If all else fails, you can be a ghost tweeter. Assuming it’s about time management and not literacy, or lack thereof, celebrities, politicians, and other high profile personalities are hiring writers to tweet for them on Twitter. Hey, work is work. And it prevents Britney Spears from tweeting about how cute it is her kids [...]

Not to disparage a fine in-print tradition, but I’m fairly certain published writers tell other aspiring writers to pick up a copy of the latest Writer’s Market tome as some sort of initiation process. They slyly (forgive the adverb) hide their snickers and contempt of potential competition by directing the uninitiated to wade through a [...]

In accordance with my last post, I had decided to make a follow-up of the first Twitter review I wrote. I’ve been invited to join Twitter many times during the year before. I must admit, I had resisted jumping on the bandwagon at first. It wasn’t long before everybody was talking about it and I [...]

A month ago, I reviewed StumbleUpon at face value for all who might be new to the idea of social bookmarking. Over the course of the holidays, I was able to test StumbleUpon quite thoroughly, was able to experiment and succeeded in getting substantial traffic to my blogs via “Stumbling” on pages. I am also [...]

I’ve discussed the use of social bookmarking web sites as promotional tools before. Now, to give you an overview of each of the four popular bookmarking web sites: digg, stumbleupon, delicious and propeller. Let’s Start with StumbleUpon To make use of StumbleUpon, like all other membership-based communities, you need to sign-up. You will then be [...]