HOW TO SUCCESSFULLY USE SOCIAL MEDIA TO BUILD YOUR ORGANIZATION OR CERTIFICATION NETWORK

Certification Networking Group Quarterly Meeting

Tuesday December 15, 2009

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This event was another great networking opportunity- see the attendee list here.

Your organization has to be on Facebook! You have to be tweeting! You must be LinkedIn! Or so goes the message from mainstream media, association literature and seemingly everyone you know. Many organizations are jumping in, but without any plan or vision for what success looks like. They're burning valuable resources with no idea of how to achieve a return on their investment.

For the past three years association programs and certification conferences have been fed a regular diet of one social media entrepreneur after the next with a mouthful of hype about blogging, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, etc. You are practical and need to see the return on any time or money invested in social media. Like many CEOs or heads of their certification program, you are calling for proof. “Show me the numbers. Show me the money. Tell me a story about someone who is filling a lot more seats for their exams because they mastered social media,” you ask.

This is the meeting and the practical presentation on social media marketing and networking you are looking for. Rich Brooks, founder and president of flyte new media, a web design and Internet marketing firm in Portland, Maine, will provide an interactive session on best practices based on real-life success stories of how organizations are building and engaging their memberships.

This is not a session for sitting on your hands! If you have your own success story (or horror story), best practice or real-life example, please come ready to share, listen and contribute.

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No registration fee. RSVP required for your name badge and to gauge how much food to prepare.

About the Presenter

Rich Brooks is founder and president of flyte new media, a Web design and Internet marketing firm in Portland, Maine. His monthly flyte log email newsletter and company blog focus on Web marketing topics such as search engine optimization, blogs, social media, email marketing, and building Web sites that sell. He is currently a featured blogger at MaineBusiness.com and an Expert Blogger at FastCompany.com .

He teaches a Web marketing course for entrepreneurs at the University of Southern Maine's Center for Continuing Education. He is also the “tech guru” on WCSH Channel 6’s evening news show, 207, and has been interviewed by the Channel 6 news team for technology reports. He speaks regularly in Maine and throughout the country on topics of Web marketing and social media.

Time: 9:30 a.m. – Noon
Date: Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Place: AARP Brickfield Conference Center
Please use 611 E St. NW Entrance
Washington, DC 20049

Webinar: If you cannot attend the meeting in person, there is now the option to RSVP for the online webinar. We are working with one of our members, Jim Brinton of Certification Management Services, to bring you the first CNG Webinar, which will cover the program portion of our morning quarterly meeting on December 15. You need to RSVP for this webinar by clicking here and that takes you to a form that reserves a seat for you.

This event was another great networking opportunity- see the current attendee list here.

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