#SREETIPS @FJUMWIEN

Sree Sreenivasan (Columbia University, NY) gave us 7 hrs of intensive social media training and the following tips for becoming a professional social media user.

Checkout these tips:

• have your bio clickable
• have your hashtag short & memorable
• tweet about the stuff you tell you will tweet about in your bio
• see your followers list and follow back the ones you want to
• smo = social media optimization
• social media is like „online dating“
• tomorrow social media can get me divorced, get me fired and get me archived at the Congress library
• Almost everyone will miss almost everything what you do on social media
• beta.hashtracking.com, for metrics & monitoring hashtags, feature to reverse your tweets if you are telling a story
• geofeedia.com aggregating social media news geo-based
• twiangulate.com ssearching for your most influential followers, reach, mutual friends etc.
• study of your own social media
• crowdbooster.com
• timely.is
• tweriod.com
• twbirthday.com
• socialflow.com
• bit.ly bundles, add curator to your bit.ly bundle
• storify.com / @burtherman Co-founder of Storify
• how do you make sure that things live on: with tools like storify.com
• facebook underestimated & undercriticized
• checkfacebook.com
• facebook fatigue / bloomberg study / india will be no1 and brazil the 3rd
• facebook.com/friends/organize
• facebook.com business page for journalists
• promote single stories
• google voice? in austria / personalization of your answering
• every journalist should try setting up an ad
• linkedInLabs.com
• linkedin underappreciated 4% of the world’s workforce
• google+ using it as a tool „even if nobody is listening google+ is listening“
• change your media diet / find interesting stuff on rww /mashable /wired / cnet / paidcontent.org / heise.de / tnw / futurezone and many more
• engaging with your audience / make your social media channels visible
• as a speaker your success is in your getting more followers after a speech
• rapportive.com addon to gmail for getting better information about your contacts
• think about the mode of communication while contacting a person / as a journalist
• airtime.com
• Sree’s Social Media Guide bit.ly/sreesoc

Sree really made us sing „Social Media Halleluja“ with him