Still More Ramblings through Social Media – Thursdays

Still More Ramblings through Social Media – Thursdays

Let’s review.

Blog wise, my week looks like this:

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Blog: A Day in the Life of a Science Fiction Writer
1st and 3rd Mondays are Almanac posts with comments on life—mine, with examples, and life in general	2nd and 4th Tuesdays will continue the Day in the Life posts with thoughts on writing and associated topics	No regular blog posts	No regular  blog posts	Every Friday there will be and Expression of Faith post. These are short devotional thoughts on specific Scripture verses
Twitter: @crdowningAuthor
#SciFiBday #SciFact	#SciFact	#(book title) #apbioanswers #SciFact	#TBT #apbioanswers #SciFact	#FF #SciFact

New Stuff—mostly.

Since today is a Second Tuesday, this is a blog on writing and the business of writing. Specifically, this is another post what I’m doing with social media.

Twitter, Facebook, and this blog are my primary foci for social media. I also post daily to LinkedIn. LinkedIn posts are the same as my Twitter tweets. Hootsuite allows me to direct any message to Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn at the same time. Therefore, the amount of time I spend on planned tweets also fuels the fires on Facebook and LinkedIn—a BIG saving of time!

When I put up the message through Hootsuite, all three of the media channels are set to release the message at the same time. That’s fine with me for Twitter and LinkedIn. But, since my CRDowningAuthor Facebook page is set to automatically forward whatever I post there to Twitter, I don’t the Facebook post to be at the same time as the Tweet. So, I edit the LinkedIn post-time to later in the day.

Changing the time of the Facebook post gives me two of the same posts on Twitter. I have a goal for all scheduled tweets to be tweeted twice during the day—once in the AM and again in the PM—so I copy and paste my tweets into a new Hootsuite message for just Twitter if they are only tweets. All I have to change is the release time.

I described #apbioanswers in the last blog. They are only on Twitter and are targeted at AP Biology students.

Thursdays

#TBT is the typical “throwback Thursday” most of you are familiar with. My goal here is to highlight some of my collection of Golden Age (1940-1970ish) sci fi anthologies or novels—or a book by my Birthday author that week.

Here’s a sample Tweet.

#TBT Remember this classic by John E. Stith? http://ow.ly/NC0AN The link shows the cover of one of his books, Redshift Rendezvous.

And this is the Monday b’day tweet for that week.

#SciFiBdays John E. Stith 68 Prolific hard sci-fi @SherryFrazier http://ow.ly/NBZVM http://ow.ly/NBZVN

I try to include a photo of the cover of the book listed on #TBT. The cover is a link to where the book can be published, if it’s still in print.

You probably noticed that #SciFact is ubiquitous. More on the rationale for the ubiquity in two weeks in the next Tuesday blog.

Next blog: Ramblings through Social Media (continued) – #SciFact

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