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A lottery winner’s body was found buried in Florida. Abraham Shakespeare won $17 million in a 2006 lottery but first it ruined his life, and now, it appears, caused his death. BBC News said he was better off broke. Abraham told his brother he wished he’d never won. People glommed onto him and acted as … Read more
American Society of Journalists and Authors is holding a Twitterview (interview on Twitter) next Monday, February 1, 2010 at 1:30 p.m. You can tune in by logging into Twitter and following the conference at @ASJA2010. Once you’re following the conference, search for the conference’s hashtag #ASJA2010 and read the tweets as they’re posted. This Twitterview … Read more
It weighs 1.5 pounds. It’s 5″ thick and has a 9.7″ display. The e-reader—called iBooks—looks like it’s far more advanced than the Kindle. iBooks are in color and and the iPad can play videos right inside the book pages! And, $499, it’s cheaper than the Kindle. $499 buys the version with WiFi only, and 16GB … Read more
Susan Shapiro, author of 7 books, is teaching SECRETS OF SELLING YOUR FIRST BOOK SEMINAR this Saturday 1/30 from 1 to 5 pm in Greenwich Village with guest star William Morris agent Kirby Kim and NAL Executive Editor Danielle Perez. You don’t need to have finished or even started your project to learn how 36 … Read more
Hillary Clinton’s repeated word is “eager” (can you believe it? the committee that wrote Living History should be ashamed). Cosmopolitan magazine editor Kate White uses “quickly” over a dozen times in A Body To Die For. Jack Kerouac’s crutch word in On the Road is “sad,” sometimes doubly so—“sad, sad.” Ann Packer’s in The Dive … Read more
Microblogging is frequently posting updated information. It’s a journal-style for publishing brief text messages on websites.
If I suggested to clients that they bring business cards to a social gathering I doubt they would argue with me. This is considered a sound approach to networking. If I suggested that they bring business cards to a work gathering they’d say, “Duh.” Social Media is basically the modern day equivalent. Social media is … Read more
Look for an artist profile and travel piece in the upcoming February issue of The Resident. Artist Zina Saunders has a new book of illustrations and interviews with passionate New Yorkers who pursue a multitude of interesting passtimes—Overlooked New York. Travel article is about Caribbean island, Anguilla. Perfect getaway for a New York winter.
Are you building your brand reputation? If not, it would be wise to start… Dominos Pizza recently learned that the majority of their market had the opinion that their product is lousy. They learned specific details as to why their customers felt their product was inferior against their competitors. Dominos then used social media to … Read more
Looking at user patterns, HubSpot found that Thursday and Friday are the most active days on Twitter, each accounting for 16% of total tweets in the analysis, while 10-11 pm appears to be the most active hour on Twitter, accounting for 4.8% of the tweets in an average day. This info came from TechCrunch.