[Jim Brown] 1:07 pm: It has been researched that around only 7% of
what you use to evaluate what is being said actually comes from the
words.
[Jim Brown] 1:07 pm: The rest comes from body-language, context, tone
Deena] 1:52 pm: It might help to break down how the various social
media platforms work, what they do. Facebook is a semi-closed
system; so is Live Journal. They draw readers from their users.
WordPress.com is a bit more open, it also cross-promotes between
users better than Facebook and LJ. Red Room is great for authors, a
kind of one-stop shop. A standalone website is good, with blogging
software, especially if you cross-post to Facebook and Twitter. I don't
recommend Blogger because it doesnt...
[Deena] 1:52 pm: have that cross-promotional strength the others have.
[Jim Brown] 1:52 pm: A lot of people don't like Blogger because of that.
[Deena] 1:52 pm: And, as several people have mentioned previously, LJ
is great for the speculative author community; there are a lot of them
on LJ.
[Jim Brown] 1:53 pm: Wordpress is good because you can put it on your
own server.
[Deena] 1:54 pm: Blogger, maybe because it's owned by Google, does
seem to have a little bit of a leg up in search engine results.
[Caras Galadhon] 1:54 pm: ?
[Jim Brown] 1:54 pm: Something we have found VERY useful lately is
Goodreads.
[widdershins] 1:54 pm:
[Deena] 1:54 pm: Oh, yeah, lots of people have talked about the power
of Goodreads, also library thing. There's some disagreement as to
which is best.
Caras Galadhon] 2:04 pm: (Sorry, I seem to be talkative today.) LibraryThing
has a similar promotional program each month called Early Reviewers. It
seems as if GoodReads has a larger casual userbase, but LT is more serious/st
ickier (and I find the folks behind the curtain are in more constant communic
ation with their userbase).
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