Writers’ Roundup: June 3

Good variety of links this week:

• Tips for using Facebook for journalism, from The Washington Post’s @innovations blog.

• Google releases the +1 button for sharing content. It’s worth understanding this development if you want to stay on top of social media and online trends.

• Following up on our conversation about whether we can really have it all, The New York Times columnist David Brooks says it’s excellence, not happiness, that our culture admires most.

• Unique tips about running a successful Facebook page, from The Next Web.

• Poynter offers five small steps journalists can take to build a more engaged audience.

• Seth Godin on how to be interviewed. Follow these rules, and media will call you again and again.

• Projects by this year’s Nieman Foundation fellows at Harvard sound fascinating. Add that fellowship to the bucket list!

• My critique partner Peggy Frezon launched a Facebook page for her upcoming book, Dieting With My Dog. Go ahead and “like” it!

• On-point post on Laura Roeder’s blog about how to make money online without selling your soul. This is totally the approach I’m (slowly) taking.

• More reason to use social media: Users say they’re more likely to buy if a business answers their question on Twitter, TechCrunch reports.

• When should you leave your job to start a new venture? The Online Journalism Review says better now than later.

• Kathryn Stockett’s The Help was turned down 60 times before becoming a best seller, the author explains in this More piece. Great inspiration to keep on keepin’ on.

• Finally, I’m guesting on this travel memoir panel next week for the National Association of Memoir Writers. Hope you’ll join us!

Happy reading.