I’ve been very distracted the last few weeks with creating and maintaining all the social network sites there are on the web.
Now I knew about twitter and facebook. I’ve been on both of those for years now but I do have a new facebook fanpage here
I’ve also set up author pages on amazon.com and amazon.co.uk
These are both great for many reasons. The most useful feature is the forums they both have. Forums are a great way to communicate with any fans and I’m looking forward to getting stuck in there. They also both show the Nielson rating for the books I have their as well as my Amazon ratings.
My favourite new websites though are Goodreads and Shelfari and I seriously encourage anyone that reads to go sign up at both of those.
Goodreads has all sorts of useful things including a very easy to use book review system, an ebookstore, quizes, author event trackers, Q &A sessions with authors and my personal favourite, book giveaways.
Shelfari seems to be the more social one of the two and includes a section for each book with all sorts of trivia and other fun things like that. Slightly more for the reader and a little less for the author but still fun nonetheless. It’s also a subsidiary of Amazon.com so it imports amazon’s book ratings to let you know what people thought of the books.
Through Shelfari I’ve manged to meet another indie film company similar to Flight and we are swapping advice and helping each other out etc so It’s done some good already.
I’m also looking into myspace but as I’m not so great with html that one is taking a bit longer.
If anyone knows of any other good social sites they like let me know. I absolutely love using them and getting to know new people.