workshop

This week I had the chance to participate in a Social Media workshop sponsored by the Marion County, CVB.  Presented by Digital Relativity of Fayetteville, WV  http://www.digitalrelativity.com/ they focused on the role of social media in business development.

This included looking at Facebook, Pinterest, Tweeting, and a couple of other smaller sites.  A component looked at Flickr as a social media site.  We were also introduced to Hootsuite which serves as a facilitator for social media. 

It was fun to participate in the workshop and as information was reviewed I access the various apps via my Android Phone.  During the course of the day I set up both a Twitter and a Hootsuite account.

I walked away from the workshop with several important pieces of information including, Facebook is no longer "cool" for the younger generation.  "That's where old ladies go" was the quote that was provided.  So just as MySpace peaked, so too will Facebook (if it hasn't already).

I had never considered Pinterest and Flickr as social media and as such did not consider the possibilities.  My utilizing both to not only show images of your business/interests with photos or images of your own, one can also share photos of similar content and thus, hopefully, drive people to your own website.

There was discussion on the use of google+ and its options, but the presenter felt that it was not living up to its potential.

All in all it was a great session, and I was fortunate to get to attend.