Tommy speaks to the annual Wisconsin Literacy Conference in Appleton, WI.
Social media can be a scary pool to jump into. So many social media offerings and so little help on where to start! Tommy will help make demystify social media in a friendly, no-nonsense way, giving a clear path to begin your social media journey.
5. So What is Social Media? Social media is content created bypeople using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_media
6. Say What?? A category of sites that is based on user participation and user-generated content. They include social networking sites like Twitter, LinkedIn or Facebook, social bookmarking sites like Del.icio.us, social news sites like Digg or Reddit, and other sites that are centered on user interaction.searchenginewatch.com/define
8. How to Engage in SM? • Connect to your Audience • Ask Questions that Invite Discussion • Be transparent Be yourself Don’t pretend • Know your followers; keep in touch with them… • Highlight content generated by your followers
9. The Conversation is key Remember Social Media is a 2 WAY Conversation It’s not IM This is KEY!!
10. MeaningfulConversation People may not respond immediately People can not see your facial expressions Social Media in many ways is like e-mail and can be abused THAT’S NOT WHAT I MEANT
12. The Power of Social Media Who remembers this picture? Flight 1549 Hudson River Twitter had the Scoop 1st NOT CNN, FOXMSNBC -MajorsNO ONE!!! Janis Krums who Twittered it from his iPhone, and posted via TwitPic.