Category Archives: Social Media

Adding a Profile Image to your WordPress Comments

Adding a Profile Image to your WordPress Comments

Although not all WordPress templates support profile images in the comments, when a profile image is allowed, wouldn’t you rather have another chance to show off your online identity’s ‘look’? Putting a face to your brand helps an author reach readers. To see if you have an associated image, log-in to your WP dashboard andContinue Reading

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Is Medium a Step Towards Solving the Collaboration Conundrum?

Is Medium a Step Towards Solving the Collaboration Conundrum?

Writing is primarily a solitary activity. But, as Stephen King wrote in On Writing, “Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open”. At some point you will share your work with someone for editing – and that’s where the art of writing gets technologically tricky. Microsoft Word has a well-documented compatibility issue betweenContinue Reading

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March Brings a New Facebook Timeline Layout to Your Page

March Brings a New Facebook Timeline Layout to Your Page

Your Facebook timeline is about to look different for spring 2013 – changes to profile pages are happening now, so don’t be suprised if next time you log in you see something a little different! The updated timeline layout banishes seperate boxes for friends, maps, photos and applications and replaces them with text tabs. TheContinue Reading

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Building your audience platform on a solid foundation

Building your audience platform on a solid foundation

Some professional writers have a Facebook Page. Others use Twitter or Tumblr. Many non-fiction authors have a profile on LinkedIn. But every author needs a website under their own domain name. “Why, oh why, must I also build a website and blog, too?” I often get this question from clients who seek publication of theirContinue Reading

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Makeover and maintenance: The Car Talk for book sites

You’ve heard about the mechanic who never has time to change the oil, bang out the dings, clean out the pop cans or repair the ripped upholstery in her own car? I’m behind the dashboard seven days a week. I drive at high speeds and over rough terrain on the electronic byways of the internet.Continue Reading

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