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How to Use Social Media to Get More Business

Tuesday, April 14, 2009 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (ET)

Laurel, MD

How to Use Social Media to Get More Business

Ticket Information

Ticket Type Sales End Price Fee Quantity
DCWW Member Ended $15.00 $0.99
Not DCWW Member Ended $20.00 $0.99

Event Details

Social media is “hot” and if you are not “with it” yet, this session talks broadly about what social media is and what it is not.

Participants will learn all about the big topics like social networks, blogs, podcasts, micro-messaging, social bookmarking, video, and picture sharing. In addition, you will see examples of the tools available for each area and how they are used at Network Solutions to reach customers and prospects.

Takeaway from the session will be a plan to listen, participate and contribute and in the process create a presence that should lead to more connection, community participation and an indirect goal to get more business

SPEAKER BIO

Shashi Bellamkonda works for Web hosting company, Network Solutions, as the first-ever Network Solutions 'Social Media Swami'. In this position he has helped Network Solutions aggressively move into the online space to actively listen to and interact with its customers. This push paid off when Network Solutions won the 2008 SNCR Excellence in New Communications Award for Online Reputation Management/Corporate Division.

A prolific Twitterer, blogger, and product innovator, Shashi loves technology, testing new things and helping people and small businesses. A self-described 'Internet junkie,' Shashi has presented previously on 'How to Sell Social Media to Your Boss' and 'Social Media Tools for Small Business.' Shashi started his blog to keep his many on and offline friends up to date on the coolest new things to check out and answer their questions on social media and technology including things like how to prevent popups, how to avoid viruses, how to save computers from hackers, and the ever popular 'Why is my computer freezing?' A resident of Maryland, Shashi Bellamkonda speaks 7 languages and ardently works to turn his hobbies into his profession. His blogs are: blog.networksolutions.com and http://www.shashi.name.

WHEN: Tuesday, April 14, 2009
TIME: 6:30 networking; 7 pm program starts
WHERE: Aquilent in Laurel, MD
WHO: Open to all
COST: $15 for DCWW Members
$20 for non-DCWW Members

 

DIRECTIONS:

 

* From I-95 (N toward BALTIMORE)
* Merge onto MD-198 E via exit number 33A toward LAUREL
* At the first traffic light, turn Left onto VAN DUSEN RD (use outside left turn lane)
* At the next light, make a Slight Right and merge onto OLD SANDY SPRING RD
* Follow OLD SANDY SPRING RD for approximately 1/10 of a mile to WEST ST
* Make a Slight Right onto WEST ST (you will see Pi's Deli in front of you as your turn right onto West Street)
* The office park is on the Right, continue past the first entrance with the Aquilent sign
* Turn right at the 3rd entrance to the office park at the green 95 Office Center sign
* Make an immediate left turn into the conference center parking lot
* The conference center is a one story building (red accents at entry) There is a little sign in the window that says Aquilent