Building your author platform
Author Justine Musk is writing a great series called “building your author platform even if you’re not published yet.” Part one explains why you should, and part two talks about what to do after you’ve created your blog.
Five Tips on an Easy-to-Use Social Media Tool: Commenting
Harlequin’s Malle Vallik always has excellent advice on social media. Her column today at Romancing the Blog is excellent: A great social media tool is the comment section of your blog or someone’s blog that you’ve identified as worth following….
You can now sync your MySpace status with your Twitter account!
MySpace has just introduced a beta feature that will let you sync your status with your Twitter account. Log in to your account and go to the ‘sync’ section. Give MySpace permission to use Twitter, and you’re done! You can…
SF authors on social networking
This week’s Mind Meld at SF Signal asks: “How has blogging and the emergence of social networking changed the face of publishing? How has it affected you personally?” Fourteen authors offer fourteen answers.
Social networking sites taken over by old farts
The Guardian reports that young people are abandoning scocial networking sites. Although their love of being online shows no sign of abating, the percentage of 15- to 24-year-olds who have a profile on a social networking site has dropped for…
How Twitter works and why people in publishing should consider using it
How Twitter works and why people in publishing should consider using it — another great post from The Book Publicity Blog.
What the F**k is Social Media?
We’re going to start posting bits from our recent talk on social media soon. In the meantime, check out this excellent presentation we just ran across: What the F**k is Social Media?
