Practical application of social media tools: How can blogs, Google Wave and other tools be used to advantage in your work


London
Price: £350 plus VAT     Level: 2
23/09/10 Book ›

introduction:

This one day course will take you through the most popular social media tools and how they can be best utilised in a business environment. It will look at the uses from gathering competitive intelligence and news to collaborative working environments. Emphasis is given to both using the tools to increase personal productivity and how to improve the provision of information to clients. The course is highly practical and by the end delegates will have produced a variety of resources that they can take back and use at work as well as gained an insight into the latest social media tools that are available and useful to them.

outcomes:

  • Understanding of social media tools and the advantage of their use in business
  • Ability to create your own media tools for use at work
  • Understanding and practical use of Google applications
  • Knowledge of the emerging and latest social media tools to come on to the market

programme:

  • Overview of social media technology - how social media changes what we do & how we do it
  • Creating a home/start page for personal use & for public facing content
  • Utilising RSS feeds to bring the information to you. Use in home pages & readers
  • Creating personalised & subject specific search engines
  • Blogs and wikis
  • Practical exercise - create a blog or wiki
  • Presentation software - creating and sharing content for presentations and screencasts
  • Google applications - Sidewiki, Google Docs, Google Wave
  • Breaking news! New and interesting applications

speaker:

Phil Bradley , Information Consultant

teaching style:

Interactive workshop

who should attend?

This course is for anyone with a knowledge of the internet who wishes to understand in more depth social media tools and how they can be used to advantage in a business context. The course presumes some existing knowledge of working with internet tools such as browsers, web pages etc.

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