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Social Media

Does Your Web Presence Help You or Paralyze You?

Being social and remaining effectively present in a social context is, like most skills, easier for some than for others. Maybe “easy” is the wrong word.
I was having breakfast with Philly author Jonathan Maberry this past week when the simplest of examples dropped in my lap.
I’d seen a blog post earlier in the morning [...]

Who’s in an Author’s Community?

by Don Lafferty

Chris Brogan talks, in his article yesterday, about Paul Coelho and Scott Westerfeld using the social web to engage their communities in a way that enables readers to congregate, and to participate in the creative energy surrounding a book like never before. While doing this, these guys create real relationships which always amount to [...]

Trust Summit Breakfast with Trust Agents and Trusted Advisors: Trust Me

by Don Lafferty

It’s hard to believe three weeks have blown by since breakfast with Chris Brogan and Julien Smith, authors of Trust Agents, along with Trusted Advisor authors David Maister and Charlie Green.

It was quite a scene.
I hoofed it over to the Harvard Club of New York from the Hotel Roger Smith in plenty of time [...]

Author Marketing in a Web 2.0 World

by Don Lafferty

My stressful Saturday morning melted into a tremendously positive afternoon after arriving late to Rosemont College for Philadelphia Stories’ one day writer’s conference, Push to Publish 2009: Strategies and Techniques to Get Your Work in Print and Online.
I met a bunch of cool local writers who reminded me again why I continue to bury [...]

comScore Reports Twitter Registration is Getting Sick

by Don Lafferty

Tech Crunch reported today on comScore’s release of global numbers, where they show worldwide visitors to Twitter.com increasing 131 percent in the month of March — from 9.8 million to 19.1 million. Huh? Is that sick or is it still just a fever? Wow.
The folks at TechCrunch think Twitter will eclipse 50 Million registered [...]

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