Presentation Ideas: Social Media

Victoria Shanta Retelny, RD, LDN, reported from the ADA convention, “As nutrition professionals gathered in Denver, Colorado at the annual American Dietetic Association’s Food and Nutrition Conference & Expo (FNCE) in late October, there was a big focus on how RDs can capture potential customers and clients, skyrocket their brand and reinvent their careers through social media.  Online venues like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, LinkedIn, and personal Web and Blog sites offer a wide-open virtual marketing world. To put it into perspective, Facebook has over 200 million users and is growing fast with 5 million new users a week.  Twitter, the micro-blogging service, has 30 million users and LinkedIn, the professional networking site, has 40 million users.”