Penultimate (probably!) Almost Final Ramblings Through Social Media – Fridays

Penultimate (probably!) Almost Final Ramblings Through Social Media – Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays

I use #FF for my specific Friday tweets on a single author.

1. Each week I select one of the authors I follow.
2. If I haven’t read any of her/his work, I check on Amazon for reviews of one of her/his books.

My #FF tweets always look something like:

#FF for a great #scifi read: The Cosega Sequence "Cosega is still a
dangerous word" @BrandtLegg http://ow.ly/P3WOR@SherryFrazier

Due to the 140-character length restriction of Twitter, I’m forced to present much less enticement to read the book as I’d like. However, I always include either an abbreviated quote from one of the author’s books or a review. The link is always to Amazon’s page for that book.

If I have room—usually far from the case—I’ll attach a photo of the book cover. However, the Amazon link frequently does that. I’m not sure why that’s not 100% of the time, but…

I have received very complementary feedback from authors I have included in #FF’d. Below is an example.

Besides #FF on Fridays I include a #SciFact and an announcement of and a link to that week’s Expressions of Faith blog post.

On both Friday and Saturday I SEVERELY restrict my Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook professional presence to a single tweet, update, or status. The copy is the same in all three venues. It’s recaps my past weeks blog post and previews the blog posts in the upcoming week.

#BLOG 7/28 #writing – 7/31 - #EoF: Power 

8/3 #Almanacre: 8/3/1958 – 8/7 #EoF: Qualified Check it out!http://ow.ly/PaGp7

Next blog: Absolutely the Last Ramblings Through Social Media – For now!

In this concluding post on social media for this go around, I’ll discuss my #SciFact posts and give a update on my expanded list of lists and my use of those lists. Whew!

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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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A Science Guy’s Almanac: Introduction

A Science Guy’s Almanac:  Introduction

The blog that follows this in 30 minutes is the first of a new, continuing series. I’ve titled the series A Science Guy’s Almanac—mostly because each post will focus on a specific day and year. What you are reading in this Introduction is a bit of background of me and the concept. All remaining Almanac posts will go up at 0700 Pacific Time

Almanac posts are significantly different in content and style from the other posts in A Day In The Life Of A Science Fiction Writer.

Day In The Life postings deal with issues of authorship, writing as a profession, and related topics. Those posts appear on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. Those posts will continue on those days. I suspect they will be shorter in length starting than in the past, but the content will not change.

Almanac postings are an eclectic collection of short articles on life—mine and life in general. These posts will be the first and third Mondays of each month.

You’ll have to check on Monday and Tuesday of any 5^th week in a month to see what I’ve decided to post for that week.

I started teaching high school in September of 1973. My last day in a high school classroom was in June 2012. During the 39 intervening years, my life happened.

Top: October of 1973 at Monte Vista. Bottom: June of 1012 at my retirement party. 

Between 1996 and 2004, I was full time faculty in Teacher Education and Biology at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. From 1973-1996 I taught all levels of biology and Coordinated Science at Monte Vista High School in Spring Valley, California. Beginning in 2004 and ending at my retirement in 2012, I taught biology and Global Science at Great Oak High School in Temecula, California.

All three of my teaching experiences were wonderful. I wouldn’t trade any of those days away.

Since I am a teacher, the firs blog post in the Almanac relates directly to teaching. I hope you enjoy this initial post…

And those that follow.

P.S. Check my blog every Friday for another NEW series of blog posts: Expressions of Faith. This series of posts—averaging 100 words each—are very short devotionals consisting of combinations of thoughts, observations, admonitions, and prayers. They present a view into a very important part of me! They should make you think. I hope you enjoy them.

See you in 30 minutes.

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I’d appreciate your thoughts about these A Science Guy’s Almanac posts

Feel free to email me at: dr.d@engage-in-science.com

Upcoming Series in The Day of the Life of a Science Fiction Writer

If you have been following this blog, or if you just found it, you are most likely aware that the title is A day in the Life of a Science Fiction Writer.

In my last blog, I announced an additional blog type will be added beginning in July.

This blog is to inform you that I'll be adding a third blog type in July as well.

Looking a week of blogs as of July, 2015, here's what you'll see from me.

