THE BEST OF SOCIAL MEDIA @ UCR

First of all I choose to follow TED Talks because these conferences are always a plue value. The people who tells us their stories has real experience and know how to use powerful and  meaningful words to catch us. It's often a lead to follow and always very interesting. It's also teaching me in a way how to be successful with myself, and my business.  I followed BFMTV directly after my first log on Twitter, because it's one of the most complete information media for me. It covers news from everywhere and from France of course which allows me to keep in touch with what is happening in my home country.  Then to keep with social medias I followed at Los Angeles Times and Magazine, I put them together because the first one mostly gives me official news from LA when the second one is more focused on fun facts and activities in LA, both useful for my year abroad here.  I like The Ellen Show...

For our professional life it's important to know how to sell ourselves. It's the first thing people will notice about you, when you apply for a job for  example. In this globalized world we can have the same opportunities than someone living across the globe who didn't go to the same school, doesn't have the same religion or culture but who will be able to seek for the same job as you do. You need to differentiate yourself by having skills that they won't have. Knowing how to manage social media to market yourself is primordial. Your LinkedIn profile has to be reliable and not too boring. Your Facebook page should be clear of every party's pictures that would make you suffer from the consequences if your future employer looks at your profile. You need to be aware of what social medias can bring you as a positive touch but also be prepared of every negative eventuality....

Hello everyone!  Welcome here. I'll tell you why I took this class in social media marketing.  Well, we all were teenagers, some of us still are. And we were born at a time where social media appeared suddenly and got viral in a few years. We all use social medias in our personal life, and we realized that we also need them at work, because they're useful in marketing areas for example. They allow you to make the announcement for a new product to a larger range of people, and realize the promotion for an event way more easily than before.  If you're working in these areas you'll need to know how to manage social medias. It's getting primordial at a time where people only communicate through them (almost!).  I hope to get out of this class how to use social medias as tools that will increase my productivity in getting things done at work, and will help me do product launches, surveys or specia...