a:59:{s:15:"comment_post_ID";s:4:"7230";s:14:"comment_author";s:20:"Jenni Holbrook-Talty";s:20:"comment_author_email";s:23:"jenni@jenniholbrook.com";s:18:"comment_author_url";s:32:"www.writeitforward.wordpress.com";s:15:"comment_content";s:1553:"You should know better than to ask for an opinion openly knowing I always have one. Social media is a huge time suck and it would appear sometimes that I never have anything better to do than to twitter away. I tend to multi-task and since I started working with Bob Mayer the business side of this business takes up a lot of my time so in a way, it gives me more time to do social media. If that makes sense. I really only show up at various times of the day for short spurts. And I like twitter over Facebook because on twitter I find great information, great blogs, and I can drive traffic to websites, etc, from twitter better than facebook. I do the tweetdeck thing which sends only the tweets I want onto facebook and then I will chat with friends, etc but very rarely. 

The reality in is in today's publishing world unless you're Nora Roberts, you've got to be out there promoting. The question is what sells books? I have no idea. Hits to a blog doesn't equal sales, but perhaps a future sale someday. I do know that all this social media stuff has helped with the teaching side of the business for me, since I am first a teacher. 

To facebook or not to facebook? Honestly, other than old HS friends and family, the same people on twitter are my friends on facebook. Though I have 2x as many followers on twitter as I do on facebook. I think for you a fanpage would be a good thing and could be useful and productive. But the one key thing is whatever you do decide to do you must be consistent for the efforts to pay off. OK, me done now.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:12:"66.66.217.27";s:10:"user_agent";s:127:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4";s:8:"referrer";s:68:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/01/do-tell-should-i-go-back-on-facebook/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:68:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/01/do-tell-should-i-go-back-on-facebook/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:20:"Jenni Holbrook-Talty";s:10:"POST_email";s:23:"jenni@jenniholbrook.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:32:"www.writeitforward.wordpress.com";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1553:"You should know better than to ask for an opinion openly knowing I always have one. Social media is a huge time suck and it would appear sometimes that I never have anything better to do than to twitter away. I tend to multi-task and since I started working with Bob Mayer the business side of this business takes up a lot of my time so in a way, it gives me more time to do social media. If that makes sense. I really only show up at various times of the day for short spurts. And I like twitter over Facebook because on twitter I find great information, great blogs, and I can drive traffic to websites, etc, from twitter better than facebook. I do the tweetdeck thing which sends only the tweets I want onto facebook and then I will chat with friends, etc but very rarely. 

The reality in is in today's publishing world unless you're Nora Roberts, you've got to be out there promoting. The question is what sells books? I have no idea. Hits to a blog doesn't equal sales, but perhaps a future sale someday. I do know that all this social media stuff has helped with the teaching side of the business for me, since I am first a teacher. 

To facebook or not to facebook? Honestly, other than old HS friends and family, the same people on twitter are my friends on facebook. Though I have 2x as many followers on twitter as I do on facebook. I think for you a fanpage would be a good thing and could be useful and productive. But the one key thing is whatever you do decide to do you must be consistent for the efforts to pay off. OK, me done now.";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7230";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:1:"0";s:26:"POST_akismet_comment_nonce";s:10:"6b24ef26ff";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:79:"Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"1801";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:13:"DOCUMENT_ROOT";s:42:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com";s:17:"GATEWAY_INTERFACE";s:7:"CGI/1.1";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:90:"application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:13:"gzip, deflate";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:5:"en-us";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"HTTP_ORIGIN";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:68:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/01/do-tell-should-i-go-back-on-facebook/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:127:"Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/533.19.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.0.3 Safari/533.19.4";s:4:"PATH";s:13:"/bin:/usr/bin";s:12:"QUERY_STRING";s:0:"";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:11:"REMOTE_ADDR";s:12:"66.66.217.27";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"49896";s:14:"REQUEST_METHOD";s:4:"POST";s:15:"SCRIPT_FILENAME";s:63:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SCRIPT_NAME";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SERVER_ADDR";s:14:"67.225.237.100";s:12:"SERVER_ADMIN";s:37:"webmaster@davidhewson.davidhewson.net";s:11:"SERVER_NAME";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"SERVER_PORT";s:2:"80";s:15:"SERVER_PROTOCOL";s:8:"HTTP/1.1";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:133:"<address>Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at davidhewson.com Port 80</address>
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