An Overview of Social Media Tools

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An overview of social media tools (Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn) presented at the Metro Clean Energy Resource Teams (CERTs) fall affiliate event.

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N E E LY C R A N E - S M I T HC O M M U N I T Y E N E R G Y C O O R D I N AT O R

C E N T E R F O R E N E R G Y A N D E N V I R O N M E N T

An Overview of Social Media Tools

Image by Pierce Mattie Public Relations

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Social media has overtaken pornography

as the #1 activity on the

web

Brittney Spears has more Twitter followers than the

population of Sweden

Some universities are no longer issuing email

addresses

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Why Social Media?

Free

Mobile

Interactive

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Social Media Resources

More than 500 million active users

More than 145 million active users

More than 80 million registered

users

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Facebook: The People That You Know

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How the Energy Challenge Uses Facebook

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Twitter: 140 Character Conversations

“Twitter isn’t about the location of the

community – it is a conversation that can

happen anywhere anytime.” - @DarciAlexis

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What’s the Difference?

Facebook is for

reading

Twitter is for

conversations

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The Evolution of Twitter

Who cares that you had tacos for dinner?

Huh, Adrian Peterson is on Twitter!

Hey @newfriend, thanks for sharing that info.

OMG someone retweeted me!

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How the Energy Challenge Uses Twitter

Events

Good informationNews

Chatting with other experts

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LinkedIn: Facebook for Professionals

Professional Organizations

Job Searching

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When Social Media Works:

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And Then It Spread

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Oh, BUT THERE’S MORE

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Metro CERTs in Social Media

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Questions?

Neely [email protected]

612-335-5852@mnenchallenge