02/08/10 "Come Back Home"
"Say Hello to Internet Streams" (Pt 2)
Ask around, many people who use the internet will tell you what they think, and most will tell you that they know how to get around pretty well.
"The truth is, they really don't know what they're talking about."
The next wave of internet savvy users will have more choice, make stronger relationships, and become better informed. The information they follow will be the information from friends who are connected and not only do they travel and use the internet for their own benefit, they broadcast a stream of their history as they go.
Portable, relevant, and digital, this stream of information will let friends and followers see what they saw, like it or not. The more social that the internet becomes, the more real the internet becomes. No longer will the flow of information be shaped by the writers, programmers, and businesses that promote it, but each bit of information you find on the internet will soon have a follow-up by visitors, some who like, some who do not, and some who never find the information in the first place. The follow-up comes from the websites and portals of streams that break down to each person who initiates a connection through one of the most popular and not so popular websites available today.
The practice is being used today on portable devices and desktops around the world. The most visited sites today are those that have hundreds of millions of users interacting with each other outside of business. The sites are using cookies and tracking software embedded in advertiser paid ads. So goes the way of the stream. Instead of a group of followers and fans leaving behind crumbs that others can find and follow, they will be reviewing and recommending not through words but through actions. Traffic will be organically generated by a stream search bar which takes an excerpt of the information being viewed. Keywords will be used to find friends that share similar information and actively connect using a stream to interact with their friends. Here's an example of what I find most interesting about the whole stream thing.
Here's an Example.....
Imagine this: Sean Walsh is getting on the #25 train from the West Belt to Rice University in Houston. The trip takes forty two minutes and instead of cracking a book to study for his midterms he pulls his research pad out from his favorite rucksack, the on he had from his first year in high school. The leather is worn but it it reminds him of his parents, they always wanted him to excel in his studies and his pack proves that they are always on his side. With his pack on his lap his research pad turns on immediately, he gets notification from his subscription of feeds, his friends. Good morning Sean! Sarah is the only other person from high school that goes to Rice and is always the first one to say hello in the morning. Sarah leaves good mornings on stream the night before so when her friends log on in the morning they all get her alerts and know that she was thinking of them. Sean smiles as he thinks of the small girl with dark hair who has become a great friend since coming to university. Sean minimizes Saran's notice to find a red alert flashing in his task bar. He clicks on the little red exclamation point to see his friend Rick Water's avatar come up in a separate window. Rick's status says "I have the Bio Research Notes on my blog" next to it is the link to his blog and when Sean clicks on the link, Rick is notified that one of his friends utilized his notes. Sean, Sarah, and Rick are going to be the core group of users who have been utilizing social networks for most of their life. As they expanded their social circles at home, they also advanced their social circles world-wide. These kids will organize the world in such a way that advertisers will no longer be able to create information that will inevitably be read, they risk losing touch with the true user of information online and what they are enjoying unless they become a part of the lifestyle these users interact with. The local economy will be trimmed down to the truest of recommended and trusted shops and retailers. The streaming internet will be partial, private, and most of all, wanted by anyone who wants to be seen online. When Sean, Sarah, and Rick let you into their stream you will be able to take advantage of their expertise, their insight, their knowledge.
So Sean's research pad may be a great tool for him now, what, the iPad will create more change in hand-held devices desperate for content. Any author of original works will be highly sought after. The best writer's will find financial independence writing for money online. The manufacturer of the research pad Sean uses included the best digital computing, reading, and traditional work tools all in one. Sean can download and read any book in the world, he can write a book and publish it quickly, he can surf the web, internet, email, but all he really uses it for is school and stream gathering. Following the links his streams show him or the just that part of the stream he is recommended to follow today.
Rick gets streams from 192 of the best online friends you can find. He subscribed to these streams because they are all relevant to his likes and dislikes, his favorite sports team, race car driver, Rice University professors, classmates, and even from Trudy at his job. Trudy still likes cartoons and even though Sean won't admit it, he does to. So he can see what Trudy has been up to whenever he likes because his stream subscriptions have everything he needs to get the news he uses and nothing else.
Forget about keywords people, think key people.
- The Netter Report
01/28/10 "The Introduction of Ipad is another big opportunity for Internet Authors"
The Year of the Author
For me, this year is bigger and better. I've been hearing the online chatter from Literary agents, publishers, and authors. Wherever they look, there are writers working.
I made a connection with this trend and the explosion of social media plus the American economic slump, now there are more writers working from home offices than ever before. Just ask Nathan Bransford what is different this year than past years, and he'll tell you that there are more queries being sent into publishers and agents than ever before.
The reason is simple and it gives authors hope that if it continues they can make a good living creating stories and taking notes of facts about what people on the internet are looking for.
Content is King and content marketing is the lineage. Quality writing pays when it is produced "on demand" and has a following ready to read and rate it's quality.
The signs were there all year long, National Writing Month set the ball in motion. Now is the best time to prepare a great work of fiction for internet consumption.
If you're a writer but you are a new writer I can tell you that I know you, you and me are alike. I am a writer who started writing because my reality changed and I agreed to change with it. I am not just another sheep in the crowd though, I am the black sheep.
"Here's how I plan on getting myself heard through all the baaaaing."
