Social Media
Facebook
Twitter
Blogging
LinkedIn
EmailPlus
How can your business benefit from these social networks? Even if you are not in business, how do you go about setting up a Facebook account or your Twitter page? What are the advantages?
Social Quickstarter gives us all the details about it in their user-friendly online guides.
Self-study activity:
Watch Social Quickstarter promotional video and fill in the blanks in the transcript below with the missing words. The activity is not difficult and is suitable for Básico 2 and Intermedio 1 students.
Social Media 101, from Social Media Quickstarter from Social Media Quickstarter on Vimeo.
Does your business feel like an (1) ... sometimes, like you’re trying to figure things out, stay (2) ... to your customers, the community and the rest of the (3) ... all on your own? You know you need to find a way to connect with your customers when you are not (4) ..., but there’s one of you, and hundreds, thousands or millions of them.
Enter Social Media. It’s changing the way people connect with each other. You know that you're happy because customers have always been your (5) ... for success. When they like you, they tell other people.
Social Media is really nothing more than people talking to other people. Every time they say something, it can be (6) ... by dozens even hundreds who (7) ... be interested in what you’re doing.
Constant Contact is all about helping small businesses and that’s why we created the Social Media Quickstart. It puts all of the important information you need together in one place, organized with step by step (8)... . So you can get going today.
Key:
1 island 2 connected 3 world 4 face-to-face 5 recipe 6 heard 7 might 8 guidance
Here is an introductory video on Facebook.
Facebook Overview, from Social Media Quickstarter from Social Media Quickstarter on Vimeo.
Here is an introductory video on Twitter.
Twitter Overview, from Social Media Quickstarter from Social Media Quickstarter on Vimeo.
And here is an introductory video on LinkedIn.
Linked In Overview, from Social Media Quickstarter from Social Media Quickstarter on Vimeo.
