tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post5953136135612095937..comments2024-01-27T20:54:06.726-08:00Comments on Once Written, Twice Shy: Productive Social Networking for WritersRebecca J. Clarkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13905246522578561864noreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-88009823389292830652010-05-01T19:29:05.851-07:002010-05-01T19:29:05.851-07:00Tess, if you go back on Twitter, I'm @rebeccaj...Tess, if you go back on Twitter, I'm @rebeccajclark and Laurie is @laurieblondon<br /><br />I hope you look us up!Rebecca J. Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13905246522578561864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-40670607343357359462010-04-28T13:37:56.923-07:002010-04-28T13:37:56.923-07:00Hi Tess,
I'm glad you found it helpful! If you...Hi Tess,<br />I'm glad you found it helpful! If you get back on Twitter, come find me!<br /><br />Mandy's deal is that she keeps her house clean and her family fed. I don't! :-)Laurie Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953540926553154310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-44509438320249207152010-04-27T11:29:32.678-07:002010-04-27T11:29:32.678-07:00Wow - this post had a lot of helpful information. ...Wow - this post had a lot of helpful information. Thanks, Laurie! I may not have a website yet, but I do have a facebook page. I didn't realize twitter was still being used so much. I stopped doing that a long time ago. I have no clue what a hashtag is either, but I'm going to check the links you listed here and find out. Guess I should brush up on tweeting again.<br /><br />Mandy - your schedule sounds almost exactly like mine - even the 9:30p bedtime. I don't know how these other ladies manage to get so much done!! They must all speed read/type or something... or give up sleeping.Tess Thielerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18026629329737596909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-60263591989305172102010-04-24T20:20:39.554-07:002010-04-24T20:20:39.554-07:00Thanks, Kate, for linking back. And thanks, Wendy,...Thanks, Kate, for linking back. And thanks, Wendy, for stopping by. I sure learned a lot from everyone's great comments.Laurie Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953540926553154310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-30743096706374013322010-04-24T16:56:23.682-07:002010-04-24T16:56:23.682-07:00Laurie and everyone who commented, thanks so much ...Laurie and everyone who commented, thanks so much for the Twitter tips. What great info! I learned a ton.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03209721931968316845noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-15729325531547963582010-04-24T14:37:56.935-07:002010-04-24T14:37:56.935-07:00Mandy, I have to laugh at your time management com...Mandy, I have to laugh at your time management comment. If I were brave, I'd tweet a picture of my house and the lack of activity in my kitchen around dinner time. :-)<br /><br />Thanks for coming by!Laurie Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953540926553154310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-9538303840912384932010-04-24T11:10:07.196-07:002010-04-24T11:10:07.196-07:00Laurie!! Excellent tips!! I'll have to save al...Laurie!! Excellent tips!! I'll have to save all of these for when I cave into peer pressure again and finally join Twitter. hahaha! For now though, I'll stick with Tip #1... "stay offline and write instead", or at least try to write instead. You must also be a time management guru because you seem to get soooo much done. I swear I need to set a timer and say, "I'll go to work for this set amount of time. I'll check my email/website/facebook for a set amount of time. I'll do my housework for a set amount of time. I'll cook dinner for a set amount of time and if there is any TIME left after all the interruptions and somewhere before 9:30pm, I MIGHT have a few minutes to THINK ABOUT writing." Hmmm... Twitter and blogging doesn't seem to fit anywhere in there.... yet. When the time comes, I'm sure I'll be calling you up to get all the lastest tips because obviously, I'm failing horribly at this social networking thing. hahaha!!Mandyhttp://www.etsy.com/shop/StupidShinyDesignsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-3879610767299398172010-04-24T10:33:29.828-07:002010-04-24T10:33:29.828-07:00This is very helpful! I will be linking back to th...This is very helpful! I will be linking back to this post on my blog.Kate Diamondhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00987438202240646062noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-36356736159473241642010-04-24T07:32:30.353-07:002010-04-24T07:32:30.353-07:00Hi Debbie,
