#TuesdayBookBlog
Most Twittering bloggers know about the benefits of ‘blog share’ days; it all started with Rachel Thompson and her fabulously successful #MondayBlogs. Now, there is also #wwwblogs on Wednesday (Wednesday women writers), #SundayBlogShare, #ArchiveDay on Saturday, and many more.
Since Rachel started #MondayBlogs, she’s been battling against people using it for book promotion; her view is that you have six other days of the week to promote your books, but #MondayBlogs is about the writing itself ~ in other words, blog posts about anything other than your book! She now states that there should be no book promotion of any sort on #MondayBlogs, not even third party reviews, which is understandable as there are so many ways in which her guidelines can be abused.
Because there are so many avid readers, writers and book bloggers who understand the benefit of blog share days, Rosie Amber’s Book Review Team is introducing a new hashtag on Tuesdays, for book posts only: #TuesdayBookBlog. The first day this will be used is Tuesday, November 3rd.
As anyone who starts a hashtag knows, the main difficulty involved is dealing with ‘hashtag abuse’ ~ tweeters who spot a popular hashtag and add it to any tweet, whether relevant or not. We will do our best to limit this; please feel free to point someone in the right direction if you see this happening.
So what are the guidelines for #TuesdayBookBlog?
DO post:
Blog posts only!
Book reviews ~ either for your own books, or other people’s, or book reviews you’ve written on your blog.
Author Interviews ~ yours or others’.
Cover reveals ~ yours or others’.
Upcoming/new releases ~ yours or others.
Articles or guest posts about books/writers ~ you/yours or others’.
DO NOT post:
Anything that isn’t a blog post
Blog posts that aren’t about books/writers.
Porn.
Blatant promotion of an existing publication that isn’t a proper article – in other words, we don’t want to see a blog post that consists of nothing but the cover of your book, Amazon blurb and buy links. This was one of the ways in which #MondayBlogs was abused, after people were told they couldn’t use the hashtag for tweets with Amazon links.
To get the most out of #TuesdayBookBlog:
Retweet others on the hashtag and spread the word. Hashtags work best when you do your bit, too.
The power of Twitter is in the retweet, more than the tweet. Hashtag retweets are never guaranteed, but do remember that the more you do, the more you are likely to get back.
We hope you will achieve good results from #TuesdayBookBlog, and look forward to seeing you there!
This sounds like a super interesting project. I’d like to be part of it. I’ll have to see how these hashtag things work, I never really understood them. Got my tweeter a few weeks ago, I’m more of a facebook person, but happy to try new things. Thank you for the post!
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Thanks Ana, good luck, search what others do and give it a try yourself.
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Great initiative! I’ll definitely get involved and spread the word. 🙂
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Thanks.
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Excellent – I shall look forward to using it 🙂
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This is great! I’m still trying to understand everything Twitter does and will support this new hashtag. Thanks!
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What a great hashtag, Rosie! I’ll be participating for sure and will spread the word! 🙂
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Thanks.
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My pleasure! 🙂
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Yeah! Habemus new hashtag!
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Fantastic, Rosie! Looking forward to participating; have marked the date on my calendar. 🙂
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Great, then keep using it for every Tuesday book related tweet.
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I love this idea, and I love that it starts on Nov 3rd, as that is my birthday!
Amanda.
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How lovely.
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Great idea. Shared on social media.
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Thanks Michelle.
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Catching up with backlog, found this. Great idea. Will watch and learn to begin with.
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Thanks Mags.
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This looks likely to generate some useful tweeting and some connections to interesting blog posts. Thanks for taking the initiative on this. I look forward to participating.
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Thank you.
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