The Basics of Social Media, presented to Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium
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The Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium and Social Media
A Brief Overview
Presented by Jenuine Marketing
Popular Social Media Tools
• Facebook• Twitter• LinkedIn• You Tube• Flickr• Delicious• Four Square• Meetup.com
• Microblogging site• Send & receive messages called Tweets• Tweets are messages of up to 140 characters• Can share links to webpages, images, video• Can “link” to topics through hastag (#)– Example: I love #Rotary
Twitter (con’t)
• 200 million active users, generating 65 million tweets a day
• 47% of Canadians use Twitter
Let’s Visit Twitter
• www.twitter.com• www.twittarian.org
• Social networking site• Share personal updates, interesting links with
friends• Also widely used by businesses, via ‘pages’• Great way for not-for-profits to share info
about events
Let’s visit our Facebook page
• Facebook Page for the Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
• Important to ‘Google’ yourself & your business• Should set up Google Alerts• Ask quality sites (such as Rotary homepage) to
link to your business• Use LinkedIn so that your personal profile
shows up on search listings
Questions?