Social Bits will be running a workshop on how to use Facebook for your business. This workshop will take place Wednesday the 9th of June. If you are new to Facebook and want to learn how to use Facebook for your business this afternoon workshop will cover both the basics from how to use Facebook to build community and draw people to your website and products. This workshop is open to all business individuals who are thinking of using Facebook to promote their local business in the global online marketplace.
Workshop details
- Introduction to Facebook
- Statistics on Facebook usage
- What businesses use Facebook?
- Anatomy of Facebook
- Facebook Like page & button
- Facebook Ads
- Facebook applications
- Facebook Connect
- Facebook insights
- Building and retaining a community around your business
Details
- Date: 9th of June 2010
- Time: 2:00pm – 5:30 pm
- Location: Webworks, First Floor, Foster Street, Fairgreen, Galway
- Cost: €150
Educator

Ina O’ Murchu has spent the last seven years in both the Social Web and Semantic Web space. She graduated from DERI, the largest Semantic Web Institute in the world, based in Galway on the west coast of Ireland. She also worked at DERI as a Social Media consultant. She did her research in Social Networks, Social Media and Semantic Web technologies. She completed her MSc “Connecting Local Community Groups with Semantic Web Technologies” using the Galway City Community Forum as a use case, whilst there and has several publications on Social Networks and the Semantic Web. She is an early adopter of technologies and is passionate about the Social Web space.
