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Materials from the PRSA-KAGC Social Media Presentation

Bill Dotson — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:58:23 +0000

I would like the thank the Thoroughbred Chapter of the PRSA and the KY Association of Government Communicators for allowing me to speak at their Fall conference.

The slides and video (in a playlist) are below.

How Can Social Media Fit Into My Daily Life?

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FanStream – Our iPhone Sports App

Bill Dotson — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:54:40 +0000

A few minutes ago, we reached another milestone with our app, FanStream. All Division I football teams now have their roster, schedule, and news inside the app. Except, they are not really inside the app unless you are offline since they come from the web. Huh?!

We know that its rare when someone does not have internet access. However, there are those times when you are in a plane (already changing in some planes), in a cave, or in the middle of the ocean. We build FanStream on the iPhone first because it has the coolest interface and a lot of “wow” factor. Each time you open the application, it looks for the latest content from our servers. If you do not have a net connection, it’ll still work fine — just without the up to the minute updates. If you do, you’ll have the very latest news, updated schedules (for when the TV station changes the time), and roster.

Here’s another cool feature for the iPhone users…we’ve integrated location-based services to find out where all the FanStream viewers are when they are using the application. Want to test it out? Take your iPhone, open FanStream (link to FanStream in the App Store), and choose any team’s news. Click on a News article and read the summary. Then, to read the full article click “View WebSite”. When you do this, the iPhone Safari web broswer will ask you if its OK to use your current location. Tell it Yes. This sends data back to us of the date, time, and location. We’re able to plot your location on a map and you’ll be able to see where other FanStream viewers are in real time.

Right now, you cannot tell who is exactly where since its not integrated with a user management system. Stay tuned…

Want to help make the app better? We’re looking for the following:

Photos to be used for specific team backgrounds – these need to be taken by you or able to be used in our app (no licensed photos!)
Game commentators – each game in our system needs a pre-game and post-game comment from fans. We want opinions from fans on both sides of the game.
Your ideas: what would you like to see in the app? We’re sports fan and want FanStream to be your game companion.

If you have ideas, thoughts, etc, e-mail me or post it in our forums over at the site.

In a few more weeks, we’ll have FanStream for the BlackBerry and other phones.

If you want to be updated when we have more news, join our the FanStream Fan Page on Facebook. All Fans receive a scoring update for major games and all UK games (of course!) each Saturday.

Limiting Who Sees Your Facebook Wall Posts

Bill Dotson — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:44:45 +0000

During the past few weeks and over the next few weeks, there will be a great deal of social media discussions. We’ve given 2-3 of them and will probably continue that trend each week.

One of the most common questions I get: “How do I limit who sees my Facebook posts?” The posts (status updates) can be limited by going into the Settings area. Follow these instructions to limit who sees what…

Mouse over Settings in the upper right after you are logged into the Facebook site
Click Privacy (the page will change)
Click Profile (the page will change)
Choose the drop down option in the “Wall Posts” section and click “Customize”
A new window appears. You can make change here and at the very bottom choose to exclude specific people or people in any of your Lists. (I suggest putting all Friends in Friend Lists so you segregate work, personal, family, etc…)
When finished, save the settings.

That’s it. Easy to do and very valuable….

Bill

Social Media, Hiring, and You – Presentation Notes

Bill Dotson — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:17:20 +0000

Last week, I had the opportunity to present to area universities and local employers (HR folks) on using social media. The presentation was a primer on the largest of the networks and how they can be used by employers to find candidates.

The slides and video (parts one & two) are available below.

Hope you enjoy them!

Bill

Social Media, Hiring, And You

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Social Media, HR and You (Part 1) from WebMedley on Vimeo.

Social Media, HR, and You (Part 2) from WebMedley on Vimeo.