Staying Connected: Using Social Media to Communicate, Sebastopol Senior Center May 2012

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Kerry Rego Consulting spoke at Sebastopol Senior Center May 11, 2012. She defined social media, gave current statistics, demonstrated traditional tools vs. new tools, and talked about the communication tools we have available to use to communicate with family, friends and the outside world.

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Staying Connected:

Using Social Mediato Communicate

Kerry Rego5/11/12

Social media use web-based technologies to transform and broadcast media monologues into social media dialogues.

Social Media, A Definition:

Wikipedia

•Facebook 901m users

•Twitter 340m tweets/day

•YouTube 4b+ views/day

•LinkedIn 150m users

•Google+ 100m users

•Pinterest 18m unq visitors

Why is Social Media Important?

Logos courtesy of Aquaticus

Where Do You Start?

• Goal• Tools, Research• Routine• Measure• Adjust• Persist

Don’t expect amazing results overnight!

Be realistic in your goal setting.

7 C’s of Social Media

• Communication (public relations)• Cause support (philanthropy)• Contests (game metric)• Collaboration (thought leadership)• Connecting others (networking)• Customer service (listening)• Community building (loyalty)

*Dose of Digital concept

What Tools Support Your Goal?

GOAL

How to Deal with Negativity

•How do you deal with it in real time?

•Your character shines through•You can’t please everyone all of the time

•Some editorial control, settings•Control is really an illusion

New Ways to Talk on the “Phone”

• Facebook• Twitter• Email• Text• Skype• Others You

Like?

Let’s take a look at some tools,

shall we?

Social Media is SOCIAL

It’s About Relationships

It’s About Connecting

Upcoming Events:• May 14, 2012 9-11am

Work Session

• May 22 & 23, 2012 6-9pmTwitter & Facebook

City of SR

• June 12, 2012 1-3pmWork Session

THANK YOU!

Kerry Rego ConsultingKerry@KerryRegoConsulting.

com707.520.4572

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