creating an online presence
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Presentation for childbirth workers on how to best use Facebook, Twitter, and blogging to promote business.TRANSCRIPT
What is identity?
What is reputation?
How do you use them in
creating your presence?
Think about how you
want to represent
yourself
Commitment and
Participation
How's it all connected?
Building an audience
What We'll Cover
What is Identity?
What is Identity?
What is Identity?
Identity is the impression people online have of who you are, what you stand for, who you are affiliated with, and what you represent.
Once formed, due to the persistence of the internet, this identity is nearly impossible to change.
What is Reputation?
What do all definitions of reputation come back to?
Trust/Honor/Social Order
What is Reputation?
What is Reputation?
What is Reputation?
What is Reputation?
A Tale of Two Renters...– What do you buy on eBay? On Amazon?– LinkedIn... do you know anyone I know? What's your
work history?– Facebook Profile?– Google Search... which can turn up:
• University profiles/thesis/dissertation• Newspaper articles• Blog entries written and written about• Public records/property
ownership/taxes/registrations/affiliations
How Do You Use Them?
Make sure your identity and your reputation are congruent.
Make sure your trail only leads places you want it to, and that nothing is going to pop up to surprise you later.
In short... control your own press
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Represent!
How do you want to represent yourself?
What is your public face, and why?– Voice and
Authenticity as currency “Pretentious” by muxloek
www.flickr.com
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Represent!Voice and Authenticity as currency: MediaInfluencer
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Represent!Voice and Authenticity as currency: MediaInfluencer
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Represent!Voice and Authenticity as currency: MediaInfluencer
Commitment and Participation:
why setting up a profile isn't enoughYou must create a body of work to
support your representation– Twitter – at least four a day
• blogfodder• credibility
Commitment and Participation:
why setting up a profile isn't enoughYou must create a body of work to
support your representation– Blog -- three a week
• maintains interest and focus• keeps you timely
How's It All Connected?
Find yourself on Google
How's It All Connected?
Find yourself on Google
How's It All Connected?
Find yourself on Technorati
How's It All Connected?
Find your context within those, and adjust your participation/reputation accordingly – Online Communities– Blog, blog, blog!
Building An Audience
Know the community– What kinds of people would be on your
blogroll?– What are those people saying? – Who is most referenced within those
blogs?– Who has the highest Technorati rating?– Who has the most traffic?– Who has the best SEO?
Building An Audience
Know the traffic– Who reads your blog?– How did they find you?– What are they saying about you in their
blogs? (And if they aren't saying anything... fix that!)
Building An Audience
What's a trackback?“A Trackback is one of three types of Linkbacks, methods for Web authors to request notification when somebody links to one of their documents. This enables authors to keep track of who is linking, and so referring, to their articles. Some weblog software programs, such as Wordpress, Movable Type, Typo and Community Server, support automatic pingbacks where all the links in a published article can be pinged when the article is published. The term is used colloquially for any kind of Linkback.” -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trackback
Building An Audience
Trackback etiquette
Building An Audience
Trackback etiquette
Building An Audience
Search -- Why you never want to use search results as your primary audience-building technique
Building An Audience
Signature Files
Building An Audience
Blog Carnivals– A blog carnival is a type of blog event. It is similar to a magazine,
in that it is dedicated to a particular topic, and is published on a regular schedule, often weekly or monthly. Each edition of a blog carnival is in the form of a blog article that contains permalinks links to other blog articles on the particular topic.
– There are many variations, but typically, someone who wants to organize a carnival posts details of the theme or topic to their blog, and asks readers to submit relevant articles for inclusion in an upcoming edition. The host then collects links to these submissions, edits and annotates them (often in very creative ways), and publishes the resulting round-up to his or her blog.
– Many carnivals have a home page or principal organizer, who lines up guest bloggers to host each edition. This means that the carnival travels, appearing on a different blog each time.
– Communities of blog readers, writers, and edition hosts form around specific carnivals. The carnivals provide an aggregation of recent posts by the community on a given topic, and the host provides a level of editing and annotation that helps readers find posts they are interested in. Writers who submit their articles to blog carnivals are rewarded with traffic (if the host decides to give them a link and, perhaps, a positive review).
Building An Audience:Basic Feed Readers
Google Reader http://www.google.com/reader/
FeedReader3 http://www.feedreader.com/
Other Choices http://email.about.com/od/rssreaderswin/tp/top_rss_windows.htm
For More Information and Explanationhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aggregator
Now get out there and be present!