Listen to social media network marketing mlm home business trainer Doug Firebaugh as he explains why Social Media sites offer the average network marketer the chance of a lifetime. Develop free leads and an internet presence in ways there were not possible just a year ago.
Social media: Participatory online media where news, photos, videos, and podcasts are made public via social media websites through submission. Normally accompanied with a voting process to make media items become “popular”.
Social Media Expanded Definition: Social Media is the democratization of information, transforming people from content readers into content publishers. It is the shift from a broadcast mechanism to a many-to-many model, rooted in conversations between authors, people, and peers.
Social media uses the ?wisdom of crowds? to connect information in a collaborative manner. Social media can take many different forms, including Internet forums, message boards, weblogs, wikis, podcasts, pictures and video. Technologies such as blogs, picture-sharing, vlogs, wall-postings, email, instant messaging, music-sharing, group creation and voice over IP, to name a few. Examples of social media applications are Google (reference, social networking), Wikipedia (reference), MySpace (social networking), Facebook(social networking), Last.fm (personal music), YouTube (social networking and video sharing), Second Life (virtual reality), and Flickr (photo sharing).
Using Social Media To Create Social Media Training
Social media is quickly becoming a topic that no professional communicator can afford to ignore.
Social Media Training Wiki Badge
Promote the wiki on your site * o Video Blogs * Micro-Blogs * Podcasts * Useful Social Media Tools * Wikis * Social Bookmarking * Social Browsing * Social Networks * Social Media News Release * Digg * Del.icio.us * Ma.gnolia * StumbleUpon
Google Blog Search
Blogger (free, hosted)
WordPress.com (free, hosted)
WordPress.org (free, open-source, host your own)
TypePad (free, hosted)
Tumblr (free, hosted)
Blogonize (free, hosted)
Chyrp (free, host-your-own)
Textpattern (free, open-source, host-your-own)
Movable Type (free, host-your-own)
Simplelog (free, host-your-own)
Downloading YouTube videos:
Mogulus (live streaming/production/sharing/community)
Social Bookmarking sites:del.icio.us
Micro-Blogging Tools: * Twhirl * Twitterific (Mac only) * iTweet (Mac only) * 60+ Twitter Tools (from Mashable) * The Wall Tweet Journal – A knowledge base for innovative Twittering, micro blogging, social media and Web 2.0 technologies * Twoogle – Custom Search Engine at The Wall Tweet Journal
What should a ‘Social Media 101’ course cover? What tools should people be aware of? How should we use those tools? What are the pitfalls? What are the basics that everyone in your marketing/communications department should know?
In the spirit of social media, there’s no better way to develop a curriculum for social media training than through a wiki. Let the collaboration begin!
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