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Tim Ferris gives an excellent talk at WordCamp SF. Takeaways for me: 1. I like the concept of using crazyeggs.com to track user action vs referral sources. 2. Change label ‘categories’ to ‘topics’ increase views alot. 3. He only posts once 0r twice a week. 4. He would rather keep on site then send viwers [...]

Reading books in your field is an important trait of leaders. The same applies to business blogs. The greatest business minds are sharing their knowledge for free. Smart competitors are constantly reading more and therefore learning more. What about you? Are you reinventing your knowledge continuously or is your intellectual capital getting staler by the [...]

Rex Hammock on how Apple will change everything about Podcasting. 1. iTunes won’t be the eBay of podcasting, it will be the iTunes of podcasting. 2. How much could Howard Stern make podcasting via iTunes vs. broadcasting via Sirius? 3. A long tail of podcasts on iTunes will make us stop thinking of "podcasts" as [...]

Do-it-yourself promotion cleans some of its stain. By Justin Davidson Newsday NEW YORK On Sept. 29, 1855, the Brooklyn Daily Times ran an unsigned and startlingly exuberant review of a thoroughly obscure book of poetry. The anonymous critic quivered with admiration for the poet, as well as the verse. “Of pure American breed, of reckless [...]

Buzz, Balls & Hype. The Blogging Thing Part 9: Adam Ash I recommend blogging to all writers. It disciplines you to write on the fly, like a journalist. Only one caveat: I haven’t started my next novel yet. Does blogging replace the novel-writing impulse? There’s some irony here, since I started blogging to promote my [...]

WOLves. Trudy W. Schuett’s Blog for Writers who Promote their Works A web presence for writers and artists Terry Teachout unwittingly describes the essence of the WOLves Promotional Group here. His focus is on artists, but there isn’t any reason why those in other fields beyond writing couldn’t be part of the writer’s Group! If [...]

Some sage advice from a author/publisher in the process of launching his first book.  Ripples: post-corporate adventures: The writer/publisher – part 11. I realized today that I have been writing about self-publishing without sharing some of the key factors that went into my decision to self-publish in the first place. Although I like breaking new [...]

The New Normal : Great Opportunities in a Time of Great Risk Wake up and smell the coffee.  This is not your father’s economy.  And it’s not the boom that inflated our expectations and then exploded.  But it’s also not the doom and gloom we’ve been mired in for nearly three years now!  So, wake [...]

Here I will be listing good examples of blogs by authors; some non-fiction, some fiction. Best selling novelist Jennifer Weiner.  SnarkSpot Scott Mitchell’s web log about technical writing, technology, and ASP.NET. He is an author of a few technical books on ASP, as well as an independent consultant/trainer. Scott on Writing Claire Cook, her novels [...]

So you have a book idea you are working on. Finding it hard to get a publisher’s interest?  You are not alone. If you haven’t already established a successful publishing track record it can be mighty discouraging. How do you get around the gatekeepers and get your masterpiece out there? Consider writing a blog on [...]