Comments on: Writing Tips #16 The Secrets of Social Media – Everything A Writer Should Know

By: Sacha Black

Sacha Black — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 15:38:10 +0000

Hey Terry, thanks so much for the compliment. The Hash Tags are awesome 🙂 Monday is crazy now my phone battery dies by 11am!! Have to take a charger to work. I will have a look at @prnancarrow then. I have read someone’s work, can’t remember who Jon possibly but anyway they wrote 52 headline hacks which I reckon had a similar basis and I’ve been trying to follow a similar format ever since. Thanks so much for the offer I shall certainly take you up on it 🙂 you have SO many followers – how long did it take to get them? Was it an explosion over night? Or time?

By: Terry Tyler

Terry Tyler — Sun, 01 Mar 2015 11:52:51 +0000

Really interesting and useful post, thanks 🙂 Glad you’ve discovered the hashtags – Monday Blogs made my blogs take off! @prnancarrow did a good post a while back about attention grabbing headlines – looking at your titles you might have either read it or don’t need it, but if not I’ll look it out for you (remind me in a tweet if I forget!)

By: Norah

Norah — Tue, 24 Feb 2015 06:15:46 +0000

In reply to Sacha Black.

Glad I made your day! 🙂
Back to the #Mondayblogs: I think the post can be published whenever, the hashtag is just to be used on Mondays. However since my Monday finishes before Monday for a lot of others around the world, I’ll often look on Tuesdays and RT then! 🙂

By: Sacha Black

Sacha Black — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 21:52:22 +0000

In reply to Norah.

Hi Norah, I love how detailed your comments are. I am glad you liked the post. 🙂 That means a lot. I have actually just assumed that the Monday blogs are for ones blogged on Monday, but I think that is probably right. Although to be fair, I completely agree with you, I love to promote bloggers I like, the only thing I have seen that the MondayBlogs hashtag organisers get annoyed about, are authors promoting their own books. I completely agree about only posting once or twice a week. I don’t like it when I get posts more often than that in my inbox makes it too full! and I have unfollowed people over it too. I confess to posting more than that – but only because I do the ‘writespirations’ which are just picture inspirations not actual posts, so they are kind of take them or leave them. I agree though, I tend to try an comment on peoples posts who comment on mine, and also on those who I really enjoy but there are so many that its really hard to keep up and keep my own blog updated! I think the times relate to when is best overall. i.e. if it was 6-8pm then it would be 6-8pm everywhere, so 6-8 in oz but obviously that would be oz people tweeting at that time, so I guess it depends who your target audience is. Anyway, really glad you enjoyed the post makes my day when people feel like that 😀 x

By: Norah

Norah — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:35:51 +0000

This is an interesting article, Sacha, full of lots of information to keep me going for a while. Thanks for linking back to my blog. Interesting though, that WordPress didn’t automatically let me know, which I thought was meant to happen.
I wasn’t aware, or have forgotten, that posts for #Mondayblogs had to be posted on Monday. I thought they could be posted at any time, even old posts, as long as they weren’t pushing sales. I try to promote most of my favourite bloggers on Mondays, as many as I can. I rarely post on Mondays.
The infographic of statistics is interesting. While the recommendation is to post every day, as a reader I prefer it when bloggers post once or twice a week at the most. There are too many bloggers that I like to follow that to read a post every day would be just too time consuming. If they post every day, I rarely read everything they post, and sometimes stop reading altogether. But I’m just one reader and maybe others are happy to read more, or maybe there are different readers who read on different days. I usually blog twice a week myself. To do more that than would take me away from my other work and would give me less time to read and comment on others’ blogs. For me the whole purpose is to communicate. If someone comments on my blog, I like to comment on theirs. I have begun keeping a record of comments made and comments received so that I can prioritize my reading and commenting.
I was also interested in the recommended length as I think closer to the 1000 word mark suits me as a reader better. i don’t like reading posts that seem to have a lot of fluff rather than good content. I sometimes ‘skip’ through, or don’t complete reading, longer posts. I try to be mindful of that myself when I am writing. Everyone’s time is limited. But these are just my perspectives as one reader and writer.
As for all the other social media, I haven’t quite figured them out. I am learning slowly. Most of my conversations are conducted on blogs, mine or others’. Some good conversations can get going on Twitter, but the time differences can be a bit prohibitive. Which brings me back to the best times for posting. The recommended times probably need to be reinterpreted by me in the Antipodes.
As I said, there is a lot in this post for me to come back to again and learn more.
Thank you for sharing so generously. 🙂