Mina Witteman – author | editor | teacher of creative writing

Posts tagged “Facebook”

Daily Distraction: Do We Need to Pay Facebook?

Posted on January 18, 2014

Veritasium‘s Derek Muller made me think about the value of having a Facebook Fan Page. How does that page contribute to an online presence if you have to pay for every post to be seen by your fans? Fans that already have said they’d like to see your page. Even a page like Veritasium with over 109K fans and a lot of interaction sees his views drop by the day.

Do authors need to pay to reach their fans? Or should they concentrate on writing good books?

Categories: A Bit of Everything

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Platform Presence: Delight or Fright?

Posted on July 17, 2011

Recently Google announced and launched its social network platform: Google+. It’s a cross-over between Facebook and Twitter and lots of people put in a word or two about it. Some like it, some don’t, some love it, some hate it. But whatever you feel, it’s there and you can’t evade it. For me the important question was: do I genuinely need another social network to add to my visibility? That seems an easy question. Right? You could argue that, in order to get as much buzz around The Writer Known As Mina Witteman as possible, I should jump at Google+. Eventually, Google+ will lure in public from Facebook, just like the Zuckerberg trap lured in public from MySpace and Hyves. It will, no doubt,…

Categories: A Bit of Everything, Books, Children's books, Thrillers, YA books

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