Buy the ebook: $14.95
February was celebrated here on WordCast as Craft Blogging Month, with tons of in-depth guides and editorials about blogging and social media for artists and the crafting industry. We’d like to thank all our incredible contributors and reading community for taking the time to share their knowledge!
As March arrives and we draw our series to a close, we’re excited to announce the grand finale: Social Media for Crafters by Lorelle VanFossen, an ebook that offers a complete guide to blogging, web publishing and social media for the craft industry.
Highlights:
- Top 10 reasons crafters should get involved in the social web.
- Social media tips, techniques, and guides.
- A list of what you need to get involved in the social web.
- How to create and protect your online identity.
- Tips and guides for building your social web plan.
- Descriptions of the various online communities and social networks.
- How to choose an online community to join.
- How to take the first steps in getting to know, and be known, in an online community.
- How to incorporate social media into your day-to-day life.
- How to build a blog into your online resume and home base.
- Basic blog writing tips and techniques.
- Tips and techniques for connecting via Facebook.
- An introduction to the power of the tweet with Twitter.
- Understanding the inner workings of an online community or forum.
- Tips on how to share multimedia such as photographs, video, and audio on the web.
- Tips on how to move the virtual relationships to face-to-face interactions.
- An extensive glossary of social media references and jargon.
Painter and doll maker, Deirdra Doan calls Social Media for Crafters her new guide to the web.
I’ve been blogging for several years now, and I found treasure in Lorelle’s new book. I could spend months exploring all the podcasts and craft sites listed in her book. I also found out that I was doing many things right – and that I still have a lot to learn!
Lorelle VanFossen is in a unique position to write such a book designed for crafters. As author of one of the first books on blogging and web publishing, “Blogging Tips: What Bloggers Won’t Tell You About Blogging”, a popular keynote speaker and trainer on blogging and social media and WordPress expert, and one of the first to host a personal website and blog in 1993, she brings her expertise in web publishing and online community building to the craft world.
Find out more about Social Media for Crafters, or check out more WordCast Craft Month articles below:
- Craft Month: A Blog is a Journey Towards Inspiration, Movitation, Connection, and Me
- Craft Month: Crafty Charity – The Giving Heart of the Craft Community
- Craft Month: How NOT to Blog on Your Craft or Art Blog
- Craft Month: Putting the Design in the Hands of the Customer
- Craft Month:Twelve by Twelve – The International Art Quilt Challenge
- Craft Month: Using Images in Tutorials, Guides, and Tips
- Craft Month: Why Should Crafters and Artists Blog?
- February is Craft Blogging Month on WordCast
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Congratulations on your first product release guys. Here’s to hoping there’s going to be many more.
Thank you! I can’t wait to get started reading this book.
Okay! I completed the PayPal thing and the $.99 transaction shows in my account. Am I now supposed to receive an email or something giving me a link re downloading the pdf?
I want to get started with Lorelle’s book ASAP.
Let me know what’s to happen next — thanks.
Okay Okay! FOUND IT! …the link-containing had been sent to yet ANOTHER email address.
For anyone with the same problem: the email will show up in your inbox as coming from “Wordcast” and the subject/title should be “Thank you for buying Social Media for Crafters” …all’s right in my world.
I note that you already solved this issue but I’ll write a response here anyway just in case anyone else runs into the same issue.
You will receive a download link in your email after payment is made. Feel free to contact me if anyone runs into any problems with the download link.
[...] Social media consultant Lorelle Van Fossen has launched an ebook Social Media for Crafters: Covering the Basics of the Social Web. [...]