A copy of the slides used at the Meet Your Future, Graduate Fair, Falmouth University, November 2009. Details of entering a career in digital media with an emphasis on social media in the context of business.

1. Meet Your Future : Digital Media for Business

5. What is Social Media?

9. Social Media Platforms Blogs Social Networks Wiki Sites File Sharing Sites Social Bookmarking Live Streaming Virtual Worlds Aggregators

10. How does it relate to business?

14. What you need to know to get ahead.

17. Advice from the experts...

20. Find your passion, the thing you want to spend your life doing, and become an expert. Blog, tweet, speak about it. Walk the walk. Make your mistakes and be open about them. Then you are a fuller package when you apply for your chosen role. Claire Thompson, Freelance PR Consultant

21. Digital should be seen as a strand of a bigger marketing mix not an exclusive career and the internet is a social media. Kathryn Woolf, Creative Digital Marketing Agency

22. Engage, Educate, Enhance. It’s important that you are sharing things that people want to know, learn and share. Kay Kelison, Senior Researcher / Social Media Coach at Microsoft

23. How to handle public cock-ups would be helpful me thinks. Richard Collett, Website Designer at UKNetWeb

24. The ability to change (constantly) will be the name of the game. New graduates will have to be fast on their feet. Michael Wise, Publisher, Filmmaker, Media Entrepreneur

25. Do something respectable with your life! ;o) By "more respectable' I was thinking something more like porn baron or drug dealer. Failing that humanitarian work. Richard Quick, Web Developer and Author