If you are on Twitter for long enough, you are going to run afoul of one of their rules, resulting in your account either being locked or suspended. It doesn’t...Continue reading
Category: Social Media
Join Me on Twitter on Sundays for #SundayTechClinic
If you have a free moment Sunday afternoon, and you need to get a question answered about your website, why not join me on Twitter? For about a month and...Continue reading
JK Rowling Facebook Fan Page Stolen – From Facebook
Facebok has long had an issue with hackers stealing control of pages. This problem has been cropping up every year since at least 2012, but now hackers have come up...Continue reading
Google is Sending Out Reminder Emails About Google Plus
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 word...Continue reading
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 sending...Continue reading
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. This...Continue reading
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 active...Continue reading
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 share...Continue reading
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. A...Continue reading
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 I...Continue reading
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 The...Continue reading
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 billioniare,...Continue reading
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 to...Continue reading
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 hot...Continue reading
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 to...Continue reading