social media

Ask Me Anything: Protecting Online Content

I had the chance to talk to a group of writers about promoting themselves online using blogs and other online tools. Katy Berube asks a follow up question, I am sold on doing many of these things online. My concern is what happens to my content if these websites fail. I saw what happened to [...]

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Putting Social Media on the Table

I saw a post this morning that suggested writers should start offering social media and online marketing services. My initial reaction was that anything to grow a business is probably a good idea and I moved on. Didn’t save the link — which I really regret now that I’m writing about the topic. But I’ve [...]

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Digg Your Way To The Top

If you’ve done much writing online, you’ll know how much bloggers and website owners get worked up about Digg, StumbleUpon and other sites where readers share links. They’re a big deal — after all, making it to the front page of such a site can literally bring you so much traffic that you can’t handle [...]

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Transparency: Do You Owe It To Your Clients?

In the next six months, I’ve got plenty of travel planned. There’s at least one month that I essentially just won’t be home. But I don’t think I’m going to tell my clients that fact. It’s not that I think my clients will care — it’s actually the opposite. I just don’t think any of [...]

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Social Media: The Freelancer’s New Best Friend

Universal McCann completed a survey of social media recently and discovered something very interesting: despite the problems with the economy, social media is going strong. The numbers of people consuming social media are going up. (More information on the survey itself is here.) While not all writers are social media gurus — and vice versa [...]

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