Last year we opened the doors to photographers, videographers and podcasters to help document Pilcrow Lit Fest. The result was hundreds of photos, great videos and excellent roundtables.
This year we are inviting you back and we have something special in store for the podcasters and video folks. We're going to have a space set up in Baby Atlas for you to record on May 23rd. That way you can sneak away to a quiet spot, get your interview done and then quickly rejoin the festival upstairs.
Want to be a part of the team to document this year's Pilcrow Lit Fest? Leave a comment or contact me. I'll even make you a special badge.
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Showing posts with label pilcrowlitfest. Show all posts
5/28/2008
Search, RSS and Becoming a Geek
During my Social Media Toolkit for Authors, I promised a blog post in lieu of a hand-out. Here is that blog post.
First off, I begged you to start using search engines other than Google.
For Blogs
Google Blogsearch
Blogpulse
Technorati
For Forums
Boardreader
Omgili
For Twitter
Tweetscan
Summize
For Images
Flickr
For Videos
YouTube
Then I said, "Learn how to use RSS and then use it to monitor your name. Cause your name is your brand."
RSS Readers
Bloglines
Google Reader
Newsgator
Then we talked about becoming geeks and learning how to do video on the go. But most of the questions were about picking a blogging platform. Lucky for me, ProBlogger has that covered much better than I could do.
Did I miss anything? Drop me a line if you want additional links up in the post.
First off, I begged you to start using search engines other than Google.
For Blogs
Google Blogsearch
Blogpulse
Technorati
For Forums
Boardreader
Omgili
For Twitter
Tweetscan
Summize
For Images
Flickr
For Videos
YouTube
Then I said, "Learn how to use RSS and then use it to monitor your name. Cause your name is your brand."
RSS Readers
Bloglines
Google Reader
Newsgator
Then we talked about becoming geeks and learning how to do video on the go. But most of the questions were about picking a blogging platform. Lucky for me, ProBlogger has that covered much better than I could do.
Did I miss anything? Drop me a line if you want additional links up in the post.
5/11/2008
4/17/2008
Twitter this!
Twitter again, Leah?
Yes, my Pilcrow dears, Twitter again.
We are certain that Twitter is going to add a fun layer to your time with us in May, but want to make sure you have plenty of time to get used to using it. Something cool we've added is that we're now using Group Tweet for the @PilcrowLitFest Twitter account.
What does that mean? it means that if you send a direct message to @Pilcrowlitfest, it will be broadcast to all the followers. This will make it easier to talk to everyone at once, instead of having to quickly add everyone you meet after you get on site. Although, we recommend doing that too.
Not sure about this twitter thing? Check out this post to catch up.
Yes, my Pilcrow dears, Twitter again.
We are certain that Twitter is going to add a fun layer to your time with us in May, but want to make sure you have plenty of time to get used to using it. Something cool we've added is that we're now using Group Tweet for the @PilcrowLitFest Twitter account.
What does that mean? it means that if you send a direct message to @Pilcrowlitfest, it will be broadcast to all the followers. This will make it easier to talk to everyone at once, instead of having to quickly add everyone you meet after you get on site. Although, we recommend doing that too.
Not sure about this twitter thing? Check out this post to catch up.
2/07/2008
Orange Alert + Pilcrow
Pilcrow Lit Fest, naturally, found its way into an interview I did this week for What To Wear During An Orange Alert. How fun! Click. Read. Enjoy.
1/30/2008
Pilcrow wants your email.
Please note on the front page of the Pilcrow site, we've added a mailing list sign up. We're not going to stuff your inbox with a ton of useless crap, don't even worry for a minute. But, what we will do is keep you looped as new things happen that you might be interested in.
1/14/2008
Monday News
If you head over to the participant page, you'll see our lovely little participant list starting to shape right up. Fictionista Jami Attenberg is coming with her new novel The Kept Man in tow, Chicago author Charles Blackstone, publicist (and style icon) Lauren Cerand, award-winning playwright Angela Gant, author and (Downtown) Omaha Lit Fest mastermind Timothy Schaffert and comedic essayist Katie Schwartz. Hello fabulous. A whole slew of other folks will be posted this week, too, so stay tuned, RSS us and keep in touch.
1/05/2008
With Day One behind us...
If you trot yourself over to the participants section of the Pilcrow website, you'll see that even after one day of announcing the fest, we've added some really wonderful folks to the mix.
