SEMINAR - Social Media Marketing: Using Facebook, Twitter, and Blogs to Promote Your Community

Back by popular demand! Mark your calendars for a great Texas Leadership Institute seminar about how to use this new way of marketing to promote your community, your destination, or your non-profit organization. This seminar will be held on November 17, 2009 at the LCRA Riverside Conference Center in Bastrop.

** This seminar will be hands-on and very interactive. Please bring your laptops and apply what you're learning on site!

Topics include:

• An introduction to social media - what it is and how to use it
• Facebook, Twitter, & Blogs: Tools to Try
• Live web site critiques
• Social media case studies/best practices
• How non-profits can use social media to create awareness, attract volunteers, and raise money
• How cities and towns can use social media to engage and inform residents
• How tourism organizations can use social media to market a destination
  

Our four great speakers include Carla Pendergraft with the Waco Convention & Visitors Bureau and Carla Pendergraft Associates; David J. Neff with the American Cancer Society and New Media Marketing; Will Hampton from the City of Round Rock; and Sarah Page with LCRA's Colorado River Trail.

The seminar is only $99 and includes a tasty lunch and dessert. To register for course # 1382 online, please click here and follow the prompts.