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.

Twitter said what?

Okay, you know that @amyguth, @leahjones and @pilcrowlitfest are on Twitter, but what other participants are? (I know I'm going to miss people, so add a comment and I'll update this thing.)

Industry Folks
@luxlotus
@katieschwartz
@wendy_mc
@meganstielstra
@larryodean

Documentary Folks
@helloleticia
@philgomes
@thefemgeek
@Lahrsawyer
@dubster2k
@BobbiDigital
@zemote

Who did I miss? Lemme know and I'll get you up there!

Meet Our Documentarians!

A lot of people stepped up and said, "Yeah, I'll come and document some stuff at Pilcrow!"

Joining from the Gomecile, we have Phil and Leticia. We've got Jeffery Smith and from UnScene Chicago we've got Tiffiany and Sawyer coming. I heard a rumor that Dubi might drop by and we're crossing our fingers that we'll see Zemote.

Are you bringing a camera, a video cam or a microphone? Let us know and we'll add you to the list.

Flickr Pool!

Coming to Pilcrow Lit Fest and bringing a camera? Hooray!

Do you also store your photos on Flickr? Doubly hooray!

We made it easy for you to share photos with other Pilcrowistas by creating a Pilcrow Pool. All of the members of the documentary team will be adding photos to the pool and we invite you to join and add to it as well.

Want to go a step further? Add the tag Pilcrow08 to any of your photos, blog posts or videos about the weekend.

The weekend that is next weekend. Can you believe it?