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Public Group active 3 days, 16 hours agoThis group was started to support the Summer Splash : Social Media Classes taught by Aaron Robbins in July 2010. Class discussions, notes and other news items will be posted here.
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Johnson Khor joined the group Social Media 3 days, 16 hours ago · View
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Monica Ibarra-Robbins posted an update in the group Social Media: 4 weeks, 1 day ago · updated 3 weeks, 2 days ago · View
Learning about how important traffic is to websites, blogs etc. Good content is great, but without traffic…it is all dead in the water. Soooo, looking how to bring traffic into our websites!!!
Awesome comment Monica. Traffic generation is a highly debated topic and one you can spend a good number of years studying. I’ll give ya my 2 minute take on it. Traffic roughly comes from four sources: Search Engines, Links on other sites, social media and bookmarks/directly typing in address/word of mouth.
Ranking well in search engines is still probably the biggest consistent source of traffic. This is why people spend thousands of dollars on SEO (which may or may not work). In short post a lot of quality content on your site’s blog using titles and information that people tend to search for with in your industry.
If you write quality content people should start linking to it, which has a ton of traffic benefits. If they don’t start searching for other blogs or social profiles that are in your industry or complimentary to your industry. Comment on these related blogs articles, ask if you can do a guest article on their site, let them do a guest article on your site.
Social media can either be a huge source of traffic or a complete waste. Best thing to do is monitor twitter and facebook for people talking about the same things you are and try and team up with them.
In all these things, the best strategy is to be patient, genuine and helpful. Don’t ask for links, Don’t tell people to read your blog. Don’t ask for a retweet. Unfortunately, its not a quick think, it can take 6 months to 2 years of doing the above every single day before you start seeing sustainable traffic.
Best of luck.
Thanks so much. I just need to keep reaching out to others with what I have to offer. I just want to be of service to others, so patience is needed! One step at a time:> I love using posterous for my blogs!
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aaronrobbins posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month ago · View
In Class 3 we talked about Phreaking and how it was like hacking but mostly related to the phone industry. Here’s an interesting an article about a guy who made some equipment capable of acting like an AT&T cell tower.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/073110-hacker-snoops-on-gsm-cell.html
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aaronrobbins uploaded the file: Summer Splash – Social Media Class 3 – Handout to Social Media 1 month, 1 week ago · View
This is the speaking outline for Summer Splash Social Media Class 3: Staying Safe and Staying Sane Online.
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Neal Edwards posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 1 week ago · updated 1 month, 1 week ago · View
I really enjoyed the social media class tonight.
Glad you enjoyed the class Neal. It’s always a little hard to teach on such serious topics like security and safety and all that, but I think it went pretty well. Thanks for coming and if you have any questions feel free to post um here.
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Michael Monaghan posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 1 week ago · updated 1 month, 1 week ago · View
I’m in the on-line group. I’m a veritable blogger, now!
Steve and Sigrid, you thought I couldn’t do it without help, didn’t you?
mmWelcome Steve.
I am so impressed!!
Michael, I am impressed. Good job. Now if you could just do the facebook thing……….
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Monica Ibarra-Robbins posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 2 weeks ago · updated 1 month, 1 week ago · View
Just checking on the progress of how and when I can start up the Eating Disorder group and Art for Healing group? I am really excited to be a part of this community.
Hey Monica. Thanks for checking in. I have a meeting scheduled this Wednesday to discuss this very topic. I will report back to you at the end of this week via email with more information.
Great! I look forward to it!
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freemotion posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 2 weeks ago · updated 1 month, 1 week ago · View
The class yesterday was great-I find it very useful and informative. I just reactivated my Facebook account-a big step for me! Thank you.
That’s great. I tried to be more active on facebook this week too. I totally failed at it, but I tried. Hope you are having more success than I.
