What do you need to know about social media as a volunteer program manager? How can you use sites like Facebook, and Twitter to promote your volunteer opportunities and recruit volunteers? This webinar will offer an introduction to including social media in your volunteer recruitment and retention plans. You'll also learn about the social media tools available in your VolunteerMatch account that help you promote your volunteer opportunity on other social networking sites.

Join Andrea Vahl and B. Hopkins on June 24th at 1:00PM Mountain Time (3:00PM Eastern) on this Webinar where they will discuss some of the more powerful Twitter strategies in getting your product and service in front of your target market on twitter.

Webinar attendees will learn:

* How to build an engaged Twitter following
* Twitter best practices
* Tracking your Twitter ROI
o (Knowing how to do this will keep you from wasting hours of useless tweeting)
* Creating buzz for your Twitter event.
* What do you Tweet about

As an added bonus, the first 50 registrants will receive:

* Social Networking Exposed! - Ebook on Social Media

Twitter 101

Learn all the basics to starting your branding campaign on Twitter.

- How gain followers.
- Trending topics.
- Utilizing Twitter functions like Twitter lists.
- The best desktop and mobile Twitter clients and applications.
- Peak times for Twitter usage.
- Coordinate Twitter feeds with other social networks like Facebook and blogs.
- The power of retweeting.
- Using keywords and hashtags.
- How to monitor conversations about your industry and/or business.
- How to schedule campaigns.
- The best Twitter ad networks and promotional companies to use.
- How to identify the most influential users based on your industry.
- Brief overview of successful Twitter campaigns launched by major brands, popular case studies.

****All participants are eligible to win a free Flipcam!

To register of for more details, visit http://bit.ly/smswebinars.

Topics to be discussed

* Social Media as an Event Service
* Before Your Event: Blogging, Microblogging, Facebook, Foursquare, LinkedIn
* During Your Event: Geo-location Microblogging, Non-invasive Data Collection, Mobile Technologies
* After Your Event: Customer Service, Media Distribution, Feedback Gathering
* Tips on Integrating Social Media into Your Event

Sign up for the Webinar or classroom sessions before May 14 to save $10!

LinkedIn or Left Out?
Power Workshop on Using Social Networking to Get a Job
How to Maximize Your Use of Facebook, LinkedIn,
and Twitter to Stand Out in the Crowd

Heard the buzz about online social networks like LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook?

Did you know many people are using them to get jobs? Yes, even Facebook!

Online Social Networking was ranked by recent hires as the #1 job-getting strategy, beating in-person networking by a wide margin!

Attend this Power Workshop and learn how you can use Web-based social networks to build professional relationships – even if you don’t know the first thing about them – and learn how to use these relationships to find your next job.

* Each Power Workshop session is limited to 25 attendees to enable personal attention

* Not in the Twin Cities? Attend the simultaneous Virtual Power Session over the Web - unlimited number can attend

Classroom rate: $125
Webinar rate: $65

We have two upcoming sessions at 2 pm and 5:30 pm on Thursday, May 28th. Sessions are held at:

The Commerce Building, 2nd Floor Conference Room
8200 Humboldt Avenue So.
Bloomington, MN 55431
Located near the junction of 494 and 35W

Go in the West entrance and take the elevator to the second floor

Sign up at www.linkedinsolutions.com!

Hear from Anamitra Bannerji of Twitter and Chris Abraham of Abraham Harrison about how to use Twitter effectively in a professional context.

Twitter is all the rage, with celebrities, politicians and business leaders all jumping on the chance to provide real time information and feedback to their followers. But naysayers have questioned its value as a serious communications tool for change.

Find out the techniques and strategies for effective Twitter use that can make the difference between success and failure, that can dramatically drive up understanding and communication of your message. Learn what to avoid so you don't run into social or legal trouble.

This webinar will provide you with positive techniques to
- Grow your Twitter audience
- Provide more effective and better 'tweets'
- Get your tweets picked up, passed on and discussed
- Stay focused on core values

Speakers
Chris Abraham, AbrahamHarrison. Chris is President and COO of Abraham Harrison and is a leading expert in online public relations with a focus on blogger outreach, blogger engagement, and Internet reputation management. He is a pioneer in online social networks and publishing.

Anamitra Bannerji, Twitter. Anamitra works on commercial applications of Twitter as part of the Twitter product management team.

Moderator
Owen Linderholm, WebinarAce. Owen is a web content strategy expert specializing in new media, social networking and new approaches to content on the web. He has produced and moderated dozens of webinars for organizations large and small.

This webinar will take place live on Thursday April 30th at 1 PM EST and 10AM PST. It will include audience participation in the form of live polls and a live question and answer session. It will be recorded and the recorded version will be made available within 48 hours for on demand viewing.

Those of you wanting to ask questions or follow the discussion from April the 30th, please use hashtag #twiz

Social Media Marketing is not just about advertising, it’s about Socializing! It is about creating robust, interconnected platforms and channels that embed high-quality content into the social web, building a community of “friends", and communicating with those friends in a way that encourages meaningful and measurable online and offline behaviors.

Join us for a one hour webinar where Harry J. Gold, CEO of Overdrive Interactive, will frame the Social Media webinar within the following areas: blog outreach and monitoring, social network profile and content channel creation, monitoring and maintenance, social media measurement, friend and fan outreach, and hyper-targeted social media buying. The presentation will include real case studies from top companies who use Blogs, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube to weave their content and messages into the web and make lasting connection with consumers.