Trib U: Social Media for Business Part One – Designing Your Social Media Strategy - May 8th, 2012

You understand how social networks work. Now make social networks work for your business. In this intermediate seminar, we will show you how to design a strategy for your business using the leading social networks. We will focus on Facebook, Twitter, Yelp, YouTube, Flickr and LinkedIn.

In this seminar, you will:

· Understand how social media can help a business of any size

· Learn the distinguishing features of each social network

· See how three local businesses use social media successfully

· Learn how to design your own social media strategy in 9 steps.

Dinner will be served from 5:30 to 6 p.m. and class will begin promptly at 6 p.m.

Our class is a lively mix of discussions, presentations and short tutorials. A computer is not required for this class. At the start of class, attendees will receive a printed handout that follows the presentation. Afterwards, they will be emailed a PDF of the complete presentation.