{"id":1114,"date":"2013-09-17T22:42:51","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T22:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solveeczema.org\/eczemablog\/?p=1114"},"modified":"2017-02-23T10:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T10:31:07","slug":"i-am-really-not-a-luddite-just-finite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/solveeczema.org\/eczemablog\/?p=1114","title":{"rendered":"I Am Really Not a Luddite, Just Finite"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am really not a Luddite.<\/p>\n

I tried using Facebook, but somehow it wouldn’t let me separate SolveEczema.org<\/a> from my personal page, so forget that. \u00a0After making some monumental blunders \u2014 such as replying “yes” when it asked if I wanted to import my contacts from Yahoo, only to discover it had automatically spammed everyone who had ever written to me about the website with a Facebook request \u2014 I closed and deleted the account.<\/p>\n

I know it’s possible to separate the personal and professional on Facebook \u2014 or maybe not, I’ve heard differing opinions \u2014 \u00a0I just haven’t had time to figure it out for myself. \u00a0As someone who truly grew up hand-in-hand with the age of technology, I no longer suffer arcana well.<\/p>\n

My undergraduate advisor at MIT was a brilliant semiconductor device physicist, David Adler, who was very proud of the fact that he’d never used a computer. \u00a0“That’s what graduate students are for,” he would say. \u00a0His work enabled the building blocks of computers, but he had no time for them himself. \u00a0I have always envied him those graduate students!<\/p>\n

\"Ape<\/a>I am finally making progress on my book, so I purchased a copy of APE: How to Publish a Book<\/a> by Guy Kawasaki and attended a lecture by him at my local bookstore. \u00a0It’s brand spanking new advice about a rapidly changing field, and every bit as readable as his other books. \u00a0Since I have always intended to self-publish, Kawasaki’s APE was exactly the right book at the right time.<\/p>\n

While I think he’s absolutely spot on with his advice \u2014 his\u00a0advice is sound, \u00a0his advice is great! \u00a0\u2014 much depends on\u00a0building a social media platform. \u00a0But how am I going to do this without a graduate student or two?<\/p>\n

His suggestion to me at his lecture was to hire someone to help. \u00a0Yes!! That would absolutely solve the problem, it just can’t happen on my side of reality for now. \u00a0We live in different worlds, Guy.<\/p>\n

My website stats tell me this year SolveEczema.org<\/a> has already had over 40,000 unique users \u2014 as many as all of last year \u2014 and the vast majority arrived from bookmarks and links, not search engines, with multiple page views per user, meaning, people are sharing. \u00a0The blog gets between roughly 1,200 and 1,700 views per month (how many unique users that means, I don’t know.)<\/p>\n

So how do I turn that into followers on twitter or Google+ (whatever that is!)? \u00a0(I am not a Luddite! \u00a0I am not a Luddite!)<\/p>\n

That was a poor and backhanded way of apologizing for taking so long to finish this book. \u00a0I spent much of last year as the crazy parent trying to improve indoor air quality at our local school, where my son began experiencing some pretty significant allergy problems, and so did I and my husband, truth be told. \u00a0The school ended up doing a great deal, and the experience was not wasted and will become another chapter in the book, as allergy and eczema are so related. \u00a0I learned much in the process, as always.<\/p>\n

This is also a backhanded way of explaining why Guy Kawasaki’s book is my first twitter post! \u00a0You can now follow SolveEczema.org<\/a> on twitter! \u00a0(I think…)<\/p>\n

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