On the1st & 3rd Monday of each month, my blogs are part of a continuing series. I’ve titled the series A Science Guy’s Almanac—mostly because each post will focus on a specific day and year. Almanac posts are significantly different in content and style from the other posts in A Day In The Life Of A Science Fiction Writer. Almanac postings are an eclectic collection of short articles on life—mine and life in general.

On the 2nd & 4th Tuesday of each month, my blogs are Day In The Life postings deal with issues of authorship, writing as a profession, and related topics. Those posts appear on the second and fourth Tuesdays of each month. Those posts will continue on those days. I suspect they will be shorter in length starting than in the past, but the content will not change. 

On every Friday, my blogs will be spiritual in content. This is a series of series of short devotionals I've titled, Expressions of Faith. The first series, which will last past New Year's Day 2016, are from the New Testament book: Paul's Letter to the Colossians. Expressions of Faith blogs are designed to make you think. Averaging 100 words, these very short combinations of thoughts, observations, admonitions, and prayers are formatted like this: 

All or part of one or more Scripture verses are first--followed by the reference for that verse. 

Next is a single Key Word. Its purpose is to focus you on that concept before you read, so your brain will automatically look for connections to that idea while you read. BTW: That is one of the ways your brain works. 

The last part of the devotional is the combinations of thoughts, observations, admonitions, and prayers.

I hope you enjoy the expanded version of A Day in the Life of a Science Fiction Writer--and will tell your friends about it.

Until next Tuesday...

                               ... and the following Friday...
                                                                           ---to infinity and beyond!

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More Rambling through Social Media – Wednesday Tweets, posts, and more

At least this captures the rambling part of the title. This is from my 90-minute "Story Time with Uncle Chuck" that was my farewell to my students and colleagues at Great Oak High in 2012. I retold the stories I've told in classes for years since the 1970s in some cases.
Hmmm.  I'm at least 15-pounds lighter now than in this photo

Thank you for taking your time to read my blog. I now offer a Monday blog post on the 1^st and 3^rd Monday’s of the month. Monday posts do not focus on writing. Their focus is on the writer--that'd be me. You'll find out more about my background, philosophy, theology, points of inspiration, and other topics TBD.

Tuesdays alternating with Monday posts feature blog posts on some aspect of writing. I spend a lot of blog-time on how you can correct/limit my pet writing peeves in your manuscripts. 😉

This is a screenshot of my Amazon Author's page. Click this sentence to go there. All blogs about my books include either this link or they link directly to the books purchase page. Notice that my most recent blog posts scroll across the bottom of this page. If you're an author who sells books on Amazon and doesn't have a blog and an authors page, you need to correct that ASAP!

In my last blog, I wrote about how to facilitate my social media posting by using a free version of a service called Hootsuite. Check my last Social Media Rambling blog for specifics.

To recap very briefly, I divide much of my weekly social media interaction into days of the week. Mondays are #SciFiB’days. Mondays through Fridays include #SciFact posts, regardless of whatever else is being posted.

Mondays and Wednesdays include blog posts on the Bible Study my Sunday school class is working on at that time. Monday is when I post the questions we discussed the day before. Wednesday, I repost the questions ADDING highlights of the discussion in class that week. Here are the URLs from the last week of September 2018.
Monday: #MyBlog Today’s post is Study Questions from Acts Ch 5 on 9/23. #Bible#NewTestament  @SherryFrazier http://ow.ly/Fo3j30lWhjZ

Wednesday: #MyBlog #BibleStudy Today’s post is Thoughts on Study Questions from Acts 5 on 9/23 #NewTestament @SherryFrazier http://ow.ly/P1XB30lYq2C

I often post a special announcement on Saturdays. #BookBoost is one of those. It is a message that teases the books' content and directs readers to the book's page on Amazon. Here is a sample of a #BookBoost posting.

#BookBoost #timetravel Discover what happens in an antiparallel world, even with the Traveler's HOT L! Allegorical fiction. #shortread @SherryFrazier #Amazoncart http://ow.ly/4uHN30lYqgq

While shameless self-promotion is not a bad thing on Social Media, overtly trying to sell books all the time is considered untoward behavior—something with which I agree. More on the plethora of #s in the post in a subsequent blog.

Since I’ve veered into Twitter etiquette, I’ll follow that detour in two weeks.

Next blog: Ramblings through Social Media – Third Installment

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