Thanks for stopping by after a long wo...Hi Debbie, <br />Thanks for stopping by after a long work day! Twitter's actually really fun and isn't as intimidating as you'd think. You can set up a profile, find a few of us you know, see who we're following and start following them too. It's not like FB where they need to approve you as a friend. If someone sounds interesting, you follow them. You can watch what's going on to get the feel for how it works. I did that for quite awhile actually until I felt comfortable posting something and conversing with people.Laurie Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953540926553154310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-45360808344649001732010-04-23T21:06:49.708-07:002010-04-23T21:06:49.708-07:00Hi Becky and Laurie, I'm just getting in the d...Hi Becky and Laurie, I'm just getting in the door from working late so I'm posting kind of late in the game. I like the idea of connecting with people you don't know who aren't writers. I'm not brave enough to try Twitter just yet, but I am encouraged to be a little bolder on Facebook. Thanks for the great post, have a fantastic weekend.Debby Leehttp://booksbydebbylee.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-63981526578974173562010-04-23T17:41:08.596-07:002010-04-23T17:41:08.596-07:00Violet,
Wow, thanks for the additional tips. I lov...Violet,<br />Wow, thanks for the additional tips. I love @inkyelbows too. She's got fabulous advice on her website. Will need to check out LitChat. <br /><br />Vicky,<br />Hey, your blog is more up-to-date than mine, I'm sure!Laurie Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953540926553154310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-79993093946520335132010-04-23T16:42:33.894-07:002010-04-23T16:42:33.894-07:00Great advice, Laurie. I'm so awful about my Tw...Great advice, Laurie. I'm so awful about my Tweeting. Typical extrovert, I just love chatting up people. Oh, the guilt, the guilt. My blog is so outdated, I'm horrified. Well except for the cutie rabbit/kitty video - LOL. Let me summarize my life in one word. DEADLINE. Sigh...Man Candy Fanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09542364196870106590noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-70721075080115355042010-04-23T15:39:14.502-07:002010-04-23T15:39:14.502-07:00Thanks, Laurie! :) So far I've reviewed almo...Thanks, Laurie! :) So far I've reviewed almost exclusively paranormal YA since that is the genre I tend to gravitate toward. But I won't hesitate to include great MG, PNR, UF, sci-fi, or fantasy novels as they come across my shelf. I strongly agree with what you, Shelley, and Kathy have mentioned regarding book recommendations. Word of mouth truly does sell books. Reaching a select group of dedicated fans who are excited to actively force ... er, enthusiastically encourage... everyone they know to read your book goes a long way. I may never have found the Warden or Jeaniene Frost without you lovely ladies, and now I can't imagine not knowing about the Brothers or Cat & Bones.<br /><br />As far as twitter hashtags & twitter author chats go, I would highly recommend checking out @inkyelbow's page for writers on twitter: <a href="http://www.inkygirl.com/twitter-chats-for-writers/" rel="nofollow">HERE</a>. About a third of the way down that page you will find hashtags to help connect with other writers as well as hashtags for several of the regularly scheduled lit-related twitter chats.<br /><br /><a href="http://litchat.net/" rel="nofollow">LitChat</a> is also a good resource. Basically every genre or book-related tag you can imagine will lead some new people to stumble across your tweets (for example, any combination of #romance #paranormal #book #bookgiveaway will be stumbled upon by people searching for those individual terms).Violethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13679587020101376314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-11060497822301825082010-04-23T12:42:29.920-07:002010-04-23T12:42:29.920-07:00What great conversations we have going on. I'm...What great conversations we have going on. I'm learning so much!Rebecca J. Clarkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13905246522578561864noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-61818738902129463702010-04-23T12:40:55.058-07:002010-04-23T12:40:55.058-07:00So true, Kathy!
