"Twiter Quickstart"

• Tuesday, Sep 15th, 2009
  Webinar
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"Blogs, Facebook, and Social Media - A plain-english explanation of Web 2.0

• 5th Annual UP Nonprofit Management Conference
  October 23rd
  Marquette, MI
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• NEW 1st Friday Social Media series
  November 5th
  Farmington Hills, MI
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• NEW 1st Friday Social Media series
  December 4th
  Ann Arbor, MI
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Web 2.0 for Non-Profit Organizations

Web 2.0 consists of many components. Knowing where to start can be difficult and confusing. "Web 2.0 for Non-profit Organizations" demystifies these technologies and explains them in everyday English. One at a time, this book explains:

• Blogs
• RSS
• Podcasts and webcasts
• Wikis
• Tag clouds
• Forums / bulletin boards / message boards
• Chat / IM
• Social networking

This book goes beyond merely explaining Web 2.0 components. This book shows you how you can use these tools to help your organization find volunteers, increase donations, and reduce your operating expenses.

I'm on Facebook--Now What???: How to Get Personal, Business, and Professional Value from Facebook

Facebook is one of the hottest websites in today's world, and is having a major impact on career and business. This book explains the different parts of Facebook and helps you understand how you can get the most out of your Facebook account. It helps you understand what you could or should do in Facebook to further your career, business, or job.

This book will help you come up with your own action strategy to get value out of Facebook. It will help you understand the possibilities with Facebook to figure out you can do to optimize the use of this tool.

The intended audience includes professionals interested in their careers, marketers, business owners, and anyone involved in promoting a cause (personal or business) through new, hot technologies.

Contains a foreword by Lee Lorenzen and an afterword by Robert Scoble

The LinkedIn Personal Trainer

The LinkedIn Personal Trainer provides just that -- a personal training approach for the number one professional online networking tool -- LinkedIn.com. Packed with advice, insightful questions, and exercises, you learn what to do -- and why you should be doing it. When completed, you'll be prepared to find, get found, and network your way to success with LinkedIn.

Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day

If the idea of starting a social media marketing campaign overwhelms you, the author of Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day will introduce you to the basics, demonstrate how to manage details and describe how you can track results.  Case studies, step-by-step guides, checklists, quizzes and hands-on tutorials will help you execute a social media marketing campaign in just one hour a day.  In addition, learn how to integrate social media metrics with traditional media measurements and how to leverage blogs, RSS feeds, podcasts, and user-generated content sharing sites like YouTube.