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aaronrobbins uploaded the file: Summer Splash – Social Media Class 2 – Handout to Social Media 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
This is the speaking outline for Class 2 of the Summer Splash Social Media classes. It’s pretty much the exact same thing that was handed out in class . . .ok it is the exact same thing.
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aaronrobbins posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
Started working on the notes and outline for class 2 today. If you have questions or would like something specific covered hit ”reply” below this post and let me know. Looking forward to Wednesday night.
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Sigrid Batz posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 3 weeks ago · updated 1 month, 2 weeks ago · View
I enjoyed the class last night and I am looking forward to learning more next week! Thank you Aaron and team!
Glad you enjoyed the class Sigrid. I had fun talking with everyone. So . . .next week, what would you be most excited to talk/learn about? Twitter, Facebook, Starting a Blog. using social news sites?
Aaron, I am not very adventurous when it comes to the computer. I send and answer emails (I’m old school, you know?), I’m on Facebook and I recently started a Twitter account (The morning after your last class just because my husband said I should), I follow a couple of blogs done by family members (I am not interested in having a blog of my own) and online free games. I figure that I have a lot to learn and hope I can retain some info from your class by listeneing and asking questions if i have any. My husband is the computer wiz in our home and i defer difficulties to him all the time.
Looking forward to learning from you and your team.
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Nina Boatman posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
Yea right! I still have it. I can post it again if I get enough interest.
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Monica posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 3 weeks ago · updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
I enjoyed attending the SM class last night. SM is exciting because it is so new! I love being a part of something that can connect people in such a ”techy” way. Thank you Aaron for sharing your kind energy and passion with all of us.
Hey Monica. Glad to see ya on MyBayside. It was really fun hanging out with everyone and talking tech, ministry and subway
Are you coming to class 2? We are going to be digging into blogging, twitter and facebook.Do any of the topics interest you more than the other? From what you know about social media so far, what are you most likely to do, start a blog, tweet, make some facebook connections . . . .something else?Yes, we are coming to class 2! Currently, I have a word press blog, twitter, linkedin and facebook. My husband and I are listening to modules on how to become Social Media Managers.
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Nina Boatman posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 3 weeks ago · updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
social media fascinates me. I can’t ever remember my life without it. @aaronRobbins did a great job pointing out that it’s not about the technology. It’s about connecting people to God and to each other using new tools. I happened to catch some of the video. Your going to want to watch this. Especially you android users. http://yfrog.us/1283lz
An hour and 15 minutes of teaching and you post the 23 seconds where I make fun of Android . . . .I like they way you roll Nina
Long live the robot….
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Lee Fields posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
Just added mybayside.com to my new tab page on Chrome. I’m all in!
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aaronrobbins uploaded the file: Summer Splash – Social Media Class 1 – Handout to Social Media 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
These are the streamlined notes that were edited for class and offered as a handout to all attendees.
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aaronrobbins uploaded the file: Summer Splash – Social Media Class 1 – Unedited Notes to Social Media 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
This is my speaking outline for Class 1 of the Summer Splash Social Media classes. They are similar to the handout class attendees received but have a bunch more details in certain areas. They are also unedited and full of errors.
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John Gabel posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 3 weeks ago · updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
Good job Aaron!! You did a great job tonight and I can not wait until next week!!
Thanks John and welcome to the MyBayside. Looking forward to next week too.
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aaronrobbins posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
Great first class tonight. Thanks to everyone who came out. I will be posting my raw unedited notes to the documents tab above sometime tomorrow. If you have questions on what we talked about this is the place to ask them. I know @ninaboatman and @garrettboatman got some of the class on video, so maybe we’ll post that too just for fun.
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Steve Batz posted an update in the group Social Media: 1 month, 3 weeks ago · updated 1 month, 3 weeks ago · View
Just went through the Social Media Class with @AaronRobbins. Good job Aaron!
Thanks for coming tonight Steve. Nice meeting ya . . .although I think I may have met ya once before. Anyway, I will get the photography group setup for you tomorrow afternoon.
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