Blogging
Unplugging for a bit
Starting tomorrow, I’ll be in (hopefully) sunny Florida on vacation with family. My plan is to unplug completely - no Blackberry, no web, no Twitter.
Let’s see how I do. I am not hopeful, to be honest - its not in my nature to be disconnected for too long. Regardless, posting will likely [...]
“Strategery”
Blog posting has been light as I complete work on a strategy for a new product offering for my company. It has been time consuming, but as I have mentioned here many times I feel it is important to develop new content models so the investment has certainly been worthwhile.
Blogging should resume tomorrow and based [...]
Insights on blog marketing for book publishers, social networking, e-newsletters and more
Book Business Extra has an interesting interview with staff from Christian publisher Baker Publishing Group who discuss some of their online and social network marketing tactics.
No big surprises in their strategy, but clearly they understand blogging, social networking and the changing landscape. Of note is their effectiveness in hitting a targeted market well.
Also, [...]
Wiley Publisher Joe Wikert Wins Blogging Award
Wiley VP and Publisher (ok, and my boss) Joe Wikert has won Book Chronicle Blog’s first annual Litty Award for best publishing blog. Not bad for someone who started blogging as the result of a challenge from Robert Scoble - in fact it might have been required as part of our publishing Naked Conversations [...]
Wordpress Plugin Directory
Another reason to love Wordpress - a new plugin directory from the folks at wordpress.org.
There is now a central place to find and download WordPress plugins.
You can get a much better idea about plugin quality and compatibility from the site.
In the future you’ll be able to get notification inside of WordPress about plugins you use [...]
