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Author: Claire Webber
The First Steps to Take Control of Your Facebook Privacy
by, Claire Webber
July 20, 2013

Once upon a time, you could make sweeping changes to your privacy settings with a single click of the mouse. Those times are now history – but by knowing all the different aspects of privacy on FB, you can better control who has access to your information on this platform. General Facebook Privacy Settings On the top right-hand corner, past the Open Graph search bar… [Read More]

Filed Under: Facebook, facebook privacy, online privacy, Social Media, technology
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Why Most Social Media Widgets Will Break Your Heart
by, Claire Webber
July 16, 2013
social media heartbreak twitter

There was no warning for the average writer when their WordPress Twitter widgets went silent on June 11th, 2013. Suddenly, all their posts and retweets disappeared from their website. Their engagement went haywire as tweets no longer seamlessly streamed into sidebars, and footers, and landing pages. The developers knew what was coming – Twitter was updating their API (Application Programming Interface) from v1 to v1.1…. [Read More]

Filed Under: Facebook, plugins, Twitter, widgets, WordPress
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Why Should Authors Care About Search Engine Optimization?
by, Claire Webber
June 28, 2013
seo search engine optimization for authors

Although the majority of the traffic to your site will come through social media engagement, an author can’t ignore getting found through Google and other search engines. Search Engine Optimization, or SEO, refers to practices used to get a higher rank in search engines – in plain English, it’s the difference between being on the 1st or 7th page of Google results. But, you might… [Read More]

Filed Under: Google, google rank, search engine optimization, SEO, technology
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Understanding Facebook’s Edgerank Algorithm
by, Claire Webber
June 22, 2013
Facebook Edgerank

The alternate title to this blog could be “Why do I keep getting my irritating cousin’s political rants in my Facebook newsfeed?” There’s an answer to that question if that’s happening to you, and it comes in the form of a question: “Do you engage with your cousin’s Facebook rants?” Because if the answer is YES, boy, are you in for a revelation – engaging… [Read More]

Filed Under: Edgerank, Facebook, facebook edgerank, Social Media, Social Media networks
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Using Citation Machine to Credit Information for your Non-Fiction Manuscript
by, Claire Webber
May 28, 2013
Using Citation Machine for Citations in Non-Fiction Manuscripts - Project Gutenberg Image

You may think you left citations behind when you finished writing college papers, but if you are writing non-fiction these little footprints of authority are more important than ever. In school, your references to others’ work is a matter of intellectual honesty and under Fair Use of the Copyright Act, attribution of the source is sufficient. When you are writing a book that will be… [Read More]

Filed Under: APA, Bibliography, CitationMachine.net, citations, citing sources in non-fiction, endnotes, footnotes, MLA, references, Turabian, University of Chicago Manual of Style
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Announcing the New and Improved Swenson Book Development Blog Email Subscription
by, Claire Webber
May 4, 2013

If you aren’t already receiving email updates from the Swenson Book Development, LLC blog, we’d like to invite you to subscribe using the form on the sidebar. If you are already receiving updates in your inbox, we highly suggest switching to our new format! Swenson Book Development has switched to Mailchimp as our official email RSS update system. We’re happy to announce a more readable… [Read More]

Filed Under: Blog subscription, email, Mail Chimp, technology
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Enter “Nook Press”, Barnes & Nobels’ Self-Publishing Platform
by, Claire Webber
April 30, 2013
Nook Press, Barnes and Nobels newest self-publication platform, offers tools for easy self publication.

Not content to let Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing be the powerhouse of the self-publishing world, Nook Media (a subsidiary of Barnes & Noble) is rolling out Nook Press, its own self-publishing platform for eBooks. What completely sets Nook Press apart from Kindle Direct Publishing is the integrated feature of composing, editing and formatting your book within the platform instead of uploading and converting a file… [Read More]

Filed Under: Amazon, Barnes and Noble, e-books, Kindle Direct, Self-publishing platform
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Adding a Profile Image to your WordPress Comments
by, Claire Webber
April 23, 2013
add a profile picture to your wordpress account

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 and look at the upper right hand corner in the… [Read More]

Filed Under: gravatar, profile image, WordPress, WordPress.com
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Is Medium a Step Towards Solving the Collaboration Conundrum?
by, Claire Webber
April 13, 2013
Medium, the new platform from Ev Williams, is meant for collaborative curation and creation.

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 between versions of the software; Google Docs doesn’t have an easy… [Read More]

Filed Under: author platform, internet, Medium, Social Media networks, technology
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March Brings a New Facebook Timeline Layout to Your Page
by, Claire Webber
March 26, 2013

Your Facebook timeline is about to look different for spring 2013 – changes to profile pages are happening now, so don’t be surprised if next time you log in you see something a little different! The updated timeline layout banishes separate boxes for friends, maps, photos and applications and replaces them with text tabs. The entire look is more minimalist and shifts ‘activity’ to one… [Read More]

Filed Under: Facebook, Facebook apps, Privacy Settings
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