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Feb.27.2011 So Many Kevin Arnolds, What to Do? Google alerts are powerful. [By the way “www.googlealert.com” is not Google. To get true Google alerts use "www.google.com/alert ”] The string ‘Kevin Arnold Red Room” dutifully shows me whatever slips into the blogosphere with my name on it. But the one that finds instances of the two...	Nov.25.2010 Google Never Sleeps-Using Google Alerts It's a good thing Google stated "Don't do evil," as its company motto. They're ubiquitous, so they need a high ethics target to aim for even if they occasionally fail. One of their powerful free features is called Google Alerts. Google sweeps the web to find whatever ‘string' (group of...
May.31.2009 “Read It, Read It, Read All About It” Now you get to be a fly on the wall. Who's wall? Everyone's wall who's talking about you. How? Sign up for these two alerts and fill in key words. So simple and cool. Automatically, these alerts will provide you with who's talking about you or your books. Why is this important? > This...	Mar.01.2009 Read the Alert When I was little, I read to try to find a place of happiness, interest, joy. I read to find out who I was because someone had to have the answer. I sure as hell had no clue, and neither did my parents or the confused and upset teachers around me every year. The good news was that in books, there...
Nov.29.2008 Building Platform and Promoting Books on the Internet On this, the second to last day of Write Nonfiction in November, I'd like to devote a blog posting to how to build your platform and promote books on the Internet. (Are you about done with your project? You have two days left...)The Internet offers a vast resource of free promotional tools, if we,...	Aug.15.2008 Free Preview (1 of 3) GoogleAlerts just told me Google scanned and is posting about 26 pages (an alphabet!) from Flowers of a Moment (including some of the illustrations), at Books.Google.Com, as one of their Limited Previews: http://tinyurl.com/6e5ljl Check it out. Pass it along. [And a shout-out of thanks to...
Jun.15.2008 Fourteen Years Later, Another Review... I’m not sure I mentioned this before, but I finally caught onto “Google Alerts.” Set one up for yourself, and any time you’re mentioned online, you know about it. (Why do I have the suspicion that everyone in Redroom already uses the Alerts, and has been for years, and is smirking?) So now I’m...