Day Fourteen
Hmm!
Thinking. Thinking. If I were to create a social media platform that doesn’t exist
yet, it would be exclusively for the business of writing. I would probably
borrow the best features of the ones I do use, beginning with the interface of
Google+ with short-cuts to other platforms and sub-pages. The sub-pages would
carry button short cuts to area such as:
Writers
– broken down in to genres on
Poetry
Publishers
– mainstream, indie and Epublishing
Editors
and writer services
Competitions
and opportunities
My
books
Member
books
Each sub-page would allow comments to be linked to all blog platforms, Twitter, Facebook
and all mentioned over the past 14 days of this challenge etc.
In
an ideal world it would have the capacity to filter out abuse and other
negative social behaviour with a side lecture auto sent via a polite email on courtesy
and good manners. I would like to see a social media platform where the onus is
not on the abused to report, but on the abuser to request permission to behave
poorly.
I don’t
have any idea how I would do this as I’m not tech savvy enough – probably throw
the idea to a couple of nerdy grandchildren (their proud description of self –
not mine) for a fun activity during school holidays.
I
would promote my books by having linkable thumbnails of my covers down the side
with a changing view of member books down the other, visit counters could be
used for free give-aways of books and other promotions, which would raise the
profile of individual authors and book titles.
I love the part about getting a reprimand for bad behaviour via polite e-mail :) I wish! Your social network, I would join!! WRITE ON!
ReplyDeleteI would join too, as long as there was no cover charge. You'd have to work on making it free like facebook and twitter.
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