Resources: Microblogging

Twitter
Twitter

 

Twitter Accessories

Tumblr
Tumblr

 

Plurk
Plurk

 

Resources: Blogging

Tools

WordPress.org
WordPress

WordPress is an open-source web application that was initially built for creating blogs. Through seven years of updates and the addition of static pages and loads of customization options, it’s grown into a small-scale content management system (CMS)…. [Read more]

 

Blogger
 

TypePad
 

Movable Type
 

LiveJournal
 

Directories

Technorati
Technorati

 

Resources: Gaming and Virtual Worlds

World of Warcraft
World of Warcraft

 

Second Life
Second Life

 

Resources: Event Management

Evite
Evite

 

Meetup
Meetup

 

Eventful
 

Cvent
 

Eventbrite
 

Resources: News

Slashdot
Slashdot

 

Reddit
 

Fark
 

This article is part of a series of posts that made up the slides for “Social Media 101,” a presentation prepared for the October meeting of the Houston chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). I’ve left these posts intact, but provided additional material to expand and elucidate the outline for that presentation. Added material is indicated throughout the presentation with red annotations.

You can view the program starting from the table of contents or the title slide.

Resources: Multimedia

YouTube
YouTube
(also Vimeo and others)
 

Flickr
Flickr
(also Picasa and others)
 

Slideshare
Slideshare

 

Hulu
Hulu

 

This article is part of a series of posts that made up the slides for “Social Media 101,” a presentation prepared for the October meeting of the Houston chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). I’ve left these posts intact, but provided additional material to expand and elucidate the outline for that presentation. Added material is indicated throughout the presentation with red annotations.

You can view the program starting from the table of contents or the title slide.

Resources: Bookmarking/Recommendation

Digg
Digg

 

Delicious
Delicious

 

StumbleUpon
StumbleUpon

 

ShareThis
ShareThis

 

AddThis
AddThis

 

Instapaper screen shot
Instapaper

Instapaper describes itself as “a simple tool to save web pages for reading later.” A toolbar bookmarklet for your browser makes it easy to add web pages to your Instapaper account on the fly. Then visit the site occasionally to organize your bookmarks into folders, annotate them, publish them to RSS feeds, and more.


 

This article is part of a series of posts that made up the slides for “Social Media 101,” a presentation prepared for the October meeting of the Houston chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). I’ve left these posts intact, but provided additional material to expand and elucidate the outline for that presentation. Added material is indicated throughout the presentation with red annotations.

You can view the program starting from the table of contents or the title slide.

Resources: Networking

Facebook
Facebook

 

LinkedIn
LinkedIn

 

MySpace
MySpace

 

Ning
Ning

 

This article is part of a series of posts that made up the slides for “Social Media 101,” a presentation prepared for the October meeting of the Houston chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). I’ve left these posts intact, but provided additional material to expand and elucidate the outline for that presentation. Added material is indicated throughout the presentation with red annotations.

You can view the program starting from the table of contents or the title slide.

Technologies

  • Web sites
  • Blogs
  • Wikis
  • Forums
  • Chat/Instant Messaging
  • Search
  • Tags
  • RSS
  • Podcasts
  • E-mail
  • Smart phones

This article is part of a series of posts that made up the slides for “Social Media 101,” a presentation prepared for the October meeting of the Houston chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). I’ve left these posts intact, but provided additional material to expand and elucidate the outline for that presentation. Added material is indicated throughout the presentation with red annotations.

You can view the program starting from the table of contents or the title slide.

Why should you use social media?

  • Your clients and prospects are already there.
  • To control your online brand.
  • To establish yourself as a trusted authority in your field.
  • To generate links to and traffic for your web site.
  • To form and nurture relationships.
  • To build your community.
  • To start and maintain conversations about what you do.

This article is part of a series of posts that made up the slides for “Social Media 101,” a presentation prepared for the October meeting of the Houston chapter of the National Association of Professional Organizers (NAPO). I’ve left these posts intact, but provided additional material to expand and elucidate the outline for that presentation. Added material is indicated throughout the presentation with red annotations.

You can view the program starting from the table of contents or the title slide.

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