Google has been warning users for a couple months now that they plan to shutdown their social network on 2 April, but I guess not everyone has gotten the...
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Category: Social Media
Google Plus is Shutting Down on 2 April
When Google announced last October that they were sunsetting Google+, they didn't tell us when they were going to turn off the lights. According to the emails Google started...
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Someone Was Impersonating My Blog on Facebook in 2012
I learned two things on Facebook this morning. The first is that I apparently won an award in 2012 for being one of the 50 best blogs for authors....
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Guest Post: The Key to an Effective Social Media Strategy for Writers
Whether you’re a writer of nonfiction — blogs, articles, technical and nonfiction writing — or an author of books and fiction, you know how important it is to be...
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Google+ Isn’t Shutting Down, But It Will Be Retasked For Enterprise Use
It's been pretty obvious for a while now that Google's social network has been so completely abandoned by the public that its remaining users, Google employees, could use it to...
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Guest Post: 7 Reasons Authors Should Be on Holonis
Join the #holoauthor family No matter what type of business you’re in, nothing is more important to personal brand than storytelling. No one knows that more than us authors....
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The Digital Reader is Now on Instagram and Pinterest
It belatedly occurred to me this evening that I've never announced that I've expanded my bloging to include Pinterest and Instagram. As a result of an epiphany about blogging...
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Come Join my Facebook Group
I've mentioned this in various places on social media, but I don't think I've announced on the blog that I officially launched my Facebook group last month. It's called...
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Twitter Will lock Your Account If You Change the Display Name to “Elon Musk”
I just found a 100% effective way to cut back on my time wasted on Twitter. In what is very likely a response to scammers impersonating the South African...
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How to Tell How Many Followers You Lost in the Great Twitter “Purge” of 2018
In what is being widely mis-characterized as a purge of fake users, earlier this week Twitter started removing "locked" accounts from the follower counts belonging to active user. According...
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Goodreads’s New Android App is Faster, Smaller, and Also Makes Julienne Fries
Following several weeks of public beta testing, Goodreads has launched a new Android app. Try the new Explore page, where you can browse books trending on Goodreads, new releases...
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Making Your Own Custom Facebook and Twitter Share Links/Buttons for Beginners
Share buttons for social media such as Facebook and Twitter are a great way to grow your audience organically and let your readers support your work by sharing it...
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Thirty Minutes a Day is All It Takes to Automate Your Social Media Activity, But I Don’t Recommend it
As I am sure you know, there aren't enough hours in the day to get all your work done. This is why we are always looking for new ways...
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I’m Leaving Twitter
The problem with Twitter is that the folks who run the show don't understand their userbase or their product. We can see this in how Twitter's more useful features...
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Tech Tools for Authors #4: Social Media
Authors have to juggle a lot of balls in today's book industry. Not only do they have to write that next book, they also have to market it, balance...
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