Episode 5 of The Social Media Monster podcast is the presentation on Blogging for Business by Heather Solos at the Charleston County Public Library’s Small Business and Not-For-Profit Networking Lunch.
The slides for this presentation, which include the URLs for the resources mentioned, are available in a previous post and on SlideShare.
Blogs are more than pictures of cats and political ranting. Discover the difference between blogging, blogging professionally, and having a professional blog. We will also cover tips and strategies for utilizing a blog as part of your small business marketing strategy.
The presenter this month is Heather Solos. Heather has been blogging professionally since 2006, is author of Home Ec 101: Real Skills for People with Real Lives, and is on the founding board of the Social Media Club of Charleston. Registration is not required for this event.
Theresa Wagner of the Charleston County Public Library gave an excellent talk pertaining to Facebook Fan Pages at the monthly networking meeting for small businesses and not-for-profits. Facebook is increasingly growing more important as a both a means of attracting new prospects and keeping in contact with current business contacts, and the creation and use of fan pages is still misunderstood by many. Theresa did an terrific job at removing some of the mysteries surrounding this subject. The slides for her presentation have been posted to SlideShare and are included below. She was also gracious enough to wear a microphone and allow me to record her presentation. That recording will be made available shortly as the next episodes in the podcast series.
Theresa Wagner, ChasLibraryGirl on Twitter, will be doing a free presentation next week on starting a Facebook fan page. She will be talking about the dos & don’ts of FaceBook fanpages on Tuesday, May 12th at the Main Library on Calhoun Street in downtown Charleston, SC. The talk will start at 11:45 am and should run until about 1 pm.
Learn the difference between Facebook pages and groups, find out how to painlessly add blog posts and tweets to your account and get tips on how to manage your organization’s Facebook activities without it taking over your life. Learn how to advertise your small business or nonprofit on this amazingly popular social media site as well. Registration is not required for this event, but if you need more information, please call 805-6930.
I hope you enjoyed the presentation and the resources provided. If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about what you would like from future episodes of this podcast, please just email, leave a comment, or call the listener line at 843.628.6379.
The second half of this presentation will be posted shortly as the next in this series of podcasts. In the meantime, please let me know what you think of this half and also if you have any questions.
Curious if Twitter is right for your organization? Find out at this month’s free Charleston Library Small Business & Nonprofit Networking Lunch! I will explain how to market your organization on this free, fast-growing social media site. I will be going in-depth so you can learn practical Twitter skills such as understanding hashtags, lists and retweeting, managing your tweets so Twitter doesn’t manage you, the dreaded ‘Fail Whale’, and knowing how to attract followers and interact effectively with them.
Where: Main Library Auditorium, 68 Calhoun St. When: Tuesday, April 13th from 11:45 a.m.- 1:15 p.m. Cost: Free. Absolutely nothing. This is a part of a monthly series put on by the Charleston County Library.
Registration is not required. For more information, call the Reference Department at 805-6930 or email them at askaquestion@ccpl.org.
Note: The slides from this presentation are now on-line at my social media site: The Social Media Monster.
I seek to empower people by making technology a vehicle for driving businesses and communities. Just as you drive a car without worrying about how the engine operates, I will take care of your information systems as a data mechanic. This lets you drive the technology, instead of it driving you. I provide social media, web development and PC and Macintosh support services for small businesses and not-for-profits in Charleston and the surrounding South Carolina Lowcountry.
Episode 5 of The Social Media Monster podcast is the presentation on Blogging for Business by Heather Solos at the Charleston County Public Library’s Small Business and Not-For-Profit Networking Lunch.
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