We're thrilled to announce a merger of Lara Wellman Consulting and The Media Mesh.
Karen and Lara have had the pleasure of working together for over a year and a half on projects like Losing it in Ottawa, the Social Capital Conference and Kids in the Capital. Our love of social media and helping people understand how to use it strategically for business brought us to the next logical step - Wellman Wilson Consulting!
We look forward to sharing a lot of great social media content and working with fabulous clients who want to learn more about what social media can do for them.
What is it and why should I care - launching my newest workshop
There are so many tools and applications and web sites and kinds of blogs it can be overwhelming.
What ARE these tools?
What SHOULD I be using to promote my business?
Is there a good reason for me to be using them?
In this two hour workshop we will cover eight different tools based on the needs of the group. Each participant will let me know what their top two choices are to be covered and also let me know what they do (business, personal). I will then choose the eight tools to cover based on interest and what I feel are useful tools for the group to hear about.
Bring your smart phones and laptops and we will go over the tools in a hands on approach, so that by the time you leave the workshop you will know what these tools are and whether or not you actually should care.
Choose from the following list of tools (or add your own) to let me know which two topics you would most like to cover.
There really are amazing reasons to use so many of these tools to promote your business!
Crowd sourcing
Digg
Evernote
Feedburner
Form spring
Foursquare
Google alerts
Google docs
Instagram
Instapaper
Klout
LinkedIn
Micro blogging
Podcasts
QR Codes
Quora
Readitlater
RSS readers
Stumble Upon
Tumblr
Vlogs
Wikis
$40/person
Group rates and private lessons available.
Upcoming dates:
All sessions need a minimum of 4 participants and will have a maximum of 8, maintaining the one on one style coaching I like to give my students.
June 8, 2011, 1:30 pm, Boston Pizza, Orleans
June 13, 2001, 10 am, Spin Kitchen Bar, 100 Kent Street
What is it and why should I care - developing a workshop
I am developing a series of workshops to help people feel more comfortable with social media - in using it for personal reasons or for business.
I’ve already launched my Intro to Twitter workshop (which is going really well and there are spaces available in three sessions - sign up, or tell your friends who need to know all about Twitter to sign up! :))
My next workshop is called “What is it and why should I care”
I often either get asked what the purpose of something is or get told it is of no value. I agree that every tool isn’t for everyone, but sometimes you just need to hear in plain words what something is for, with some examples of why and how it can be used.
I am putting together a workshop that will do just that. I am working on a basic list of tools with descriptions and examples. My entire workbook with all the descriptions will be handed out to all students but we will go through and try out about eight during a two hour workshop.
What I want to know from you guys is - what are the tools you have questions about? Here is the list I have so far (it’s a work in progress) but I would really appreciate your input on this!
Foursquare
Tumblr
Quora
QR Codes
Instagram
LinkedIn
Stumble Upon
Klout
Digg
RSS readers
Feedburner
Vlogs
Podcasts
Wikis
Crowd sourcing
Micro blogging
Form spring
What am I missing?
Lara Wellman (.com)
I’ve been online since before the internet… at least that’s what I like to tell people.
I was 13 when I first remember logging in to a Bulletin Board System and found a place to chat with people online. I loved it there.
Social Media was simply what I’d always been waiting for; it’s no surprise to many how much I enjoy being a part of it.
Over the years, I’ve learned a lot about social media - about what works, and what doesn’t; what’s worth learning about and what isn’t; and sometimes simply about what on earth these new things are!
I’ve combined this knowledge with my communications experience and people-skills to try and help others understand it too - and use it to their advantage!
Lara Wellman.com is the new home for my social media musings as well as for updates on the workshops and projects that I’m working on.
I hope you’ll follow along as I continue on my journey of discovery through these new technologies - because, much to my glee, it just keeps getting better and better!