How To Set Up Social Media Sites - Some new stuff | Crash, BOOM, tweet…with a twist

How To Set Up Social Media SitesSome new stuff | Crash, BOOM, tweet…with a twist

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Lee Yount, Jr.Programmer AnalystCatawba County GovernmentNCLGISA Fall ConferenceOctober, 21, 2010

Today’s Topics

• How to tweet while driving

• How to stalk your friends, family, and ex-loved ones using social media

Photo of car crash

Flickr: By H.L.I.T.

http://www.imdb.com/media/rm233999616/tt0098258

http://moviesblog.mtv.com

http://media.photobucket.com - By koricoc

Today’s Topics

• Location-Based Technology

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• Using Social Media during an emergency.

http://mashable.com/2010/09/12/google-maps-art/@alejomalia

http://www2.gcc.edu/student/view/042406.htm

http://touch.facebook.com/

How can you use Foursquare?

Scan me

http://mashable.com/2010/07/13/calvin-klein-qr-code-billboard/

http://mashable.com/2010/06/10/internet-week-qr-codes/

Quick Response Codeall the cool kids say:

QR CodeOr

QRC

How can QR Codes be used?

http://ecocomplex-biodiesel.blogspot.com/

http://www.catawbacountync.gov/depts/u&e/ecocomplex.asp Flickr: By Lee Yount

How can you use Quick Response Codes?

Who is from NC?

Who lives in Western North Carolina?

Flickr: By Lee Yount

Who lives in the Piedmont of NC?

Flickr: By Willamor Media

Who lives in Eastern NC?

Flickr: By pollyalida

What happens when…

Wikimedia Commons: By Cynthia Hunter, FEMA

Flickr: By Scrunchleface

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/rah/photo/20080508.clemmons.tor.nws(1).jpg

Wikimedia Commons: By Mark Wolfe, FEMA

Case Study – Hurricane Earl

Wikipedia: By NASA Aqua/MODIS

Case Study – Hurricane Earl

@fema

@RedCross@wxchannel

@ncgovoffice

#earl

#nclgisa

#hashtags

#bestnclgisaconferencesessionever

Tools Used

What did I search for?

twitpic OR yfrog OR tweetphoto ORtwitgoo OR picktor OR mobypicture ORtwitxr OR posterous OR pikchur #earl

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Tweets with photos and the hashtag #earl(i.e. photos of something to do with Hurricane Earl)

Being there…without being there.

@hurricanetrack

http://www.hurricanetrack.com/

Let’s talk about

content

A newspaper without words…is just a paper

http://www.titanicuniverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/titanic-new-york-american-coverage.jpg

Content is key!

A tweet, blog post, or status update without RELEVANT content is just noise.

Content is still key!

Examples of Relevant Tweets

http://stevelundeberg.mvourtown.com/files/2010/03/fonzie.jpg

http://www.aksysgames.com

Example of not-so-relevant

Tweet

Is your content answering the…

WHO – who is it affecting?WHAT – what are you talking about specifically?WHEN – when is this thing happening?WHERE – where is this happening specifically?WHY – why should the people listen to this content?HOW – how do people get more information, to do the thing you are telling them to do, etc…?

http://alicensetothink.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/questionmark-symbol.gif

http://www.koplowgames.com/INTERROGATIVE.jpg

Have an official voice

http://the-universality-of-cheese.blogspot.com/

http://andersonreunion09.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/megaphone.jpg

…or others will have one for you.

How to establish your voice

http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/zoom/ac3f_pop_quiz_clock.jpg

http://bigphotodan.ca/pictures/1360X768/Florida%20Soft%20Shell%20Turtle%20(1360X768).jpg

People are looking for thecorrect information quickly…Are you meeting the need?

http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs22/f/2007/330/3/7/waiting_for_the_subway_by_fabiK.jpg

http://www.lukerymarz.com/blog/images/pretzel2.jpg

@catawbacountyOfficial Catawba County Twitter Site

@catcoemOfficial Catawba County Emergency Management Twitter Site

@leeyountfollow me!

@catawbacounty@catcoem@leeyount

Lee Yount, Jr.Programmer Analyst

Catawba County Government828.465.7975 | @leeyount

lyount@catawbacountync.gov

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