4. Intro to Social Media Tools
Blogs RSS
Podcasts Social Networks
Skype YouTube
Wikis Twitter
Slideshare uStream
5. Blogs
• Just an easy-to-publish Web site that allows
comments
• Blogs in Plain English - Lee LeFever
• You read them all the time without even
knowing it
6. RSS = Really Simple Syndication
• Lets you easily track dozens of blogs or other
Web sites without surfing
• Truly opt-in “email”
• RSS “baked in” to IE 7, Safari
• Google Reader a free Web option
7. Podcasts
• TiVo for Audio (and now video)
• Don’t need an iPod to use
• Series of segments to which you can
subscribe via RSS
• iTunes free for PC or Mac
9. Wikis
• Collaborative editing tools
• Wikipedia the most famous
• 4 million articles in English
• Definitive stories quickly on
• 35W Bridge Collapse
• Virginia Tech shooting
12. YouTube
• World’s second largest search engine
• Google bought for $1.65 Billion
• “The world has voted, and we want to watch
videos on YouTube.” - Andy Sernovitz,
SocialMedia.org
20. Ground Rules and Expectations
• Pre-requisites completed
• Learning the tools by using the tools
• Twitter - #SMinMN
• Social Networking
• YouTube
• Blog
• Strategic framework