#1 Write More (How to, Revenue Share, Website content, tagging, categorizing, novels, links, blog)
#2 Social More
"Join me on Facebook."
"Join me on Twitter."
"Join me on Friend Feed."
"Join me on StumbleUpon."
#3 Bookmark More (Social Marker)
#4 Talk More (Blog Radio)
#5 Record More (NHRA, New Fiction)
#6 Organize More (Calendar, Schedules, Meetings)
These are all difficult and time consuming tasks. Each one has it's rewards and by following along a schedule of activity that is effective, you can become as good as you want to be, or purport to be, or are.
The internet has not offered more opportunity to the lowly writer than right now.
I am leading the way with my marketing as I get the content rolling out that will make the most residule income over the long haul. Royalties will allow me to pursue the rest of my dreams, and writing about what I dream about is a great place to start earning money from the things I love to do.
01/27/10 "Getting on a Publishers Short List"
"A Short List of Things to Know"
Here is a short list of sites I have visited this week. The basis for these results is my need to inform myself more about the creative ways people are using the internet to their advantage when determined to create new, original works that attract visitors, followers, and sponsors to the programs being presented. "All links are supported by their own teams of support techs and creators." "This is only a list of my travels this week."
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01/25/10 "New Novelists Abound"
Novelists
I'm scouring the internet for news on the publishing world. What was
common place just five years ago is now taboo. It seems that one good
thing that came out of the economic down turn is there were more new
novelists born in 2009 than any other year on record. Now that the
books that were written last year, including the thousands of titles
written in November for National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo).
The changes don't stop there. "Publishing is not the same".
Amazon,
Barnes & Noble, and Walden Books are just a few of the big names in
book selling. They were supplied by publishers from around the world,
new authors fell under the spell of their first literary agent, the
manuscript was sold and printed and available from these mega book
dealers.
Today the landscape has changed for publishers,
retailers, wholesalers, and writers. "Writers have more options than
ever before to bring a book to market." They have those choices because
the consumer is changing their buying habits when it comes to the
purchase of original works, books that is. The consumer is driving more
content into digital format because it is cheaper to buy, easier to
buy, comes from one platform, and an impulse to buy makes it more
profitable for the writers who self publish. There are more pay to edit
publishers than ever before and the numbers of new release titles will
skyrocket for the foreseeable future.
My own first work is available to be read (at least a good portion of it) right from its fan page on Facebook. "Marketing has come to the author in a big way."
Before
the internet, at least before amazon, writer's who have to go from
bookstore to bookstore pushing their words. Conventions and speaking
engagements gave writer's a place to market themselves and their books.
Now, Facebook, and Twitter dominate. It's like a virtual convention
whenever you turn on the computer. If you don;t have at least 50
friends to tell your story to, then you haven't met the internet
lately, and as an author, you are doing yourself a disservice. Get your
name, your title, your story online and you might be able to stop
worrying about what publisher is going to pick up your next work. Maybe
you can do a better job of promoting yourself and your book and now you
really have the tools to do just that.
Facebook
"I'm not
going to tell you how to use Facebook but I will tell you that you can
do more with that site than make your own personal profile page. There
are fan pages that you can make for each title you have, or make a
collection page that people can come and follow. Pay for adverts that
will bring in more followers and readers will follow that information
to your point of sale.
"Now where is your point of sale?"
"Put
it on your own website and sell it to your network." Do it like that
and you keep everything. While publishers will cut you a royalty
percentage, imagine if you could market yourself well enough to drive
traffic into your own site, sell the digital copy through email or
digital reading script, .pdf, or bound and covered through the mail.
You get the best returns but you have to be the one driving sales.
"You
can have your cake and eat it to with the right combination of virtual
publishing and marketing combined with in store sales of your titles in
bookstores like Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, and the other popular
book stores. Online and off, you can get a bigger return on investment
when you do as much of the work yourself. It ensures you of the best
percentages, you get to keep the most rights to your works, and you
will be able to see a future in royalties with the digital text
industry booming into 2015.
So, write a damn book if you're out
of work. Publish it yourself if you're so inclined. Get the story down
on paper and then turn it digital to take your earnings into the future
with every new title you write.
I suggest you visit Flesh Farewell and see what else is coming down the pipe for the newest breakthrough fiction writer FD Walsh.
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My efforts to collect my thoughts onto digital notepads and blog rolls
and posts has led me to believe that I'm glad that I went into the
world of social media BEFORE I actually got myself ready to produce
content en-masse. Content you see, needs to be read. It takes the eyes
of the world to mould it into something better or as good as it is
right now. Think about the countless blogs that are produced but not
read, ever. I'm thinking about those every time I write something new.
But not so much now, because as I write, I communicate with my social
friends online. Getting them to help me make better posts and include
more news and information about me. They like to hear about what and
how I am doing. Forget the information, give my friends something about
me, and they are ready to come back for more.
The personal side
of blogging takes over when you blog about your life and ambitions.
While an internet marketer looks for the next referral or membership
sign-up, a writer want thoughts to come into his head so that he can
get them down inside his digital library for others to see. Making
friends is easy, writing to the public is hard. Make friends first and
let them tell how you are doing to get the most direction while you
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