Instructors and and students can learn about Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn from these three screencasts. LinkedIn Screencast This brief introduction to the LinkedIn professional networking system starts with a high-level overview of LinkedIn, then describe its increasingly important role in business communication. It moves on to define some of the essential concepts that every LinkedIn user should understand and previews some of the many ways that LinkedIn can help students achieve their career goals. Importantly, it also explains how LinkedIn differs from consumer-oriented social networks and why credibility is so important in the LinkedIn model. Facebook Screencast This screencast explains how Facebook has evolved into a powerful business communication platform that goes far beyond its original conception as a social network. It offers a tour of a Facebook home page, clarifies some essential concepts and features, explores the communication tools that Facebook offers. Along the way, it shows several examples of how large and small companies are using Facebook to connect with their customers. Twitter Screencast This screencast explains how to get started on the Twitter microblogging system. It starts with a quick look at Twitter and its essential functions and terminology, then shows how to set up a Twitter account, send tweets, and reply to or retweet tweets from other Twitter users. It concludes with advice on finding and following other users and using Twitter as a research and monitoring tool. Plus, learn about all of Bovee and Thill's websites in the remaining slides. After you've watched this presentation, visit these sites: Order an Examination Copy of a Bovee and Thill Textbook http://blog.businesscommunicationnetwork.com/texts Business Communication Pictorial Gallery on Pinterest, a Virtual Pinboard, at http://pinterest.com/courtland_bovee/business-communication-pictorial-gallery-on-pinter Bovee & Thill Business Communication Online Magazines http://www.scoop.it/u/courtland-l-bovee Subscribe to Bovee and Thill's Online Magazine Newsletter http://forms.aweber.com/form/51/1667406951.htm Visit Bovee & Thill's Business Communication Blog at http://blog.businesscommunicationnetwork.com Visit Bovee & Thill's YouTube Channel at http://www.youtube.com/BoveeandThill Bovee and Thill on Twitter https://twitter.com/BoveeThill_Blog Connect with More Than 1,443 Instructors in This LinkedIn Group: Teaching Business Communication http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Teaching-Business-Communication-2806782?trk=myg_ugrp_ovr Connect with More Than 1,086 Instructors on Facebook: Teaching Business Communication https://www.facebook.com/TeachingBusinessCommunication Can Your Business Communication Textbook Pass This Google Test? http://www.scoop.it/t/exclusive-teaching-resources-for-business-communication-instructors/p/4003411891/can-your-business-communication-textbook-pass-this-google-test

1. Teaching Business
Communication: Using
Facebook, Twitter,
and LinkedIn Screencasts

2. Welcome to this brief presentation
where you’ll learn about screencasts
prepared by Bovee and Thill, the
authors of the world’s leading business
communication textbooks.

3. In the following slides, click the links
accompanying each image to get
more information about what is
being described.

4. Twitter Screencast
This screencast explains how to get started on the Twitter microblogging system. It starts with a quick look at
Twitter and its essential functions and terminology, then shows how to set up a Twitter account, send tweets,
and reply to or retweet tweets from other Twitter users. It concludes with advice on finding and following
other users and using Twitter as a research and monitoring tool. (This screencast is for adopters only.)

5. Facebook Screencast
This screencast explains how Facebook has evolved into a powerful business communication platform that goes far
beyond its original conception as a social network. It offers a tour of a Facebook home page, clarifies some essential
concepts and features, explores the communication tools that Facebook offers. Along the way, it shows several
examples of how large and small companies are using Facebook to connect with their customers. (This screencast is
for adopters only.)

6. LinkedIn Screencast
This brief introduction to the LinkedIn professional networking system starts with a high-level overview of LinkedIn,
then describe its increasingly important role in business communication. It moves on to define some of the essential
concepts that every LinkedIn user should understand and previews some of the many ways that LinkedIn can help
students achieve their career goals. Importantly, it also explains how LinkedIn differs from consumer-oriented social
networks and why credibility is so important in the LinkedIn model. (This screencast is for adopters only.)

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8. Bovee & Thill’s Business Communication Blog
Insights and commentary from the authors of the world’s leading
business communication textbooks.

9. Business Communication Pictorial Gallery on Pinterest

10. Watch business communication videos on
Bovee and Thill's Video Channel on YouTube
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Business Communication Headline News uses the newest Internet technologies to deliver
late-breaking news in headlines with concise summaries. You can scan incoming items in a
matter of seconds, then click through to read the full articles that interest you.
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