Good question, Shelley. I seem to...So true, Kathy!<br /><br />Good question, Shelley. I seem to just stumble upon them. <br /><br />For instance, when I was on Twitter right before a big PPV UFC fight, I did a twitter search on UFC. That brought up a lot of people's tweets about the event. Then, I scanned them to see the most commonly used hashtag and started using that in my tweets. I even got a few new followers from my posts that evening! <br /><br />Not sure if there's a better way to find applicable hashtags or not. Would love to hear other people's ideas too.Laurie Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953540926553154310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-70238584669870249042010-04-23T12:33:59.170-07:002010-04-23T12:33:59.170-07:00Addl note/correction: I did NOT persuade Kathy to ...Addl note/correction: I did NOT persuade Kathy to read JR Ward's books...she actually told me about them first! But that's just a perfect illustration of the power of word of mouth. From Kathy telling me, I have then told no less than 100 people (and probably more) to read her books. This is especially true when word of mouth hits a 'connector' and a 'maven' - see Malcolm Gladwell's "Tipping Point". Oh yes, Laurie London's husband told me to read that book, which I did and then bought a copy for a young man who works at a convention organization...Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04539016371939305275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-24469093950459941422010-04-23T12:08:55.325-07:002010-04-23T12:08:55.325-07:00Kathy - HAHAHAHAHA! "Some of the books that w...Kathy - HAHAHAHAHA! "Some of the books that were "gently suggested" (forced) on me" - yes, that is persuasion at its best, is it not? How many women have I gently pushed...aka forced...to read JR Ward's books?<br /><br />Laurie - I need to learn some more from you about hashtags! I checked out your link about them and my biggest question is how to find the exact hashtags that a person is interested in, does that make sense?<br /><br />Maggie - Thank you so much for coming over here, you seriously are a social marketing maven.Shelleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04539016371939305275noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-58914341808832740562010-04-23T11:49:35.429-07:002010-04-23T11:49:35.429-07:00Haha, well I meant originally when you started to ...Haha, well I meant originally when you started to go online way back when...if you had only gone to or associated with writers only places..we wouldn't prob have ventured in the same place where we met!Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836047588705382700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-64716020082487632752010-04-23T11:40:19.162-07:002010-04-23T11:40:19.162-07:00Aw, Kathy, thanks so much! ((hugs))
I think I'...Aw, Kathy, thanks so much! ((hugs))<br /><br />I think I've gotten some of the best recommendations for books from you. We clearly have similar tastes in books!<br /><br />What do you mean #6... I think we were friends before I really started to take my writing seriously. :-)Laurie Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953540926553154310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-35479450019280305982010-04-23T11:37:06.299-07:002010-04-23T11:37:06.299-07:00Awesome info, Violet! I've never hosted a give...Awesome info, Violet! I've never hosted a giveaway as my book isn't out yet. Never crossed my mind to give away others' books. Duh! What a great idea!<br /><br />I've never used Tweetchat. Only Tweetdeck. I'll definitely check it out. <br /><br />FYI: Violet has a wonderful new book review website. (I hope your name links to it.) Her reviews are some of the most eloquent and thoughful ones I've ever read. And I love the bullet-point format. As a reader/writer with a busy schedule, I can pop in and quickly read your review.<br /><br />Vi, do you just do YA, or do you review other genres as well?Laurie Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953540926553154310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-34041901832796564632010-04-23T11:27:10.494-07:002010-04-23T11:27:10.494-07:00Maggie! Thanks so much for stopping by. The book c...Maggie! Thanks so much for stopping by. The book club gals have been talking about your books (gushing, I must say). That's how I heard about how awesome they are. Can't wait to read them. <br /><br />I'm curious about your comment liking FB pages better than regular profile pages. I thought about it doing a FB fan page, but it just seemed so...weird...to think about asking people to be my "fan" especially when my book isn't even out yet. Plus, with a fan page, you can't interact on other people's pages, can you? <br /><br />I figured I'd switch over, if and when I ever got to that point, when my friends' list got too large. But that doesn't seem to jive with your experience. Any additional thoughts on this?Laurie Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953540926553154310noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-84940007066013618452010-04-23T11:12:41.307-07:002010-04-23T11:12:41.307-07:00Hi