Unleash Your Potential - Namagunga Girls Coding Club
Social Media for Speakers
1. Revenge of the Nerds:How Doug and David use social media David Strom, david@strom.com Doug Devitre, dougdevitre@gmail.com
2. Agenda Domains, anyone? Using email more effectively Doing more with LinkedIn Twitter for business Facebook for speakers Tools you should know about
12. Set up a mailing list to send out regular information to your clients Free: Google Groups Cheap: Mailman on EMWD.com ($4/mo) Expensive: ConstantContact.com ($30/mo and up)
17. LinkedIn Answers (and asking questions) Joining groups Adding your clients and audience members to engage them after the speech Connecting to Tripit and Slideshare at a minimum to link trips and ppt's to your profile Put the LinkedIn URL on your business card and in your email sigs
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19. List your Web sites Use the “other” choice Also can put a 4th in “Interests” This is what it will look like on screen: 19
24. Finally: make LinkedIn a daily habit Look for new postings on your groups See new connections with your network To tweak your profile and add new presentations To update your status with noteworthy activities, meetings, or speeches 24
50. 50 Key Twitter To-dos Follow the right people in your industry Don’t get too caught up in tweeting your every movement Look at what businesses are doing with it Use it to start conversations with people you want to get to know
52. What to Tweet? When and where you are speaking What you have read that you want to share with others Something you post on your blog A link to a Web site that you find interesting 52
Preserve your brandEasy to remember and to sayMakes your more professionalDoesn’t cost muchIsn’t hard to setup
Change look and feel of site
Put this on your business card
http://oneforty.com/blog/explore-the-twitterverse-console/ Brian Solis efforts to keep up
This is the real Shaq’s vehicle when it was parked outside my building in August 2010.
Late to the Internet, Conan built up his concert series online and never used traditional advertising to sell out his shows in 2010.
Playboy founder Hugh Hefner also proposed to his latest wife in December 2010 over Twitter.
Uses Twitter and Facebook to notify its customers where the truck will be selling its cupcakes in the Denver metro area – A lot cheaper than other forms of advertsing
Fake site after all the iPhone 4 launch problems
Paul Chambers Tweeted that he wanted to blow up an airport in the UK and was jailed and fined for his remarks. His situation spawned a rash of tweets with “I am Spartacus” hastag, playing off the Kubrick scene where a bunch of fellow slaves refused to give up his identity by all claiming they were Spartacus.
An american was arrested in Egypt and sent this single Tweet, and within hours the State Department was getting him freed.