hot on facebook

A few weeks ago I received this email from Slideshare. The email told me that my preview of the book Step by Step Facebook is being talked about on Facebook more than any other document on SlideShare at that point. So they’ve put it on the homepage of SlideShare.net (in the “Hot on Facebook” section).

I just feel happy that people are talking about it This email really made my day. Check out the presentation here and tell me is it hot or what?

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For social media books in Indonesia, blog is the past, facebook is the present, and perhaps twitter is the future? Just my predictions. Eventhough there are many writers want a piece of this hype (and perhaps more if they can), I don’t think being the first to published book with the next boom topic is always good.

You might get in too early, that means your book is just sitting on the shelf. You’re lucky if you are only a month early. If it’s too early you’ll lose because social media is changing very rapidly (especially now and it’s going faster) and your book end up out of date. It will be an advantage if you write about the major social media because you end up with bigger market as well.

Given so, I’d like to think that as a writer we shouldn’t just chase the next boom topic, but really put our mind and heart while writing it. Write it because it will be usefull for the readers. I like writting on internet related subjects because I like the internet, really using it, and there are people who also can take benefit like I did. So, I share my own experiences and references from my own research into my books.

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As a blogger you get “paid” when someone made a good comment and people talked about your blog. Today, I was surprised when someone added me as a friend in facebook and told me that he saw my blog on detikInet. It turned out that I was one of the weekly winner. So, thank you to the judges at Internet Sehat Blog Award that pick this blog. Not to mention the expose on detikInet. It really helped me to promote this blog and boosted my spirit to blog more and more

This is what they were saying about this blog on the announcement:

• http://sartikakurniali.com (Gado-gado blog)

Mengaku suka dengan komputer dan internet, Sartika Kurniali mencoba menuangkan ide-ide dan pemikirannya lewat sebuah blog yang beralamat di http://sartikakurniali.com. Blog ini memuat informasi tentang teknologi, internet, pengembangan diri hingga portfolionya. Tak sekadar sharing informasi lewat blog, wanita yang juga seorang penulis buku dan sistem analis, bahkan mencoba mengais rejeki dengan memanfaatkan pengetahuannya tentang teknologi dengan menjadi internet marketer dan pembicara di sejumlah acara. Jangan heran jika di blognya kita tak dapat menjumpai tulisan berbahasa Indonesia, karena ia memang sengaja menulis dalam Bahasa Inggris dengan tujuan untuk melatih kemampuan berbahasa asingnya. Tiga buah buku teknologi informasi (TI) telah ditelurkannya, dengan topik blog, facebook dan bagaimana membangun toko online. Mau tahu juga info tentang Project Natal dari Microsoft, yang memungkinkan gamer mengontrol dan berinteraksi dengan Xbox 360 tanpa harus menyentuh game controller? Simak di blognya.

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step by step facebook on kompas.com

Today, I was opening kompas.com and found an interesting flash banner that was an ad by GramediaShop.

In case you haven’t heard about it, it’s an online book store that sells books from all KKG publishers, such as Elex Media Komputindo, GPU, etc. So it’s not like the normal Gramedia book store we usually see at the mall. This is more like a direct channel from the publishers itself to you.

Well, what surprised me was that Step by Step Facebook was there on the homepage of kompas.com. Well, it’s not the only book that is getting the exposure. 

It was an honor to be at the homepage of kompas.com and surely would be an advantage since kompas.com have such a huge traffic. I’ll say kompas.com never look so intriguing to me. Especially since they put space for big noisy ad right in the center of the content. It’s so annoying. Just wanna say a big thanks to whoever put my book on that banner. You really make my day

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