How Online Are You? A Writer's Scale of Internet Engagement
On Saturday, I went to the coast for a “Writing Technology Day” with a bunch of professional writers, where I spent the majority of it helping friends with things like using Wordpress and putting stories up on Kindle. It was also an opportunity for me to brainstorm and bounce ideas off some sharp minds about what it means to be a writer in the digital age. It was fun, and it was one of those rare times when my day job (I’m an Instructional Technologist for a university, where I’m chiefly responsible for supporting the online classes) intersected with my writing life.
One of the things I got to thinking about was how online a writer should be. Here’s a little scale I created so that writers can see where they fall in the continuum . . . [Read the rest and see where you fall on the chart.]