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Adventures in Social Media

Women in BusinessAugust 26, 2009

Today’s guides

Our panel

Goals• Learn something new• Take away a social media tip

that you can leverage for your business or organization

Social media is …• life on the web - news, friends,

family, stories, entertainment, culture, love, loss

• the new television• any digital (or analog for that

matter) medium that allows peer to peer communication in an open forum

Social media is …• niche communications• platforms for interaction &

relationships• a fancy-schmancy way to

describe people talking and sharing stuff online

networking

blogs

media sharing

news/portals

microblogging

Panel• What social media tools are

you currently using and how often do you leverage them?

• What are your goals for integrating social media into your marketing? 

Panel• Can you give a specific

example of how social media has benefited your business?  

Panel• Share a social media tip.

Quiz time!1. Tuesday, shirt, orange2. c3. b4. d5. b6. Radio Disney, Oregon State Fair,

guitar/tickets/prize pack7. What are you doing?8. clarifying and refining9. Cotweet and Flickr

Feedback, please• Comments on logistics• What was most valuable today?• If we carry the social media topic

into September, what would you like to hear about?

• What topic or local professional would like to hear present to WIB?

thank you