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Online Media Mini-Boot Camp
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Online MediaMini-Boot Camp
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Why are you here?
ONLINE PHILOSOPHY
Determine how much money and time you are willing to spend
Pick a limited number of online outletsEstablish your online personality
What’s your mix? Personal, professional, insititutionalDecide what you want from social media
Push information, listen, connect, learn, collaborateDetermine your work flow
Social media should be an integrated, natural outgrowth of your personality and work life.
You can be online with limited commitment of time, money and energy. But it is a discipline.
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What is your online philosophy?
SOCIAL MEDIA
Strengths: Huge, evolving, many usersWeaknesses: Low commitment, low control, little reliable privacy
Strengths: Evolving, professional usersWeaknesses: Fewer users, low commitment
Strengths: Quick, short, easy, hipWeaknesses: Low commitment, fleeting, high drop-out rate
BROADCAST MEDIA
OTHER ONLINE MEDIA
Blogs Strengths: Generally free, flexible, can be
personalized, interactive Weaknesses: Still limited capacity, need to know your
way around the Internet a bitWebsites
Strengths: Can be built to completely meet your needs, flexible, relatively inexpensive
Weaknesses: Can become static, can be difficult to update, transferability, not interactive
Gmail, Google Docs, Picasa, Google Calendar Strengths: Free, easy to use, shareable, embeddable,
collaborative, works with mail programs Weaknesses: In the clouds, email has the gmail.com
extensionGoogle Apps
Strengths: Free, personalized email, document storage, shareable and embeddable calendar, works with mail programs
Weaknesses: In the clouds, confusing to set up
Similar services abound, few are as pervasive
5 things you should do online now…
$20: Use a blogging platform – like Wordpress – to build a website or blog Buying a url will cost $10, redirecting your blog to the
website will cost $20Free: Get a youtube account and start uploading
videos Free: Either get a gmail account or sign-up for
Google Apps and use the free email, calendar, and photo sharing
Free: Set up a Facebook Fan Page for your community
$10: Buy a vanity url for your community
Social Media Tips
You cannot break the Internet – every mistake can be fixed
Set up a personal email – keep your work email and personal email separate.
Use an RSS reader.Comment on other writing – blogs, Tweets, status updatesPurchase URLs – get to know GoDaddy wellChoose a good profile pic and use it everywhereDon’t know how to do something? Google it. Google
everything.Consider getting a smart phone with a data plan.Consider getting a hand-held video camera, like a Flip
