In this new year, I've been thinking about expanding the blog a bit. I wanted to pick the brains of some of you book bloggers who use social media more than I do. Do you have a Facebook page or Twitter account for your blog? What do you find to be the pros and cons? Did you meet a lot of new bookish people that way and get more blog traffic? What should I do as a first time Twitter user?!?!
I'm also curious about how you all use Goodreads. I have an account there and love it. I realized that I had just been giving books starred reviews as I finished them and was several months behind transferring my reviews from my blog to Goodreads. I was going to catch up on that, but then I started thinking about how easily my reviews might be used by other people. I started reading the user agreement, but I'm still not sure I understand it all. Does Goodreads own the rights to your reviews once you publish them on their site? Do you publish partial reviews on Goodreads and then direct people back to your blog?
Give me your thoughts, oh wonderful blog readers. Thanks!
I don't use social media at all. I do use goodreads, but mainly to keep a record of what books I've read and when. Sometimes I upload my reviews, sometimes I don't, it's a bit hit and miss!
ReplyDeleteThe reason I don't go for social media is that it takes to much time. I like to visit and comment on blogs in the free time I have.
You make a lot of good points. I like the record keeping aspect of Goodreads too, especially because I don't really rate books on my blog per say. I wonder how much time I would lose actually commenting on blogs by following twitter....
DeleteGood questions about goodreads. I never thought about ownership, I like their program. More people will follow me through twitter than following the blog because of twitter
ReplyDeleteHmmm....do you find that many of your twitter followers come over to read your posts via twitter?
DeleteThank you so much for your insight, Jennifer. I have some things to think about....
ReplyDeleteI have both, a facebook page and twitter, they don't take a lot of maintenance if you don't want them to - my blog auto publishes to both so I don't have to fiddle too much.
ReplyDeleteShelleyrae @ Book'd Out