using social media to enhance your online profile

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.

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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

How to create a blog. http://wordpress.com/

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!

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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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