Category: Social Media

Join Me on Twitter on Sundays for #SundayTechClinic

27 May, 202027 May, 2020blog maintenance, Social MediaLeave a comment

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...

JK Rowling Facebook Fan Page Stolen – From Facebook

5 May, 20195 May, 2019Social MediaLeave a comment

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...

Google is Sending Out Reminder Emails About Google Plus

21 March, 201921 March, 2019Google, Social MediaLeave a comment

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...

Google Plus is Shutting Down on 2 April

4 February, 20194 February, 2019Google, Social Media10 Comments

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...

Someone Was Impersonating My Blog on Facebook in 2012

29 December, 201831 December, 2018blog maintenance, Social Media6 Comments

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...

Guest Post: The Key to an Effective Social Media Strategy for Writers

3 November, 201810 January, 2019Social MediaOne Comment

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...

Google+ Isn’t Shutting Down, But It Will Be Retasked For Enterprise Use

8 October, 20188 October, 2018Google, Social Media10 Comments

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...

Guest Post: 7 Reasons Authors Should Be on Holonis

24 September, 201824 September, 2018Self-Pub, Social Media14 Comments

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...

The Digital Reader is Now on Instagram and Pinterest

14 September, 201815 September, 2018blog maintenance, Social Media9 Comments

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...

Come Join my Facebook Group

5 August, 20188 August, 2018Social MediaOne Comment

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...

Twitter Will lock Your Account If You Change the Display Name to “Elon Musk”

26 July, 201826 July, 2018Security & Privacy, Social Media4 Comments

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...

How to Tell How Many Followers You Lost in the Great Twitter “Purge” of 2018

13 July, 201813 July, 2018Social Media3 Comments

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...

Goodreads’s New Android App is Faster, Smaller, and Also Makes Julienne Fries

26 June, 201826 June, 2018Amazon, e-Reading Software, Social Media, Social readingOne Comment

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...