Q: Why do people have blogs?
Kassia: "I've never had an opinion I didn't want to share." It's the kind of writing she's been doing her whole life. It's a platform that works really well for her. Blogging has helped her establish herself in her career.
Christina: Blogging is living out loud. She prefers to keep certain things "inside" until they are ready to come out. Daily bloggers have a mindset that when they have an idea, they post it.
Kassia: "No one in the publishing industry new my name when I started by blog."
Jane: This is a topic that comes up a lot. (She's got a post on why to blog on her blog. She the blogroll at the right for the link to There Are No Rules.)
Q: If you're just starting a blog how to people get to you?
Jane: One of the most effective things you can do is comment on other people's blogs. If you are on Facebook and Twitter definitely link to relevant blog posts.
Kassia: Link to other blogs and sites.
Christina: There's also traditional connecting. Link, meet people, go to conferences, engage in professional development. It all creates a synergy. Do a little bit of a lot of things when it comes to connecting with others.
Jane: Look at things you can do online that will help other people, and they'll come back to you.
POSTED BY ALICE POPE
Showing posts with label Jane Friedman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jane Friedman. Show all posts
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Twitter, Facebook, and I Really Should Update My Website
Q: (for Christina) How much time to do you spend writing vs. platform?
Christina: They was she uses her time depends on where she is in the process of a book project. You need to learn to steer your own ship and prioritize and don't drop your craft time.
Q: Do any of you pre-post your tweets?
Kassia: She times out her posts depending on what audience she's getting to. The average lifespan of a tweet is 5 minutes. When you tweet you're only getting an audience if they're online and they're reading you. If you think something is important, you may want to post is several times over a day or several days to have more reach.
Q: What determines how ou respond to Facebook posts?
Jane: When I'm prompted, I respond. She uses Twitter in a really intergrated way because she feels like her personal and professional lives are meshed.
Kassia: I feel like a lot people do Facebook wrong. She only accepts a friend request on her personal Facebook page if they are not her actual friends. She does not want people to know personal information about her.
Christina: She uses Facebook for professional purposes only. She doesn't want to hang out with people in her personal life online. She enjoyed connecting with other writer mamas. She finds it interesting to see how people respond to her posts. Nobody really used these tools in the exact same way.
POSTED BY ALICE POPE
Christina: They was she uses her time depends on where she is in the process of a book project. You need to learn to steer your own ship and prioritize and don't drop your craft time.
Q: Do any of you pre-post your tweets?
Kassia: She times out her posts depending on what audience she's getting to. The average lifespan of a tweet is 5 minutes. When you tweet you're only getting an audience if they're online and they're reading you. If you think something is important, you may want to post is several times over a day or several days to have more reach.
Q: What determines how ou respond to Facebook posts?
Jane: When I'm prompted, I respond. She uses Twitter in a really intergrated way because she feels like her personal and professional lives are meshed.
Kassia: I feel like a lot people do Facebook wrong. She only accepts a friend request on her personal Facebook page if they are not her actual friends. She does not want people to know personal information about her.
Christina: She uses Facebook for professional purposes only. She doesn't want to hang out with people in her personal life online. She enjoyed connecting with other writer mamas. She finds it interesting to see how people respond to her posts. Nobody really used these tools in the exact same way.
POSTED BY ALICE POPE
Twitter, Facebook, and I Really Should Update My Website
Christina: Set up Google alerts on yourself so you know what other people are saying about you. These can be viewed in Google reader as well.
Kassia: She has allerts set up for her full name, her last name, and common misspellings of her name.
Christina: Has approximately 10 Google alerts set up.
Jane: What's something that you find essential on a daily basis?
Kassia: Twitter. She rarely reads email newsletters anymore. She can accomplish on Twitter and 15 minutes what used to take her an hour and a half.
Christina: Facebook. She's visual. If she had to choose between Twitter and Facebook, she'd probably choose Facebook. But she uses Twitter to expand her reach. She uses Tweetdeck to organize her Twittering.
Jane: She interacts on Facebook and used Twitter as a listening post.
POSTED BY ALICE POPE
Kassia: She has allerts set up for her full name, her last name, and common misspellings of her name.
