There’s an interesting story brewing on Twitter at the moment, as best-selling author Alice Hoffman has taken to task reviewer Roberta Silman for her review of The Story Sisters, Hoffman’s new novel.
There are countless blogs and twitter profiles talking about Hoffman’s reaction – she tweeted up to 27 times about the review, going so far [...]
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Alice Hoffman blasts reviewer on Twitter
Monday, June 29th, 2009Tags: clever use of social networking, do's and don't's for twitter, establishing an online presence, pr on social networks
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Want more followers on twitter? One simple tip
Thursday, June 25th, 2009If you’re using Twitter to promote yourself / your band / your novel / your conference etc it’s obvious that you would like to have a large amount of followers. There’s one single thing, more than any other, that puts us off following people on our various twitter accounts, and it’s a simple thing that [...]
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Twitter trashes skewed Daily Mail poll
Monday, June 22nd, 2009Right-leaning British newspaper The Daily Mail found itself with egg on its face on Friday as one of its infamously non-neutral polls was targeted by psychologists on twitter.
The poll which had the decidedly non-neutral question ’should the nhs let gipsies to jump the queue?’, raised the ire of a number of psychologists who as part [...]
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Google Wave – exciting possibilities
Thursday, June 18th, 2009So the big news in recent weeks has been the presentation of Google Wave, due to be fully launched later in the year. You can check out the presentation here.
As with virtually any new search/social media release, there’s immediate talk of it being a *killer – with twitter being the * in this particular case. [...]
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5 Reasons Writers Need Their Own Websites
Friday, May 29th, 2009The trouble with being dedicated to your job is that you’re like a horse with blinders on – you don’t seem to enjoy the benefits that peripheral vision can bring. Yes, you are focused on your work and enjoy it so much that you have time for little else when you’re busy, but there is [...]
Tags: authors online, promoting my novel online, reasons for a website, why a writer needs a website, writers online
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Content ownership – the biggest myth online?
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009.Net magazine have a good series where they pose a question to various online professionals. Their latest one is on ‘The biggest myths online’. The answers are interesting (though to be taken with a pinch of salt, given that these are experts reasonably enough suggesting that the biggest risks online relate to their own areas [...]
Tags: content ownership, copyright, facebook terms of use
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Twitter turns its back on advertising
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009The big question that has hung around Twitter – like many other startups (and remember, the micro-blogging service is scarcely three years old) – is how will it make money?
The conventional approach has always been around advertising. The other big social networking names Myspace and Facebook have both based their business models around advertising – [...]
Tags: online advertising, the future for twitter, twitter analytics, twitter api, twitter tools
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#wossybookclub teaches some twitter lessons for authors online
Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 The power of twitter (and social networking / online presence in general) to shift books has been forcefully demonstrated by the almost impromptu launch of the #wossybookclub.
Jonathan Ross, the tv celebrity who tweets using @wossy and has over 250,000 followers, decided last week to set up a book club on twitter. Browse over to [...]
Tags: #amazonfail, #wossybookclub, clever use of social networking, pr on social networks, writers using the web well
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Twitter users target Twitter with their anger
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009It’s a web 2.0 irony, that the biggest social networking platforms find their biggest pr nightmares occuring through the use of their very own structure. It happened recently with Facebook when users started setting up facebook groups demanding a return to the old design, after Facebook changed the layout of user profiles (to give public [...]
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Twitter retention rates are worth considering
Monday, May 11th, 2009The plot is nearly always the same – social networks start off with a technologically clued in vanguard using them, then thanks to word of mouth their user base starts to grow, until that magical moment when the media starts latching on. At that point new users signing up skyrockets alongside hyperbolic predictions about how [...]
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