Presentation slides and videos to introduce the world of Social Media and Linkedin. It was created to suit specifically for a client in charity sector - educating the unemployed / unskilled deaf adults - helping to get grasp of social media for potential future employments.

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Agenda
Introduction to the world of Social Media
What is Social Media?
What happens in an Internet minutes?
Introducing Facebook & Facts
Take Care on Facebook
Brief Info on Twitter
Introducing Linkedin
What is Linkedin?
Career Starts Here
10 Simple ways to improve your profile
Your Top 5 Profiles to do’s
Review / Discussion / Questions

3. Introduction to the world of Social Media

4. What is Social Media?
“Social media refers to interaction among
people in which they create, share, and/or
exchange information and ideas in virtual
communities and networks.”
Source: Wikipedia

5. Social Media has become
the #1 activity on the Web

8. Can you? J

9. Introducing Facebook
• Facebook is a free online social networking service where
each person can register with their profile.
• It was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and his college
roommates.
• Facebook now has
over 1 billion
active users.
• The most popular
social website in
the world.

10. Facebook Facts #1

11. Facebook Facts #2

12. Take care on Facebook
• Don’t expose personal details - i.e. bank details, passwords,
telephone number, home address, etc.
• Don’t use inappropriate photos / videos / comments.
• To take care of media / profile / info with your work i.e. employers /
bosses can see you on Facebook.
• Story of truck driver got
sacked for using Facebook
while driving!
• Hacks / hoaxes / fake persons
appears every day.
• Fake email from Facebook
asking details – ignore!

13. Brief info on ‘Twitter’
• Twitter is an online social
networking and microblogging
service that enables users to
send and read "tweets", which
are text messages limited to
140 characters. Registered
users can read and post tweets,
but unregistered users can only
read them.
• It was only founded in 2006
and now has over 500 million
registered users who posted
340 million tweets per day!

14. Introducing Linkedin
• LinkedIn is a social networking website for people in
professional occupations and networking.
• It was launched in 2003 and now has 259 million users in
more than 200 countries.
• Widely used by recruitments and employers seeking to hire
staff. Best place to promote
and sell yourself.

15. Video – What is Linkedin?

16. Linkedin - Social Media Recruitment

17. Linkedin - Social Media Recruitment

18. Linkedin - Social Media Recruitment

19. Linkedin - Social Media Recruitment

20. Linkedin - Social Media Recruitment

21. Linkedin - Social Media Recruitment

22. Video – ‘Your Career Starts Here’

23. 10 Simple Ways to Improve Your Profile
1. Upload a decent photo. Your LinkedIn profile photo sets the tone for everything else a
viewer will experience on your page:
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No blurry photos
No photos of you cropped out of a group shot
No photos of you at a ball park (unless you're gunning to work for one)
No avatars
And for goodness sake, no selfies! (That's mobile camera speak for self-portraits.)
2. Your headline = you, not your job
3. Make your summary shine
4. Update your most recent job
5. Add visuals to your experience
6. Join more groups
7. Follow some influencers
8. Follow your own company
9. Select skills and expertise that you want to be endorsed for
10. Edit your contact information

24. Video – Your Top 5 Profile to do’s

25. Review / Discussion / Questions