PROMO LESSON: Blogs are good.
What I know:
1) Blogs are a lot easier and cheaper to create than what we usually call websites. You can change them and add to them without calling a techie to do it for you.
2) Not all blogs are as primitive as this one. I just got a very fancy email, all html (which means it had photos and pretty graphics) from an artist who's being featured at the Museum of Modern Art. The email provides a link to a very fancy blog indeed. Not only a photo of an artwork but lots of photos of the fancy do they're throwing (or threw) for him, including a video of a glamorous opening, lots of models, and I think I saw Martin Scorcese grinning at the camera.
Therefore, when it comes to self promotion, it might be possible to have *only a weblog. This one is pretty fancy. Take a look:
http://matthewdavidon.wordpress.com/
*Well, when it comes to self-promo, especially for writers, you might not need a formal website, but many writing advisors and publishers advise that you have other presences on the internet, like for instance (gasp) MySpace.com/ More about that later.
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Hi Barbara,
I've heard a LOT about blogs being good, but I have questions.
How do people subscribe to a blog?
I already have a subscriber list for my e-zine. Can I subscribe those readers to my blog? Or will I start over with people needing to subscribe to my blog?
Can I post the article in my e-zine to my blog, or do they need to have different content in each? If so, why?
Ok...enough of sounding like a 6 year old with the "why" questions. :-)
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