Laurie! What a great topic to have you bloggin...Hi Laurie! What a great topic to have you blogging about. You seem to have a real knack for social networking, and balancing it out with your writing. <br />I always find you so articulate whether it's a formal blog post or us having an informal conversation on FB or chat. If I were a writer, and I needed suggestions, I'd be taking notes right and left from you. As it is, I just get to enjoy the fruits of your labor! I can't wait until your books are on the shelves...to use that "word of mouth" that Shelley talked about. <br />I agree with Shelley that this is so important. <br />Just look at our group! I wouldn't have read 1/2 the books I've read had it not been for recommendations from the others. We are always out there chatting about what we love and making others read it, right?! Some of the books that were "gently suggested" (forced) on me, ended up being some of my all time favorites! <br /> I am a newbie to Twitter, and your suggestions are very helpful. Just your suggestion alone, of me using Tweetdeck, was greatly appreciated. We are in such a huge world of talented people that if we can learn from others without having to "reinvent the wheel" it is so much more productive. The sharing of info. and networking with people you admire and trust can be invaluable to both your time and creativity. <br />You seem to do it so well. <br />And, hey, I'm glad about #6! If you had limited yourself to writers only, we might have never met!Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01836047588705382700noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-81860877055498916032010-04-23T10:53:35.442-07:002010-04-23T10:53:35.442-07:00Wonderful post, Laurie! :) I would encourage shy...Wonderful post, Laurie! :) I would encourage shy authors to connect with book bloggers who specialize in your genre. Book bloggers are always excited to connect with authors via twitter or facebook & are happy to help promote authors they love & to help spread the word about new, awesome books. :)<br /><br />If you'd like to drive more traffic toward your own blog and to gather more twitter/facebook followers who may be interested in your book, host a giveaway. Contests & giveaways spread like wildfire on twitter & can quickly bring your name & book title to the attention of lots of potential readers. Even if you don't have any copies of your own book available yet, host a giveaway for another great book in your genre. The type of reader who will find & RT that contest is exactly the demographic you'd like to have recognize your name. It will help potential readers start to associate you with your genre & connect your name with books they love before your own book has even hit shelves. Plus other authors tend to enjoy free promotion via giveaways & may return the favor for you someday (or at the very least, they may help spread the word about the contest you are hosting for their book).<br /><br />I would encourage anyone who wants to use Twitter and Facebook for social networking to take advantage of Tweetdeck and TweetChat (or similar programs, like Brizzly). They make it so much easier to see the updates you want to see in a more efficient manner. With Tweetdeck, you can view your twitter feed, your @replies, and any particular hashtags you are interested in following all at once, which is so much more efficient than accessing twitter via the web and viewing only your own feed. You can also post updates to your twitter & facebook, and Tweetdeck will automatically shorten URLs & allow you to edit retweets. TweetChat makes participating in a hashtag conversation so much simpler & essentially lets you use twitter as a way to host an informal public chat. TweetChat will automatically add the hashtag to each of your tweets for the duration of your conversation.Violethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13679587020101376314noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-65840095281164025292010-04-23T10:24:48.834-07:002010-04-23T10:24:48.834-07:00Came here via Twitter! I just had to add when I sa...Came here via Twitter! I just had to add when I saw the twitter vs. facebook comments. I have both and recently changed over to a Facebook "page" instead of the regular profile, and it has saved my life. I only regret not doing in sooner because I had to herd cats/ gets my previous friends to switch over. I highly recommend it for author presence on FB.Maggie Stiefvaterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15842527558335640093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2295513765923392477.post-22686966571912000282010-04-23T09:25:54.141-07:002010-04-23T09:25:54.141-07:00Thanks, Tiffany. I'm a little more familiar w/...Thanks, Tiffany. I'm a little more familiar w/ finding people on Twitter. How have you found and connected w/ people interested in historical romance on FB?Laurie Londonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07953540926553154310noreply@blogger.com