Social Media Resources
What is Social Media?
Social media is content created by people who want to form communities around shared interests. It is a medium where people can constantly shift between the role of audience and author –communicating through various online publishing technologies. It is a new way for people to discover, read and share news, information and content. Social media has become extremely popular because it allows people to connect in the online world to form relationships for personal and business.
It is important for MPI to be a part of social media for a many reasons. MPI needs advocates to spread the word. Social media provides recommendations, shareability, real time feedback, and helps MPI to be consistent and constant in our members' lives.
Mission: Convene supporters in an open forum without controls.
Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users' updates (known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
Updates are displayed on the user's profile page and delivered to other users who have signed up to receive them. Senders can restrict delivery to those in their circle of friends (delivery to everyone being the default). Users can receive updates via the Twitter website, SMS, RSS, or through applications.
These are three of the more active corporate MPI Twitter users you can follow:
@MPI @OnePlusEditor
So what is a hashtag?
According to Twitter, “hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag. Hashtags were developed as a means to create "groupings" on Twitter, without having to change the basic service.
MPI General Hashtags:
#MPI - Everything MPI.
#MPI_Chapter - Chapter related conversations.
#MPIF - MPI Foundation specific discussions.
Current MPI Event Hashtags:
#MD10 - MeetDifferent
#WEC10 - World Education Congress
#EMEC09 - European Meetings & Event Conference
Relevant industry hashtags:
#assnchat – all things related to association marketing and operations
#eventprofs – all things relating to event professionals
According to their website, “Facebook is a free-access social networking website. Users can join networks organized by city, workplace, school, and region to connect and interact with other people. People can also add friends and send them messages, and update their personal profiles to notify friends about themselves.”
Facebook Isn't Just for Kids Anymore
Over the past six months, the largest growing demographic of Facebook users has been 35-54 year olds, with a 276.4% growth rate. Not far behind was the 55 and over demographic with a 194.3% growth rate. This is only slightly behind the growth rate of the largest group of Facebook users: the college crowd of 18-24 year olds. SOURCE: iStrategyLab
We welcome you to join any of MPI’s Facebook Groups:
MPI Fan Page
Student Group
ONE+ Fan Page
MPI Global Training Fan Page
Join Facebook now!
LinkedIn is a business-oriented social networking site founded in December 2002 and launched in May 2003 mainly used for professional networking. As of February 2009, it had more than 35 million registered users spanning 170 industries and 200 countries.
LinkedIn is free to join, but also offers a premium version of that provides participants with additional tools for finding and reaching the right people, regardless of whether or not they are in your network. LinkedIn participates in the EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework and is certified to meet the strict privacy guidelines of the European Union. All relationships on LinkedIn are mutually confirmed, and no one appears in the LinkedIn Network without knowledge and explicit consent.
We welcome you to join any of MPI’s groups:
MPI Group
Meetings Mean Results Group
MPI Student Group
MPI Global Training Group
Join LinkedIn now!
 | MPI Blogs |
A blog is a type of website, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.
In MPI’s case, blogs are just another channel of communication and interaction we hope to offer our members. MPI's official blog, Engage, is the place for industry trends, association insights and a platform for member engagement.
ONE+, MPI’s award-winning industry publication, also has a place on the web. You can find the editors’ favorite industry trends, polls and news that doesn’t quite make the monthly issue on the ONE+ blog, PlusPoint.
Community and personal blogs from members and industry professionals can be included here as well to provide exposure to topics and discussions that are important to you.
| GroupSpace |
GroupSpace is a place to enrich your existing communities and create new ones. It is a platform to build social networks around the topics and interests important to you. Start making connections to the communities, marketplaces and knowledge that will make you successful. Each group, created by you, has a blog, message board, wiki library, document library and a space for customizing your homepage.
Join the world of
MPI GroupSpace discussions today.