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SOCIAL NETWORKING BY ALAN EVANS TWITTER - FACEBOOK – MYSPACE – SLIDESHARE - NING Why write anything about what you are doing? Who would read this stuff? What is the point? What does this mean for your business or your cause. It took on and whipped SIMON COWELL (PEOPLE POWER). Petitions, polls, internet campaigns have been overwhelmingly powerful and successful. SO WHAT IS IT ALL ABOUT? It keeps the public informed. It is for friends and family to communicate. It is to share updates, inform, converse, drive traffic to your website. It is a free account where you can follow people. Everything they say shows up on your screen. You follow them, they follow you, it is an endless chain of communication. For Marketing you need a good twitter name @sanclertimes You need a profile, name, details, biography, who are you, photo, logo your website. You then engage networks with people, inform people, find people you want to follow by subject or business or hobby areas. Your interests, e.g. tourism, photography, earth shifting machines, education. You can use it on any mobile device. Tweets increase traffic to your website. Update people with your special offers, your marketing, thank people, invite people. World wide events are being communicated before major news networks get there. Film on social networking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8 Film on social networking http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U MY DOCUMENTS ON SLIDESHARE Within minutes of uploading documents on Slideshare they have been viewed by the public. They get shared, embedded in websites and talked about. The Sancler Times has had more views on Slideshare in 3 months than it has for all the editions for the last year put together. Who would be interested in what you write? I uploaded a bus time table for St. Clears and within minutes it had been viewed 22 times. Within minutes of posting a calendar I shot for Help For Heroes, It received a hit every minute. This prompted a major online network to email me and congratulate me on achieving such popularity in such a short space of time. The result for me was that it drove more traffic to my website and that means more business. Hi Alan, Here's your contract. Can you sign and return by post? Many thanks, Peter Peter Lawson _Picture Editor Which? _2 Marylebone Road _London _NW1 4DF Tel - 020 7770 7859

MY SLIDESHARE REPORT FOR THREE MONTHS In 2009, you uploaded 57 presentations and got: • 5006 views • 88 average views per presentation • 2 favorites • 4 followers Your most popular presentation was: Sancler Times Issue 22 - 230 views My films on Youtube have been watched thousands of times. One film has had over 8,500 views. That is seven times the population of St. Clears. http://www.youtube.com/my_videos?pi=0&ps=20&sf=viewcount&sa=0&dm=1 HOW DO YOU GET TO NUMBER ONE IN THE RANKINGS? My business is relatively new yet it is at the top of the Google rankings. The Sancler Times website is also very new and has been receiving thousands of hits. People from around the world are looking at St Clears and sharing the information. I get requests for business from London based companies whereas I get hardly any local business. My physical presence has been placed into the shadows compared to my web presence. HOW MUCH DO YOU PAY FOR YOUR WEBSITE? Don’t have a website, do have a website? Who runs it? How much do you pay? What are you paying for? You can get it all for a fraction of the cost and be in total control of the content. Even if you have one you can get rid of the supplier and start a new one which will be better. The old name redirects to your new site. It is as easy as that. www.clikpic.com Paying for business cards, brochures, banners, T-shirts, etc. You don’t have to. www.vistaprint.com GAZHOO Gazhoo is an online marketplace for documents and files. All content on Gazhoo is uploaded by users. Search, preview, and instantly download files. You can make payments by credit card or Google checkout For Sellers, Make money online by selling your files: Upload and sell virtually anything in a file format. You sell your files to other users and get paid when other users purchase your files. Unlike traditional merchandise marketplaces on Gazhoo you can sell multiple copies of the same file or document. Upload all your files. Don't hold back. Use the multiple upload function (To select multiple files, use the ctrl or shift key on your PC, or apple or shift key on your Mac) and upload all your files. Input description, tags, price, copyright, and category for each of your files. You can also use the bulk setting to input information that applies to all documents. Create buzz. Utilize social

