Do you remember going to dance clubs? Hanging out at the corner or in the schoolyard with your friends? I mean, your real friends. These days you may never even meet your friends in-person. Times have changed. It is time to change with the times.

We rely on Social Media to help us connect with friends, grow business relationships big and small, and reach customers locally and globally. Social Media is your oyster.

There are many common forms of Social Media including:

• Concepts, slogans, and statements with a high memory retention quotient, that excites others to repeat.
• Grass-Roots direct action information dissemination such as public speaking, installations, performance, and demonstrations.
• Electronic media with ’sharing’, syndication, or search algorithm technologies (includes internet and mobile devices).
• Print media, designed to be re-distributed.

Doing your Social Media homework can be lots of fun. It may be as simple as going to your local library and signing up for free courses. You are likely already enjoying the benefits of Social Media on websites that have podcasts, videos via YouTube, sharing photographs via Flickr or Picasa, reading or writing blogs, checking in on events or reading social news via Digg or NowPublic. It is your turn to learn more about it. Check out this video Social Media in Plain English !

How do YOU like to socialize?

• Social Networking is widely known as Web 2.0. Connect you with your friends, people with similar interests, potential employers, and find more connections.
• Social Bookmarking sites allow you to organize your favorite sites, tag them for keywords, and keep them all in one place. However, what makes these sites social is the ability for you to share them with others.
• Social Recommendation sites create user generated recommendation sites. Sites like Digg, Netscape and StumbleUpon encourage users to submit items they like and then give others the opportunity to vote on them.
• Social Content sites are where users create and manage the content from photos to videos, information on a topic, and everything in between.

Got Social Media? Make the most of it.

It is a very simple process of adding multiple admins to your Facebook Fan Page. There is no limit on the number of admins your page can have; however, at the end of my steps, I’m going to give you a couple things to consider when it comes to admins on Facebook Fan Pages.

Here’s how to add multiple admins to your Facebook Fan Pages:

1) In order to add an admin, the person must first be a “fan” of your Facebook Fan Page. Make sure whomever you desire to be an admin, make sure they go ahead and become a fan by click the “Become a Fan” button at the top of your Fan Page.

2) Click “See All” link that is right above your list of fans. This is the link so that you can see all of your page’s fans.

3) Once your list of fans opens, you will then see the box called “Make Admin” to the right of each person’s name. Go through your list of fans and chose whom you’d like to be a page admin.

4) Once someone is a Facebook Fan Page Admin, they will be able to access the page, and make broadcast updates, implement changes to the page, and remove fans from the page.

A couple things to consider about having page admins:

This means that admins on a fan page can only interact as the fan page, not as their personal Facebook profile – meaning their personal profile image won’t show, only the Facebook Fan Page image.

> Facebook Fan Page Admins have the ability to remove fans from a page. So be careful in whom you chose to be an admin as they may be biased and remove fans causing you to have less of a viral marketing effect with your broadcast messages.

>Facebook Page Admins have the ability to make other fans admins as well. Again, be careful whom you chose considering that whoever is a Page Admin, could always make any other fan a page admin as well.

Web Design & SEO Training

Do You…

* Want to learn step by step instructions on how to build a free website online with no design experience?
* Want to learn step by step instructions on how to attract more traffic to your website via SEO?
* Want to learn step by step instructions on how to create a successful facebook fan page to attract more business?

Who should attend?

* Start up business owners who can not afford the height prices of a custom web site design.
* Small business owners who have web site and want to attract more customers to their site.
* Unemployed or underemployed people who want to build a web presence to help them find a job.

What will I gain from this seminar?

* Step 1: Step by step instructions on how to build a free web site on line.
* Step 2: Step by step instructions on how to optimize your web site for maximum search engine results.
* Step 3: Step by Step instruction on how to set up a facebook fan page and promote your business to your customers.

Class Details

Date: May 26, 2010
Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Hilton Garden Inn, 420 Totten Pond Road, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA 02451

Cost: $199.00 (early booking special booked by Sunday April 25, 2010) April 25 - May 25 $249.00

Social Media continues to rise in popularity and is an important part of a business strategy today. Many companies have experienced growth as a result of utilizing social media outlets effectively. Many company’s ask why should I blog ? Why should we utilize Facebook ? Why Twitter?. The answer is very simple, the top 4 applications that are found via the search engine Google are :

1. Company Blog
2. Facebook
3. Twitter
4. Linkedin
5. You Tube

This is one of the many reasons why it is absolutely beneficial to take advantage of these networks.

The most important aspect of these media outlets is for companies to understand that EACH platform has a separate strategy. Is it a best practice for a company to update their blog, facebook and twitter with all of the same information ? The answer is NO. There must be a strategy in place for each platform. If a company shared the same information on each platform there would be no purpose for a client or customer to do visit a company’s Facebook Fan page and twitter and blog. With all the information being the same, there would be no call to action driving the reader to each of these locations. One thing we do want to get across is that you do want all the information to be relevent to each other. Have the same overall message but you want to differentiate.

The purpose of a company blog is similar to Facebook in terms of interaction. You want to develop and create a following, a readership in which your readers respond to your posts and become engaged in your topics. Many good and credible blogs are “Mommybloggers“, companies have hired them for : product trials, product feedback and just their overall opinion. These Mommybloggers have created great relationships and popular followings. They have build trust and are very credible within their spheres.

The purpose of Facebook is to become interactive with your clients or customers. Have them leave a testimonial on your Fan page. If you have a Fan page that is increasingly interactive with your clients or customers then you know you are doing a good job. You also want to make sure you are bringing in relevant content and information from outside sources. Using the Link button is the correct way to do this. It adds credibility to your page.

The purpose of Twitter is to provide 140 character information shout outs. It is also used find people within your sphere, follow them and learn from them and in turn they will follow you.

In a nut shell, the purpose of social media is to become interactive and share information with your potential clients and customers. Just remember that it is very important to develop a 30,60,90 day marketing plan for each platform. Yes, they are simple application to use, but also require time and a successful strategy.