This Roundup provides links to just a few of the many online resources for using social media and the web to enhance your profile. It’s in no way exhaustive but represents instead some of the articles, networks and webinars that I think are worth a gander.
Webinars
- Using Twitter to Build Your Freelancing Business: webinar presented my Katharine O’Moore-Klopf
- Social Media 101, 202, 303: Self-guided Training: designed for journalists, but completely free, so what's to lose?
Articles
- 5 Ways to Drive Quality Traffic to Your Website from Google+ by Kikolani.com
- 6 Steps to Getting Started With Google+ by Marc Pitman
- Are You Making the Most of Facebook? Creating a Business Page by Louise Harnby
- Building a Website for Your Freelance Business: Five Excuses that Shouldn’t Hold You Back by Daniel Heuman
- Enhancing Your Editorial Profile: Customize Your Twitter Page by Louise Harnby
- Facebook Timeline for Business Pages – 21 Key Points To Know by Mari Smith
- Here’s Why You Should Avoid Tweeting at Certain Times Each Hour by Ethan Klapper
- How to Create a Facebook Business Page in 5 Simple Steps (With Video) by Anum Hussain
- How to Design a Website for Freelance Editors, Proofreaders and Translators by Daniel Heuman
- How to Get Started in Social Media by Jamee Rae
- How to Improve Your Blog: Lessons Learned from the Problogger Event by Joanna Penn
- How to Shrink Your Links (and Why You Should) by Stephanie Chandler
- Maximizing StumbleUpon for Your Content Sharing Strategy by Peg Fitzpatrick
- See the "Social Networking Opportunities" and "Do You Have a Website?" sections of my article for the Publishing Training Centre for tips on social networking and building your own website
- Reinforcing Your Brand: Shortening Social Media Addresses by Louise Harnby
- Three Reasons to Tweet by Louise Harnby
- Top 7 Reasons Why You Should Have a Website by Lonex.com
- Twitter: Top 5 Ways to Find Your Tribe by by Joel Friedlander
Courses
- Web skills short courses run by the Publishing Training Centre
Resource centre
- Social media section of the Deliberate Blog run by writer and editor Shakirah Dawud
LinkedIn groups
- Authors, Writers, Publishers, Editors, & Writing Professionals
- Between the Covers Editing and Proofreading Services
- BookLink
- Copy editors and proofreaders: subgroup of LinkEds & Writers
- Editorial Professionals in the UK Freelance
- Editing NetworkFreelance Editors Group
- Freelance Professionals
- LinkEds & writers
- Publishing and editing professionals
- STET: Professional Copy Editors
Feel free to let me know in the Comments section if there are must-know-about links that you’d like to see included.
