Coping with Social Media

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Alexandra's presentation

Exhausted from the strain of keeping up with the latest social networking trends? Daunted by the number of Facebook, Twitter and e-mail messages you have to respond to every day? Spending more and more time online…and wondering if that’s throwing your whole life out of balance?

Get inspiration on how you can cope with social media, stop keeping up with the latest must-try technology, and put social media tools to work for your own personal and professional priorities. In this participatory session, Alexandra Samuel will share tactics for managing everything from email to tweets, while helping you develop your own personal strategy for focusing your online attention on what matters most to you.

Bio:

Alexandra Samuel is the Director of the Social + Interactive Media Centre at Emily Carr University, which helps BC tech companies leverage the creative thinking, technical and design talents of Emily Carr faculty and students. As the founder and principal of Social Signal she has guided some of the web’s most ambitious social media projects and online communities, including BC Hydro’s Facebook Green Gifts, Vancity’s Change Everything and CompuMentor’s NetSquared. Alex holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Harvard University, and blogs about social media for the Harvard Business Review, Oprah.com and on her own site at alexandrasamuel.com.