Writing Social Media

After her brother died unexpectedly and her mother moved into a dementia-care facility, spiritual travel writer and Episcopal deacon Lori Erickson felt called to a new quest: to face death head-on, with the eye of a tourist and the heart of a pastor. Blending memoir, spirituality, and travel, Near the Exit examines how cultures confront and have confronted death by investigating Egypt's Valley of the Kings, Mayan temples, Colorado cremation pyres, Day of the Dead celebrations, Maori settlements, and tourist-destination graveyards.

A volume in a series called The Library of Contemporary Thought—which provides top opinion makers a forum to explore the most provocative, fascinating, and relevant issues of the day—News Is a Verb focuses on contemporary journalism and its evolving readership.

The public appetite for intimate details about celebrities continues to grow— online, on television, and at the check-out counter of every grocery store. To feed the public' s insatiable desire for juicy gossip, Lysa Moskowitz-Mateu and David LaFontaine traveled the continent in search of headline stories for the Star, National Enquirer, and Globe. Invading the privacy of others became their way of life. By their own account, tabloid reporters are the "vermin media" whose outrageous quests for the inside scoop know no bounds.

Embark on a Literary Journey Beyond Boundaries! Ready to revolutionize your author journey in the Metaverse? "Top Ten Ways Authors Can Embrace the Metaverse and Prepare for a Metaverse Bookstore" is your guide to transforming authorship. Immerse in three-dimensional spaces, host virtual book launches and signings, use augmented reality for interactive book covers, collaborate with Metaverse bookstores, create immersive reading experiences, and invest in virtual reality author platforms.

Whatever happened to journalism? When did American news media go from the respected, trusted purveyor of truth to anything but? How did we go from the “Glory Days of Television News” to today’s growing distrust and derision of “the media?” Is the Internet our only journalistic hope? Can we remake the media into a meaningful part of the check-and-balances system fundamental to the democratic principles on which this country was founded?

When it comes to running a successful blog, coming up with blog post ideas is half the battle. Perhaps you've noticed that it's much easier to sit down and write when you have an abundance of ideas than it is when the blank page or blinking cursor mocks you. That's when the dreaded writer's block strikes. The good news is, it is possible to have an endless - yes, endless - supply of blog post ideas.

This inspiring collection contains powerful narratives from women who swim, surf, kayak, study glaciers, advocate for water conservation, carry forward their ancestral fishing traditions, and more. Collected by the team at She Explores, a media company and community that celebrates women in the outdoors, these first-person stories explore themes of independence, strength, healing, and self-discovery in nature.

Get excited to learn about the basics of blogging and money making, how to get it all started, and how to share it with others. You will also learn about various ideas to help you generate income through your blog as well as how to move blogging from a part-time side-hustle to generating a full-time income.

As humanity gets sucked into more screen time, we must create meaningful media that connects our universal human experiences and emotions - or we risk losing ourselves along the way. Humanize Your Brand explores the meaning, art, and science behind optimizing content to evolve your brand. In this book, Jessica Ann shares cutting-edge insights and guidance for self-expression in your marketing, so that you can bring in more business with ease.

Best-selling author David Shields analyzed over a decade’s worth of front-page war photographs from The New York Times and came to a shocking conclusion: The photo-editing process of the “paper of record”, by way of pretty, heroic, and lavishly aesthetic image selection, pulls the wool over the eyes of its readers; Shields forces us to face not only the the media's complicity in dubious and catastrophic military campaigns but our own as well.

Germany - the powerhouse of Europe and pillar of the Eurozone - feels reassuringly familiar. However, despite superficial appearances, this is a country that operates very differently from the USA and Britain. German history is more than a thousand years old and the relatively new German nation-state encompasses an astonishing variety of cultural and regional differences. German society is also in a state of flux, as people respond to immigration and a tough economic climate, and traditional attitudes such as formality and rigid protocol are softening as German business globalizes.

Apart from the headline-making politics, not much is known in the West about the Korean people and their ancient culture. Yet those who visit Korea, whether North or South, find a land of great interest. The Koreans, when not constrained by politics or other considerations, are friendly and sociable, and the peninsula has areas of outstanding natural beauty. The South’s cities, if not always beautiful, are vibrant and alive. The North, while very different, is complex and fascinating.

Interested in blogging for money? Lots of writers are. So there’s a ton of information (and misinformation) floating around on the Internet about writing a blog for profit. Ideas run the gamut from solid content strategies to outrageous income promises. Compounding the blog success mess are just plain old mistakes that so many bloggers make.

Most "how-to" blog books will teach proper writing protocols for blogging, yet won't show you exactly how the experts make money from it. When I began blogging, I attempted these "writing" strategies and before long discovered I was only writing for myself, as my site had zero traffic! After that revelation, I was hungry to discover what really worked and paid a lot of money examining what made blogs profitable. Since then I have tried every known strategy and over time I began creating my own system for profitable blogging.

Today's media and political landscapes are littered with untrustworthy sources and the dangerous concept of fake news. This accessible guide helps you fight this deeply troubling trend and ensure that truth is not a permanent casualty. Written by Capitol Hill veteran and author Bruce Bartlett, The Truth Matters presents actionable tips and tricks for consuming news critically, judging sources, using fact-checking sites, avoiding confirmation bias, identifying trustworthy experts, and more.

Blogging Secrets: How to Create the Perfect Passive Income, Writing to Sell and Increase Profits will help you discover all you need to know about blogging to get started on making money through blogs.

This short and handy reference book will be helpful to aspiring writers, in many ways, from how to make the writing process easy and organized, to ideas on how writing can help generate immediate and passive income. It provides links to useful resources online, for writers and content creators, including blogging resources, online search aggregators, and so much more!

If you have always wanted to know what proven strategies will help you create killer content that keeps your readers coming back for more, then this is the book you simply must hear. With outstanding advice, tips, and lots more, it will help you to deliver the content that will make your blog a popular and entertaining read for your followers.

If you have a blog that is struggling to be heard among the noise of millions of others and you want it to generate unlimited traffic, Blog Writing has all the top advice that will help you to generate passive income while you sleep!

In today's world, many are suffering from information overload and are re-thinking the consequences of "over-sharing". The Secret Life is a helpful guide to leading a quietly powerful life - one that can lead to greater personal effectiveness, satisfaction, and success. The concepts that originated with Maimonides - one of history's greatest philosophers - demonstrate the benefits of living a more private life. The result is an antidote to the depression, finger-pointing, divisiveness, unhappiness, and inefficiency that many of us would like to change in ourselves and in the world.