An Online Social Networking Primer

Joe Drumgoole

CTO and Founder PutPlace.com

http://joedrumgoole.com/blog

What is Online Social Networking?

What’s different?

Its about conversations

Its about attention

Website

Blog

Hugh McLeod

Online Social Network

Media Sharing Sites

Twitter

Don’t Bore Me

Its Not Just for Kids

Don’t sweat the legals

Its all Measurable

Stats

• 180 million blogs world wide

• 1.5million hours of YouTube content produced in 6 months

• 1 million twitter users

• 3000 photos uploaded to flickr every minute

• 150 million users on Facebook

This is BIG

Steps

• Website

• Blog

• Twitter Presence

• Flickr/YouTube

• Google Analytics/Blog Analytics

• Rinse/Repeat

Its Free, Effective Marketing

First Mover Advantage

Questions?