The benefits of attending the Frederick County Chamber of Commerce’s New Media and Technology Conference (#FredNMT) would be priceless. We are a very small non-profit agency with a very small budget with which we do great things by providing shelter and services to homeless women and their children. We help families get back on their feet again by giving them hope and a future.

Doing more with less in this economy is the only option we have and social media/ marketing/ networking can help us achieve that goal. Our strategic plan directs me to increase awareness of homelessness issues, educate the community and promote philanthropy. I want to learn how I can incorporate new media in to an effective media strategy. I want to capture people’s imagination. I want to move them to want to make a difference. I want to tug on their heartstrings and (frankly) their wallets, too.

We have a Twitter account (@HopeAliveInc), a Facebook page (www.facebook.com/HopeAliveInc) and a blog (www.hopealiveinc.blogspot.com), so I feel like we are one step ahead, but I don’t want to fall two steps back by not utilizing those tools correctly. Additionally, networking at the conference and learning from peers is something I can’t get by working in my cubicle in Sabillasville.

I appreciate this opportunity (pick me! pick me!) thanks for asking.

Doree Lynn Miles
Development Manager
Hope Alive, Inc.
301-241-4005

That is the basis on which I would like to use social media . . . My dream is to use social media in an effective way to introduce a new non-profit project called the Healing Spaces Project. Healing Spaces is a project that creates healing environments in the homes of children affected by serious medical conditions. It will serve sick children who have the most critical need for a healing environment, who will physically and emotionally benefit the most from the healing elements we use to transform the child’s room, and whose family lacks the economic resources to create this healing environment.

I have started to take steps to spread the word . . . like setting up a Facebook page for my business which promtes the project, using my business website to promote the project and contacting the media . . . but I know there is so much more that I could be doing . . . I just don’t know how.

Here is where I need your help to educate me about the powerful abilites and possibilities of socaial media and hopefully I will be singing . . .

“Cause I’ve got a golden ticket
Cause I’ve got a golden ticket
I’ve got a golden chance to make my way
And with a golden ticket, it’s a golden day!”

Sincerely,
Kim McClure, ASID, LEED AP

Find out more:
http://www.intdesignservices.com
Facebook – Interior Design Services
https://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/art_Life/display_features.htm?StoryID=99979

Well, first, I love chocolate! The traditional “Golden Ticket” should be within the wrapper of a made-from-the-best-Frederick-county-dairy-cows milky chocolate!

Second, it is my quest as a life, leadership and business coach to help people defeat their “Inner Zombie”! Their “Inner Zombie” forces people to be among the nonliving: unhappy, unsuccessful, nonproductive, and eating horrible food. Zombies hate chocolate. I love it.

What better way to spread the word about the infestation of these nasty “Inner Zombies” than through the marvels of social media. I could even provide a video that shows my imitation of a zombie. Better yet, with social media, I can spread my message of how to defeat these “Inner Zombies” and become among the living: successful, happy, and full of spunk! This can be quite an impact on the world…but first, I have to win the “Golden Ticket.”

So start making that delicious chocolate that will be found under the “Golden Ticket.” For that ticket is all mine and I will use it for world domination over all Zombies!

Jeanette Eleff
Focused Vitality
Showing you everyday, how to defeat your “inner zombie”!

In all seriousness, though, I’m pretty new to social media and learning what it could do for me and my freelance business as well as my budding photography career. I am really interested in learning more to help me be knowledgeable and on the front-line of social media for my next employer and my own business ventures. And yes, I definitely would like it because I am unemployed and can’t afford to go otherwise. Plus, I LOVE Frederick and would love to move there. Social networking, and networking in general, at an event like this can certainly help with that!

Recently I’ve joined twitter and started my own facebook business page, but I know there is so much more that I could do and learn. I am one of many artists involved in a twitter live auction event put on by @140hours that is turning my photography hobby into a potentially good side-gig. It’s also helping charities (including a special Haiti-relif auction where 100% of sales are going to Haiti rescue/relief), so it’s a win-win for me and my personal goals of giving back to the community. Additionally, being involved in these art auctions has taught just how powerful social media can be. So, the more I can learn about how to promote myself and my business, the more I will be ready for the whatever comes next while keeping up with my goals of giving back to the community as best as I can!

Thanks for considering me!

Me and my freelance company info can be found at:
http://www.hiremary.com
http://www.mkdesignhaus.com
http://www.twitter.com/chelandria
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Baltimore-MD/MK-Design-Haus/

Why me? Why not?! I have been an avid social media user since January 2008…but I’m not a marketer.
Not a bored housewife.
Not unemployed.

I use it to hire people. And even better, I show employers how to use social media to highlight their employment brand and also to find the candidates they need.

I’ve gotten the chance to speak at Project SAME that jumpstarted a series on Social Media and Recruiting and I had the amazing opportunity to run a panel of top employers with awesome social recruiting programs like Sodexo, RSM McGladrey and Microsoft at the #socialrecruiting conference in New York City. I also use Social Media here in my hometown of Frederick to publicize the non profit community event “Alice in Wonderland” at the Weinberg Center of the Arts. And lastly, my geeky moment of 2010 is getting the opportunity to be the official onsite “tweeter” at TWTRCON in NYC!

With all that being said, I still consider myself a student of Social Media and would love to go learn from the experts in my own backyard!

Find me online:
http://www.twitter.com/sourcerkelly
http://www.linkedin.com/in/kellydingee
http://www.facebook.com/kellydingee