Social Media: Sigh. We know we need to do it in order to build our author platforms so we can get agents and book deals and make money selling those books, but it can be exhausting. And it never ends. You tweet and you post and you circle and you link and you connect and […]
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January 22nd, 2015 | Tags: Facebook, Google, Instagram, LinkedIn, Meghan Ward, Social Media, social media tools, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 16 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) 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) If you have a WordPress blog, you probably know by now that Google will be retiring Google Friend Connect for all non-Blogger blogs on March 1, 2012. I’m thrilled about this because I’ve always hated Google Friend Connect but have never had the cahones to delete it from my blog. I just did, and it […] February 23rd, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Facebook, Google, Google Friend Connect, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, social networks, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Social Media, The Author Platform | 23 comments - (Comments are closed) I was a Klout junkie. The first thing I did when I woke up in the morning was reach for my iPad and check my Klout score to see if it had gone up a point since the previous night (scores apparently change in the middle of the night). I’m a casual gamer (Settlers of […] November 8th, 2011 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Blogger, blogging, blogs, Facebook, Google, Klout, Linked In, Meghan Ward, publising, Social Media, Social Media classes, social media influence scores, social networking, Sprout Social, Tumblr, Twitter, Wordpress, Writerland, Writing | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 40 comments - (Comments are closed) I’m on vacation for a couple of weeks, but I’m looking forward to catching up on everyone’s blogs and tweets when I return. Meanwhile, here’s a guest post from Samuel Park, author of This Burns My Heart. If you haven’t bought his book yet, do! Samuel is an exceedingly intelligent and talented writer. I loved […] August 2nd, 2011 | Tags: Author Interviews, author platform, blogging, Books, branding, Columbia College, Facebook, fiction, Google, Meghan Ward, novels, personal brand, Samuel Park, Social Media, social networking, This Burns My Heart, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Author Interviews, Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 17 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) |
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