Kathy Magrino – The Write Way, LLC

Sandy Dempsey featured me in the “reader profile” in the latest issue of her email newsletter, The Dreaming Cafe. In the profile, I got the opportunity to tell you a little bit about how I’m living one of my dreams… (Thank you for the opportunity, Sandy!)

If you’re not already a subscriber to The Dreaming Cafe, I highly recommend you go to Sandy’s website and subscribe now: www.thedreamingcafe.com.

As I mentioned in the reader profile, Henry David Thoreau said, “Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.”

So, let’s all continue to dream on…! Until next time, take care and thanks for reading!

Kathy Magrino

The fall semester at Rider University starts in just a few weeks. In preparing to teach my students about writing for social media, I came across an interesting tool: Twitter Grader from HubSpot. The tool is designed to help us measure our influence on Twitter. The Twitter Grader site says, “Twitter Grader is a free tool that allows you to check the power of your twitter profile compared to millions of other users that have been graded.”

It’s easy to use and also offers some tips and suggestions. I entered my Twitter user name (@kathymagrino) and got a grade of 97.5 out of 100! It’s good to know I’m doing things right — The Write Way — on Twitter!

Try Twitter Grader for yourself and let us know your grade. And please share any suggestions or tips you might have to help us all “make the grade” on Twitter by posting your comments here.

Until next time, see you on Twitter and take care!

Kathy Magrino

In the spring of 2009, I started using Twitter (@kathymagrino) and was thrilled when my first “#FollowFriday” (or “#FF”) recommendation came from Alex Blom (@AlexBlom). Since then, Alex and I have been collaborating on a new business adventure that we’re launching soon. (I’ll keep you posted here as things happen, so stay tuned!…)

But, in the meantime, this week I’m being featured in Alex’s “#FollowFriday” blog — a feature that he posts each week. He created this type of feature outside of Twitter (where the whole “#FollowFriday” craze started) because he says he “decided there is little value in doing a flat Follow Friday. Listing 7 names without saying who they are, what their skills are and why it is important is not how I like to approach things.” I agree — and I’m honored to be his “#FollowFriday Number 7.”

Thanks for this, Alex, and for all of your #FollowFriday endorsements over the past 18 months! And to everyone else, thanks for reading my blog — and I hope you’ll follow me, too, on Twitter: @kathymagrino.

Until next time, take care!

Kathy Magrino