Spring Cleaning Your Online Life
by Elizabeth S. Craig, @elizabethscraig
There’s something very satisfying about spring cleaning. I focus on looking at my house with a fresh eye, seeing the stuff that needs deep cleaning and that goes unnoticed unless I’m really searching for it. I got a good deal of spiffing up done before I twisted oddly, pulled something in my back, and decided to move on to quieter pursuits for the next week. Aging is definitely not for sissies.
Then I found some digital spring cleaning that needed to be done. I keep the back matter for my books (my bio, acknowledgements, backlist) in a OneNote document and copy-paste it into the end of each of my books. I have one document that’s hyperlinked (for ebooks) and one that’s plain text for printed books.
I do a great job of keeping my backlist updated for each of my series. But I noticed my bio at the top of the back matter was out-of-date. Badly. I think I’d had two other bios since then. I’d updated my bio on my website and other places, but had forgotten to do it for my back matter.
With that in mind, I did a quick check online to see if there was anything else that needed updating. I found a few forgotten odds and ends to take care of.
Here is where I took a look:Website:
Is your “about me” page updated?
Is your contact info still current?
Do your links go to the correct social media pages?
If you’ve left a social media platform, have you deleted that link from your site?
If you have a “news” page or an “appearances” page, have you updated those recently?
Is there anything in your sidebar that’s no longer relevant? Any professional organizations you no longer belong to?
Social Media:
Does your profile picture or background need updating?
Is your bio updated?
Back Matter:
Last but not least, take a look at what you’re copy-pasting and make sure it’s exactly what you think it is.
Have you updated your online presence recently? What other areas have I missed?
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