Kare Anderson's Blog – February 2009 Archive (7)

... (and they are fun reads)....

http://mjroseblog.typepad.com/buzz_balls_hype/ http://publishinginsider.typepad.com/
http://www.bookreporter.com/
http://www.bookslut.com/
http://www.bookslut.com/blog/
http://thehappybooker.blogs.com/
http://www.bookgirl.net/
http://www.litkicks.com/

Daily Beast founder Tina Brown talked about her new site about books - part of her mega-site The Beast. With shrinking books coverage and struggling publishers, Brown hopes that this new outlet will help fill the gaps with less and less book reviews and publishers becoming less profitable. The site has articles, video interviews, reviews and more aggregated content, and articles. Here's… Continue

here's a chance to have face-to-face meetings with over 100 editors, writers and producers from major national media outlets at the National Publicity Summit, April 22-25th in New York City. Attendance is by application and only 100 attendees will be admitted to ensure everyone gets enough one-on-one time with the journalists and producers. Previous attendees have scored guest appearances or feature stories with ABC's The View, Today… Continue

... and your book topic may go viral, This is a new "Dear Abby" service that apparently started just this weekend. Way catchy and cool!
DearTweetie, "Crowd sourcing the advice column, Twitter-style" http://twitter.com/deartweetie.

See social media search engine WhosTalkin.com. Search results include current mentions on Web sites, blogs, social media posts, videos — anything on the Internet. The results seem to be more relevant than Google and come up in reverse chronological order with most current mentions first. Using this tool, I quickly found links to several magazine articles in which I was mentioned, but didn’t know existed online. You can use this search engine to search… Continue

Go to PressReleaseGrader.com

and paste your release into their grader to get great tips on updating your release for PR format, and for SEO tips. Thanks to Dan Janal for the tip (via SpeakerNet).…

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... how to set up a place where all of us members could contribute to a master list - perhaps with categories to help people find what they most want