1/04/2008
I have an announcement. (Ahem)
Guth here. (Ahem)
I think that wonderful things happen when you bring people together that have common interests. Or, slightly compatible interests. Since my first novel came out, I've traveled a lot and gone to many places and met a lot of people. I have gone to Atlanta and enjoyed meeting and talking and brainstorming with writers and publishers at Darren Wang's Decatur Book Festival. Then, I went to Omaha and enjoyed meeting and talking and brainstorming with writers and publishers at Timothy Schaffert's (Downtown) Omaha Lit Fest (Something is going on with that usually-beautiful site, but I'm sure it'll be back up shortly). Then, I went to New Orleans, and did the same at Paul J. Willis' Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Then, I went back to Omaha and did it all again.
Somewhere, during all of that, I realized that these three festivals were more than something I enjoyed attending. There was something about the execution of these three festivals that I wanted to bring to Chicago. And, as I had this stuff all in my head in New Orleans last spring, I was standing outside watching a "Stellaaaa!"-shouting contest with Paul Willis and he turned to me suddenly and said, "Do you have any interest in curating a festival? You should. You'd be great." Two months later, I was sitting having fancy cocktails with Timothy Schaffert and I started to pick his brain, and, well...
Introducing Pilcrow Lit Fest. Brought to you by me.
There is a whole sea of things to say about it all coming together, filled with really helpful people that I brought in to help like Mommas Boy Design (to make things look beautiful as they come into being), like online/social/media shaker Leah Jones (to do all that stuff I just said), like Adam Deutsch of Ninth Letter (to organize his head off) and A Moveable Bit (to document the crap out of everything and then some). Just for starters.
It's going to be held May 22nd-25th all around the intersection of Belmont and Sheffield here in Chicago. You know, near where The Fixx is, where I host those readings every month. It all starts with the regularly scheduled Fixx reading on May 22nd, with very special guests Jami Attenberg and Katie Schwartz. And possibly another special guest, too. The rest of the weekend is a series of panel discussions, readings, lots of authors (local and from far away), a cocktail party or three, workshops, and ends on Sunday morning with an author brunch.
And, it's going to be really fun.
There is a blog, too.
You can be friends with us on Facebook.
I think that wonderful things happen when you bring people together that have common interests. Or, slightly compatible interests. Since my first novel came out, I've traveled a lot and gone to many places and met a lot of people. I have gone to Atlanta and enjoyed meeting and talking and brainstorming with writers and publishers at Darren Wang's Decatur Book Festival. Then, I went to Omaha and enjoyed meeting and talking and brainstorming with writers and publishers at Timothy Schaffert's (Downtown) Omaha Lit Fest (Something is going on with that usually-beautiful site, but I'm sure it'll be back up shortly). Then, I went to New Orleans, and did the same at Paul J. Willis' Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival. Then, I went back to Omaha and did it all again.
Somewhere, during all of that, I realized that these three festivals were more than something I enjoyed attending. There was something about the execution of these three festivals that I wanted to bring to Chicago. And, as I had this stuff all in my head in New Orleans last spring, I was standing outside watching a "Stellaaaa!"-shouting contest with Paul Willis and he turned to me suddenly and said, "Do you have any interest in curating a festival? You should. You'd be great." Two months later, I was sitting having fancy cocktails with Timothy Schaffert and I started to pick his brain, and, well...
Introducing Pilcrow Lit Fest. Brought to you by me.
There is a whole sea of things to say about it all coming together, filled with really helpful people that I brought in to help like Mommas Boy Design (to make things look beautiful as they come into being), like online/social/media shaker Leah Jones (to do all that stuff I just said), like Adam Deutsch of Ninth Letter (to organize his head off) and A Moveable Bit (to document the crap out of everything and then some). Just for starters.
It's going to be held May 22nd-25th all around the intersection of Belmont and Sheffield here in Chicago. You know, near where The Fixx is, where I host those readings every month. It all starts with the regularly scheduled Fixx reading on May 22nd, with very special guests Jami Attenberg and Katie Schwartz. And possibly another special guest, too. The rest of the weekend is a series of panel discussions, readings, lots of authors (local and from far away), a cocktail party or three, workshops, and ends on Sunday morning with an author brunch.
And, it's going to be really fun.
There is a blog, too.
You can be friends with us on Facebook.
1/03/2008
Join us on Facebook, won't you?
Pilcrow fans and fanistas, we want to be everywhere you are, which is why Amy asked me to be on board. I'm here to be the Social Media Shaker. After you take time to subscribe to our RSS feed here and check out the main site, why don't you join us on Facebook?
I hear the temperature there is just right for the launch of a new Literary Festival in Chicago.
I hear the temperature there is just right for the launch of a new Literary Festival in Chicago.
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