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Tweetworks TV Episode 61 – Social Media and the Local Business
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I spoke at a Nashoba Valley Chamber of Commerce event yesterday on the topic of using social media in a local business. The event was hosted at the Devens Common Center which is on part of the old Fort Devens. It’s a very cool place.
Huge thanks to Melissa Fetterhoff for inviting me to speak. It was a great honor.
Feel free to email me or tweet me at @MikeLangford if you like me to speak at your event.
Notes:
- Ed Manzi of Fidelity Bank (event sponsor) introduced me.
- I mentioned my post about creepy Twitter listening in response to a question from an audience member.
- If you need help customizing your Facebook presence for your business you should consider contacting Cappy Popp and John Maver of Thought Labs.
- Check out Gary Vaynerchuk’s interview on CNN. I used his “virtual cocktail party” analogy during my presentation. Gary offers a few other answers to the “Why use social media?” question.
- If you hate to write, don’t have the time to write or feel your writing needs some work, hire a professional writer like Jeff Cutler. Jeff can help you create robust content for your blog and other social media platforms.
- Attend social media events lke: Social Media Breakfast, PodCamp, and Tweetups. They’re not just for geeks and PR professionals. They are the perfect venues for you to meet other people interested in the topic.
Tweetworks TV Episode 57 – Girls in Tech Panel: Using Social Media in your Organization
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Tweetworks TV Episode 42 – Mike Langford Speaks at Social Media Jungle: Boston
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Here’s an interesting question, what happens when the other 90% of the population starts using the conversational web? I spoke at Social Media Jungle: Boston yesterday and floated the idea to a room full of marketers. Despite being the last speaker of the day, the discussion that followed was quite vibrant.
My observation, most of the people using conversational web tools are under 45, white and college educated. While this group makes up only 8.4% of the adult population in the United States, they seem to dominate on Twitter.
So, what do you think? How will the conversational web change when the mainstream population joins us?
Feel free to share your thoughts here in the comments section or jump over to the SMJBOS group on Tweetworks and tweet it up with people who were there.
Tweetworks TV Episode 37 – Numbers, T-Shirt and SMJBOS
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Sporting an “I Met @RealtyMan IRL” t-shirt, Mike Langford takes you through some cool Tweetworks numbers. Not the least of which is the number of visits generated from CSSMania’s profile of Tweetworks.
He also gives an overview of the upcoming Social Media Jungle:Boston event. If you are planning to attend join us in the SMJBOS group. If you haven’t yet bought your ticket and would like a special discount code, let Mike know and he’ll hook you up.
Here’s a list of the featured speakers:
- Jeff Pulver – “ Sometimes You need to be Vulnerable”
- C.C. Chapman – “It isn’t a numbers game. The human side of social media”
- Richard Dale – “Twitter as the universal information stream: What if the Twitter stream told us every time a can of soda is sold?”
- Joe Cascio – “The Compuserve Era of Social Media – when and how will it end?”
- Doug Levin – “Social commerce, sometimes referred to as R-commerce (relationship commerce).”
- Laura Fitton – “Social Media for Social Good”
- Steve Garfield – “New Media Tools you can use to tell your story RIGHT NOW!”
- Justin Levy – “ How Small Business can use Inbound Marketing/Social Media to Help Increase Their Business”
- Chris Penn – “It IS a numbers game – thinking about what numbers actually matter”
- Steven Dill – “Social Media Lessons Learned: From the perspective of a skeptical Online Marketer”
- Leslie Poston -”Bringing Generations Together For Success In The New Millennium”
- Matthew Mamet – “Using online video to strengthen your relationship with your online community.”
- Maria Thurrell – “Social Media: Make new friends but keep the old ones.”
- Mike Langford – “The evolution of conversation”
