Social Bits will be running a special workshop for the unemployed on Thursday, May 20th.
In the current economic climate we are offering a workshop that aims to help people that are currently unemployed in how to learn and apply the use of Social Media for building their brand online. Social Media tools are a great way to set up a business on the Web and help you go about promoting your website online. So whether you want to build and promote your own personal brand or sell your artwork or publish that unfinished novel – Social Media is a great way to do it.
Web 2.0 technology can seem very daunting – you must learn new technology, new terminology and look at new ways to target potential clients and learn how to brand your product or new service online. It is not very easy to master the learning curve for these activities easily. We are tailoring a half day package for anyone interested in learning new Social Media skills to make it easy. The workshop aims to educate and inform people on how they can go about promoting their new projects that they are working on and helping those projects to become a reality in the online world whilst they are unemployed. We are located above the Galway coach station , so if you wanted to, you could also travel cheaply to get to us for the half day by coach from anywhere in Ireland.
Essential
Please bring your Social Security card and ID (Drivers License or Passport) on the day.
Details
- Date: 20th of May 2010
- Time: 2:00pm – 5:00 pm
- Location: Webworks, First Floor, Foster Street, Fairgreen, Galway
- Cost: €30
Value
We will introduce you to all core Social Media tools such as Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube and Twitter. We will show you their importance and how you can start to build up a community and build an online presence with them. We will introduce you to the world of blogging and show how many bloggers have used both blogging and Social Media to promote themselves online and build a profile online.
Take aways:
- Introduction to how to use all core Social Media tools Facebook, Twitter, YouTube etc – especially LinkedIn to help you look for work online.
- Blogging – Understand and get it! How to setup your own blog.
- Personal branding online – how to do it properly.
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.
