{"id":534,"date":"2011-07-21T20:14:18","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T03:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2016-10-14T16:51:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T23:51:54","slug":"blogging-and-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianastevan.com\/uk\/2011\/uncategorized\/blogging-and-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogging and Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stumbling upon,\u00a0Kristen Lamb\\’s blog<\/a> , I feel as if I’ve been given a wake-up call. Kristen Lamb has written several books on the subject of using social media to raise a writer’s profile. Her books,\u00a0 We Are Not Alone – The Writers Guide to Social Media and Are You There, Blog? It\\’s Me, Writer , her most recent, couldn’t be more timely.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It’s one thing to write about what intrigues you, but if there’s no one to read it, it’s a bit like that old question: –if a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one to hear it, does it make a sound?<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stumbling upon,\u00a0Kristen Lamb\\’s blog , I feel as if I’ve been given a wake-up call. 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