Getting back into writing and getting caught up on what I’ve missed/not read, I jumped over to Melissa Gira’s website. She been busy writing and producing the wonderful things she so amazingly good at discussing. I was actually surprised to find an article of hers on The Frisky. I really like the Frisky, the content is interesting and I love the design and functionality. I’ve viewed it as conservative when it comes to sex - you know, the vanilla/mainstream side. And for the most point it is. But they have the wonderful Gira blogging. For give me Melissa for being so Web 1.0 on this.

It’s funny, I ended my blog posts in October talking about a post that Gira wrote, and I start with one.

Melissa: You made me smile at this, as I read, I had flashes of the ex-boyfriends I’ve had (damn the trail is long) who stalk my twitter and my Facebook for updates - to the point you ban them off Facebook.

Lesson: Twitterstalking and using social media to follow your ex-girlfriends, ex-boyfriends, clients, ex-pornstar you were involved with is not healthy. It’s time to move on. Here is a great article on HOW.

The Frisky: When Blogs Cry - How To Break Up Online

Cancel, unsubscribe, unfollow. Sort out how you want to react to the breakup only after you’ve canceled the relationship, unsubscribed from her Tumblr, or blocked him from Twitter. To undo a relationship that made it online in any form—whether you’ve got photos together all over MySpace or earned your own tag on Gawker—requires investing as much shared exposure as you put in. Make a cold calculation: in my case, that meant reframing a year-and-a-half long affair, across half a dozen online networks, and doing it in just a few days.  This condenses everything: how much it hurts, how fast you have to react.  You had weeks or months to attach to one another’s blogs, profiles, and endearingly staged snapshots.  Now you have to delete or address it all, all at once.

We live in public. Those of us who document even a small part of our lives online hit that moment when we realize our audience isn’t just our friends: they’re more like fans. Any girl whose kept a LiveJournal or posted photos of her shoes to it has felt this. In talking about your breakup, you’re addressing those “friends,” not your ex—and if your ex has an online footprint equal to or greater than yours?  Take charge of your own reputation by telling your story—even if that’s to say you’re going to keep it discreet.

Focus, and cause no collateral damage. The heart’s built-in amnesia – time healing all wounds – is not going to guide your sense of judgment in an online breakup. What will give you resilience later is to tell only your own side now, even if that self-imposed silence aches. The one thing I’d take back from my breakup-blogging is a reference to the sex life of someone close to my ex. But addressing the woman who named me in her own screeds against my ex, after those became the subject of comment for our mutual friends? That not only felt fair, but necessary.  In the case of involving those outside the breakup: only expose what you absolutely need to, and only about those equally desperate for the attention.

A pre-emptive makeup? The strange thing is, it really wasn’t hard to read what strangers—who had no interest in my relationship when it was going well—had to say when I was torching it in their RSS reader. It was easy, and easy to obsess on having the crowd vet “what it all meant.” By the time my ex and I reconciled – and screwed, and cried – the worst things we could’ve said to one another had already been said, in front of an audience. Their reblogged attention was gratifying just long enough for us to figure out how little we needed them to make sense of our relationship ourselves.

In our staff meeting on Friday, we were talking about services to improve or expand. I was like - ummm, pimp your Mac gear. No, not literally, I meant promotional pieces like screen savers, desktop backgrounds, custom wallpapers for your iPhone and BlackBerry devices.

Promotional items are great way to keep clients returning to your site and promote your brand. Ever wonder way certain shops have amazing packaging (Tiffany’s)? Because the customer is a walking billboard, promoting their brand as they shop. It’s that can be more fiscally sound strategy that works hand-in-hand with advertising/publicity campaigns.

If you have a online store or member’s area, you can sell the custom digital calendars applications to your clients and site members

Best of all they, aren’t just for Adult website owners, Bloggers, you can have them too! Can you think of a better way to leverage your loyal subscriber base than to let them promote your blog, podcast or video channel with their PDAs! T-Shirts and coffee mugs are so Web 1.0

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I am very happy that many of you are jumping on the social media train. Many savvy sex workers and adult industry business people are using it effectively to network with others in the adult industry, but some people are misusing it.

Social media has a place in adult business, it is for networking, promoting your books, educating mainstream audiences and developing new concepts. Anyone who uses them is very careful about content. They don’t put racy photos on it or link it to escort sites.

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So the site has been up for a week. I have been working on it, as you can see from all the additions and nifty things. I had to stop for just a moment today and let it all sink in. Delving into the world of Sex Writing, Sex Blogging and Adult Marketing is not a light task.

Actually, it’s really fucking overwhelming.

There are absolutely fabulous writers and business women out there and I am so fortunate to have talked to some of them this week. So to all of you - THANK YOU for the links, blogroll, Twitter, MySpace and Facebook adds (sorry, I am drawing the line at Tumblr) and the encouragement, advice and referrals; I am looking forward to connecting with you more in cyberspace. I am excited to bring my insight and opinions in to the arena with such formidable women and men.