In case you missed the series of classes starting this week. Don’t fret. Another series of classes for the Social Media Marketing Framework starts next week. You’re in luck. If you want to join the road runner and his blue bird friends for 4 sessions of being social, contact Chief here.
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Is it “Beep, beep” or “Tweet, tweet?”
Even Wile E. Coyote needs a little help when it comes to Social Media. Are you thinking it might be time to understand what this stuff is all about? You’re in luck. The next series of classes for the Social Media Marketing Framework starts this week. If you want to join Wile and his friends for 4 sessions of being social, contact Chief here.
Catching a Social Media Class and other 30 km/hr endeavors
What goes fast, eats snakes, and knows how to network?
YES!
You guessed it, the Social Media Bloggerfly’s cousin, the Roadrunner. Don’t take social media lessons from any old wily coyote. Our next series of Social Media Bloggerfly classes start this week! The series of weekly, two hour classes run four consecutive weeks. With all four sessions you will develop a Twtter, Facebook, Linkedin, and WordPress account. You will also tie all these together in a nifty, speedy, and focused system for broadcasting your marketing message into the new realm of social media. You will also link up your social media accounts into one tidy viewport with Tweetdeck. Email Chief if you would like to sign up.
Holy Betamax Batman, it’s a YouTu Bee!
SCENE
The Bat Cave
Batman: “Yes Robin, Apis Videre, a highly intelligent, busy marketer that knows the value of a moving picture is worth a thousand words a thousand fold.”
Robin: “Sounds like a riddle to me.”
Batman:”Quite correct Robin, but don’t be fooled by his tricky nature.”
Robin:”What should we do Batman?”
Batman:”I’m afraid Robin, there is little we can do. This little stinger is just too much for our Bat brains to handle”
Robin:”The next thing you know he will be sporting QR codes on his wings!!”
Batman:”Robin! That’s it! Yes, you better load the QR scanner app into the Bat-phone. You very well have found our only chance…”
— TO BE CONTINUED —
Cut to Announcer
Will Batman find courage to take on the YouTuBee?
Will Robin dig out his Betamax player?
Will the Bat-phone have enough memory?
FIND OUT in the next episode!
Well, you don’t have to wait for the next episode. The next YouTu Bee class will begin this Wednesday at 5:00pm at the Cyber Wigwam. If you are interested in adding YouTube to your social media marketing plan then this is the class for you. Email here to sign up.
Holy Facebook, Batman, it’s a Social Media Bloggerfly!
The BATCOMPUTER has located the source of the Social Media Bloggerfly. Lept Like A Blog has scheduled the popular, back by demand, class on Social Media Marketing for February. Batman and Robin have signed up for the next series of classes at the Cyber-Wigwam.
“Holy Batcave, Batman, this is just like home”
So pack up your batbelt and batlaptop and head to the Cyber-Wigwam for a series of four sessions to get your Social Media Marketing compaign launched for 2011. In four short sessions you too can be a social media bloggerfly. Learn how to easily reach those potential clients out of the 1.8 billion users on the Internet.
“Holy Insects, Batman, there’s a Billion of ’em out there!!”
See how your social media tools can get people to know, like, and trust you while you sleeping or hanging out, upside down, in the cave!
Two, four session series start Wednesday, February 16:
one from 9-11 am and
one from 5-7pm. Pick the time that works best for you.
The remaining classes meet February 23, March 2, and March 9, 2011. Sign up today or request more information by batemail here. Or pick up the batphone and call Tom at 815-985-7075 and get registered.
YouTu be or Not tuBe?
That is the question.
Should you consider adding a YouTube channel to your marketing campaign? Here’s the Pro’s and Con’s.
PROs
- Increased Exposure. YouTube currently has 2 BILLION views per day. Even with a million to one odds that means you could reach a potential 2000 viewers.
- Picture’s worth a thousand words. If you have a 2 minute video with 30 frames per second that’s 3,600,000 words!
- Increasing audience. In the last 30 years the number of people watching the news and TV has dropped by 50%. What are they doing? They are on the Internet instead.
CONs
- Increased Exposure. If you really don’t want people to know about your business or what you do or how happy your customers are don’t bother to consider YouTube. Increasing the awareness of your product or service could only bring new potential customers.
- Picture’s worth a thousand words. Potential customers might actually understand what you do. You may not want them to.
- Increasing audience. You can spend your money on “traditional” advertising avenues like TV that has 50% of the audience it had 30 years ago. You can leverage, negatively, your advertising dollars to reach increasingly fewer customers. What a bargain!
The techs at the cyber wigwam have put together a new series of classes for 2011 that help introduce you to YouTube. And just like the Social Media marketing framework, Social Media Bloggerfly, you can now be a You Too Bee with a new 4-class series focused on YouTube. The new series of classes are scheduled to start in February, 2011. Stay tuned to a YouTube channel close to you!
2 handed blogging – List of efficiency keys
Does Cutting and Pasting seem too tedious?
- Is your left hand jealous of the right hand always having the mouse? Cutting and pasting can go lickedy-split if you get both the right hand and the left hand doing something. Did you realize that both Apple and IBM have short cut keys for that left hand to participate? Speed up your blog typing and let your fingers follow your brain faster by getting used to these handy shortcuts. The letters themselves don’t necessarily make a lot of sense but are placed so that it is easy for the left hand to manipulate. The letters used are on the lower left of the keyboard: Z, X, C, and V. For the computer to realize you want to do something special the ctrl (control) key is used on windows oriented keyboards. For Apple the “apple key” is used located to the left of the space
bar. The short cuts are: - Ctrl-Z is undo
- Ctrl-X is cut
- Ctrl-C is copy
- Ctrl-V is paste
And for those adventurous types you can venture from the bottom row and Ctrl-A is select all.
How to add a picture to your blog post
Are you in the habit of inserting a picture in your blog post?
You may have heard that adding an image to your blog post is one of the simplest ways to help attract people to read your post. WordPress makes it easy to add an image to your post. Lept Like A Blog has made it even easier! We have posted a video that reviews the procedure in a quick 3 minutes. Forgot how it goes? Don’t fear, you can watch the video. And it is always there when you forget the next time. Click here to watch.
USB security, simple as 1-2-3
Have you ever thought about what would happen if you lost your USB memory stick? Do you have sensitive information on it? Maybe you don’t keep information there normally but for some reason had ‘temporarily’ put a file on it with your bank account number or credit card number. And it is still hanging around because you are too lazy to delete it or just forgot. One of Lept Like A Blog’s friends, Business Coach Holly Hanson, presented to local small businesses her “10 steps for client attraction” at Associated Bank. During the same session, Audrey Engelbrecht, Assistant VP-Treasury Management, retold some recent, sad tales about fraud. Her message was that fraud is a growing threat particularly when it comes to credit card and bank account numbers. Especially in today’s economy, the temptation for ‘people in need’ that have access to your bank numbers and use them without your permission is greater than ever. Audrey highlighted one nifty device for foiling a thief to capture banking information off your USB stick. It is a USB cap with a combination locking mechansim. You insert your USB memory stick in the device, spin the tumblers, and feel secure until only you want to use it again. There are many varieties on-line even some memory sticks with the locking mechanism built in.
Bloggers unite for Blog Action Day
Bloggers aound the world as well as Council Blogs have raised the awareness for topics of social concern. What a neat idea! Using social media to raise awareness about social issues. The 2010 topic is water. You can read the water post at Council Blogs and link to all the blogger’s site and read their take on water. You can click here or the picture on the left and see what bloggers from the international community are saying about water.