Social Media for McHenry County | April M. Williams | CyberLifeTutors
Craft Your Social Media Strategy! The Internet Marketing Intensive is a complete internet marketing series that will help businesses integrate various internet tools into an overall marketing strategy. We focus on small business, authors, sole proprietors or non profits and how to make the most out of small marketing budgets.
Class starts April 2, 2012 and runs 6 weeks. No fooling!
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Free LinkedIn class for professionals at Algonquin Public Library.
Are you on LinkedIn and wonder, ” Now what?”
See how you can leverage those connections for your career.
Learn how to leverage your LinkedIn network to discover the hidden job market and join groups to increase your chances of being found by recruiters.
April M. Williams demonstrates how to make the most of your LinkedIn profile. This is a hands on session and computers are provided. Students must already have a profile and a minimum of five contacts.
Class is at the Algonquin Area Public Library District main library located at, 2600 Harnish Dr, Algonquin, IL. Call the library 847.458.6060to register for more information. Seating is limited.
The best way to see what is next at CyberLife Tutors is to check our Events Calendar for upcoming programs, workshops, presentations and keynotes.
Is there a program you would like to see? Ask you library, association or company to hire us to bring the program to you. See our CyberLife Tutors recent speaking engagements.
Here’s a sample of our events in the next few weeks. Visit our CyberLife Tutors calendar for details.
3/28 – Social Media Roundtable
4/2 – Craft Your Social Media online class begins
4/4 – Leverage LinkedIn: Don’t be Linked Out Webinar
4/25 – Social Media Roundtable
4/26 – Define Your Social Media Strategy
4/29 – LinkedIn Advanced for Professionals
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My friends at Fine Featherheads know how to create a Facebook community. The Fine Featherheads Facebook page is always buzzing with activity and comments from their fans.
What keeps fans coming back to their page? It is a fun destination! Use of lots of pictures are visually appealing to read. Frequent visitors know there are often chances to win products too. The Fine Featherhead Family makes an effort to respond to comments from their fans in a timely manner. Visit their page and let them know I sent you.
Fine Featherheads are best known for their feather hair extensions and ship both retail and to salons around the world. Dakota and her partner Ryan visit campuses and beauty shows near and far. Check out their Fine Featheheads blog to read about their adventures.
Who are the Fine Featherheads? Fine Featherheads was first born in early 2010 when founder Dakota Hills started selling feathers at concerts and farmers markets in Boulder, CO with her sister Dana. Dakota quickly saw the greater potential of these beautiful creations and started visiting salons across the country to show off her product. The product literally sold itself and word spread like wildfire.
Now Dakota has a whole staff and the Fine Featherhead Family assists her with production, packaging, shipping and customer service. Check out the Fine Featherheads on Facebook.
Hangouts is a popular Google Plus feature where up to 10 people can video chat online together at one time. To get started, log into your Google Plus account.
Used to facilitate group video chat with a maximum of 10 people participating in a single Hangout at any point of time. However, anyone on the web could potentially join the ‘Hangout’ if they have the unique URL of the Hangout.
Start your hangout from the stream anytime by whenever you want by clicking on “Start a Hangout” or go to plus.google.com/hangouts.
In the “green room”, adjust your camera and add others to your Hangout. No one can see you while you’re in the green room. Once you click the green Hang Out button your video feed will be broadcast to those you selected.
Note, the first time you use Google Plus Hangouts, your computer will download and install Google voice and video plugin.
System requirements for Google Plus Hangout plugin are Windows XP+, Mac OS X 10.5+, or Linux.
Do you find your days sometimes slip by before you know it? And your to-do list remains undone?
Learn how to be productive instead of busy. April M. Williams will share proven time management techniques to increase your daily productivity. Align your top priorities with your daily activities to achieve short and long term goals. Set goals and maintain focus to keep things in perspective. Develop a personal action plan with strategies and techniques to handle procrastination and interruptions.
“Winter is a time so many people vow to get and keep themselves organized,” said Lisa Guidarini, MLS, Adult Program Coordinator at Algonquin Area Public Library District. “Author April M. Williams effectively manages her business, coaching, teaching and personal life and we look forward to learning her time management techniques.”
The Algonquin Library hosts this session at their main location on Harnish on Sunday March 18 from 2-4PM. The session is free through registration is required. Contact the Algonquin Library at (847) 458-6060 or register online at http://www.aapld.org.
FACEBOOK TIMELINES: Facebook is converting all Business Pages to the new Timeline format on March 30, 2012.
WHAT IF I DON”T UPGRADE MY BUSINESS PAGE? In the Cover Photo section of your page, you’ll get a white space with your profile picture floating in the lower left corner. Much of your new page will be have no content.
CAN CYBERLIFE TUTORS UPGRADE MY BUSINESS PAGE? Yes! We can upgrade your business page to the new format
WHAT WILL I GET WITH MY UPGRADE? After CyberLife Tutors upgrades your page to new Timeline for Business format, your page will have:
- Refreshed page look and feel
- Installed cover and profile with photo/image you choose
- Display apps: Photos, Videos, Likes, Events, and Map for Place Pages
- Add up to 4 milestones on your timeline
- Reviewed page and updated page setting for maximum fan engagement
- Your review before publishing
- Guide for “How to keep your Timeline Fresh”
HOW MUCH WILL IT COST? Just $99 for your complete conversion, page review, settings updates and “How to Keep Your Facebook Page Timeline Fresh” guide.
HECK YES! HOW DO I GET STARTED? Reply to this email and let us know you are ready to start. We will send you an invoice and questionnaire to gather key information about your page. Your page will be converted to the new Timeline in a couple of days.
COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT: Need a hand monitoring your Facebook page and engaging with fans? We can manage your Facebook page for you. Posts great content 4 times a week, engage and reply to comments from your community, answer basic questions when we can or we’ll contact you to get the right answer, monitor spam. Our responses are always geared toward cultivating customers and generating sales for you! Save $ with an annual subscription.
Questions? Just give us a call on our 24 hour voice mail 414-604-6635.
This week I am working with several locations in McHenry County and beyond scheduling Summer and Autumn programs. If you would like to see one of my classes, workshops or other events at your local library or other location, ask your programming coordinator to contact me. See our recent speaking engagements for suggested program topics. Custom programs are available to meet your organizations needs.
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LinkedIn is a professional networking tools used by millions of members throughout the world. The power of LinkedIn increases with the size of your network. Ask your friends and coworkers to join your LinkedIn network so you can stay in touch.
I am often asked for suggestions when it comes to connecting with others. To ask another person to connect with you in LinkedIn, use the “Add Connections” feature under “Contacts.” LinkedIn creates a standard template email that most people use without a moments hesitation. They quickly click on the “Send” button without much thought. To improve your chances of a reply and to make a positive first impression, I recommend you take the time to customize your message to the receiver.
The standard message created by LinkedIn is “I’d like to add you to my professional network.”
I recommend including a sentence or two about how you know the person and why they may want to connect with you. This additional information will jog their memory and increase your acceptance rate.
