Social Media Lab at Midwest Writers Workshop 2012

Facilitators at writers workshops may suggest that writers need to develop a social media platform to aid in marketing their books, and even offer some ideas as to how to do this, but how many offer hands-on training with a consultant (or tutor) in a computer lab?

This year Midwest Writers Workshop (MWW12 held in Muncie, Indiana July 26-28, 2012) offered attendees FREE social media tutoring at a computer lab loaned by Ball State University's English Department. Creative Writing Professor Cathy Day and four Creative Writing students (Ashley Cassandra Ford, Tyler Fields, Spencer McNelly, and Maye Ralston) operated and staffed the social media lab. Ball State IT employees installed and kept the computers operating well throughout the conference.

The Social Media Lab was kick-started Thursday evening, July 26, with a social media panel moderated by Day, and presented by the social media tutors (Ford, Fields, McNelly, and Ralston) and social media guru Jane Friedman.

Photo by Deborah Lucas

During the panel

Maye's QR Code Presentation for Midwest Writers Workshop 2012 (#MWW12)

This is a QR Code for This Blog

As promised during my presentation at Midwest Writers Workshop 2012 (#MWW12), below is a link to my QR Code Presentation slides. For those who weren't at MWW12, these slides are from a five-minute introductory presentation I gave as part of the Social Media Panel with Jane Friedman, Cathy Day, Tyler Fields, Ashley Ford, and Spencer McNelly on July 26th, 2012:

Maye's QR Code Presentation for Midwest Writers Workshop 2012.

In addition, at the bottom right of this blog's home page you will find a copy of a QR code for this blog and a QR code generator which you can use to create your own blog or website QR code. Simply click on Qurify your own QR Code here! », type the URL you want to point to (or the message you want to appear) into the box, click the "Qurify" button, and viola! Now copy and save your new QR code to your hard drive (or take a photo of it with your camera phone). Paste it on your blog, in your emails (as part of your signature)...print it and tape it to your office door, etc. 





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