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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

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Validation came not from readers as much as from “publishers, editors and fellow content creators. In the social media era, isn’t writing supposed to be more collaborative, more interactive, more, well, sociable? In the analog era, says Joel, writers didn’t have this problem. agreeing to publish our work in the first place.”.

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The Loneliness of the Digital Content Creator: Validating Your Work

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Validation came not from readers as much as from “publishers, editors and fellow content creators. In the social media era, isn’t writing supposed to be more collaborative, more interactive, more, well, sociable? In the analog era, says Joel, writers didn’t have this problem. agreeing to publish our work in the first place.”.

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Shakespeare Was an Aggregating Social-Media Pirate

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But without perhaps meaning to, he offers some enlightening arguments against those who doubt the validity or value of social media. ” Related posts: Nine Keys to a Robust Editorial Career in Social Media. NaNoWriMo, Social Media, and Measurability. Social Media and the Decline of Editing.

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Does Danger Lurk in the Language of Social Media?

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But while I’m firmly on Buttry’s side in this debate, I worry nonetheless about the vulnerable duality of much new-media vocabulary. There is, I suspect, a troubling nub of validity in Weingarten’s reaction to it that should sound a note of caution for all of us new-media enthusiasts. I don’t think so.

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Social Media and the Decline of Editing

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We may never uncover that secret, but the point is still valid. In the new-media world, editing is not what it used to be. Tags: Editing New-Media Models Social Media Jeff Jarvis new media old-media. So I’ll just have to face it. Comments, anyone?

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Do B2B Editors Get Twitter?

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The obvious promotional benefits of this social media tool have led most trade publishers to insist, rightly, that their editors use it. But how many use Twitter not just for promotion, but for its most valuable benefit, social engagement? By its nature, of course, retweeting is a social activity.

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