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You’re working on building your author platform. You’re blogging, you’re tweeting, you’re Linked In, and you’re posting to your Facebook author page. But how can you tell if all those hours spent on the social media treadmill are having an impact? On your blog, you can monitor how many unique visitors and page views […] April 12th, 2011 | Tags: author platform, Barack Obama, D4EO, Danielle Svetcov, David Patterson, Foundry Media, Gary Vaynerchuk, James Levine, Justin Bieber, Klout, Lady Gaga, Marketing, Meghan Ward, Mollie Glick, Nathan Bransford, Publishing, Social Media, social media analytics, Sprout Social, Weronika Janczuk, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 17 comments - (Comments are closed) Because I will be teaching a social media class at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto beginning next month, I’ll be blogging a lot about social media in the coming weeks. Many of you commented on my post about Facebook Pages with questions, so Miles has graciously offered to write a follow-up post. Here it is: […] March 29th, 2011 | Tags: author platform, Facebook, Facebook Fan Page, Facebook Page, Glee, Meghan Ward, MIles Christian Daniels, milesmaria, personal branding, Social Media | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Because I’m going to be teaching a class on Social Media at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto next month, I’ll be blogging more about social media in the coming weeks. Today: 10 Twitter Tips. 1. Choose a Twitter handle that people will remember. Whether it’s your name (@charliesheen, @meghancward), a cute nickname (@ Mc_Huge, @iamnatedavis), […] March 22nd, 2011 | Tags: Anne R. Allen, author platform, blogging, Dane Golden, Facebook, Jordan MacKay, Josh McHugh, Kristen Lippert Martin, Laughing Squid, Meghan Ward, personal branding, Publishing, Sierra Godfrey, Sin and Syntax, Social Media, Twitter, writers, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 19 comments - (Comments are closed) Just a few updates for my peeps here in the Bay Area, in case you’re not following me on Twitter or Facebook. (What? You’re not? Get on over there and follow/like me. You won’t regret it!) 1. I’ll be telling a story at the Porchlight storytelling series this Monday at 8 p.m. at the Verdi […] March 19th, 2011 | Tags: 7x7, Beth Lisick, blogs, disciplining toddlers, Facebook pages, Litquake, Meghan Ward, parenting, Porchlight, Regreturature, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, Social Media, Twitter, Writers' Grotto | Category: Marketing, Memoir, Publishing, Social Media | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) Last Friday, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, author of A Tiger in the Kitchen, came to the Grotto for lunch. I had the privilege of interviewing her both on video and in person. Here is the in-person interview. Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York City-based food and fashion writer whose work has appeared in the Wall […] March 15th, 2011 | Tags: A Tiger in the Kitchen, Chery Lu-Lien Tan, Cheryl Tan, cooking, culinary memoir, Memoir, Social Media, Tiger Mother | Category: Author Interviews, Books, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Social Media | 34 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I have an interview with Miles Christian Daniels, founder and co-partner of milesmaria, about how to make your Facebook Page (formerly known as a “Fan Page”) fantastic. milesmaria is a publicity, communications and media company that works with authors, filmmakers and entrepreneurs to “tell their story.” For writing tips, social […] February 22nd, 2011 | Tags: book publicity, Facebook, Facebook fan pages, Facebook pages, maria gutierrez, Maria Menenses Gutierrez, miles c. daniels, miles daniels, milesmaria, Publishing, Social Media | Category: Books, Marketing, Publishing, Social Media | 28 comments - (Comments are closed) Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the survey. You guys are awesome. Here are the results: Sixty-five writers took the survey. Of those, 42% are novelists, 18% are nonfiction and/or memoir writers, and the rest are broken down below. 43% of the writers support themselves through non-writing-related jobs (see below for a […] January 18th, 2011 | Tags: bloggers, Books, Editing, freelance, jouralism, Meghan Ward, Memoir, novels, poetry, Publishing, short stories, survey, Writing | Category: Books, Marketing, Memoir, Publishing, Writing, You Tell Me | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) I went to my first ever blogger networking event last night at this cool new restaurant/bar in Oakland called Disco Volante. We wore name tags. We sipped cocktails. We exchanged business cards. I think I was the only blogger there writing about writing (someone said, “That’s so meta. And meta is cool.”) About half the […] January 7th, 2011 | Tags: A Better Oakland, bloggers, BlogOakSphere, hip-hop, Oakland | Category: Dis n Dat, Marketing | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) January 5th, 2011 | Tags: blogging, Editing, Writing | Category: Marketing, Social Media, Writing | One comment - (Comments are closed) If you’re like me and you’re trying to do it all, you may find yourself sneaking into the corner of the kitchen to scarf down a chocolate chip cookie or sip a glass of wine now and then to keep your energy up and your sanity intact. That “all” may include picking up toys and […] January 4th, 2011 | Tags: bloggers, blogging, Editing, parenting, Publishing, Writing, writing moms | Category: Books, Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 9 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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