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gloria-oliver's picture
Aug.27.2012
Welcome back! Good to see you. :) Fan Fun   Red Dawn Official Trailer - looks like they're doing a remake of the 1984 Classic! (For SPN fans - Both Jessica and Papa Winchester are in this one.:P) Judge Dredd Preview - this is going to be fun! And speaking of fun - The Man With...
phil-naessens's picture
Aug.24.2012
  Tonight The Sports Goons Jameyan Smith joins Phil to discuss Facebook "fugazies" Twidiots on Twitter, Skip Bayless and his insinuations about Derek Jeter and then they move on to talk NBA Basketball. To listen to the program from the site please click the link provided below. To save this...
gloria-oliver's picture
Aug.20.2012
  (An experiment to see if my Monday posts translate okay here...) Another Monday!!!! Will we survive?!         The Colors of Evil - and adorable short film by Phillip Simon and Alyse Miller. What fun!   One Direction - One Thing Parody from The Key of...
anastasia-m-ashman's picture
Aug.16.2012
What *is* a web platform? Here's the GlobalNiche.net answer: it's where and how you exist online. It's both the web technology you use, and who you are using it. It's the mechanical pieces on the web, and the conceptual pieces of you. It reflects the whole of you both offline and on. Your...
bob-mustin's picture
Aug.02.2012
The Brit press usually has a hardboiled way of seeing everything, but I wholeheartedly agree with this piece - it's all about the illusions and pitfalls of e-marketing for writers. "Authors – become a success through building an 'internet platform'!". For almost five years we've been subjected to...
dale-estey's picture
Jun.26.2012
Social media really has become a necessity for authors. With the possible exceptions of the JK Rowling and John le Carré (the former who is, btw,  taking over the internet at http://www.pottermore.com/and the latter who has an up-to-date web site at http://www.johnlecarre.com/) we all need the...
christopher-cudworth's picture
Jun.21.2012
Then it hit me. That familiar feeling of half-baked social connection and part-time troublemaking. The realization that people around you are friends with you because they have to be. There is no choice in study hall. You make friends to avoid boredom, to avoid actually having to study, and to...
katherine-gregor's picture
Jun.17.2012
Beginnings:   I signed up to Twitter a few days before Christmas.  It seemed like a low-maintenance way of promoting my writing electronically. As usual, I needed someone to show me.  Not that the instructions were complicated – on the contrary.  I am just the sort of...
loren-rhoads's picture
May.17.2012
My blogging teacher suggested I sign up for Klout, which is a service that measures your reach online.  After using it for a couple of months, I’m not convinced that it actually measures very much.You can only connect Klout to one Facebook page.  I have three, one that's inactive,...
nina-amir's picture
May.06.2012
Most writers don’t feel they can get their “real” writing done if they also blog. Not only that, they lump blogging in with social networking and all the other stuff they've been told they need to do to promote themselves and their books. They simply don't want to do these things. They take...