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February 18, 2011 | Friday | 30 Comments
The highlights of the first day of ToC included Margaret Atwood, Indie booksellers speaking confidently and knowledgeably about building community, and two days of hot lunch. I love hot lunches like you have no idea. The opening keynotes of ToC were rather awesome, mostly. First was Theodore Gray, who discussed the creation of his periodic table table, and the book and then the iPad app that were inspired by his strange collection. The ipad app is jaw dropping - then comes the Outer Space one, and I about leapt off my chair to go home and get my iPad so…
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July 06, 2009 | Monday | 72 Comments
My name is Sarah, and I have a Twitter problem. I actually think Twitter is freaking awesome, and love it and love using it - to the point where sometimes I have to say to myself, “Step away from the Twitter.” It’s almost a default for me - email, Twitter, web. I can think of a few dozen of examples of how Twitter has connected me to people and information I never would have known about if I hadn’t been signed on, and I haven’t been using it that long, either. I can remember when I first signed up and…
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June 10, 2009 | Wednesday | 4 Comments
One of the things I am most interested in is the online education potential for authors, readers, reviewers, and all them publishing type folks who are curious about how to use Twitter, Facebook, blogs, mySpace, podcasting, etc. for online marketing and publicity. Booksquare University has positioned itself perfectly to offer online workshops on how to use key tools for online promotion, starting with Tweet Camp. The video introducing TweetCamp is fantastic, particularly because it cuts through the media hype in the first two minutes, and asks those curious about Twitter to look at it in a new way: “What if…
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January 13, 2009 | Tuesday | 18 Comments
Along with Kassia Krozser and Angela James from Sam Hain, I’ll be presenting at the O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference in February at a session entiteld Smart Women Read eBooks. In anticipation of our session, Kassia has asked if anyone who reads this here site would be interested in completing a survey online that examines: to get a sense of how women read ebooks, what they like about digital text, what they don’t like, and what they really, really want from ebook publishers. Remember: the publishers who attend this conference range from big New York houses to small…
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