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Making Your Own Custom Facebook and Twitter Share Links/Buttons for Beginners

14 May, 2018 // 2 Comments

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 their social media networks. The [Read More ...]

Thirty Minutes a Day is All It Takes to Automate Your Social Media Activity, But I Don’t Recommend it

23 April, 2018 // 6 Comments

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 to automate tasks, and why I started the Tech Tools for Authors [Read More ...]

I’m Leaving Twitter

12 April, 2018 // 29 Comments

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 such as hashtags and quote retweets [Read More ...]

Tech Tools for Authors #4: Social Media

11 April, 2018 // 2 Comments

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 the ledgers, woo their fans on social media, do [Read More ...]

Infographic: Social Media Cheat Sheet

10 April, 2018 // 3 Comments

A picture is worth a thousand words, and nowhere is that more true than on social networks. This is why it is incredibly important that the media you use on social networks fit the standard sizes. [Read More ...]

Two-Thirds of Tweeted Links are Posted by Bots, and Other Not Terribly Useful info

9 April, 2018 // 1 Comment

If you ever wondered just how many links you see on Twitter were shared by a person, the answer is: not too damn many. We still don't know what impact they have, though. From Pew Research Center: In [Read More ...]

Twitter Changes Rules to Crack Down on Bots, Bans Mass Tweeting and Duplicate Accounts

21 February, 2018 // 1 Comment

A few weeks back Facebook and Twitter were humiliated by a NYTimes piece that detailed the back alley practices of the social media industry, and now the latter is finally doing something about the [Read More ...]

How to Delete Your Twitter Timeline (and Why You Should)

8 February, 2018 // 5 Comments

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Twitter is a great place to share jokes and engage in debate, but it is also accepted that one's Twitter timeline exists only to be weaponized by one's [Read More ...]

Tweet-Archiving Service Storify is Shutting Down

12 December, 2017 // 0 Comments

Launched in 2010, Storify was a service you could use to create a narrative by collecting tweets into a single web page. The service just announced it is going to shut down on 18 May, 2018. Thank [Read More ...]

Amazon Not Closing All Its Support Forums

9 October, 2017 // 7 Comments

When I reported my scoop last week that Amazon was closing its support forums, it looked like Amazon was going to simply abandon its customers to go find support on social networks and third-party [Read More ...]

Wattpad Now Pimping Writers to Hachette Romans

18 July, 2017 // 3 Comments

We all know that authors have been using Wattpad to refine their work before officially publishing it in the Kindle Store and elsewhere. This has been going on since at least 2011. Not all authors [Read More ...]

Author Tools to Make Social Selling Easier?

21 February, 2017 // 1 Comment

Last month I declared the end of selling ebooks on social networks when Twitter removed its buy buttons. As with any declaration about a market, it comes with multiple exceptions of individual [Read More ...]

You Won’t be Selling eBooks on Twitter Any Time Soon, If Ever

18 January, 2017 // 0 Comments

One of the hotter fads of 2014 and 2015 was selling content and products on social networks. As the idea went, people on Twitter and Facebook would be thrilled to have the ads replaced with buy [Read More ...]

Facebook Launches Marketplace to Let You Buy and Sell Books and Stuff

3 October, 2016 // 0 Comments

After years of failing to turn its social network into a retail powerhouse which could threaten Amazon, Facebook has launched a Craigslist competitor: Marketplace. The Verge and other sites are [Read More ...]

Pinterest Pins Instapaper to its Acquisition Board

23 August, 2016 // 1 Comment

Instapaper announced on its blog on Tuesday that it had been acquired by Pinterest. Launched in 2008, Instapaper is a service where users can save articles and links from websites so they can be [Read More ...]

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