I was ahead of the social media generation. We weren’t using cell phones in high school or getting online when we got home. We mainly used the computer for word processing, programming, and occasionally games, but nothing like the games these days. We had a lot of games that didn’t have any pictures at all, like Mystery Mansion or the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.
On the other hand, almost all of my students seem to be on Facebook, used to be on MySpace, and are now into Twitter. So for a few years, I have felt that social media just wasn’t my generation.
I have taken a real liking to WordPress, however. Once I finally figured it out, I have felt that blogging was invented just for me. Ha ha. 🙂 I should have been blogging twenty years ago. (But then what else would I have accomplished in that time?)
Since I’ve been at WordPress, I’ve seen many bloggers from my generation, or thereabouts, who seem to be quite active with Twitter and Facebook. This gave me the inspiration to start feeding my WordPress posts into Twitter for a while now. I see that I have some followers on Twitter (here is a big thank you to any followers anywhere), so maybe it’s time to start learning what else I might do with a hundred or so characters. 🙂
I’ve had a personal Facebook account for years, mostly for close family and a couple of friends. There are some people, it seems, that you can’t get in touch with any other way, which is why I joined Facebook. 🙂 I finally added my author page to Facebook. Like Twitter, I’ll start out by feeding my posts into Facebook.
Read Tuesday (a Black Friday type of sales event just for books) seems to be more popular on Facebook than anywhere else. I’ll have to think about how to put more content over there (although the Read Tuesday website gets several referrals from the Facebook page).
I’m a complete author now, as I can vainly say:
Please Like me on Facebook and Follow me on Twitter (@ChrisDMcMullen). Ha! But, really, you “had me” just be viewing my post here at WordPress. 🙂
As long as I’m making such requests, I may as well also ask you to Like or Follow (@ReadTuesday) Read Tuesday, too, or check out the Read Tuesday website.
You could even +1 me on Google. I’ve scarcely used this, but it’s on my to-do list (with PInterest and many other things). I had started a blog with Google’s Blogger (BlogSpot) to make some posts that relate to teaching or learning fundamental math skills, but haven’t been using it since Google’s Reader met its end. Maybe I’ll revive it, or try it again over here at WordPress.
Please feel free to describe your author pages at Facebook or Twitter in the comments section and I will surely check them out. 🙂 (Or the next time I visit your blog, I’ll look for these buttons.)
Chris McMullen
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I just sent you a message on a previous post about my Facebook campaign “Boost” for read Tuesday. I am getting a lot of feedback on that FYI 🙂
Oh wow, thank you. 🙂 Read Tuesday can use all the help it can get.
We have a couple of reblogs on the post I made today , so I am encouraged! We have already hit over two thousand views on the Facebook campaign:)
That’s great. 🙂 I also have some ads running at various sites, and we’re getting thousands of views there, too. I need to update the RT catalog soon so it will reflect the growing interest. Thank you for helping to spread the word.
I hate to admit that my pages are kind of just there. All of them are attached to my blog, so I always forget to update my Author Facebook page beyond that. There was something else I was going to say here, but I forgot . . . lovely weather we’re having here, huh?
That’s my plan for a while. Once the following over there grows, I think I will feel inclined to give it more special attention. If the weather isn’t lovely, just wait a few minutes. 🙂
I’ve done that before and a storm started. I figure the weather hates me.
Link to author page:https://www.facebook.com/pages/SK-Nicholls/352131918230990?ref=hl
Thank you. I Liked it. 🙂
I liked you too and invited you to my personal page as well. As an author, my life is pretty much an open book now and I have lots of author friends who make my world a brighter place 🙂
Link to regular page. I will “friend” you upon request! https://www.facebook.com/susan.nicholls.90
One can never have too many friends. 🙂
Kristen Mazolla has well over two thousand friends, mostly in reader and writer Facebook groups and she is starting a campaign as well.
This six-degrees-of-separation effect can bring RT the publicity it needs. I saw that Kristen made a RT about section on her blog, too. You two have been very busy with this. Thank you. 🙂
It’s fun…we love this stuff 🙂
I’ve liked and followed. 🙂
Thank you. 🙂 I’m not sure if I’ve found your Twitter/Facebook pages or not; perhaps your handle is different there..?
I love, love, love blogging! I have my blog attached to facebook, twitter, and linkedin, Google hasn’t captured me yet. I think I have all those buttons on my wordpress blog. But if not…they’ll be there before the weekends over. Just keep checking!
Oh, yeah, LinkedIn is another good one. I’ll look for those buttons. 🙂
OMG! I just realized that I wrote my very first blog on Social Media. You have to be careful when you start promoting through Facebook. At least I did. Haha You’ll understand when you read it. I went in and updated a little toward the end of it. http://wp.me/p36w0d-8
That’s a very helpful post regarding F/B promotion. 🙂
I utilize my blog the most for writing-related stuff, but I also have a twitter (@cvgerstle) that probably needs my attention, haha. I’d love to read a post about how you utilize twitter and other social media in the writing arena (and which social media you feel drives the most engagement).
I will put some research into this (i.e. test out a variety of things) and eventually report on this. It’s on my to-do list. 🙂