the basics of social media, presented to rotary club of whistler millennium

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

Twitter

• 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

• Twitter

• Twitter

Let’s Visit Twitter

• www.twitter.com• www.twittarian.org

Facebook

• 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?