Social Media 101: An Introduction to Blogs, FaceBook, and Twitter

• Time/Date: Wed, 11:30am-1pm, 16 Sep’ 2009
• Venue: Interaction Design Center, South Block
• Instructors: Imran Hussain, Adnan Ali
• Registration Cost: FREE (for UMT staff only)

Overview

• What is Social Media?
• Why does Social Media matter?
• How can I use Social Media in my personal and professional life?

This workshop will take a look at the basic concepts and benefits of social media. In particular, the workshop will provide an introduction to popular tools and technologies that are currently being used in the social media space, such as blogs, FaceBook, and Twitter. The workshop will be interactive and discussion-based.

Audience
This workshop is intended for those who have no, or beginner-level, knowledge of social media tools.

The World Usability Day 2008 was organized for the first time ever in Pakistan by the Interaction Design Center, in collaboration with Google, Octara, and Obscure, at the UMT campus in Lahore on November 13, 2008. The purpose was to create awareness in Pakistan about the importance of designing products and services that are both user-friendly and useful. This year’s theme was transportation.

The aim of the event was to kickstart a usability and design thinking movement throughout the country. It was an enthusiastic turnout with more than 200+ attendees from across the city of Lahore. One the highlights of the event was Google’s first ever video-conferenced based seminar in Pakistan, along with a live Internet broadcast of the entire event.

Thanks to the City42 team for providing the video clip and a very special thanks to Arif Ansari (Octara/TCS), Badar Khushnood (Google), and Adnan Ali (UMT/ClickChain) for making the event a tremendous success.