Make the Most of Your Time on Twitter & Other Social Networks
We’ll help you along with our Learning Center guides on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Google+
On HubPages, we want to provide you with all the tools, support, and guides you might need to develop a strong online brand and share your passions and expertise with the rest of the world. While most of our advice has to do with activity that takes place on HubPages, we also want to help you make the most of your activity off the site.
This week we published the first of what will become a collection of four Learning Center guides to major social networks.
This guide covers Twitter and includes advice on creating a strong account, interacting with other people on the site, and sharing your Hubs in an effective manner. For a summary of more tips from the guide, check out the Pro Tips section of this newsletter.
We encourage you to get involved with some (or all) of these networks- but in a responsible manner. Doing so can introduce you to new ideas and people, help you gain new readers and fans, and boost your online brand. Consider reading each new guide as it is published over the next three weeks. You can use your new knowledge to either start an account on the particular site that guide covers, or to give your current account a refreshing makeover.
One more thing- would you be interested in allowing fellow Hubbers to suggest edits to your Hubs when they notice mistakes or room for improvement? If so,
sign up to be a potential beta tester for a community edit feature that would allow you to privately recieve, review, and approve or deny suggested edits.
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Want to improve your Twitter skills, but are too rushed at the moment to read through the entire Learning Center guide? Here are some major points to consider right away!
Join Twitter because you’d like to be a part of the community- not to share Hubs
Share a variety of text only tweets, links, @mentions, @replies, and retweets
Use Twitter to start an active dialogue with others
Make a point of keeping self-promotional tweets below 20% of your total tweets
When using the Tweet This button on Hubs, add your own custom comment
Tweet regularly to show that your profile is active and cared for
For a more thorough look at best practices for Hubbers on Twitter,
check out the full Learning Center guide- and keep an eye out for the guides to Facebook, Pinterest, and Google+ that will be rolling out in the weeks to come!
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We highlight new Hubbers on HubPages by nominating their Hubs in the HubNuggets Competition. Every week, 18 Hubs from three different Topics are rounded up by a special team of Hubbers and presented to the community, which is given several days to vote for their favorites. The top nine winners are awarded with special Accolades and featured in the HubPages newsletter, which is sent to tens of thousands of HubPages' top Hubbers.
This week,
RedElf rounded up nominees from the Religion and Philosophy, Education and Science, and Gender and Relationships Topics
as the HubNuggets team took a cruise to San Francisco in a luxury yacht- accompanied by some beloved celebrities! Having had a jolly good time, the team swung by and dropped the nominees by HubPages headquarters, where we kept them safe as the community cast their votes. You can now peruse the winners below!
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The Lemp Mansion in St. Louis, Missouri is commonly said to be one of the 10 most haunted locations in the United States. The enormous foundation has been through a number of monumental changes over the years, but the one thing that always remains is the consistent belief that the Lemp family continues to haunt the home.
bethperry, From Tennesee, 239 Fans, 115 Hubs, Joined 12 months ago
Feenix interviews bethperry
A prolific novelist shares some very useful tips and advice
Beth, you are published, as we say in the business. How many of your books have been published?
I’ve have around 11 books for adult readers published and one for children.
Briefly, tell us a bit about some or all of your published works, including the titles, genres, and names of the publishers.
Under my pen name –Anya Howard- I write steamy Paranormal and Romance stories and novels. I’ve had three published with Kensington Books, including the novel Submissive, Dangerous Ties and Sexy Beast VI. With Beyond the Page publishing I have two novels, including Taming the Rose and my newest release, The Story of Odette: the Swanmaiden’s Unveiling. I also have other titles with Smashwords and Red Rose Publishing and one with Loose-ID (writing as Desiree Erotique). Some of my titles are in print issues, and all are in editions that are availble in either Kindle, Nook or other electronic formats.
My children’s book, a collection of spooky tales for teens called Nine for the Nightlight is published in several electronic formats.
Presently, do you have any works on the drawing board that you plan to have published in the future?
Yes, actually a couple of projects. One is another Romance, the other is a horror novel. I am also musing over some ideas for a humor novel.
Tell us about your background. Start with what planet you are from and how you spent your early years, and wrap up things by letting us know what led to your becoming a professional writer.
I was adopted at a very early age by a really nice earthling couple that I call my Mama and Daddy. They provided me a home and everything my birth mother wanted to but was unable to provide. Soon afterward Mama and Daddy had a son, and so I grew up with a very nice little brother. When we were still young Daddy served in the Air Force and our family spent a lot of time traveling around. He retired when I was about eight or nine and we moved back to east Tennessee, where both Mama and Daddy had grown up. It was around then when the writing bug hit me. After Daddy’s retirement he was sick for a long time, but he spent a lot of time reading to me and with me. It was Daddy who gave me the appreciation of the written word and introduced me to great writers like Edgar Allen Poe, Mark Twain, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Charles Dickens. Reading spurred my imagination and I began writing little stories for my own amusement, and by the time I was fifteen I’d penned a couple of novels. Nothing I’d dare let anyone to see now, lol! But they were a lot of fun at the time. Of course I was writing by long-hand, and then Mama –who I imagine was tired of seeing me hunched over a notebook for hours- brought out the old typewriter she had when she was young. It was an ancient thing, one of those heavy old clunkers you could drop on a chicken’s head to get a proper Sunday dinner if your ax wasn’t handy- but after a time she got me a new one. Mama had a Learn to Type instructional record she loaned me, and by listening to it I learned to type.
By the time I was in high school, however, I was writing a lot of poetry and I didn’t know if I’d ever want to get back to writing stories.
