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If I Were An Author I Would…

February 7, 2010
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1. Spend most of my time researching blogs and online websites instead of kvetching that my traditional publicity firm is just not trying.
2. Understand that I don’t need a publicist, mygrandma or even my publisher to work on my behalf to get coverage for my books! I can compile a list of blogs and start participating way before my [...]

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Mediaite.com and Why You Should Know About It…

January 18, 2010
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If you’ve not yet checked out Mediaite – and its PowerGrid, then you definitely should. From the site itself, “Mediaite’s “Power Grid” objectively ranks media professionals across a dozen categories based on their real-time relevance. Power Grid rankings rely on an array of metrics, including anything and everything from circulation to Twitter followers to Google [...]

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Ten Social Media Ideas To Rid Yourself Of in the New Year

December 24, 2009
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1. Social media is all about quantity not quality.
2. Social media happens overnight and you just need a couple clever tweets to get the masses.
3. There are gurus (like Social Media Santa) that really exist and we need to be like lemmings and just do everything they say.
4. If I only post on my blog [...]

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Going from Naked Stick Figure to Fabulous

December 16, 2009
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Which came first the website or the blog?
While it’s important to have some sort of presence on the Web, the times they are a changin, for what drives search engine mojo.
Did you know you can have a blog self-hosted on your domain that can give you the very added bonus of driving natural search engine [...]

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5 Ways to Empower Your Book on the Web

December 2, 2009

1. Use Google Blog Search and search on the title for a very successful book in your genre. What the search returns will be blogs that have mentioned, reviewed or featured the book. Make your own pitch list from this as well. In your own email pitch to the blogger, say something like, “I know [...]

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7 Ways To Succeed In Social Media

November 18, 2009

1. Build your personalized Google profile today so you are visible in search.
2. Add Twitter to your LinkedIn.com account – you can do this now and it will help folks see your “mindshare” on LinkedIn.com too.
3. Be committed to sharing your actionable insight on your blog and then go DIGG it as well.
4. [...]

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Google’s SideWiki and a Side of Sass

October 3, 2009
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I highly recommend that you become familiar with how Google’s newly launched SideWiki

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Help I’ve Fallen into Web 2.0 and I Can’t Get Out

September 25, 2009
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I was reading my friend and inspiring mentor Kathy Caprino’s post on how all of us can and should ask for help when we need it, and it inspired me to write this post.
Kathy says, “Blogging, social media, and the digital movement aren’t bad.  What is bad, however, is that thousands of people who need [...]

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3 Tips To Rock Your Linkedin Profile

September 21, 2009
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“Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.” Ghandi

While some of you might think of Linkedin and all these other tools as pure drudgery, I challenge you to think of them as tools for changing the world.
Tackling social media really works best if [...]

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Google Books Settlement Heating Up

August 21, 2009

Check out this NYTimes article on the Google Books settlement – it’s not over!

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Roy Blount Jr., Settling with Google and Orphan books

June 25, 2009

Google and orphan books…

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Is Google a Digital Vampire?

June 25, 2009

Is Google a Digital Vampire?

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