A migraine plagued me on New Year’s Eve, so I’m starting 2017 a bit late. This is my first blog post of the year! Popular culture calls 2016 a rough year; it was for me, too. I do a personal year-end summary every New Year’s Eve, and 2016 was brutal — so many changes and uncertainty career-wise, among many other things. So I look forward to seeing improvement this new year. Without getting too detailed about my goals, I do plan…
I’ve settled into a nice routine with social media. The novelty and the eagerness that naturally came with embracing it again has worn off, and I now only tweet, gram, or snap when I have something to say or show. Granted, I try to have something to say or show on a regular basis, but I no longer spend a lot of time consuming as much as I can of other people’s tweets, grams, or snaps to get a full…
I mentioned before that I got on Snapchat to explore possibly using it for my book cover work. So far, I can’t see it being very effective for my kind of work. My covers just wouldn’t translate well into 10-second candid videos shot from a phone, so I don’t see myself adding “snaps” to a “story.” It might be cool for conferences and conventions, though, or for sharing the arrival of contributor copies of print books with followers. Or, on…
Careers in social media exist now. I saw how big they were in my job hunt and thought perhaps my background in blogging could get me a position somewhere managing a company’s social media accounts. Nope. Big nope. Never mind my years of experience creating content for this blog, since before 2000, a wide and deep range of creative and original content that regularly engaged readers and prompted them to interact and participate. Never mind my ability to build an…