Social networking, or online networking, is a style of networking that is popular among introverts writers because it allows us to blog, tweet, and post status updates from the quiet of our desk chairs and sofas. We don’t need to articulately deliberate over the national deficit while sipping martinis and munching canapés in some stranger’s […]
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October 9th, 2012 | Tags: Bay Area editors, blogging, Facebook, freelance editors, Malcolm Gladwell, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, Social Media, social networking, The Tipping Point, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 18 comments - (Comments are closed) The $64,000 question when it comes to social media is: Does it sell books? Many authors have written blog posts attempting to answer this question, and the consensus seems to be that yes, done right, social media does sell books, but in modest quantities. In other words, a rock star social media platform does not […] September 25th, 2012 | Tags: author platform, blogging, Facebook, freelance editors, Meghan Ward, San Francisco editors, Social Media, social networking, Twitter, Writerland | Category: Marketing, Memoir, Publishing, Self-Publishing, Social Media, The Author Platform, Writing | 21 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) 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) 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) 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) It’s so easy for bloggers to get caught up in the race for more followers, more comments, more hits. I know that when I get two comments on my Link Love posts (and one of them is mine) I want to stop posting links—partly because I feel it’s a waste of time if people aren’t […] April 19th, 2011 | Tags: Anastasia Villareal, Blogger, Christine Lee Zilka, Editing, Elizabeth Browne, Facebook, Klout, Kristan Hoffman, Meghan Ward, Memoir, Publishing, Twitter, Writing | Category: Marketing, Publishing, Reading, Social Media, The Author Platform | 33 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) |
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