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Stop Trying to Pick Lint from Your Bellybutton

June 2, 2010

Write to learn about yourself and other things, not because you want to thought-vomit all over your blog. Listen: we all do it! Of course, we’re all navel-gazers to a certain degree because we’re all our own best reference points. The world DOES indeed revolve around us. But the center of gravity shouldn’t show in your published blog post.

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Make Sure the Concrete Is Dry

May 27, 2010

A lot of companies use metaphors to describe their products and/or services. They have grand philosophies about their methodologies, the ways they interact with customers, and their commitment to quality and excellence. Blah, blah, blah. Let’s get to the point.

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When You Can’t Please Everyone, Please Yourself

May 17, 2010

The Internet can make you believe that you have a potentially limitless readership, but that concept is simply a false lure that can mess with your ability to produce quality work. Some people succumb to greed, others to lust; don’t be the one who breaks under the weight of wanting to be an Internet celebrity.

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The Grammar Police Need to Get a Life

May 5, 2010

Now, with more people communicating and sharing through cell phones and iPads, it’s even easier to make typing mistakes (smaller screens, smaller keyboards, malfunctions, etc.). I admit it: I try my very best to write correctly, but sometimes I just miss errors. I’m tired, distracted, etc. I don’t pretend to have an editor or a staff.

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Content Is Fine, but a Platform Is Divine

April 19, 2010

How does a media company, especially an emerging media company, earn a solid enough reputation to entice readers to pay? The New York Times can flirt with the prospect of offering premium online content because they are The New York Times. I have thought about this question as it relates to Too Shy to Stop.

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Shades of Electronic Publication

April 14, 2010

I wonder how often literary magazines and publishing companies have to tackle this issue. I think a social-media savvy publisher should encourage writers to share work on their blogs because blogging is a grassroots marketing tool, a way to get readers interested. If the writing is good, the readers will buy the books, no matter what.

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10 Ways Social Media Crashed the Conference

April 12, 2010

When I attended last year’s conference, I was interested in how many people supported print and still believe in it as a medium. This year, I wanted to pay more attention to the ways that publishers, writers, and literary magazines/journals are using technology and social media to expand and promote their brands.

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Tweeting from the 2010 AWP Conference

April 8, 2010

I am in Denver, CO, attending the annual conference and bookfair for the Association of Writers and Writing Programs. When I attended last year’s conference in Chicago, I could hardly believe how many people still support and believe in print as a medium, despite all the hype about print’s impending death.

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