So your publisher says you need to grow your platform. You need to be able to communicate with and listen to more people in order to promote your book.

Here are 7 great ways that Facebook can help you do that.

Pages, or Fan Pages as some people call them, are one of the best ways to promote your book or cause on Facebook. They are much more flexible than groups and won’t dilute your profile with people you don’t know.

Here is how to create a page of your own.

So you want to promote your blog on Facebook? Learn how to update your friends when you have new posts and make it easy for them to spread the word about your blog.

“If I couldn’t interrupt you, how would I reach you?”

This is the question Dave Evans (@EvansDave on Twitter) helps people answer all over the world.

Dave is the author of Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day and a frequent speaker on social media and emerging technologies.

Social Media: Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Plaxo… Are they a passing fad or are they changing everything? If you have not seen this video you must. It will rock your world.

Everytime this video uses the word “product” or “company” just think “book.” It will help you see where the future of book marketing is headed.

Ok, so someone told you that you need to get on Twitter but you have no idea how. Here are 4 steps to get you tweeting like a pro.

Don’t worry. This will be is easier than you think

Mary DeMuth is an author, writing coach, and sought after speaker who speaks at writers conferences all over the country.

In this interview she shares how she uses social media (Blogging, Twitter & Facebook) to sell books and connect with readers.

If you are new to Twitter here are 7 people you will want to follow.

They share helpful advice and many of them are authors so if you want a good example to follow here it is.

Ok so a friend sent you a LinkedIn invite and you signed up. Now what? This article will show you how to turn LinkedIn into a powerful tool.

If you don’t know what LinkedIn is or why you should use it read 4 Reasons Why Every Author Should Use LinkedIn. This article assumes you are already on LinkedIn but are totally lost.

No one cares that you are sitting @Startucks. They don’t care that you’re at the airport either. But they may still follow you. Why? In this post you will the answer and learn how to rethink Twitter in such a way to make your follower count soar.