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Good Afternoon! MIT Enterprise Forum Leaders/Volunteers

Web Tools and Social Networking: Building Global and Local Networks (or what the heck can I use Facebook for?!)

Who are you?

- 30ish - 50ish (young at heart) - Entrepreneur yourself - participating in one of the 24 EF’s - put on multiple events - motivate and recruit people - moderate to high tech savvy - volunteer (plus the other 4 jobs you have)

Who am I? (and more importantly why should you care)

I use the tools I like to share thinkjose.com flickr.com/thinkjose twitter.com/thinkjose

What will YOU get out of this?

Tools, stories, and things you can do now! ? = DO IT!

What are the points we will cover? (or how will I know when this thing is almost over)

(very brief Web 2.0 overview) 1. Story Time 2. Widgets 3. Senior Prom 4. Rock Hard Abs 5. Racin’ 5.5 ? & QA

Lets get moving...

What is Web 2.0? (insanely quick)

Why should I care?

$5 buzzwords

Actual real world stuff

?

Web 2.0

next gen online tools 1.0 - 2.0 - etc.

blog

RSS

wiki

fast hawaiian

Web 2.0 is also a shift in thinking

remixability

participation not publication

stand up

nobody listens

nobody cares about your marketing blah blah blah

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Real conversations with real people

shewwww....

1. Story Time

Whoever tells the best story wins...

Know your story

Social Networking = People Talking

Tell it creatively (and in lots of different ways)

All the senses...

Your story is not a Press Release!!!!

?

DO IT! -Tell a clear story (so others can easily tell it) -Use multimedia (audio, video, photo, etc.) All the time! (buy camera)

2. widgets

held verbal hostage

held textual hostage

info overload

google home page

RSS feeds

It’s all about me

?

DO IT! -Use RSS -Build a blog (wordpress.com)

3. Senior Prom

remember

The event!

Theme

Take Pictures & Video!

Celebrate and Capture!

?

DO IT! -Have interesting events -Capture the moments -Get a flickr account -Share your stories

4. rock hard abs

late nite tv

myspace = business app

google - linkedin - facebook - myspace - bebo - youtube -

social networking works...

usually for free.

?

DO IT! -Get an account -Join/make a group -Invite your friends/members

5. Racin’

thousands of rednecks can’t be wrong

SUZSWV = 19,026 views and 1,791 replies

BMS

?

DO IT! -Empower your members/volunteers (forums, wikis, etc.) -They are smarter than you

5.5 Tasty vs. Dry

Tasty Anecdotes vs. Data & Metrics

People are doing it!

Find a geek! (it may be you)

Social networking is...

you, me, and us.

Questions?

thank you [email_address]