Community Management Tidbits – Let’s Get this Party Started
Getting an online community off the ground.
Optimizing Twitter
Optimizing Twitter Now that you’re on, it’s time to start optimizing Twitter. Lists What are lists on Twitter? You may have noticed people who have a rather different follower to following ratio than you do. What do I mean by that? Let’s say you follow 100 people. And 1000 people follow you. The ratio of […]
Working with a Facebook page
Working with a Facebook page How do you go about working with a Facebook page? Keep in mind that Facebook is constantly A/B testing (e. g. checking to see if new layouts or color schemes, etc. will make you click more), so these instructions might be a little out of date after a while. This […]
MSWL (Manuscript Wish List)
MSWL (Manuscript Wish List) Have you ever seen the #MSWL hashtag on Twitter? It stands for Manuscript Wish List. So, what the heck is a Manuscript Wish List? What do publishers and agents want? Agents and publishers have seen it all, or at least they think they have. They are on the lookout for something […]
PitMad on Twitter
PitMad on Twitter So have you ever seen the #PitMad hashtag on Twitter? Also, why should you care about PitMad? Let’s take a look at what PitMad is. What is #PitMad? It is a quarterly pitch session on Twitter. So essentially what you are doing is tweeting about your work, but it is only on […]
Swag for Independent Writers
Swag Do you like swag? So, swag is necessary when you go on the road. Work a convention at a dealer’s table, or get your book into a library, and you may need a little extra something to give away. Hence here are a few choices. Bookmarks Maybe the best and closest kind of giveaway […]
… And Facebook for All — Your Home Page
… And Facebook for All — Your Home Page Your Home Page. Log into Facebook, and it’s the first thing you see. It’s your Home Page. Here’s what’s in it. NOTE: Facebook constantly A/B tests. Features move around, change, are renamed and resized, or disappear all the time. These are rolled out in stages; your […]
Community Management Tidbits – Going From a Collection of Users to a True Community
More in a continuing series of Community Management tips and tricks.
… And Facebook for All — Your Profile Page Part I
… And Facebook for All — Your Profile Page Part I Your Profile Page Part 1. If you’re a member of Facebook, you’ve seen it dozens, if not hundreds, of times — it’s your Profile Page. There is also a Home Page, but I’ll cover that in the next segment. Right now, let’s just concentrate […]
The Risks of Having a Community Without Management
The Risks of Having a Community Without Management Is yours a community without management? The post is a riff on The Community Roundtable’s 5 Risks of Having A Community Without Management. The author comes up with five good ones: A Ghost Town Land of 1,000 Flowers Drama Central A Circling Storm A Clique Ghost Town Here’s […]