Feeding that Inner Geek

Feeding That Inner Geek While Sharing Your Expertise and Interests Jim Cahill – Chief Blogger Deb Franke – Social Media Evangelist

Presenters Jim Cahill Deb Franke

Introduction

Geeks come in various flavors

They have an attitude of curiosity, interest in discovery and a willingness to share

The rise of the geeks – you won’t be alone

Google Reader

You don’t need a blog to share your thoughts and interests—Google Reader

A Google Reader example

You can share your Google Reader Shared Items page with others www.google.com/reader/shared/06690453844856516695

A toolbar bookmarklet lets you easily comment on any page you’re on

Delicious.com

Easily tag, save and share what interests you — Delicious.com example http://delicious.com

Be more productive and effective in your presentation development

Keep your professional accomplishments and network up-to-date with LinkedIn

Ask your network questions, answer them, keep up as changes occur

Your LinkedIn profile can become highly visible in the search engines.

Mobile Broadband

New Generation Broadband keeps you connected to Your Network – Always!

Twitter

Twitter extends your instant messages to your network of “followers”

We’re growing a DeltaV Twitter community—come join us! Wiki at: sites.google.com/site/deltav-twitterers

The intent is a public place to ask questions, get answers, link to things 140 characters means brief Q&A and TinyURL links for more info Question Answers

Examples of how you can use Twitter this week at Emerson Exchange Tag Twitter “tweets” with #EmEx and use search.twitter.com to see what others are saying and doing Announce impromptu meet ups Provide session feedback in real time with phone text messaging

Flickr

Share “How To” examples with Flickr photo sharing http://www.flickr.com/photos/stevewall/1095860966/

Share tutorials with Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/larajade/353212395/

You can create and use of private groups

Join the fun with Duncan@Play

YouTube

YouTube offers more than entertainment

Businesses are creating educational videos Video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwXMa8MAgFA

Professors share their classroom lectures Video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnunzdvezto

Step-by-step tutorials created by user communities help others learn Video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWYi4_COZMU

Guitar hero to guitar lessons – personal development for free Video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=flk8BpFIOSs&feature=related

FriendFeed

Pulling together and sharing your external presence—FriendFeed.com Friendfeed.com/JimCahill

Some examples of what’s possible when you share your interests and expertise

Where you can get more information

See http://delicious.com/DeborahFranke/EmEx2008 and http://delicious.com/JimCahillDotNet/EmEx2008

About the Presenters

Jim Cahill, Chief Blogger, Emerson Process Management

Authors Emerson Process Experts blog and manages marketing communications for the PSS.

Received BSEE from the University of Texas at Austin and MBA from the University of New Orleans. Worked 5 years in the offshore oil and gas business as systems engineer for Conoco before joining Fisher Controls. An original member of the DeltaV technology and marketing team.

Full bio available at: www.linkedin.com/in/JimCahill

About the Presenters

Deborah Franke, Social Media Evangelist, Emerson Process Management in beautiful Austin, Texas.

Authors the JustWhatWeNeed blog

Received BA from the University of Texas at Austin. Worked at Dun & Bradstreet and Robert Half International prior to joining the DeltaV Marketing team in 1999.