Book Review: Zen in the Art of Writing Zen. So for the social media writing class at Quinnipiac, we were required to purchase Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury. However, the book proved to be optional. Yet I read it from cover to cover, and I just plain devoured that thing. So […]
Blurbs, queries, teasers, and elevator pitches Among blurbs, queries, teasers, and elevator pitches – which is which? Blurbs Blurbs are short promotional pieces. They used to just stay on the backs of books, but now they can serve as the copy you read on an Amazon author or book page. They can even be the snippet pulled […]
When NOT to Post on Social Media Platforms When NOT to Post on Social Media Platforms? Timing, as you might expect, is everything when it comes to posting on social media platforms. After all, if you, say, tweet when your audience is sleeping, they won’t see your tweet. It’ll be lost in the mountain of […]
How Social Media Can Ruin Your Life Social Media can really do it to you. Oh. My. God. You did WHAT???!?!?!? Quick, lemme tweet it! No, I’ll take a picture and upload it to Instagram. And I can’t forget to blog it! This kind of gaffe deserves a Facebook post, too! Really? So you know […]
… And Facebook for All — Company Pages Company pages have become spots you put together on Facebook to support a business (not the same as a fan page). However, like everything else on Facebook, these pages and their settings do evolve, and they’ve gotten simpler these days. Currently, the following features are available: Change Background […]
Getting inspiration from aging Aging happens to all of us, even if we die young. And much like children experience various developmental stages, our aging has some stages, too. However, in order to avoid repeating myself, let’s throw out a caveat here and only look at age forty and up. Forties For most people in […]
Losing Control – Fear of Social Media Losing control online? Way back when, back when dinosaurs roamed the Internet, I became involved a bit with Usenet. It wasn’t much, and it wasn’t much to look at. I was a lot less of a geek then than I am now (yes, really), and so the bare […]
Jell-O on the Wall: Social Media Perfection is Fleeting Social Media Perfection? Every few months or so, a new study comes out which provides what are purportedly the perfect times to post on various platforms. Or it might outline the perfect number of words or characters or images. All of this relentless pursuit of social […]
Book Review – Likeable Social Media by Dave Kerpen Dave Kerpen has a rather interesting book here. Likeable Social Media This book was required reading, as a part of my Community Management class at Quinnipiac University. And it made for an excellent read. For Kerpen, a lot of social media success comes from listening to, and […]
Facebook versus Forums What hath Facebook wrought? Facebook versus Forums smackdown! Facebook, as anyone not living on a desert island knows, is a juggernaut of massive proportions. It is the 800 pound gorilla of the Internet. And it is rapidly changing our interpersonal interactions, both on and offline. So one of those areas is in the […]