1. Planting, Growing and Evaluating Your Social Media Network “Seed Selection and Planting”

2. Blogs “I’ve got something to say…” WordPress www.wordpress.com www.wordpress.com – Most flexible Blogger www.blogger.com – Best for beginners TypePad www.typepad.com www.typepad.com – Many larger IT benefits

3. Microblogs “A thought just occurred to me…” Twitter www.twitter.com – 26 million monthly users – 80 million estimated monthly visitors (EMV) – Other sources cite over 25 million “tweets” per day

4. Twitter Apps “How do you keep track of all these Twitter feeds?” Tweetdeck www.tweetdeck.com www.tweetdeck.com – Desktop – iPhone Seesmic www.seesmic.com – Desktop, – iPhone, BlackBerry Uber Twitter www.ubertwitter.com – iPhone, BlackBerry

5. “Old School” Social Networking “So what’s been goin’ on?” Facebook www.facebook.com www.facebook.com – 3.1 billion EMV – 500 million active users, roughly half of whom log in daily – Personal profiles – “Professional” pages

6. But what about…? MySpace www.myspace.com www.myspace.com – Lost over 10 million users since January 2010 Gather www.gather.com – Rallied briefly in 2010 – Never has been strong

7. Professional Facebook for business people… sort of. Linked In www.linkedin.com www.linkedin.com – 62.7 million EMV – Free and Fee-based options – Many people under- estimate its potential

8. Social Bookmarking “You’ve really got to read this!” Digg www.digg.com – 45 million EMV Reddit www.reddit.com – 16.5 million EMV StumbleUpon www.stumbleupon.com – 16.5 million EMV del.icio.us www.delicious.com – 5.5 million EMV

9. Photo Sharing Hey, check out this picture I took!” Flicker www.flickr.com – 79 million EMV – Also has video sharing capabilities Photobucket www.photobucket.com www.photobucket.com – 55 million EMV Picasa www.picasa.google.com www.picasa.google.com – Monthly visitors: ???

10. Video Sharing Because just about all digital cameras record video now as well. Youtube www.youtube.com www.youtube.com – 175 million EMV Daily Motion www.dailymotion.com www.dailymotion.com – 13.4 million EMV Metacafe www.metacafe.com www.metacafe.com – 11.7 million EMV

11. Location Based Networking “I’m here. Where are you?” Foursquare www.foursquare.com – Network + game – Great for marketing locations or large brands Schmap www.schmap.com – Network + tool – Geotweet app for iPhone

12. Places You Can Find Me From Under My Hat www.jriutta.com Facebook www.facebook.com/fromundermyhat Twitter www.twitter.com/fromundermyhat or in “twitterese:”@fromundermyhat The Well-read Naturalist www.wellreadnaturalist.com Facebook www.facebook.com/wellreadnaturalist Twitter www.twitter.com/wellreadnat or in “twitterese:”@wellreadnat Linked In www.linkedin.com/in/johnriutta Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/bornagainbirdwatcher

13. Place You Can Find Notes to this Presentation www.jriutta.com Category: Travel & Adventures GWA 2010