Every now and then you read a gloom and doom post about blogging like “Is blogging dead?” or “Where are all the bloggers?” Blogging is far from dead. Some people who were blogging five days a week four years ago may have slowed down or quit because they got burned out, and there’s no question […]
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June 21st, 2014 | Tags: author blogs, blog, Blogger, blogging, blogging class, Book Passage, Marin, Meghan Ward, San Francisco, SF Grotto, SF Writers' Grotto, Social Media, social network, The Grotto, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 14 comments - (Comments are closed) Last month I posted an interview with SheBooks co-founder Laura Fraser. This month I want to discuss a few things about what I learned by publishing my first book, Runway, and what I plan to do differently next time. Photo courtesy of NASA
1. Are you blogging to the wrong audience? What is […] June 12th, 2014 | Tags: book launch, book marketing, book publicity, freelance book editor, Meghan Ward, Memoir, networking, Publishing, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 21 comments - (Comments are closed) If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, I have two blogging classes starting in the next week at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Blogging for Beginners starts this Wednesday, January 29, and I still have two openings. My Six-Week Blogging Workshop begins the following Monday, Feb. 3, and four spaces are available. […] January 26th, 2014 | Tags: blogging, blogging classes, Meghan Ward, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, The Grotto, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Social Media, The Author Platform | 10 comments - (Comments are closed) Tuesday night, I had the privilege of attending Sin and Syntax author Constance Hale’s class The Book Biz from A to Z at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. One of the topics that arose was platform. Today, every agent and editor wants to know that you have a platform before representing/buying your book. But […] January 23rd, 2014 | Tags: author platform, book marketing, Marketing, Meghan Ward, personal brand, Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 29 comments - (Comments are closed)
In 2012, Twitter and Pinterest rose to prominence, and Facebook bought Instagram and went public. In 2013, Twitter released Vine and went public, Google+ starting gaining traction, and SnapChat turned down a $3 billion offer from Facebook. What will 2014 bring?
1. Google+, Google+, Google+ 2014 is going to be all […] January 9th, 2014 | Tags: Facebook, Google, Google Plus, LinkedIn, Medium, SnapChat, Social Media, social network, social networks of 2014, Twitter | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 20 comments - (Comments are closed) Everyone’s been talking about Medium lately. Alexis Madrigal wrote a post about it for The Atlantic. I’ve received multiple invitations from writers who are looking for feedback on drafts of work they’ve posted on Medium. Students in my Blogging for Beginners class have been talking about Medium. But what is Medium? And should you be […] October 3rd, 2013 | Tags: blog, Blogger, blogging, blogging platform, Medium, Medium.com, Meghan Ward, Writerland | Category: Blogging, The Author Platform | 35 comments - (Comments are closed) Don’t do this to your friends
Here’s a common scenario. I say to a friend, “I wonder what Sarah is up to. I haven’t heard from her since we were in that writers’ group three years ago.” Friend: “I haven’t heard from her either. I googled her once, […] September 5th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, blogging, book marketing, book promotion, Facebook, Instagram, Self-Publishing, social marketing, Social Media, Twitter | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 40 comments - (Comments are closed) First, a few updates: It’s not too late to win some BlogHer ’13 swag and an ebook copy of Guy Kawasaki’s APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur. Just leave a comment here (You must be subscribed to Writerland to participate–you can do that by entering your email address over there in the right sidebar–>) by midnight Sunday. […] August 16th, 2013 | Tags: Alta Peterson, blog, Blogger, blogging, freelance editor, host your own blog, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editor, self-hosting, Social Media, social network, Tumblr, Wordpress, Wordpress.com, Wordpress.org, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 61 comments - (Comments are closed) Guy Kawasaki and I at BlogHer ’13 The weekend before last I attended BlogHer ’13 in Chicago along with 5000 other (mostly female) bloggers. We heard keynotes by Pioneer Woman Ree Drummond, social media guru Guy Kawasaki, Facebook COO and Lean In author Sheryl Sandberg, and Walking Dead producer Gale Anne Hurd. Queen Latifah […] August 6th, 2013 | Tags: Blogger, blogging, BlogHer, BlogHer '13, freelance editor, Guy Kawasaki, Lean In, Meghan Ward, Queen Latifah, Randi Zuckerberg, Ree Drummond, San Francisco editor, Sheryl Sandberg, Social Media, social network, The Pioneer Woman, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Contests, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 38 comments - (Comments are closed) First up, a few announcements: I have room for a couple more students in my Blogging for Beginners class, which starts August 7 and runs for four Wednesdays at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. Email me if you’d like to enroll! Anyone who has followed this blog for a while knows that my posts […] July 25th, 2013 | Tags: Blogger, blogging, BlogHer, BlogHer '13, freelance editing, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 9 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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