Beau Mueller

 ”Boost your Traffic and Success Online with Social Media Optimization (SMO)”.  This is the title of the workshop/lecture I gave at The UHM Outreach College Pacific New Media yesterday.  I uploaded a copy of my powerpoint to slideshare.  I welcome your feedback and review.  Will be posting a summary of the 5 tips sections soon.

Despite my crazy fear of public speaking … I did alright and was over the butterflies as soon as the class laughed at my first goofball joke.  In fact, I think the class as a whole enjoyed and learned a lot from the workshop.  I was surprised when I got to see my evaluations and got all 8/10s or better from the 20 or so students!

More than anything, the class inspired me to practice what I preach and engage in social media more.  I got myself on twitter (I’ve been one of the  naysayers, but my research/preparation for the class converted me).  I plan to blog and tweet regularly and am excited to otherwise start making my mark on the social media landscape.

It was an exhausting day, with the SMO workshop in the morning, bodyboarding all afternoon and wedding invitation/reply postcard making, printing etc. into the wee hours of the night.

There’s a bit of a south shore bump and the waves were fun.  Had  a secret spot right in Waikiki all to myself for most of the time I was out.  Amazing that there are still such spots in town.  Don’t ask me where, I won’t tell you :)   The UV index was off the charts yesterday and despite my thorough lathering up,  I got zapped hard by the sun.

My fiancee, Kat and I decided to do our own wedding invites this year.  It’s been slow going (mostly my fault) , but the end result going out tomorrow is quite cool.  Funny thing was it took me like 50 tries to get one piece aligned/etc. in photoshop so that it printed right.  I’m glad I didn’t get into the printing industry… I can do some cool stuff in photoshop, but combine it with printing an odd shaped piece of paper and I’m clueless…