Blogs and Facebook and Twitter
Oh My!October 21, 2009
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To Begin With...
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It’s Not About Technology...
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...but Technology Makes it Happen
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The Internet has lowered the barrier to participation
for people, companies, organizations, anyone.
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It’s Never Been Cheaper
• http://www.howmanypeopleareinspacerightnow.com/
• http://istwitterdown.com/
• http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com/
• http://www.peopleofwalmart.com/
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Benefits of Social Media• Cost-effective
• Quick
• Viral
• Feedback
• Credibility/Thought Leadership
• Community/Halo Effect
• SEO
• Constant Marketing
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What to do?
• Start listening
• Connections, not content
• Be conversationalists
• Stop chasing ‘the next big thing’
• Stop thinking in terms of mass audiences
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Be Human
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Social Media is People12Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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Social Media is Free...
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...but It’s Not Cheap
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There is no marketfor messages
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Things To Do Right Now
• Protect Your Brand
• Be Wherever Your Customers Are
• Remember It’s About Conversation, Don’t Shout and Don’t Forget To Listen
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Let’s Get To Work
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Building Blogs
• Hosted or Not
• Wordpress, Blogger, TypePad
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Social Networking
• Facebook, MySpace
• Know your audience and where they are
• Integrate Facebook into your site and vice versa with Facebook Connect
• Tools like ShareThis
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Social Sharing
• ShareThis, digg, Delicious, Stumble Upon, etc.
• Social Shopping
• Users share recommendations
• SlideShare for business
• The birth of tags
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Google SideWiki22Wednesday, October 21, 2009
News Sharing23Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Microblogging
• Twitter - 140 characters or less
• Tumblr
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Mobile Services
• Mobile Applications for blogging, Facebook, etc.
• Location Aware Services
• Geo-tagging
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Other Things To Consider
• Wikipedia
• Video Sharing
• Photo Sharing
• Ning
• BlogTalkRadio
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Case Studies
• Friday’s on Facebook
• Skittles
• Ford
• The Amp App FAIL
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TGI Fridays28Wednesday, October 21, 2009
‘Friend’ Woody and get a free burger
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Free Burger!30Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Ford
• http://www.slideshare.net/scottmonty
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AMP FAIL!
• http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=327620139&mt=8
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#badcitibank
• http://twitter.com/search?q=%23badcitibank
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Let’s Discuss35Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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Give Visitors Something 37Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Some Links
• http://www.interactiveinsightsgroup.com/blog1/social-media-examples-superlist-17-lists-and-tons-of-examples/
• http://www.marketingbeginsathome.com
• http://www.web-strategist.com
• http://www.communityguy.com
• http://www.gapingvoid.com
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