Who’s going to BlogHer ’13? It will be in Chicago, Thursday through Saturday, July 25-27, of—you guessed it—2013. Early Bird registration ends Nov. 7. Until then you can register for half the regular price, just $198! No, I’m not advertising for BlogHer. I have no connection to BlogHer, but I really want to go to […]
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September 18th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Blogger, blogging, BlogHer, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, Publishing, San Francisco editors, Social Media, social networking, Writerland, Writing | Category: Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 14 comments - (Comments are closed) First, I want to let my Bay Area peeps know that I have a new session of Blogging for Beginners starting next Wednesday, September 19, at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, and there are a couple of spots left. If you’re interested in signing up, contact me as soon as possible. And now … Should […] September 11th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Berkeley editors, blog, Blogger, blogging, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, Social Media, social networking, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 22 comments - (Comments are closed) After @KristenLambTX decided to reclaim her hashtag, #myWANA, by announcing that she would block anyone who prescheduled tweets using it, I had to ask myself: Have I been abusing hashtags, too? For those of you new to Twitter, a hashtag is a searchable keyword that you attach to a tweet using the pound sign. […] August 24th, 2012 | Tags: Berkeley editors, freelance editors, hashtag, Meghan Ward, Networking for Introverts, San Francisco editors, SF Grotto, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 16 comments - (Comments are closed) I’ve begun a new column for SheWrites called Networking for Introverts, which will run every other Thursday, and I’ll repost those here. Here is the latest: With the growing popularity of Buffer and the introduction of HootSuite’s AutoSchedule feature, there has been a lot of brouhaha on the Internet lately about whether you should preschedule […] August 16th, 2012 | Tags: Berkeley editors, blogging, freelance editing, Meghan Ward, Memoir, Networking for Introverts, San Francisco editors, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform | 26 comments - (Comments are closed) When I teach blogging and social media classes at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto, students frequently ask me, “Where can I get art for my blog? Can I just google images and use those?” The answer is yes, you can, but no, you may not. Because any image you find on the Internet may be […] June 21st, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, Blogger, bloggers, blogging, Clip Art, Creative Commons, freelance editors, iStockPhoto, Meghan Ward, photos, San Francisco editors, San Francisco Writers' Grotto, SF Grotto, ShutterStock, Social Media, social networking, Stock.XChng, websites, Wordpress, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 122 comments - (Comments are closed) I teach social media and blogging classes here at the San Francisco Writers’ Grotto. In these classes, I explain to writers how to write a great blog post, how to market their services through their blog, Facebook and Twitter, how to create a community of enthusiastic fans of their work, and how to manage their […] April 10th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, Bay Area editors, blogging, blogging classes, e-book publishing, freelance editors, indie publishing, Marketing, Meghan Ward, personal brand, Publishing, San Francisco editors, Self-Publishing, Social Media, social networking, Writerland, Writing | Category: Dis n Dat | 15 comments - (Comments are closed) 1. Get over your fear of self-promotion. Just do it. Now. Done? Good. I get an email newsletter from professional coach Martha Borst every week. It has her photo at the top and an image of her book cover on the side. I don’t see that and think, “Oh God, there goes Martha promoting herself […] January 31st, 2012 | Tags: author blogs, author platform, author websites, Bay Area editors, Berkeley editors, blogging, Facebook, Meghan Ward, personal brand, San Francisco editors, Social Media, Social Media classes, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 23 comments - (Comments are closed) If you’re a writer, you’ve had the importance of building your “author platform” drilled into your head like the multiplication tables were in fourth grade. Most people associate building an author platform with Facebook and a blog, but there are many ways to create a following. Here are 25: 1. Blog Not every writer needs […] December 6th, 2011 | Tags: author platform, authors, Bay Area editors, Meghan Ward, networking, personal branding, Publishing, San Francisco editors, social networking, Writerland, Writing | Category: Books, Publishing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 38 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) |
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