bookmarks, blogs, and document sharing sites to promote your files. Create a user account. It's totally free to sign up for gazhoo and this process is quick and easy. It should take you seconds to do. 30% commission. www.gazhoo.com TAGITO What the heck is Tagito? The way to sell your downloadable stuff from your blog, site or social network. Everything happens on your website, blog or social network. Your visitors buy directly from your site. Here at tagito.com you'll upload your files, and manage your listings. Then you use our cool, easy tools to promote them on your sites, blogs or social networks really fast. www.tagito.com BUSINESS 3.0 Business 3.0 is the first and only Social Business Network administrator on social networks, reaching over 350 million network users. Your business only needs to manage one backend to update your social business profile on all three social networks. Your profile is used to provide consumers with business information, product/service listings, conversations, contact info, news and much more! Social business profiles have many features and functions to help your business market and sell directly on social networks. Business 3.0 will never allow businesses to use mailers, spam, or any other method to attract users to their profile. Benefits: All linked to Facebook, Myspace and You can view statistics on all social networks, your business profile through the control panel. http://www.businessthree0.com MYSPACE MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends. Create a community on MySpace and you can share photos, journals and interests with your growing network of mutual friends. MY SPACE is for everyone: Friends who want to talk Online. Single people who want to meet other Singles. Matchmakers who want to connect their friends with other friends. Families who want to keep in touch--map your Family Tree. Business people and co-workers interested in networking. Classmates and study partners. Anyone looking for long lost friends! NING Ning is the social platform for the world's interests and passions online. Millions of people every day are coming together across Ning to explore and express their interests, discover new passions, and meet new people around shared pursuits. So easy, it just works. Get your Ning Network up and running in less than 30 seconds. Go viral. Exponential growth is in our DNA, and getting new members hooked is a breeze. Turn your passion into a business, or drive grassroots funding for your campaign or cause.

NING allows you to create a network where you can advertise your business through photos, texts, chat, videos, sales, events, members area, etc. Simple and effective. NETWORKING WITH OTHER COUNTRIES http://americymru.ning.com/ is an expat network worth joining Americymru Everything you need to know about Wales ( Travel Tips, History etc ) and the Welsh contribution to the building of America can be found right here! This is a work in progress. If you have any ideas for sites that should be included please join the Links Group and post a suggestion there or contact us using the form above. Welsh? of Welsh descent? Cymruphile? Why not join Americymru? All welcome. Croeso! 1850 members 608 discussions 5850 photos 855 Events 464 songs 1010 blog posts 493 videos or create your own network at http://www.ning.com XING – The business network Around the world every day, over 8 million business professionals use XING – the global business network – in 16 languages to do business and promote their career. XING makes networking and professional contact management simple, with made-to- measure networking functions and services. Even more, XING allows you to see how people are connected, which is an excellent tool in generating new contacts of your own._ _With the XING Jobs portal, more than 30,000 expert groups and networking events from London to Beijing to New York, XING has evolved from a platform to a web interface for business professionals around the world. https://www.xing.com/ SLIDESHARE SlideShare is a business media site for sharing presentations, documents and pdfs. SlideShare features a vibrant professional community that regularly comments, favorites and downloads content. Content also spreads virally through blogs and social networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook and twitter. Individuals & organizations upload documents to SlideShare to share ideas, connect with others, and generate leads for their businesses. Anyone can view presentations & documents on topics that interest them. The site is growing rapidly with over 17 million monthly visitors. SlideShare is the best way to get your slides out there on the web, so your ideas can be found and shared by a wide audience. Do you want to get the word out about your

product or service? Do you want your slides to reach people who could not make it to your talk? Are you a teacher looking to share your lesson plans? It only takes a moment - start uploading now, and let your slides do the talking! Some of the things you can do on SlideShare Embed slideshows into your own blog or website. Share slideshows publicly or privately. There are several ways to share privately. Synch audio to your slides. Market your own event on slideshare. Join groups to connect with SlideShare members who share your interests. Download the original file WIDGETS Badges which can be placed on your website to direct people to other realms on your networks. Most sites offer widgets. You get the code and embed it onto a page on your website. Here are some tips and tricks for effectively establishing a maximum-benefit network on XING in no time at all. 4 simple steps towards a strong personal network: Enter as much information in your profile as possible: Filling in your profile in full will help you get found by the right companies, headhunters and potential business partners. Add profile details now Make the most of XING’s personal matches: You automatically receive potential matches on XING based on the information in your profile: LINKEDIN http://uk.linkedin.com/in/alanevansphotography LinkedIn has over 55 million members in over 200 countries and territories around the world. A new member joins LinkedIn approximately every second, and about half of our members are outside the U.S. Executives from all Fortune 500 companies are LinkedIn members. Relationships Matter. Your professional network of trusted contacts gives you an advantage in your career, and is one of your most valuable assets. LinkedIn exists to help you make better use of your professional network and help the people you trust in return. Our mission is to connect the world’s professionals to make them more productive and successful. We believe that in a global connected economy, your success as a professional and your competitiveness as a company depends upon faster access to insight and resources you can trust. When you join, you create a profile that summarizes your professional expertise and accomplishments.

