Yesterday was one of those days. One of those GREAT kind of days where everything seems to come together and I realize what a fabulous life I have and how it is populated with amazing and talented people.
What brought this about?
I’m so glad you asked.
I was asked to teach a class for SCBWI called Beyond Websites — Facebook, Blogs & Twitter — Oh MY! How to Juggle Your Promotion Efforts, Social Websites & Online Personalities and STILL HAVE TIME TO WRITE. Quite a mouthful, eh? 🙂
Thanks to Jill Ann Cooke for making the lovely collage of our event. You can check out more of Jill’s artwork at her beautiful website.
I was lucky enough to co-teach it with Lynn E. Hazen. Lynn and I are related in a couple of publishing families – we are both published with Tricycle Press and we are both represented by the wonderful Jodi Reamer.
Thanks to Keely Parrack for taking the picture and thanks to Lynn for remembering “product placement” for us.
As my great, great auntie Louella used to say, anyway. . .
We had a record turn out of attendess. How cool is that? I kept watching people come in and wondering if we were going to have to set up another table. Although this was the first time Lynn and I had presented together, it felt easy and comfortable, as though we had been doing it for years. I hope to get the chance to present with her again.
It was a hard topic to condense into just a 2 hour session and we warned folks that they would be stuffed with info until their eyes glazed over. But Lynn and I split things into easy chunks so no one hit information overload. I did the tech talk for a bit and then Lynn would talk everyone down and give them a breather with some time management tips.The group had fabulous energy which I was able to feed off of as I spoke. They asked great questions. There is so much to learn about online social networking and using it for book promotion that I think we could have just answered questions for 2 hours. Thanks to Keely for arranging for us to be able to stay a little later and talk a little longer.
The responses to the session both via evals and emails I’ve been receiving have been overwhelmingly positive. What a thrill to know that we were able to help dispel the intimidation factor that often accompanies the idea of getting involved with social networking. It was nice to know that all the weeks of time Lynn and I put into preparing for this were worth it. Thank you, Lynn. It was great fun!
Because I only touched the tip of the iceberg in the presentation, I’m going to be offering a more in-depth class on using social media for book promotion. Since this is the first time I am offering this class I would really appreciate people helping me to spread the word. There’s also a downloadable flyer for the class.
Here are a few snippets of praise from the evaluations:
“Blogspicational!” Chad Cameron
“Great information on the various tech sites told in a user friendly fashion.” Marya Ashworth
Thanks to Laure Latham-Guyot, for the great write up about the event on her blog. Also thanks to the shout-out from Lyndsey Davis on her blog
For those of you who attended the class and are looking for some of those details we promised you, read on. If I promised you more info on something but forgot to list, please leave me a comment.Kidlitosphere.org is the website for kidlit bloggers.
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Happy networking!
Now I’m REALLY wishing I’d made it up there! Sounds like the energy was just flying! Congrats, Susan and Lynn!
Thanks, Becky. It was a really, really good day.
Yes, that WAS fun!
Yes, that WAS fun! Thanks Susan!
See my wrap up, too at http://lynnhazenimaginaryblog.blogspot.com/2009/03/lynn-e-hazen-susan-taylor-browns-beyond.html
Now how’d you say to make the url tiny?
🙂 Lynn
Re: Yes, that WAS fun!
I had a blast, Lynn.
My urls for LJ are always short. I used tinyurl.com for yours.
wow!
Sounds like a fabulous, fun, instructive afternoon. Congratulations! … now get some rest!
Re: wow!
It was a great day and I spent most of Sunday being a slug in recovery. LOL
Ta da!
Hello, beautiful friend! It’s nice to see your picture posted among all this positive (and professional) news. I know it’s not easy to prepare OR deliver a presentation, so I hope you’ll give yourself major pats on the back (and long soaks in bubble baths) for doing such a fantastic job.
PS Love the brainradio song. 🙂
Re: Ta da!
Thanks, Melodye. I know you know how much effort goes into all the prepping. On the plus side it means I already have a lot of the material I need for my online class.
Sounds like it must’ve been brilliant! I just attended a book promo workshop this Friday so this has been on my brain.
There was great energy and I felt really “on” which is always good, ya know?
I LOVE your current icon!
Yes! I know exactly how you felt!
And heehee, thanks.
Thank you so much!