Social Media In-depth Workshop – Tourism

Thursday 15th March 2012

The Boardroom, The Dragon Hotel, Kingsway Circle, Swansea, SA1 5LS

9.00am – Arrival and refreshments
9.15am - 1.15pm– Workshop
1.15pm - Refreshments and close

Guest Speaker: Rob Thomas – Director, WSI Global Wales & the West

In today’s world, full of new media and digital communications technologies, companies of all sizes and industries have a huge opportunity to expand the reach of their message using social media.

For this ‘Deep Dive’ event, guest speaker Rob Thomas provides an in-depth workshop aimed at companies working in the Tourism Sector.

This workshop will provide attendees with an in depth working knowledge of a range of Social Media tools, with a focus on Google Places + ‘local search advertising/promotion’, Foursquare, YouTube & Facebook, defining how to get the most out of these tools to enhance your marketing or customer service.

Delegates will need to have a basic understanding of Social Media strategy to get the most out of this workshop. If you have any queries about this please email events@softwarealliancewales.com

A PDF copy of the presentation will be made available to all attendees following the workshop, together with a PDF of WSI’s latest “Social Media Strategy Guide”. In addition an invitation will be sent for you to join a closed LinkedIn group, which provides a medium for on-going sharing of knowledge, hints & tips and support between attendees of this and previously held workshops. This group is not open to outsiders and now has nearly 100 business owners, MDs and senior management from a wide variety of organisations across a range of sectors.

About the Speaker
WSI specialise in marketing, sales & communications strategy development including online reputation management, digital marketing, website development, search engine marketing, and the latest Social Media and Social Technologies training and mentoring. The organisation helps business owners generate more revenue and increase their profitability, no matter what industry they’re in.

Rob Thomas is Area Director for WSI Global, Wales & the West, and Managing Director for the WSI-eMarketing.com Consultancy. A certified Internet Marketing Consultant, in Dec 2009 Rob became a qualified Digital Marketing Professional he is also the UK & Ireland’s Internet Consultant Advisory Committee member.

Rob ran a series of workshops focused on Social Media in 2011 and due to these being over subscribed has be invited back by SAW to run this workshop in 2012.

For feedback from some past attendees of similar workshops (both video and written) please click here.

To book a place at this fully-subsidised workshop please click here

Alternatively you can email us events@softwarealliancewales.com or call us on 01792 606663.

This workshop will be presented in English, however, should you wish to engage in the workshop through the medium of Welsh, please let us know up to 4 working days before the date of the event and we will endeavour to ensure all resources are available in Welsh as soon as possible.