Find Your Niche, Build Your Platform and Establish Your Brand March 20 at 10 a.m. Books Inc. at Opera Plaza in San Francisco Marketing is essential for any writer in this day and age; but even more so for travel writers. Even if you don’t have a book or product to sell, you can still use branding...

Bay Area Travel Writers 2010 Biennial Awards Presentation Sat., Feb. 20, at 10 a.m. Book Passage in Corte Madera It’s time again to celebrate and honor BATW members for outstanding writing and photography. This year the awards committee received more submissions than ever before. We will also be giving...

BATW NEWS BELOW:

Our January meeting at the beautiful Cavallo Point Lodge with guest speaker Roy Stearns, Deputy Director of California State Parks, was a big hit. “One of our best meetings and venues ever!” several members raved. On February 20, our biennial BATW Awards presentations will take place at Book Passage...

BATW is delighted to welcome two new active members: Georgia Hesse and Kenneth Smith. Georgia and Kenneth, we all look forward to talking with you at future BATW events.

Find Your Niche, Build Your Platform and Establish Your Brand March 20 at 10 a.m. Books Inc. at Opera Plaza in San Francisco Marketing is essential for any writer in this day and age; but even more so for travel writers. Even if you don’t have a book or product to sell, you can still use branding...

TIPS & RESOURCES BELOW:

Many thanks to Jay Gordon for sharing this information from Google about search engine optimization (SEO) for websites.  Jay says: Those with websites who want to be sure they are easily found by Google and other search engines may find this document helpful. It is Google’s own guide to Search...

Thanks to Sandy Sims, who sent along a link to “Top 10 Green Thingamablogs” because she thought the information on the site would be both interesting and helpful with story research.  The site says,: “Check out these Top 10 Green Energy blogs to learn what’s new in green innovations....

Thanks go to Sheila O’Connor, who forwards more very cool links for information: A database of news stories can be found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday and can be searched by specific date, and the Earth Calendar at www.earthcalendar.net/index.php lists holidays and celebration days...