I'm also on Twitter (@millercallihan) and Facebook (though I only "friend" people I actually know personally or professionally), and I'm starting to use Google Plus a bit as well. Link is here; let me know if you'd like an invite and don't have one yet (whether I "know you" or not).
I use LinkedIn but have never found it particularly helpful in my line of work. A friend of mine gets head-hunted at least once a week via LinkedIn, though, so I think that one depends on your industry.
What other social media platforms do you use? Have you found anything else that's useful for self-promotion? What's the next big thing going to be?
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Social media is such a great tool for authors and agents alike.
Personally, Google+ is becoming my blog. I get more interaction there for my own posts, and I can add my thoughts in comment form to other people's posts. In fact, top tech bloggers are seeing their highest interactivity numbers on Google+ (not Facebook).
The only benefit I see to maintaining a blog is for posterity: blog posts are permanent. Google+ caps you at your 250 most recent posts -- this is a bug that Google will "eventually fix." Recordkeeping is really the only reason why I cross-post on Google+ and on my legacy blog.
I do maintain a short story blog at ampshorts.tumblr.com. Reason: I want a chronological record of the short stories I write. And I want a short-story-only site where I can direct interested people. Tumblr is the perfect format for such a thing: easy to update, incredibly simple reader interface.
I haven't yet gotten into Google + and I'm still a sporadic tweeter. I have made some excellent connections via Facebook, so I don't discount that as a viable social media outlet for me. I'm waiting to get as excited about Google + as everyone else seems to be!
For me, Twitter is my favorite hands-down. I can interact with my readers, with other authors, with industry peeps, I can tell people about my books and I can find new books that I want to read too!
Once I got serious about Twitter, my sales increased dramatically. I'm also on Facebook and I friend everybody because I want to get to know as many of my readers as I can, and I also want to get to know other authors.
I blog sporadically and I belong to a bunch of Yahoo loops as well. I'm on Google+, but so far all I've been doing with it is adding people to circles and staring at the circles in confusion...
I'm on Twitter @ShoshannaEvers - and I follow back! See you guys there!
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