But then when I was in my early twenties, married and expecting my second child, I developed seizures. It was caused by an epileptic condition I’d been born with but which had been dormant until then. The seizures were bad in those years, had me practically bed-ridden. I spent the hours I was up tending to the children, and when they were asleep I wanted something to take my mind off the threat of seizures. So I began writing stories. Writing meant different things for me then: it was fun, it was therapeutic and it kept me from being depressed.
I began sending the stories off to editors. But it took many years before I heard an acceptance from any of them, in fact, it was after my health had taken a turn for the better and I had remarried and had two more children. By that time I had received so many rejections I’d actually given up hope to ever see something published. But ‘round that time my husband suggested I submit something to one of the electronic publishers that were opening up via the internet. To my amazement I got an acceptance. Some years after this an author friend urged me to submit something to her editor at Kensington, which is a traditional print publisher – or as we say one of the Big Boys. What do you know, the editor must have liked what she read because I got a two-book deal and a third offer some months later. It had taken awhile, but I’d finally reached that plateau I had honestly never thought to see.
You consistently write, put together and publish some of the most clever, witty and humorous Hubs on HubPages -- and each of them is quite logical and entertaining, and brimming over with good old common sense. From where did you gain the skills and/or ability to produce those kinds of works?
You’re very kind. If I do have a shred of common sense it comes from trying, on some level, to emulate what I admired most about my grandmothers. They were very practical, patient and generous-hearted ladies, and quite tolerant about most things. Except for patient part I may be starting to get the hang of the examples they set, lol! I do try anyway.
I admit I enjoy making people laugh. It is impossible for anyone to be playful all the time, of course, but humor can often get a point across, or at least compel others to consider that point when dry commentary has failed. Like most I do have a share of strong opinions on some subjects, but I don’t like to preach at people. I tend to think humor, when not cruel, is a much more effective way to express an idea than pounding a pulpit. And it sure seems the world has enough pulpit pounding pundits around already.
How did you discover HubPages and what made you decide to remain on the site and go on to be one of its frequent contributors?
Well I was between book releases and needed a break from the regular fiction writing. I’d always had an interest in writing just whatever was on my mind at the moment, so on a whim I started surfing for online places to contribute and lo and behold I found HubPages! Once joined I thoroughly enjoyed being a contributor, in fact more than I’d thought possible.
I am certain that you consider HubPages to be a very good place for writers to display their “wares.” Why do you, personally, feel that way?
Let’s face it, getting professionally published is one of the most difficult endeavors one can attempt to do. In the mainstream publishing industry you typically have to first write whatever kind of manuscript, story or article is deemed trendy at that moment in time. Even at this, you have to get that submission in front of the eyes of the right editor, someone who just happens to be in the mood for considering a new voice. You can be the best writer in the world and have accomplished creating the best and most articulate proposal for your work possible; but without knowing where to find an editor hungry for your genre and/or style a newbie isn’t going to sell anything. It is a pop trends industry, and even if you have published with some company before there is absolutely no guarantee they’ll want you again. Trends change fast in the industry, and editor desires change not with what is quality but what their research analysts gamble to be the next hot trend. If you are an author with umpteen popular bestsellers already to your credit, yeah you stand a great chance of getting multiple offers even when the winds of change strike. But this is the exception in the scenario.
When places like HubPages began opening doors, possibilities opened for many writers who had just begun testing their feet about submitting their work or were simply fatigued from banging their heads waiting for an editor to reply. Now these websites have their drawbacks, certainly: you have to edit your own work –a consuming job at times- and there are site policies and criteria you have to meet. And lastly there are some people, quite frankly, who just aren’t cut out for writing anything. These folks won’t get much of a following, of course. But those who strive to make their work interesting and who take the time to polish it will inevitably find readers. Even though HubPages isn’t considered traditional publishing or even journalism, for the person who enjoys writing there is still no greater satisfaction than knowing that someone, somewhere on this planet, took the time to READ MY STUFF!!! And getting paid for it doesn’t hurt either. HubPages offers this chance.
One thing I like about HubPages is that the community is made up of a very diverse group of people. Their beliefs and backgrounds can be very different at times but there is definitely no running agenda about the site. This lends the individual product and informational Hubs more credence.
What advice do you have for Hubbers who aspire to be “published?”
I can think of a few things to remember when seeking to go the traditional route of publication:
Hone your craft. Make sure you know the rules of grammar and know how to format your documents.
Enjoy what you write. If you don’t enjoy it nobody else will either.
Be open to constructive criticism. No one is born a perfect writer, and if a consensus of test readers and/or editors say you need improvement in some area of your writing well, by golly, they’re probably onto something!
Don’t wear your heart on your sleeve, because 99% of all writers will get rejections -- and usually a great number of them if they are submitting to worthwhile places. Additionally, while many editors take the time to actually give articulate and constructively presented reasons for turning down your work, be just as ready for rejections that are simply rude. And don’t be surprised by the dreaded form rejection (a rejection that is polite but which has all the personal touch of a traffic sign –and which gives the definite impression the reading editor devoted about 2 minutes out of their busy day to reading your manuscript).
Be prepared to be twice as patient as Job when waiting for an answer about a manuscript submission. If the publisher’s submission details say it generally takes four months for you to hear back from an editor, it will take at least that long.
Remember there are some bad-egg publishers and so-called agents out there. Vile, deceitful people who will use your manuscript to make money for themselves and leave you hanging without a cent to your name. So get an idea of what to rightfully expect in any legal p
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