WordCamp Victoria 2012

WordCamp Victoria 2012

I have had the pleasure of speaking at the last two WordCamps in Victoria and was thrilled to be asked to submit a proposal for the next one on January 14th, 2012.

TOPIC: "Leveraging Social Media to Generate Blog Community", which sounds like a potential yawnfest, but I can assure you it will be informative if not riveting, assuming you want to generate a blog community.

LEVEL: Beginners

DESCRIPTION: 
Whether you blog for profit or fun, there's no sense blogging if you can't generate traffic to the site and turn that traffic into community. Is there?

com·mu·ni·ty / kəˈmyo͞onitē/
Noun:  1). a unified body of individuals. 2). an interacting population of various kinds of individuals (as species) in a common location. 

I will show you how to first develop a simple social media strategy, and then leverage tools like Google Plus, Facebook and Twitter to generate, manage and nurture a community.
It goes without saying that good content on a regular basis is a critical precursor to using social media, and there are plenty of other great presenters talking about that, so this session assumes you've got that part licked.