october 2007

The first of my five classes on the basics of Social Media Marketing has been released at xTrain.com. Head over the xTrain.com and join up for any or all of the classes with promo code "gio" for a 15% discount as a little gift from me to my readers!

This first class is a bit of an introduction to Social Media. Titled "Overview, Origins, and Basic Ingredients" I cover the following topics:

• Introduction
• Forums, Bulletin Boards, Chat Rooms, Instant Messaging, Blogs, TXT, Presence Apps, Wikis
• Photo Sharing, Video Sharing, Streaming Live Video, Episodic Online Video, Episodic Online Audio, Media Sharing, Video Chat
• Corporate Intranets, Social Networking, Virtual Reality, Events, News Aggrigation, Social Bookmarking, Onling Gaming, MMOG’s
• Wrap these all together. Marketing is relevant.

Upcoming classes will cover text-based social media (Class 2), Audio (Class 3) , video/images (Class 4), and communities (Class 5).

I will also be releasing 5 classes on podcasting soon!