Seven Tips to Help In-plants Get Social
3 Determine which social media your potential audience uses.
While the big five social media platforms—Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, blogs and YouTube—seem like obvious choices, other industry-specific social media platforms might make even more sense for your social engagement plan if you happen to be working in one of them. How do you know which platform people are using? Ask.
Julie Shaffer is Vice President, Digital Technologies at Printing Industries of America. She heads up the Digital Printing Council (DPC), as well as the Center for Digital Printing Excellence at Printing Industries headquarters in Sewickley, PA. In her position, Julie plays a lead role in developing programs and tools to help members grow their businesses with digital technologies.
Known for her graphic production expertise, Julie has a 20-plus year background in pre-media and print. She is often called upon for training, presentations and to provide on-site consulting throughout the industry on diverse range of topics, including PDF, color management, digital printing, social media and Web-to-print implementation. Julie is co-author of several books, including "The PDF Print Production Guide" (1st, 2nd and 3rd edition), the "Web-to-Print Primer" and the forthcoming "Field Guide to Social Media."
