1. Facebook,
LinkedIn & Twitter
for Dummies --
HANDS ON, HOW
TO!
Presented by Marney Kirk
March 11, 2010
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2. Today you will:
 Create an account in Facebook,
LinkedIn & Twitter
 Learn how to Login for future
sessions
 Find friends/associates
 Write your first status update
 Make your first connection
 Tweet your first tweet
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3. FACEBOOK
 www.facebook.com
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4. SIGN UP FOR AN
ACCOUNT
 First Name, Last Name, E-mail
Address, New
Password, Sex, Birthday, hit green
SIGN UP button.
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5. LOGIN TO YOUR ACCOUNT
(once you have one!)
 Email address & password: Hit
BLUE LOGIN button.
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6. FRIEND YOUR
NEIGHBOR
 Click FRIENDS tab at top left of
blue part of screen
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7. Friend your neighbor
cont.
 Choose “Find Friends” on column
on left side of screen. (2nd item)
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8. Friend your neighbor cont.
 Scroll down page to “Search for
People”. Enter your neighbor’s
email address
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9. Friend your neighbor cont.
 Click ADD AS FRIEND on right
side of screen.
 Now click on the “Home” tab.
Add as friend
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10. Friend your neighbor cont.
 Now, on the upper right hand side, there
is a REQUESTS area. You should now
have 1 FRIEND REQUEST.
 Click on that request.
1 Friend Request
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11. Friending your neighbor cont.
 ACCEPT this request.
 You have your first Facebook Friend!
You have a friend request
Accept
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12. Now let’s start your profile
 Click on PROFILE tab
 On left column, choose
“EDIT MY PROFILE”
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13. Start Building your Profile
 We’ll come by and see how you
are doing.
 Enter as much info as you can!
Everywhere
there is a
picture of a
pencil, you
can edit!
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14. Add a Profile Photo
 Hover over your shadow pic
 A little box will pop up saying
“Change picture.” Click on it.
 Choose “upload a photo”
 Choose “Browse” & find photo you
brought or one we took earlier.
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15. LINKEDIN
 www.linkedin.com
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16. CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT
 First Name, Last Name, E-mail
Address, New Password, hit green
JOIN NOW button.
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17. EDIT YOUR PROFILE
 Enter info! Where it says Edit in
BLUE, you should ENTER INFO!
Upload
the photo
you
brought
(or we
took
earlier!)
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18. Add your Neighbor as a Connection
 Click on “Add Connections” in
green at top right of screen
 Enter your neighbor’s email
address & click “send invitations”
For Future
adding of
connections,
this is where
you will
search!
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19. Back to your INBOX. Accept
your connection invitation!
 Click on the
invitation
Your neighbor Today  Accept
Congratulations,
you have your
first connection! Accept
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20. TWITTER
 www.twitter.com
 Click green “Sign up now” button
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21. CREATE YOUR ACCOUNT
 Enter your first name, last
name, create a
username, password, enter your email
address, the security words, and then
click the grey “Create My Account”
button.
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22. Settings
 Fill this info out! Short answers, but
details are important!
Then click
PICTURE
and upload
that photo!
If you have a website
– type it in here.
Your Bio – who
are you? You will
then scroll
down &
Where are you
hit “save”
located? (Either
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23. Follow Your Neighbor
 What is their username?
 Type it in!
Click “Find
People”
Enter your
neighbor’s
username to
find them!
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24. Follow Your Neighbor cont.
 (And our President!)
Click this
button to
automatically Then
click
follow them! “Home”
and they
will be in
your
“tweet
roll”!
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25. Now TWEET something!
 “What’s happening?” Your FIRST
TWEET!
What’s on your
mind? (How
about I am in a
great class
taught by
@realtormarney
?! )
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26. CONGRATULATIONS!
You tweeted!
 Now how do you figure out who to
“follow”?
SEARCH! What
interests you?
Your city? Your
town? Real
Estate? Wine?
Beer? Dance?
Enter here – and
find who is
talking *your
language*!
Don’t forget to click
the magnifying glass
to do the search!
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27. SO NOW WHAT?
 Set aside time to visit these sites to familiarize
yourself with them more.
 Search to find friends, co-workers, connections, and
people to follow
 Don’t let frustrations stop you from using these sites.
Take your time.
 Schedule time to visit these sites on a regular basis.
Choose how often you want to be on there – daily or
weekly…
FINAL THOUGHTS:
 Facebook – when you think of people to find, consider
high school, college, past clients…search for them in
the search for people function!
 LinkedIn – very much like an online resume for your
business
 Twitter – if you don’t know what to write, follow
people and see what they have to say. Then respond to
them! Get into conversations with people!
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