You can then form enduring connections by inviting trusted contacts to join LinkedIn and connect to you. Your network consists of your connections, your connections’ connections, and the people they know, linking you to a vast number of qualified professionals and experts. Through your network you can: Manage the information that’s publicly available about you as professional. Find and be introduced to potential clients, service providers, and subject experts who come recommended. Create and collaborate on projects, gather data, share files and solve problems. Be found for business opportunities and find potential partners. Gain new insights from discussions with likeminded professionals in private group settings. Discover inside connections that can help you land jobs and close deals. Post and distribute job listings to find the best talent for your company TWITTER FOR BUSINESS Every day, millions of people use Twitter to create, discover and share ideas with others. Now, people are turning to Twitter as an effective way to reach out to businesses, too. From local stores to big brands, and from brick-and-mortar to internet-based or service sector, people are finding great value in the connections they make with businesses on Twitter. When people working in the Empire State Building twittered that they were craving ice cream delivery, New York local chain Tasti D Lite was there to listen and meet their need. When electronics buyers look for good deals, the Dell Outlet Twitter account helps them save money with exclusive coupons. When Houston's coffee drinkers decide where to get their daily dose, many choose Coffee Groundz, which lets them order via Twitter. Read on to learn what Twitter is and to get detailed examples of how companies are using it. On these pages, we’ll also reveal how Twitter can help your business right now. So what does Twitter do for businesses? Twitter is a communication platform that helps businesses stay connected to their customers. As a business, you can use it to quickly share information with people interested in your company, gather real-time market intelligence and feedback, and build relationships with customers, partners and other people who care about your company. As an individual user, you can use Twitter to tell a company (or anyone else) that you've had a great—or disappointing—experience with their business, offer product ideas, and learn about great offers. So how does it work? Twitter lets you write and read messages of up to 140 characters, or the very length of this sentence, including all punctuation and spaces. The messages are public and you decide what sort of messages you want to receive—Twitter being a recipient driven information network. In addition, you can send and receive Twitter messages, or tweets, equally well from your desktop or your mobile phone. When you combine messages that are quick to write, easy to read, public, controlled by the recipient and exchangeable anywhere, you’ve got a powerful, real-time way to communicate. And

real-time communication is turning out to be ground-breaking for users and businesses alike. SPECIAL OFFER - TEA AND A WELSHCAKE 50p FROM 11 TIL MIDDAY @craftecentre Gets shared with all your followers, they share with others, they turn up, they buy. GOING TO TOWN AT 10 IF ANYONE NEEDS A LIFT RETURNING AT 2 @marystewart Shared with people you follow or in your group. They share, reply, organize and meet up.

CASE STUDY - THE SANCLER TIMES WEBSITE Created three months ago www.sanclertimes.com on a budget of £500 I created sections for the community and created a platform for the community to discuss issues within the community. There are photo galleries, Films, Opportunities to advertise and promote organizations, business and events. I linked the site to Twitter and Facebook and Slidehare. My Tweets appear on Twitter and are picked up and shared by my followers and their followers and so on. My Facebook comments follow the same process. I created a private group page on Slideshare for team members to discuss the creation of the Sancler times. The public can access any documents I upload if I enable it. They can also download the documents. Bus Timetable, Library opening Hours, etc. They can also have the documents read to them if they are visually impaired. I connected the site to Skype so that anyone can Skype me and have a chat. This is free and if I choose to I can see them as well as hear them. I can also share my computer screen. They can reciprocate if they wish. I then linked the website to an American network for Welsh ex pats. Within the three months the site has been accessed by someone in almost every country in the world. I have had conversations online with people in America, Romania, Patagonia, London, Ireland, Morocco and Sweden. Imagine the possibilities for tourism, business, friendships. Our children are learning it but not through schools. School have refused to allow children to freely access this digital media which will be the main source of employment within the next decade. There are jobs they must prepare for now which do not even exist yet. I want to show you a short film about what children think of this. What Kids Say About Digital Media http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_A-ZVCjfWf8 What Students Say About Learning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMcfrLYDm2U

ACTIVITIES GROUPS OF FOUR Exercise 1. Go to the following website www.sanclertimes.com and interact with the facebook facility. Make some comments about the website or some of the issues the editor has asked for feedback on. Exercise 2. Skype the editor of the sanclertimes. Have a chat using the typing facility Have a chat using the audio facility Have a chat using the video facility if you have a webcam Exercise 3. Go to the following website http://www.slideshare.net/Alanevans25364 and comment on some of the content as a guest. If you wish, join the site by creating a free account and then download some of the content you like. Exercise 4. Go to the following website http://www.ning.com and take a look at the possibilities. If you wish, open a free account and start to create your own network page. Exercise 5. Go to the following website and take a look www.twitter.com open a free account if you wish and start tweeting. Email someone with your details and ask them to follow you. Exercise 6. Go to the following website and take a look at some of the content. Interact with it if you wish. www.myspace.com/alanevansphotography MAJOR EXERCISE – CREATE A NETWORK ON NING.COM

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