Social Media Engagement, Week #4 Social media engagement for the purpose of benefiting others is very different than social media engagement to benefit you. It is easy to do and gives an instant push of humanity to any person on social media. Try it out by commenting on peoples’ feeds in Google+, Facebook, or Twitter. Or better yet, try doing…
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I battled with Microsoft Word for years. Oh heck, I use Word just like everybody else, have used it for years. I was converted from WordPerfect back in the days when Microsoft’s Office suite swept away all competition at one fell swoop. It was easier to just accept it as the program with the best features and the most support…
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Social Media Engagement, Week #4 Though there are many different definitions of social media engagement, there are two forms of engagement that dominate: doing it to benefit you and doing it to benefit others. Today, we explore social media engagement that is used to primarily benefit you, your blog, your causes, or your projects. Your job is to conduct social…
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This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. It’s time to take the work you’ve done to hone your book idea and discern the benefits it provides readers and create a title for your book. In previous posts, you learned how to look at your…
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Social Media Engagement, Week #4 In our last full week of social media experiments, it is time to talk about the most interesting aspect of social media – engagement. Just like every other buzz word out there, the term “engagement” is loaded with meaning. It literally means something different to every person. Your job is to define social media engagement…
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Social Media Writing, Week #3 Now that we’ve talked about personal blogging and book blogging, the best way to finish off this week on social media writing experiments is by talking about comments on blog posts. This is one of those hot topics that has its set of supporters and protestors. There are pros and cons to the issue of…
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You published your book, celebrated your launch, and sold books to most of your friends, family members and colleagues. Now, you’re even blogging. But you may be wondering, “What can I do to reach even more readers?” Reaching out to the press, contacting book clubs, and reading at bookstores are great ways to promote your book offline. To reach potential…
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Social Media Writing, Week #3 On Monday, we discussed the social media experiment of writing about your personal blogging experiences. Today, we take things one step further and really encourage you to blog, by blogging an entire book during the month of April. April is also known as National Book Blogging Month (NaBoBloMo). Nina Amir created National Book Blogging Month…
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This post is a blogged draft excerpt from The Author Training Manual (Writer’s Digest Books, March 2014). Read the previous blogged excerpt, here. When you first conceived the idea for your book, you might have believed writing it fulfilled a sense of personal purpose. Or maybe you thought your book had its own purpose to fulfill. That purpose could have…
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