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Welcome to your ultimate Social Media Handbook! Whether you’re a book reviewer, librarian, bookseller, or other bookish professional, we have advice you can immediately implement into your social channels.

In these pages, you'll find tips and tricks tailored specifically to each social media platform. From Bookstagram to BookTok, we've got you covered with insights to make your content stand out and engage your audience effectively.

But that’s not all! Our handbook goes beyond platform-specific advice. We dive into the dos and don’ts of social media, ensuring that your online presence remains both authentic and professional. We’ll help you strategize for success with tips on:

Accessibility
Photo and content creation
Planning your calendar
Sharing your book reviews across platforms
And more!

I mainly write reviews on Instagram, and this was a good resource to help me think of more creative ways to make content and think about exploring other platforms.

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Thank you, NetGalley, for providing the Social Media Handbook. In it, I found useful tips that I will definitely use to improve the quality of content on social media.

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These toolkits and handbooks are extremely helpful, especially since social media algorithms can make engagement and visibility more challenging. This handbook mentions many strategies that I wasn't aware of, and they've inspired me to reconsider the direction I want to take my platforms next year. Watch this space!

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This help guide was really interesting and helpful. As I’m still trying to find my feet with booktok this will help me immensely. Thank you netgalley for this guide much appreciated

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A very useful handbook!

It features a variety of tips on navigating social media and making the most of it.
A must-read for anyone looking to create a book content account on social media.

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There are days when I’m lost in the end of a book and I can’t formulate the words to create a review. This book is a Fun and informative guide to managing the socials and posting bookish content on them.

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I’m thankful that the creative team took time to put this together for users. It is definitely all great information and guidance and I look forward to using ideas offer within the material.

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It’s concise and great tips that are easy to follow and implement. Very helpful for new content creators

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I've had bookish social media for a few years now -- an active Bookstragram account, a currently inactive BookTube account, and more -- but it's always helpful to get a refresh on how best to share book reviews across platforms. This handbook offers dozens of tips about writing reviews, tailoring them to different social platforms and formats, and how to reach a wider audience. There are many ideas in here that I plan to start implementing right away to enhance my own accounts. This handbook is a must-read for anyone who shares book reviews, whether on social media, their own blog, Goodreads and The Storygraph, or retailer sites.

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This is such a great resource, and it is beautifully laid out too! Thank you so much for this! I'll be putting these tips to good use.

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This was very helpful as I try to expand my social media presence with books. I liked that it broke down all the sections and it was not just alot of words crowded on the page, which can make it overwhelming.

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Even though I’ve had a Bookstagram for a year, there’s still so much I have to learn! I love having help and pointers as to what to include in my posts, etc

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an incredibly helpful guide on sharing reviews, recommendations, and our love of books. it's a great way to help optimize engagement and build a community. will definitely implement these tips!

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As always, We Are Bookish have produced a useful resource for reviewers whether they promote books received from Netgalley or not.

As an experienced reviewer that hasn't craqcked the social media market, I found the book instantly provided idea about how I could do things differently and network more successfully to build a more prominent community within the few sites I operate.

i would recommend this book to all book reviewers that love engaging other book lovers. It provides insights on specific platforms, highlighting the difference between them. It also gives pointers about how to use the Netgalley site, which is a resource useful in itself as Netgalley has a lot to offer. What makes this book the full five stars that it deserves is the concise and simple writing style it is afforded. The book is easy to understand whether you are 13, 30, or 60 and wanting to get started.

The key takeaway for me was the reminder that I didn't have to create the same reviews in a different way for each site, i.e. I could post a review on several sites, but to be mindful of the different audiences so that minor adjustments might be made. I also liked the advice about what type of images to post and how best to create them.

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Thanks to NetGalley for this copy of "NetGalley's Social Media Handbook."

I appreciated this resource and will keep it handy for reference.

The Canva tutorial was great and the editing tools were very helpful. Accessibility tips were also very useful.

For some possible improvements, some graphics didn't load for me on the NetGalley app and were very hard to read.

The graphics were fine in Kindle but the links didn't open.

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Love this handbook so much! It really helped me fine tune my social media content and gave me some great ideas for going forward.

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5 stars .

ked everything, both the graphics and the guides.
I would love if there was a physical copy, I would definitely buy it for myself and someone else.

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Helpful reminders and great graphics. I appreciate NetGalley producing and sharing these types of guides.

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Great resource for starting or ramping up book reviews on social media. So many platforms out there, really helpful to sort the best to make the ,ost if your reviews.

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Great handbook for complete beginners to social media. Wasn't very applicable to someone that has already been using social media for book reviews.

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