I am horrified to have just discovered that I had 25 unapproved comments in my Admin folder (only three of them spam)—many from writer friends an bloggers whose blogs I frequent. I rely on WordPress to notify me when someone has commented, and when a comment in pending approval, but somehow it hasn’t been doing […]
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December 21st, 2010 | Tags: blogging, blogs, Editing, Wordpress, Writing | Category: Editing, Social Media, Writing | 5 comments - (Comments are closed) For all you people who are more blog savvy than I am: How do I get my picture to show up next to comments when I choose Name/URL as my identity instead of my Google Account? Anyone using WordPress.org software know? November 21st, 2010 | Tags: Blogger, blogging, blogs, Blogspot, Google, Wordpress | Category: Dis n Dat, Social Media | 7 comments - (Comments are closed) Has it really been more than a week since I last blogged? What is becoming of me? Well, for one, it’s fall. And fall means holidays and birthdays galore. All of our friends’ kids were born in the fall/early winter, which means nearly every weekend for the next two months I will be eating pizza […] November 5th, 2010 | Category: Books, Link Love, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) There’s been a lot of talk about slow blogging lately, including a great post from Anne Allen on why quality if more important than quantity, another from Sierra on why she’s switching from five days a week to three days a week, and yet another by Roni, who’s also switching from five days a week […] September 3rd, 2010 | Tags: dialogue, ebooks, Laura Fraser, Matthew Zapruder, Michael Hyatt, poetry, Publishing, Slate, slow blogging, Social Media, The Daily Beast, Writing | Category: E-Books, Link Love, Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 11 comments - (Comments are closed) We’ve talked about branding and how important it is to present yourself professionally online through your website, blog, Tweets, and Facebook page. But what about in person? How do you present yourself to the world? Are you the kookie artist with the wild hair and the scrappy jeans? The clean-cut professional who wears twin sets […] August 30th, 2010 | Tags: author platform, Marketing, personal branding, Publishing, Writing | Category: Marketing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 17 comments - (Comments are closed) I keep not wanting to write the “why I’m not blogging” post, but here goes. I am CRAZY tired lately! My 10-month-old is going through some kind of growth spurt or teething or revenge-on-Mommy for not letting her have unlimited Cheerios and is getting up two to three times a night. Last night she was […] August 2nd, 2010 | Tags: blogging, iPad, iPhone, parenting, Writing | Category: Marketing, Social Media, Writing | 6 comments - (Comments are closed) Josh McHugh is the president of Attention Span Media, the social media studio behind two of the most-watched web series of all time, Dorm Life and Simon Fuller’s If I Can Dream. Josh’s experience at the intersection of technology, media and business began 14 years ago at Forbes Magazine, where he chronicled the brainiacs […] July 13th, 2010 | Tags: Attention Span Media, Dorm Life, If I Can Dream, Josh McHugh, Wired Magazine | Category: Author Interviews, Social Media | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) Links! The Wall Street Journal has a great article about vanity press going digital. Meg Waite Clayton has a great series of posts on how writers get started. Start with Part I and read all six! After the New Yorker released its 20 Under 40 list (I’m honored to know three of them—Daniel Alarcón, Yiyun […] June 11th, 2010 | Tags: Editing, luck, New Yorker, Publishing, revision, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, Writing | 13 comments - (Comments are closed) When I was a kid, I ate a lot of peanut butter, always creamy smooth Jif. I didn’t like Skippy or any other brand. Only Jif. When I moved to Paris, this small American grocery store run by a Lebanese couple near my apartment was the only place I could find peanut butter, but it […] June 8th, 2010 | Tags: author platform, personal brand, Publishing, social medial, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 20 comments - (Comments are closed) It’s been three weeks since I posted links! So here we go … In random tech/social media news: Here are 10 Tips for being awesome online, a post on how to get more Twitter followers, and the best book editors on Twitter. In all things iPad: From the New York Review of books, the iPad […] May 31st, 2010 | Tags: Betty White, E-Books, fiction, iPad, novel, Social Media, Writing | Category: Craft of Writing, Editing, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 3 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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