Publishing / the business side of Books.
Since Founding
Rising Sparrow Press, December 2003 I have spent many hours learning and expanding my view of marketing or design or gathering resources or legwork-footsteps meeting people local and World-wide.
All of the computer technical information was a combination of self-taught then application (holding my breath hoping it worked) and targeted help by my computer mentor when I was lost forest-trees vision impaired.
Net ResultsThen - add the last 10 years of computer growth, expansion of what's possible. I started when F-functions had to be hand selected and computers took up entire desk surfaces. Yes, paper had been invented. I wrote 10 years not 1000, unless my computer keyboard is acting up. That you could always count on...computers acting up...like mine had a mind of it's own or it needed to prove superiority over me.
Computers led me to take astrology more serious. Trust me...if Mercury is Retrograde do not, I repeat DO NOT react when your computer acts funny. It is supposed to then...its written in the stars. And whatever you do, Don't go to buy a new one until Mercury gets out of its Retrograde mood.
I started with a website developed by an expert (my mentor and her connections) smart enough to know I was not gifted in computer language and format.
Born (2004):
http://www.risingsparrowpress.com/I learned
Frontpage so that I could manage the site through the host.
I loved this for the frequency that I could add content, edit content, add resources, and to change my mind without involving head offices or The National Guard to control computer created chaos that I could create back during the learning stages. Either I have gotten better with computers or they have made it less possible to mess up. I hope both is true.
Next came blogs. I started with
Blogger (easiest at the time and free).
Set-up specifically for
Dear Daisy book and publishing: Storytellers and Writers, this blog.
To separate writing and storytelling from other interests I set-up:
http://lakeontarioshoreline.blogspot.com/ . That blog contains the most "how-to" information or examples of the photo restoration I've done/do.
I write specific to Rising Sparrow Press / Publishing through blog on
Typepad (first free,then I started a small fee account, now I need to update that account-I left it parked there by ownership of the domain name). I will be returning to that blog for specific publishing information-resources during year, 2010.
http://recordfootsteps.typepad.com/record_footsteps_in_publi/Social Networking entered the possibilities. I connected via (1)Forum of like-minded, goal directed, mission seeking individuals and participated in an every-growing list of teleconferences and organized efforts for social networking and marketing. I'll set it to be a goal to update a list of resources I have found most helpful and will offer it on original website
http://www.risingsparrowpress.com/ . I am also developing
e-books so this would be a great place to offer those and detailed information.
Also there on the original website
http://www.risingsparrowpress.com/ listings of great Resources. People have told me they have gotten lost there. For no other reason than an example of writing/publishing, look at the Writer's Project during New Deal Period when then, too we were rebuilding America:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wpaintro/wpahome.html . To get there if entering from RSP website (not above direct link) click on
Resources located on RSP Homepage.
RSP entered the World of
Twitter (2009)...Yes, I Tweet.
Set-up
YouTube for media-video development and for platform with the ultimate goal book trailers and...film-making/producing. In process, always.
http://www.youtubecom/JaneMarlaVerDow
Continuing on this path, RSP developed
Facebook Page most recent.
If interested, click on my Facebook link-badge on this or Lakeshore blog. Join if you wish...free.
So the question has circled back then evolved to become: How to Preserve the Message of Rising Sparrow Press; the message RSP was founded upon; the message statement written through words of book,
Dear Daisy,2004?
Competing with all this...writing next books and daily bread making and life.
This was my next step...
Networking - Communications - Living the Golden Rule/Businessmy
New Page listed/linked on Facebook.
"Starting this Page as a place to social network encouraging others to join in. One rule: The Golden Rule. Place posts of you/your business/your gifts that serve others. Place posts that you have found to ease your path that could benefit others"
Those were the starting words I chose to represent the Golden Rule (my perspective). Written late night and tired, I vow to go back to expand ideas/thoughts/discussion if anyone is struggling with how they interpret the Golden Rule to participate. There is a discussion board set-up there, so feel free to supply your thoughts,ideas, suggestions.
Established this platform...
because I believe, as I wrote in
Dear Daisy...what was once a question I asked there, now through Rising Sparrow Press becomes a statement...
"...one candle and candles united in purpose create the World’s path of creation..." ~ Jane Marla VerDow (Dear Daisy)I believe this. My intent and purpose; to prove by living it that my belief is true.
I invite others to join me.
Jane Marla VerDow
(Janie)
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