ADVANCED WORKSHOP ON USING SOCIAL MEDIA TO MARKET
SMALL BUSINESSES & NON-PROFITS
To be Held at the Green Mountain Technology and Career Center, Hyde Park, VT, May
16th, 9: 00 am ‘til Noon
This workshop is for social media users who have started using this powerful marketing
tool but need help in taking it to the next level. It will be an interactive training session
on how to expand and manage your social media presence. Participants will be shown
how to use and understand recently released Facebook features as well as more in-depth
analysis of secondary and tertiary social media outlets like Twitter and Youtube. They
will also be shown ways to track social media successes on line as well as introduced to
social management tools like Hootsuite.
$25.00 workshop fee and preregistration is required. Please visit www.vtsbdc.org
and click on TRAINING to register and pre-pay online via credit card or email or call
Heather Gonyaw at hgonyaw@vtsbdc.org, 802-728-9101. For more information call
John Mandeville at 888-5640.
Workshop presented Patrick Ripley, the digital media specialist for the VtSBDC. He has
been working professionally with digital media for over 10 years and has worked for the
Hearst Television stations and has written, edited and managed thousands of pieces of on
line content and managed the development, creation and design of multiple websites and
social media campaigns.
The LEDC Business Skills Workshop Series is co-sponsored by the Lamoille Economic
Development Corporation and the Vermont Small Business Development Center.
