Blog Hogs, Social Twitter and Online Tools for Authors: Blogs and blogging (continued)

Kassia Krozser endorses topical blogging. This means, pick a topic and focus your blog around that topic to establish yourself as an authority.

An audience member asked, " How do I get people to my blog?" Kassia answered that she believes in generous linking (to the blogs and websites of others).

POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER

Blog Hogs, Social Twitter and Online Tools for Authors: Blogs and blogging

Kassia Krozser on blogs: "Not just for navel gazing."

Three types of blogs:

1. Personal blog. Good for developing voice.
2. Group blog. Pros: multiple writers producing more content (like this blog). Cons: these blogs can be a little scattered (not like this blog hopefully).
3. Blog tour. This is where you can post on other bloggers' blogs. Make sure you have original content and that it's relevant to the blogger's audience.

Q: How long should a blog be?

Kassia: As long as it needs to be--and in your writing style. There are no rules.

POSTED BY ROBERT LEE BREWER

Create your own Free Serialized Audiobook and Build an Audience

Miss seeing Seth Harwood and Scott Sigler talk about podcasting, blogging, and how they built big audiences online and landed major publishing deals by releasing their novels as free serialized audiobooks they recorded themselves?
If you did, or if you'd like to listen to the talk again, give a listen!
Click here to listen to their entire talk.
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Enjoy! We had a great time talking this morning and hope you'll have a great time hearing what we had to say.

Posted by Seth Harwood

Brogan Keynote (continued): It's not all about you

Blogging and Twitter tips from Chris Brogan:

• writing about yourself is only really useful to you
• give people things they can dig deeper into--things they can go out and do something with
• with Twitter, search things out and find a conversation
• learn to listen and ask people about themselves--don't just talk about yourself

POSTED BY SCOTT FRANCIS