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Social Networking One Year later
This document discusses how social networking has changed how people discover and share information over the past year. It notes that Facebook has become the second most visited site in the US. The document then provides strategies for using social networks like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter to help one's career and business through activities like maintaining an active online profile, participating in groups and forums, blogging, and networking through professional associations. It emphasizes the importance of an ongoing investment in one's career and personal life through self-improvement and finding a work-life balance.
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- 1. Presented to MotownChapter HDIMarch 12, 2010Social Networking 1 year later What’s Your plan?
- 2. So What’s Happenedsince last yearI met Rose…Through Facebook I got my 2004 E320Through Craig's List Found Brian a new job…Through LinkedInSold my 300SDThrough Craig's List
- 3. What’s Going On?I’dlike to connect to your LinkedIn networkHey! Tweet MeI’d like to recommend you add Rich A as a friend
- 4. Facebook recently overtookYahoo as the second most visited site in the United States. And in doing so, Facebook along with other social networks set the stage for a confluence of social and search that fundamentally changes who we, as a society, discover and share information, and in turn, where our attention is directed and driven.
- 5. If the socializationof search and commerce is driven by any one behavior, it is that of sharing
- 6. It’s All AboutDifferentiation and SharingCan S-nets help?
- 7. Are you usingSocial Networks for career, business, or personal?What’s’ your strategy
- 8. Strategy GuidelinesUnderstand SocialNetworks – how they helpHave the Killer resume ProfileExposing Yourself – blogs, forums, groupsUnderstand what social network organizations can help you.See how the Motown HDI chapter can help you
- 9. Your Resume…So howmany people are reading your resume right now?
- 10. …or visiting yourSocialnetworkprofile
- 11. Career wise,E-mailing resumesJobboardsAre dead.
- 12. My Profile!Toot yourown horn about yourself just do itresponsibly, honestlyCreate Tagged words for search optimization
- 13. Get creative –write for Web 2.0BlogToot your own horn some more.Write about your specific viewsCreate Tagged words for search optimization
- 14. Get creative –write for Web 2.0ForumRespond to othersWith your viewsTake a pulse of what’sHappening real time
- 15. All S-nets haveGroupsGroupsA blend of Forums and Blogs, but adds event NotificationAnd powerful association with others like you
- 16. All S-nets haveGroups (cont.) GroupsGroups are searchable for people, companies, jobs, content.
- 17. Where are S-netsgoing?Discern the social networks that will most benefit you forYour Career & BusinessReal Time InformationPersonal Entertainment
- 18. So what’s allthe fuss over Twitter?Real-time ContentThe latest scoopPeopleJobsWhat’re you feeling right now
- 19. Exactly who andwhat I want – Now!
- 20. Exposure – ResourcesProfessionalNetworks – HDI , ITA, ITsmfSocial NetworksLinkedIn – 700%Facebook – 77%Twitter – 4000%MySpaceTech RepublicJob BoardsMonsterCareerBuilderDiceComputerJobsHotJobsNetworkingCold Calling
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- 27. Ongoing Career InvestmentKeepNetworkingGet involved with professional associationsInvest in your self improvement
- 28. Ongoing Personal Investmentin others
- 29. Ongoing Personal InvestmentRememberto find that healthy balance of Family or self and Career“It’s pretty hard to find someone say on their death bed they would have spend more time at work if they could do it all over”
- 30. Questions?*the links includedin this presentation are “live” - use responsibly!
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