February 15th, 2008 — blogging, blogtour, highcallingblogs.com, marketing, networking
Lately, L. L. Barkat and I have been pretty busy trying organize everything we know about social media for a presentation at Mt. Hermon. Yesterday, I presented some of what I’ve learned about social media to the San Antonio Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.
I promised the AFP people to share the slideshow online. Here it is…
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January 28th, 2008 — blogtour, christianity, faith and work, highcallingblogs.com, marketing, networking
At FastCompany this month, Clive Thompson asks, “Is the Tipping Point Toast?” He makes a good point that “your average slob is just as likely as a well-connected person to start a huge new trend.”
Why should any readers of GoodWordEditing.com care?
January 11th, 2008 — blogging, highcallingblogs.com, networking, thehighcalling.org
50,000 words each week. That’s how much people are writing as participants of HighCallingBlogs.com. A new draft of a nonfiction book about faith and work–each week! How awesome is that?
Gordon and I are slowly getting a handle on the gargantuan task of managing the network of HighCallingBlogs.com.
December 14th, 2007 — blogging, marketing, networking
My good friend, L.L., is coining a new term and using Blogger in an interesting way to build community for her upcoming book: Stone Crossings. I haven’t read the book yet (because it doesn’t come out until April 2008), but I’m excited about the premise.
L.L. first posted about her wog concept at Seedlings In Stone a few weeks ago.
Pretty quickly, several friends pointed out a problem with the word she coined.
November 7th, 2007 — highcallingblogs.com, marketing, networking
It’s late. My kids are in bed. My wife is still in a corset pretending to be Gwendolyn from The Importance of Being Earnest.
And I wanted to play around with an interesting little widget I saw on ProBlogger this morning. AdaptiveBlue’s SmartLinks. They’re apparently using it or experimenting using it to promote their b5media blog network. Since that network is one of the models I’m following for HighCallingBlogs.com, I took note. At this point only 10 out of nearly 300 b5media blogs are showing up in the smartlink badge. I’ll be curious to see where they go with it.
So that’s the thing in my sidebar that may or may not become a community tool for HighCallingBlogs.com.
HighCallingBlogs, meet AdaptiveBlue. AdaptiveBlue, meet us. Maybe we’ll be fast friends. Maybe we’ll chat about the weather and move on. Who knows.
October 8th, 2007 — blogging, blogtour, marketing, networking
Who knows where blog tours came from? They seem to be especially prevalent in the CBA, and I’ve been trying to figure out ways to make them work. It tain’t easy, folks.
If you are a writer looking to help the publisher sell your book, you need to read this post. If you are a blogger looking to see what social media can do, you need to read this post. If you are a publisher, looking to see how social media can help you sell books, you need to read this post.
THEN after you read the post, take the amazing TRUE FALSE TEST ABOUT BLOG TOURS!
August 6th, 2007 — networking, publishing
This weekend while I was mowing my jungle lawn between the final performances of Midsummer Night’s Dream, I listened to a MarketingExperiements podcast called “Harnessing Social Media - Web 2.0 Grows Up - Free Internet Traffic.”
Yes, I am a supergeek. And I thought I should share some things I learned.
July 31st, 2007 — CBA, christianity, networking, publishing
It’s official. I’m going to the American Christian Fiction Writer’s Conference. (My work isn’t paying for this one either.)Â And because lists are fun, here are four reasons why I’m excited:
June 21st, 2007 — blogtipping, networking
Everything is about relationships really. Liz Strauss once asked me why I blog. I blog because each reader can respond in comments or via email. And those comment and email relationships often turn into a moment like this picture. When I meet someone I’ve gotten to know online and give him or her a big bear hug.
I can’t remember if Craver got a bear hug or just this sort of manlier side hug that you see in the picture. But it was super cool to meet him in person.
June 6th, 2007 — editing, networking, publishing
In some ways, acquisitions is the gateway to publishing. Acquisitions Editors are the gatekeepers. Sorting through slush piles of proposals and sample chapters from new writers. Here’s another question from a young editor.
3. I feel like I would like to do acquisitions. How would I get into it?
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