Valley PR pro offering social networking webinars

By on August 3rd, 2009 In Social Media

SNU LogoIf you or your clients are looking for quick, reasonably-priced social networking training local online marketing coach Jennifer Beavers might have just what you’re looking for. Jennifer has launched a new company called Social Networking And You, and among her offerings includes weekly webinars for beginners and pros.

Jennifer brings more than 20 years of public relations, training, sales, business development, and networking experience to the firm. For the past three years, she has worked in the Internet industry helping her clients create and implement their online strategy.

She is currently offering three, one-hour webinars:

  • Introduction to Social Networking and Social Media ($29.99)
  • Social Networking for Business ($39.99)
  • Maximize Your Social Networking ($59.99)

Full webinar details and dates/times are available on the Web site. Plus, Jennifer was kind enough to offer Valley PR Blog readers a taste of what her webinars are all about. The first five people to respond to me by e-mail will receive a complimentary webinar during August (webinars are scheduled for August 12, 19, 26).

Comments

Tyler Hurst Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 9:48 am

So…how much does it cost for advertorials here?

DMurrow Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 11:02 am

Tyler, what do you expect? It’s Len’s world – we only pass through it.

Marketing Sociologist Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 11:06 am

Mr. Hurst:

You need to get your nose out of your computer. This is lame or tame compared to the free advertising dished out daily at both the Business Journal and Arizona Republic. They are a lame PR practitioner’s delight. See my blog about how Republic uses press releases but just slaps a byline on it. http://marketingsociologist.blogspot.com/2009/06/are-all-us-newspapers-as-bad-as-arizona.html

Wonder why news media is/are dying? What will television news do when Republic no longer exists? What news source will local television turn to for reading stories on air. Lord forbid they should actually need to develop their own ideas and sources.

Dan Wool Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 11:27 am

Cross-posted comment from me on Tyler’s Blog

Tyler, we’ll always admit when we’re wrong, but this isn’t one of those times.

I’m afraid you completely misunderstand the purpose of our blog, which is to suport other PR professionals here in Phoenix and provide a common place for information and discussion.

In addition to our own opinions, we also post news and event info from PR-relevant agencies and companies. From Day One, when people or organizations in town have contacted us with associated events we post them — particularly when these come from professionals we respect, like Jennifer Beavers — who has 25 years experience and definitely knows what she’s doing.

We promote just about everyone we think will make a difference for PR and other local marketing pros seeking knowledge. To wit, these have included events ranging from IABC, PRSA and Gangplank luncheons, Ignite, Social Media Club, PodCamp, Phoenix Marketers, Are You Socially Acceptable and others.

All the people you mentioned are excellent professionals, who we’d be happy to promote if they have something releavent coming up. In the future though, do you really need to tear someone down who you don’t even know to build up your friends? That’s immature — and what’s really “wrong” here. I’m sure if you asked Evo and the others how they like to be promoted, this kind of karma wouldn’t be it.

Tyler, I love your wit, respect your opinions. and always appreciate your insightful comments on Valley PR Blog. (Even recently, I have personally agreed with you on some tough issues against some of my blog mates). However, I’ve gotta say, you’re way out of bounds on this one — and you owe Jennifer an apology.

-Dan

Dan Wool Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 11:54 am

I should add that this blog has never taken so much as a penny from anyone.

Tyler Hurst Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 12:58 pm

Sure Dan, but none of the groups you mentioned directly benefit one person, they’re either free or they benefit a group of people.

25 years experience doesn’t go as far as it used to. I know plenty of people with that much experience who are out of work and now trying to reinvent themselves as social media experts. While I can’t speak to the former, your blog subject certainly seems the latter.

I didn’t ask any of people I recommend on my blog (the trackback was deleted by Len, by the way) if they supported how or what I said, nor will I. They know how to shut me up if they want to.

Fact is, by Len promoting his friend, he’s doing the readers of this blog a disservice.

Jenny Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 1:02 pm

I tend to agree with Mr. Hurst on this point. She is a Social Media “professional” (teaching others how to use Social Media) yet her twitter stream has 84 posts… and her dog’s has over 200.

Her front page says she teaches people to “engage their customers”, yet she has engaged one person in the most recent 20 tweets, and it was basically advertising for her webinar. There is nothing engaging about it.

Dan Wool Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 2:56 pm

I can tell you it’s not like that. We don’t single anyone out. As I mentioned on your blog (trackback to post still on my comment above), Valley PR Blog promotes anyone and any group that has a relevant offering to the local PR industry. We’d promote you if you had something similar to this.

No matter what, I think you have to give people a chance. Unless I misread you, it doesn’t seem like you’re doing that, just criticizing, which would be unfortunate.

Appreciate the comments but we’ll have to agree to disagree on this one.

Marketing Sociologist Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 3:05 pm

As Dan said, I’m thankful there is a forum for PR people. That is the greatness of Freedom of the Press (Blog?). It is open to a diversity of opinion (hear that main stream media?).

Most blogs like this would be plugging just Len’s work. There are few blogs like this. There is toughsledding.wordpress.com run by a university professor. Yet Valley PR blog is open to everyone without an agenda of promoting one particularly agency.

It is great for debate. Like we can disagree with Len about the merits of “social media” (Hate this term – it is 21st Century communications.) and that it should be at the level of dishwasher.

We can be amused by people going off topic on a Michael Jackson post (I miss those days).

To quote Martin Luther King, Let freedom ring.

Len Gutman Says:
August 4th, 2009 at 3:40 pm

Good lord people. This is a non starter. We have always, and will always, as long as I’m involved with this blog, PROMOTE (not slam) the activities of our fellow PR and communications professionals. If you want to make disparaging comments about someone in our little community, do it on your own friggin site. If you don’t like this, don’t read Valley PR Blog.

Here’s what we’re about lest we forget:

“As the Valley of the Sun has grown, so too has the Valley’s Public Relations and Corporate Communications community. It used to be a close-knit group of professionals, but like everything else in the Valley we seem to have grown — and grown apart — too busy to stay in touch with each other on the phone, let alone meet in person at networking events.

ValleyPRblog is an attempt to bring us all together. The site is a resource, a place to share successes, and a place to stay in touch. Come back often, or even better, add our feed to your reader. The more interactive the better so send us your news, information, scuttlebutt and anything else worth sharing.”

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