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Social Media Trading Workshop Schedule 2012

February 18, 2012 Social Media Workshops No comments

photo by Search Engine People Blog

Social Media Trading holds workshops for beginners in the different social media platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+ and blogging. All of the workshops are held in Lonehill, Johannesburg from 09h00-12h00 and are R500 per person. The classes are facilitated by Karen Lancaster and there are only 6 people per session to ensure personal attention.

By the end of the workshop, you will understand the basics of the particular social media platform covered. You would have set up your own page or account and will know how to maintain and market it.

Everyone brings their own laptop and practically works on it during the workshop. It is a relaxed, non-threatening environment and many online friendships have been formed in past workshops.

Here is the new schedule for the social media workshops in 2012:

March

Sat 10^th– Facebook Fundamentals

Tue 13^th – Basics of Blogging

April

Sat 7^th – Twitter 4 Twits

Tue 17^th – Get to Grips with Google+

May

Sat 12^th – Facebook Fundamentals

Tue 15^th – LinkedIn Logic

June

Sat 9^th – Basics of Blogging

Tue 12^th – Twitter 4 Twits

July

Sat 14^th – Facebook Fundamentals

Tue 17^th – Get to Grips with Google+

August

Tue 14^th – LinkedIn Logic

Sat 18^th – Twitter 4 Twits

September

Tue 11^th – Twitter 4 Twits

Sat 15^th – Facebook Fundamentals

October

Sat 13^th – Twitter 4 Twits

Tue 16^th – Basics of Blogging

November

Sat 10^th – Facebook Fundamentals

Tue 13^th – Get to Grips with Google+

Please contact me at karidbn@gmail.com to book your place.

Social Media Trading Workshop Schedule 2012

February 18, 2012 Social Media Workshops No comments

photo by Search Engine People Blog

By the end of the workshop, you will understand the basics of the particular social media platform covered. You would have set up your own page or account and will know how to maintain and market it.

Everyone brings their own laptop and practically works on it during the workshop. It is a relaxed, non-threatening environment and many online friendships have been formed in past workshops.

Here is the new schedule for the social media workshops in 2012:

March

Sat 10^th– Facebook Fundamentals

Tue 13^th – Basics of Blogging

April

Sat 7^th – Twitter 4 Twits

Tue 17^th – Get to Grips with Google+

May

Sat 12^th – Facebook Fundamentals

Tue 15^th – LinkedIn Logic

June

Sat 9^th – Basics of Blogging

Tue 12^th – Twitter 4 Twits

July

Sat 14^th – Facebook Fundamentals

Tue 17^th – Get to Grips with Google+

August

Tue 14^th – LinkedIn Logic

Sat 18^th – Twitter 4 Twits

September

Tue 11^th – Twitter 4 Twits

Sat 15^th – Facebook Fundamentals

October

Sat 13^th – Twitter 4 Twits

Tue 16^th – Basics of Blogging

November

Sat 10^th – Facebook Fundamentals

Tue 13^th – Get to Grips with Google+

Please contact me at karidbn@gmail.com to book your place.

Social Media Trading has joined Home Page Pays

February 14, 2012 Home Page Pays No comments

In these difficult times when everyone is desperately trying to keep their heads above water, we have decided to expand Social Media Trading’s services to include Home Page Pays to offer more value and opportunities to our clients.

Home Page Pays is a worthy product from Smart Media Technologies that gives us the opportunity to earn money while we browse the internet. It has a host of other features as well, so watch the video to get more info.

We are very excited to be a part of this and invite you to visit our Home Page Pays page for your free browsing experience.

Social Media 2012

January 7, 2012 Social Media No comments

2012 will be a year of leaps and jumps in social media. Social media is definitely here to stay and it is forging forward at an incredible pace that makes it difficult for the man in the street to keep up. The following are some of the areas to look out for during the year.

The Expansion of Social Media Sites

Whereas previously Facebook, Twitter and Blogging were the major players in social media, there are now a whole new set of social media sites that have joined the race, such as Foursquare, Google+ and Steply. There are also many sharing sites now that focus on particular topics such as Goodreads for booklovers and GetGlue for entertainment. The best is to to look up the new sites and decide which will suit your needs best and stick to three or four sites. Otherwise, it becomes extremely time consuming. Rather focus on what works best for you.

The Growth of Photo and Video Sites

Photosharing and video sites have had phenomenal growth and are likely to continue to grow in popularity in 2012. Photosharing sites like Instagram, Steply and others are great fun and are becoming part of the social network experience. YouTube, which has always been popular, has become more of a social media tool recently.

The Use of Scheduling Apps

Third party apps that allow you to schedule your Facebook posts and tweets are also growing in popularity as the amount of posts becomes more important. Many of them are including Google+ as well. Buffer seems to be the app that is highlighted the most these days.

Keeping Up with the Social Media Sites

The biggest challenge is to keep up with all of the continual changes with the social media sites. We are becoming accustomed to Facebook’s regular changes, but now Twitter and YouTube have also joined the ranks with new changes to help the user get the most out of using the site. The best way to stay abreast of the changes is to keep playing with the sites and using them as much as possible. Subscribe to a few good social media sites and read a lot too.

Trying to Keep Up with Social Media

November 18, 2011 Uncategorized 2 comments

One of the greatest challenges of social media is the effort it takes to keep up to date. Every time we seem to get the hang of a social media platform, it changes and we seem to start all over again.

Take Facebook as an example. In the last year there have been so many changes, both known and not so well known. A couple of months back every wall on Facebook was full of comments moaning about the changes, but the moans have vanished now as everyone became accustomed to the new look. But be careful, don’t relax too much, because there are changes about to reveal themselves yet again.

So, how do we keep up?

Play with Social Media

Well in my very humble experience, I find the best way is to firstly keep playing with social media. The more I play, the more I learn and discover. No real shortcuts and rather time-consuming, but a lot of fun.

Subscribe to Blogs and Newsletters

Secondly, subscribe to a few good blogs that deal with social media. Many of them send out regular newsletters that are packed full of news and view and all the latest social media happenings.

Facebook, Twitter, and Google+

I find many interesting updates on my Facebook wall, Twitter timeline and Google+ stream. Everyone else is keeping up to date, and by reading their links, I also keep abreast of the latest news.

LinkedIn Groups

Join a few LinkedIn groups that are about social media. It is also a source of what’s new and happening in the social networking scene.

The big trick is to have the time to go through all of these articles, but as we learn to scan-read faster and faster, so it becomes feasible. The articles that are most interesting are worth pursuing a little further. As the info gathers in our heads, we find that we are becoming familiar with this wonderful networking world, and believe it or not, are almost keeping up with social media!