We have had a couple of questions regarding how one might best promote this blog to friends and other bookish types.
The easiest way to let others know about The Private Library is to share a post by clicking on the green & white ShareThis link at the end of every post. This allows you to cross-post the day's missive on a wide variety of social networks to which you may already belong: e.g., Facebook, MySpace, Technorati, FriendFeed and so forth.
Of course, face-to-face and telephone conversations also constitute social networking, and this type of word-of-mouth is probably the best advertising of all for a site like ours.
For those of you who attend book fairs, or who have open book shops, or who just would like something more physical to network with, we now offer "business cards" (in quotes because we hope to keep this site non-commercial). These can be shared with interested friends, relatives and other fellow book lovers. We are giving these away for free. If you would like one (or more), send us an email (see the link in the top right column of this blog) with your name, mailing address and the number of cards you would like (up to a maximum of ten cards per person).
If you have other ideas about how best to promote The Private Library, we would love to hear from you....
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