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Content: How To Find Balance In Life When the World is At Your Fingertips
Life is about sharing. Experiences. Emotions. Stories. Thoughts.
Humans from every time, place, and culture have an innate drive to connect. In our time, the advent of the internet has created the opportunity for anyone to share whatever they choose with a worldwide audience.
So, where to start?
Award winning blogger, syndicated podcaster, and author Rebecca Lemke has those answers. In Content: How to Find Balance When the World is at Your Fingertips, Rebecca walks through the numerous choices of media available to you to share yourself online. Content provides advice on navigating various forms of content creation, including podcasting, blogging, video, and book writing. It’s not a how-to, but rather what the how-to books WON’T tell you. From insight on the professional landscape to advice on self-care as a content creator, Content has a little bit of everything. It can be read from front to back, or simply as a reference guide.
In everything, Content encourages you to remain true to your message, and true to yourself.
Humans from every time, place, and culture have an innate drive to connect. In our time, the advent of the internet has created the opportunity for anyone to share whatever they choose with a worldwide audience.
So, where to start?
Award winning blogger, syndicated podcaster, and author Rebecca Lemke has those answers. In Content: How to Find Balance When the World is at Your Fingertips, Rebecca walks through the numerous choices of media available to you to share yourself online. Content provides advice on navigating various forms of content creation, including podcasting, blogging, video, and book writing. It’s not a how-to, but rather what the how-to books WON’T tell you. From insight on the professional landscape to advice on self-care as a content creator, Content has a little bit of everything. It can be read from front to back, or simply as a reference guide.
In everything, Content encourages you to remain true to your message, and true to yourself.
146 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 10, 2019
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About the author
Rebecca Lemke
5 books33 followersRebecca is a multi-genre, hybrid author. She writes Middle Grade, Teen, and Lower Young Adult stories that are free from cursing and adult content. She enjoys hand-knitting blankets, crocheting scrunchies, traveling, painting, music (anything Taylor’s version, of course), and enjoying her family.
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January 21, 2020
Content is a pun. This book is for content creators, especially those looking for an introduction to platforms and some behind the scenes tips for personal sanity and professional performance.
It's a great book! This will be my new go-to book recommendation for people interested in getting into blogging, podcasting, writing, etc.
I really resonated with some of the personal sharing, especially finding a need to be creative following childbirth. I also think she has some very wise practical advice and Christian reasoning.
Having said that, there was just one point when I, as a writer and blogger myself, had to ask myself, "Wait. Am I doing this wrong?!" :) No. There's just a difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org, which wasn't part of the scope of her chapter. It's all good.
This book is not a bunch of lists or prescriptions to help you set up your own website or blog. Rather, it is excellent introductory material for the other side of that coin for anyone interested in content creation these days, whether its a presence on social media or anywhere else. There are easy to read, organized chapters so that this can be read in a single satisfying sitting and then used as a resource as you follow up.
Thanks for writing this, Rebecca! Well done! It really is a tool for both content and balance for contemporary writers.
It's a great book! This will be my new go-to book recommendation for people interested in getting into blogging, podcasting, writing, etc.
I really resonated with some of the personal sharing, especially finding a need to be creative following childbirth. I also think she has some very wise practical advice and Christian reasoning.
Having said that, there was just one point when I, as a writer and blogger myself, had to ask myself, "Wait. Am I doing this wrong?!" :) No. There's just a difference between wordpress.com and wordpress.org, which wasn't part of the scope of her chapter. It's all good.
This book is not a bunch of lists or prescriptions to help you set up your own website or blog. Rather, it is excellent introductory material for the other side of that coin for anyone interested in content creation these days, whether its a presence on social media or anywhere else. There are easy to read, organized chapters so that this can be read in a single satisfying sitting and then used as a resource as you follow up.
Thanks for writing this, Rebecca! Well done! It really is a tool for both content and balance for contemporary writers.
December 27, 2019
I accepted this book in return for reviewing it, but I did it because I thought I’d find it interesting and useful. I was definitely right about the first, and the second could well be useful in the future.
The first thing to say about this book is that it is very readable, it flows well. It can also be read at different levels, Rebecca Lemke tells about various things she’s learned in her journey of content creation, but also how she learned them.
This means it can be read as a story, in a way, as it goes through how she became a content creator, and what she’s done. This is her second book, and blogs and podcasts have also featured in her life in various ways. So she knows her stuff. She doesn’t go into too much detail, because one of the things she learned is that not everything needs to be public.
It can also be read as a how to guide, at least with some tips on what to look out for. Another important thing she learned is that you have to find your own voice - what do YOU have to say that only you can?
So, for both these reasons I found it interesting - story and guidelines - but I do think it is an easy read, and most people could benefit from it in some way. I’m definitely going to read it again because I’m sure there’s things I didn’t pick up on the first read. If you spend a lot of time online for personal or professional reasons, this is definitely worth reading.
The first thing to say about this book is that it is very readable, it flows well. It can also be read at different levels, Rebecca Lemke tells about various things she’s learned in her journey of content creation, but also how she learned them.
This means it can be read as a story, in a way, as it goes through how she became a content creator, and what she’s done. This is her second book, and blogs and podcasts have also featured in her life in various ways. So she knows her stuff. She doesn’t go into too much detail, because one of the things she learned is that not everything needs to be public.
It can also be read as a how to guide, at least with some tips on what to look out for. Another important thing she learned is that you have to find your own voice - what do YOU have to say that only you can?
So, for both these reasons I found it interesting - story and guidelines - but I do think it is an easy read, and most people could benefit from it in some way. I’m definitely going to read it again because I’m sure there’s things I didn’t pick up on the first read. If you spend a lot of time online for personal or professional reasons, this is definitely worth reading.
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