What Is Social Media?

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SOCIAL MEDIA What Does It REALLY Mean? Wednesday, November 17, 2010

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This is a basic tutorial on what social media really is and what means. Introduction to social media and the tools.

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SOCIAL MEDIAWhat Does It REALLY Mean?

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Courtney ParkerCEO, LCJ Media Agency

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SOCIAL MEDIA IS AN UMBRELLA TERM THAT DEFINES THE VARIOUS ACTIVITIES THAT INTEGRATES TECHNOLOGY, SOCIAL INTERACTION AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF WORDS, PICTURES, VIDEO AND AUDIO.

SOURCE: WWW.WIKIPEDIA.ORG

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MORE SIMPLY PUT:

“Social media is people having conversations

online.”

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SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS

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Social Media Takes A Human Touch

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Two Additional Ways to Understand Social Media

1. Connect People to People&

2. Connect People to Content

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Social Media Is.... Social Media Is Not....

• Contribution• Collaboration• Conversation• Community• Time Consuming• Commitment• VOI

• eBooks• Television• Google Buzz• Easy• An end all Solution• Replacement for SEO• ROI

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DO NOT USE SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS TO SELL!!

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Social Media Tool Kit

Community ToolsBlogging ToolsListening ToolsPhoto & Video Tools

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COMMUNITYAny place where like-minded people connect and interact

Largest community

Microblog Community

Professional Community

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Global Audience: 547,562,100

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A Few Twitter Facts....•There are 175 million registered users•300,000 users are added daily•95 million tweets are written per day•75% traffic is outside of Twitter.com

*Twitter Stats updated 9/14/2010

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A Few LinkedIn Facts....

•LinkedIn has over 80 million members in over 200 countries•A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second•Half the members are located outside of the USA•Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are members

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Blogging Tools

Allows you to share your words, thoughts, opinions, with the world

Helps educate others on topics

Establishes you as an expert/influencer

Google loves text

Can earn additional income with advertising

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Listen Up!

Listening ToolsSocial media tools are imperative to knowing what people are saying about you, competitors and industry.

Top Tools To Use1. Google Reader2. Technorati3. Twitter Search4. Google Alerts

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Photo and Video Tools

• 2nd Largest search engine following Google• Easy to use, upload videos and share videos• Video embedding within other social networks• 2 billion videos are watched daily• Demographic age is broad 18-55•10 hours of video is uploaded every minute• 51% of users visit YouTube weekly or more

FACTS

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Combine The Tools And Expand Your Presence

Social Media + Mobile Marketing +

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THE PERFECT SOCIAL MEDIA EQUATION

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