(I wrote this post for my author friends)
Why you should care?
- Your online presence is a long-term asset that stays with you even when you move across jobs, projects, companies, and books. It accumulates over time.
- Building a passionate community allows you guarantee sales of your book, build up future pre-orders, and have the opportunity to mobilize your community for meaningful purpose. (I'm also writing a post with examples of authors who are leveraging their community for the greater good)
- Sign up for a blogging service - Tumblr (recommended) or WordPress (advanced)
- This becomes your permanent space online. Make sure that people can subscribe to your blog via RSS and comment on it.
- (Optional) Get a domain name with your name (e.g. blog.rickykinwong.com).
- (Optional) Integrate it with disqus commenting system. See the posts on my blog as an example.
- Signup for Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn
- (Optional) Use Tweetdeck or Seesmic to follow your friends.
- Post interesting short content on twitter/facebook/linkedin “updates”. Occasionally post updates to link back to your blog to buildup your “space”.
- Subscribe to popular blogs/sites in your topic with a rss news reader.
- Recommended: Google Reader
- Search for other blogs in your topic - Google Blogsearch or Technorati
- Write posts that are designed to be shared and link generously to other bloggers so hopefully that they would link you back.
- You can start by linking to this post here :-) http://blog.rickykinwong.com/2011/02/digital-media-101-for-writers-what-you.html
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