Matt Ewens
Using social media to enhance your online profile and market your writing
1. Introduction, aims, objectives and outcomes.
2. What is social media, where and why?
3. Copyright/intellectual property.
4. How to create a blog.
5. How to use Google + communities.
6. How to create your own writing community.
7. How to create a Twitter account.
8. Engage with the enemy!
9. Start creating and promoting.
Agenda/Topics to Be Covered
In this session I will aim to:
• Give you the understanding of how to use social media to enhance the promotion of your writing
• Enable you with the tools to create your own social profile’s
• Provide you with a better understanding about how to effectively ‘sleep with the enemy’
Introduction, aims, objectives and outcomes
The objectives for this sessions are to:
• Encourage you to take the step and create at least one form of social media/profile
• Demonstrate how social media can benefit your writing
• Provide a resource that you can return to and benefit from
Introduction, aims, objectives and outcomes
The outcomes for this session are to:
• Demonstrate real-life examples and evidence how social media will benefit you as a writer
• Improve the promotion/marketing of ‘you’ as a writer
Introduction, aims, objectives and outcomes
What is social media, where and why?
Where?
According to research approximately 22.1 people die every day from death by Powerpoint
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Why bother?
You will eat that tasty mix of rabbit droppings and frogspawn!
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Conquering your fears
If you don’t I will eat your brains!
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To find a copyright free image visit:
http://www.sxc.hu.com
Or a licenced one go to:
http://search.creativecommons.org/
Bet you wished you’d checked the copyright now….
Don’t worry you can sell your gold for cash
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Find all this too much, don’t fear Supermatt is here
Now I can use that image and not cite it and modify it as I took it from the copyright free website
Get a tablet device
With my new tablet I can write on the move , share with social media and update my blog. It even cleans the toilet, cooks my dinner and tells me I’m great.
Copyright/intellectual property.
Surely it would be easier to put that vase of flowers on a table or something?Image byBy Pedro Ribeiro
For more information on copyright/intellectual property law have a look at this link: http://authonomy.com/writing-tips/a-guide-to-copyright-for-writers/ There is some help on how to check if your work is being ripped off here: http://www.bubblews.com/news/1281560-how-to-check-if-your-writing-has-been-copiedFor those that are all into terms and laws, here is a link to copyright law: http://www.copyrightservice.co.uk/copyright/p01_uk_copyright_lawAnd intellectual property law: http://www.ipo.gov.uk/copy.htm
Google + & communities.
https://plus.google.com
You will need to create a google account to join google +
How to create your own writing community
Man I’m so happy with my community people actually talk!
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How to create a Twitter account.
I don’t want just 140 characters how can I convey my thoughts and emotions!
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https://twitter.com/
Engage with the enemy!
Random image of a girl and in the background Bert from the 80s classic cartoon ‘Trapdoor’
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Start creating and promoting.
Now that I can make these fabulous baskets, I have somewhere to put all my eggs in
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THANKYOU!
This presentation was brought to you by the recently acquisitioned human that is Matt Bandana
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