, no matter if good or bad, it means that I wrote something on my blog that created a reaction in a reader. The reaction was enough to motivate the reader to leave a comment – which doesn’t happen often.
Lately, [...]
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