Christina: Has approximately 10 Google alerts set up.
Jane: What's something that you find essential on a daily basis?
Kassia: Twitter. She rarely reads email newsletters anymore. She can accomplish on Twitter and 15 minutes what used to take her an hour and a half.
Christina: Facebook. She's visual. If she had to choose between Twitter and Facebook, she'd probably choose Facebook. But she uses Twitter to expand her reach. She uses Tweetdeck to organize her Twittering.
Jane: She interacts on Facebook and used Twitter as a listening post.
POSTED BY ALICE POPE
Twitter, Facebook, and I Really Should Update My Website
Jane Friedman, Christina Katz and Kassia Krozer are offering a session on managing time when it comes to social networking.
Kassia: "I live my life online. I check my email before I pour my coffee."
Christina: She has 3 e-newsletters, 3 blogs, 3 websites, a -year-old daughter. She suggests weaving into your day the things that you feel will advance you as a writer.
Jane: Do you use an RSS readers?
Kassia: She uses Google reader on her iPhone at the gym. She has a process by which she reads blogs and info online. RSS, she says, is the best invention. She subscribes to the information that she needs and is interested in. (RSS stands for "really simply syndication.")
Christina: You asked what could be a big time suck--that would be Google reader. She's now a convert, but she had to recognize that she only needs to read on her focused topics.
POSTED BY ALICE POPE
Kassia: "I live my life online. I check my email before I pour my coffee."
Christina: She has 3 e-newsletters, 3 blogs, 3 websites, a -year-old daughter. She suggests weaving into your day the things that you feel will advance you as a writer.
Jane: Do you use an RSS readers?
Kassia: She uses Google reader on her iPhone at the gym. She has a process by which she reads blogs and info online. RSS, she says, is the best invention. She subscribes to the information that she needs and is interested in. (RSS stands for "really simply syndication.")
Christina: You asked what could be a big time suck--that would be Google reader. She's now a convert, but she had to recognize that she only needs to read on her focused topics.
POSTED BY ALICE POPE
Breakfast With the Stars, Sunday: Jane Friedman Is Really a Fountain of Knowledge
A few more helpful links shared by Jane:
Jane: "It's not possible to get noticed TOO much." (Very true.)
POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER
Breakfast With the Stars, Sunday: Jane Friedman Keeps on Keeping On
Other DIY Publishing sites, include:
Note: Jane recommends Blurb for writers who want color images.
POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER
Breakfast With the Stars, Sunday: Jane Friedman (Continued)
Jane's moved on to Scribd (another free service available for writers).
Nice feature on Scribd is that you can view statistics, including comments, ratings, views, etc.
POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER
Nice feature on Scribd is that you can view statistics, including comments, ratings, views, etc.
POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER
Breakfast With the Stars, Sunday: Jane Friedman
Melissa Hill has introduced Jane Friedman, Writer's Digest Publisher and Editorial Director. Jane is speaking on writers becoming their own publishers.
Her first link is Smashwords.
With just a simple Word file, a writer can create a book completely free. Check it out. Now!
POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER
Her first link is Smashwords.
With just a simple Word file, a writer can create a book completely free. Check it out. Now!
POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Breakfast With the Stars, Saturday: Avoiding Scams
Jane spent some time on avoiding bad agents, editors and publishers.
Useful sites:
Jane just finished to much applause. Next speaker up in a minute.
*****
One thing with this group (and this is a good one thing): It does not take long for them to fill the silence with shop talk. About 14 tables, and animated conversations at all of them.
POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER
Useful sites:
Jane just finished to much applause. Next speaker up in a minute.
*****
One thing with this group (and this is a good one thing): It does not take long for them to fill the silence with shop talk. About 14 tables, and animated conversations at all of them.
POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER
Breakfast With the Stars, Saturday: Waking Up
Attendees are still wandering into the ballroom. Jane Friedman is starting her talk.
She is currently covering how to use several helpful websites, including PublishersMarketplace.com, BoSacks, MediaBistro, and more than 20 other sites.
POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER
She is currently covering how to use several helpful websites, including PublishersMarketplace.com, BoSacks, MediaBistro, and more than 20 other sites.
POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Have Breakfast With Some of the Stars of the Publishing World
Breakfast with the Stars is the most important meal of the day on Saturday and Sunday at the Writer’s Digest Conference: The Business of Getting Published September 18-20, 2009 at the Marriott Marquis in Times Square, New York City. At these events, conference attendees get to network with publishing and marketing experts in a social setting and enjoy some thought-provoking talks given by key presenters.
Jane Friedman, publisher of Writer's Digest, kicks off breakfast on Saturday, September 19, talking about websites and blogs every writer should be reading. See if your favorites make the list. Next up is author Al Katkowsky, who will reveal how he took his idea, Question of the Day, from a simple group activity to a published book, and then turned it into an application for the iPhone, where it is still in the Top 50 in the Book category of over 8,000 apps. Peter Clifton, president and CEO of FiledBy.com, winds up the morning, advising on how writers can take advantage of his new website which offers custom web pages for 1.8 million published authors with an active ISBN in the U.S. or Canada.
On Sunday, September 19, author William Cane discusses how writers can get on the college lecture circuit. When his book, The Art of Kissing, was published, he became a highly sought-after speaker on the college lecture circuit and has spoken at more than 400 colleges and universities. Next, digital media consultant and publisher Kirk Biglione takes a look at digital rights management (DRM) and explains what it is in non-technical terms. He’ll also discuss the realities of digital media piracy and the impact that competing DRM systems are having on the development of the marketplace for e-books.
Jane Friedman wraps up Sunday breakfast with a talk about how the online writing and publishing world has exploded with new opportunities to help writers get published and get noticed by agents and editors. New community sites like WeBook and Authonomy put writers in collaboration with other authors/writers to qualify the best stuff, and get noticed by talent seekers. Friedman will share information about new and free digital publishing services that also give writers exciting ways to create and share content across multiple devices (e.g., iPhone or Kindle), that can test ideas or help promote writers and their work. And best of all, no tech experience is required.
Breakfast with the Stars is an add-on program to the Writer’s Digest Conference. Conference registrants can add on to the day for $35 a session. Tickets for either breakfast-only are $55 each.
To register for Breakfast With the Stars and find complete details on all speakers, sessions, events, travel and registration visit www.writersdigestconference.com.
Jane Friedman, publisher of Writer's Digest, kicks off breakfast on Saturday, September 19, talking about websites and blogs every writer should be reading. See if your favorites make the list. Next up is author Al Katkowsky, who will reveal how he took his idea, Question of the Day, from a simple group activity to a published book, and then turned it into an application for the iPhone, where it is still in the Top 50 in the Book category of over 8,000 apps. Peter Clifton, president and CEO of FiledBy.com, winds up the morning, advising on how writers can take advantage of his new website which offers custom web pages for 1.8 million published authors with an active ISBN in the U.S. or Canada.
On Sunday, September 19, author William Cane discusses how writers can get on the college lecture circuit. When his book, The Art of Kissing, was published, he became a highly sought-after speaker on the college lecture circuit and has spoken at more than 400 colleges and universities. Next, digital media consultant and publisher Kirk Biglione takes a look at digital rights management (DRM) and explains what it is in non-technical terms. He’ll also discuss the realities of digital media piracy and the impact that competing DRM systems are having on the development of the marketplace for e-books.
Jane Friedman wraps up Sunday breakfast with a talk about how the online writing and publishing world has exploded with new opportunities to help writers get published and get noticed by agents and editors. New community sites like WeBook and Authonomy put writers in collaboration with other authors/writers to qualify the best stuff, and get noticed by talent seekers. Friedman will share information about new and free digital publishing services that also give writers exciting ways to create and share content across multiple devices (e.g., iPhone or Kindle), that can test ideas or help promote writers and their work. And best of all, no tech experience is required.
Breakfast with the Stars is an add-on program to the Writer’s Digest Conference. Conference registrants can add on to the day for $35 a session. Tickets for either breakfast-only are $55 each.
To register for Breakfast With the Stars and find complete details on all speakers, sessions, events, travel and registration visit www.writersdigestconference.com.
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