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Social Media

What is Social Media Club Hawaii?

by Roxanne Darling on July 19, 2011

If you are in a hurry, watch the one-minute video! If you have a minute or two, I’ll give you some more info. Shane and I are founding members of the Social Media Club, a nonprofit educational organization celebrating its fifth year in existence. It was started by Chris Heuer and Kristie Wells in San [...]

Continue Reading 0 comments Aloha, News, Social Media, Video

In case your business is suffering from Missouri (“Show Me”) syndrome, here’s yet another example of why you build your social networks online when times are easy, when times are good. There is no price that can be put on being ready with a track record, the experience on how to implement, and an established [...]

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A Conversation About Social Media Influence #SMSHI

by Roxanne Darling on April 14, 2011

In the spirit of transparency and speed, I am posting the notes I made as moderator of the Social Media Influence Panel at the Social Media Seminar being hosted by Technology News Bytes with their nonprofit partner, Social Media Club Hawaii Chapter. Stay tuned; I will be updating this post! Please add your opinions/question in [...]

Continue Reading 7 comments Social Media, Speaking, Strategy

Non-Techie Guide to Social Media

by Roxanne Darling on March 28, 2011

Here are links and handouts for two of my recent speaking opportunities. I used the same bones of the presentation though one is geared to businesses and the other is geared to volunteers and nonprofit organizations. Both are targeted to the newbies who are thinking about social media use. I am offering them both in [...]

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A Social Media Tutorial with LinkedIn

by Roxanne Darling on March 25, 2011

Sometimes the synchronicities are too much to ignore, so today’s post is about recurring instances of a brand name. That is the spiritual undertone for how the internet follows memes of words and vibrations too. Here are the three learning points: SocMed 101: What can you share that will enable others to talk about you? [...]

Continue Reading 23 comments Gossip 2.0, HowTo, Social Media

As a direct result of the U.S. Navy’s outreach to bloggers here in Hawaii, I have been fortunate to both participate in some outstanding programs (like an overnight embark on the USS Nimitz) and also developed enormous respect for their adoption of social media (video interview) and their orderly and standardized approach. They are among [...]

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Employee of the Quarter by absoblogginlutely on Flickr

I am giving a talk today to a private company who is exploring the use of social media as an internal tool. I certainly want to recommend these books, first Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social TechnologiesGroundswell, by Charline Li and Josh Bernoff, and also

Continue Reading 6 comments Social Media, Speaking