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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) The leak of the NSA’s Prism program has everyone thinking about online privacy. In addition to wondering whether your emails to your grandmother are being monitored by the government, you need to think about how much is safe to share on social media networks. The New York Times rule (“Don’t do anything […] June 13th, 2013 | Tags: blog, Blogger, blogging, Edward Snowden, Facebook, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, NSA leak, online privacy, privacy, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social network, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Blogging, Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 26 comments - (Comments are closed) If you’ve been reading blogs for a while, you have probably come across the term “1000 true fans.” Kevin Kelly first wrote about this idea on his blog Technium. The number 1000 is an estimate, of course, but the rationale goes that all you need to succeed in your field are 1000 true fans, […] May 30th, 2013 | Tags: 1000 true fans, Blogger, blogging, Facebook, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 56 comments - (Comments are closed) An essay that ran in Salon two weeks ago titled “I’m a self-publishing failure” recounts how one writer, John Winters, spent countless hours and dollars promoting his book online only to sell a handful of copies. Where did John go wrong? How can you avoid becoming a self-publishing failure? 1. First of all, start […] April 16th, 2013 | Tags: Bay Area editor, Books, ebooks, freelance editor, indie publishing, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 28 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I want to welcome author and nature photographer Mike Spinak, who is here to talk to us about his children’s book Growing Up Humming (which is wonderful; I bought two copies), his behemoth following on Google+ (45,710 people have circled him), and why he crowdsourced his book (Mike funded the publication of Growing Up […] April 3rd, 2013 | Tags: freelance editor, Growing Up Humming, Kickstarter, Meghan Ward, Mike Spinak, nature, photography, San Francisco editor, Self-Publishing, Writerland | Category: Author Interviews, Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 16 comments - (Comments are closed) 1. Use your name/brand as your Twitter handle. For the same reason that you want your name on your blog and your Facebook page, people won’t realize that Kiala Givehand is “supercoolwriter,” whose Tweets they follow and love, when they see her book in the bookstore, and they won’t buy it. Unlike on Facebook, […] March 26th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Networking for Introverts, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social network, Twitter, Writerland | Category: E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 28 comments - (Comments are closed) I had the pleasure to meet Patrick Brown, Director of Community at GoodReads, when he came to lunch at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto today. Brown spoke about the GoodReads Author Program and offered these tips for authors on GoodReads. 1. GoodReads has a free Author Program. You can use it to post videos and […] March 13th, 2013 | Tags: Bay Area editor, book review, Books, freelance editor, GoodReads, Library Thing, Meghan Ward, Patrick Brown, Reading, San Francisco editor, Shelfari, Writerland | Category: Books, E-Books, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 31 comments - (Comments are closed) For those of you who were intimidated by the thought of marketing yourself on YouTube, here’s a video tool for you.Vine, Twitter’s new social media video app, allows you to make short videos on your computer or mobile device and easily upload them to your Vine, Twitter, and Facebook accounts. The catch? The videos are […] March 7th, 2013 | Tags: freelance editor, Meghan Ward, Networking for Introverts, San Francisco editor, Social Media, social network, Twitter, video, Vine, Writerland, YouTube | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 22 comments - (Comments are closed) Today I’d like to welcome Dane Golden of Hey.com, who is here to talk about how writers can use YouTube to build their author platforms. If you’re a writer, how should you use YouTube? Well, I believe YouTube is best thought of as social video, a conversation between you, the writer, and […] February 12th, 2013 | Tags: author platform, Dane Golden, Hey.com, Meghan Ward, Social Media, social networking, Writerland, YouTube | Category: Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 16 comments - (Comments are closed) Happy 2013! If you’re an astute Writerland reader, you noticed that I took a break from social media over the holidays. I didn’t blog, I didn’t tweet, I didn’t Facebook or Google+ or pin. I played Angry Birds (the board game, not the iPhone app), Rush Hour, and Munchkin, I solved the Perplexus Rookie […] January 9th, 2013 | Tags: Blogger, blogging, blogging class, Blogging for Beginners, Facebook, freelance editor, Google, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editor, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 22 comments - (Comments are closed) |
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