eBook Marketing Through Education

I am a member of the education team for the eBook.  Each classmate was asked to find 20 people to advertise our eBook too.  That was slightly overwhelming.  I knew I had a few family members and friends that were interested in the eBook so I sent the invitation to them.  I also have good relationships with a number of past teachers, so I sent invitations to those where an invitation would be applicable.  After those, I still had a ways to go until I would reach 20 invites.  Since I was on the education team, I wanted to aim my invitations towards that audience.  I tried to join a forum about Jane Eyre to find people, but I am still waiting on finding out if my membership was activated.  Then, I remembered Twitter Search...

Can I just say that I now have a love of Twitter Search.  Through the use of the keywords "education technology," I was able to find a treasure trove of people researching and interested in the same things that are class was interested in.  Not only did I view what they had been researching and send them invitations to our eBook and webinar, but I followed them on Twitter.  Even after this class is over, I am excited to keep in touch with the news of how technology is impacting the learning experience.

Dr. Burton had mentioned creating a list of these people on my Twitter account.  Here is the list; maybe it might come in handy for some other researcher in the future.

Not only that, but one of those that I followed, returned the favor.  Lorri Wyndham is passionate about educational change, and I am hoping to learn more from her in the future.  

I also posted on my Facebook and Twitter profiles, in general, to let more people know about our eBook.  I think using the hash tag #edutech will also help to attract those interested in our topic.




I have found that Twitter is such a useful tool for finding relevant information, which is part of what this class has been about.  I was able to find others through whom I can continue learning about educational technology.

bitly- Shorten and Share

I may have been one of the only people unaware of this service, but bitly shortens urls for its users, allowing them to express a more complete thought in the allowed 140 characters for a tweet or a "tweethis."  This website solved my problem for writing the thesis for my chapter in a concise enough way, including the url, to share on twitter and other sites, such as Facebook, with character limits for your thoughts.  This is definitely a site to check out.

Facebook Has A New Layout?

This video has been requested in response to the previous video post of Julian Smith.  This video is of Julian experiencing the new Facebook layout.

Also, if you did not follow the previous link to one of my favorite Julian Smith videos, here it is again so you can simply watch it here on the blog.

And once again, here is the link to Julian Smith's YouTube channel.