7. Some say social media is....
Blogs/Microblogs Tools Monitoring
Visuals Video Sites Core Networks
IT Sites Link Builders
8. Some say it is behavioral
World 1.0 Web 2.0
Publishing Participation
Perfection Good enough
Company in control User control
Rights reserved Rights to share
Cost per impression Cost per action
Expert knowledge Wisdom of crowds
**More at http://oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html#mememap
9. More precisely
• Web 2.0 ideas through online applications
– People become content producers
– Accessible publishing techniques
– Info disseminated through interaction
– Broadcast (one to many) to social (many to many) model
– Web-based technologies
Source: Wikipedia
10. Content marketing
= content + SEO + social media
Outbound Inbound
Print Ads Blogs, Ebooks, White Papers
Television Ads Viral YouTube Videos
Cold Calling Search Engine Opt
Trade Shows Webinars
E-mail Blasts Feed, RSS
Credit: blog.hubspot.com
11. Range of social media participants
Forrester's social technographics ladder
12. Social media ready content?
General characteristics
– Shorter
– Less formal
– Imperfect
– Easily sharable
– Seen it before
– Easy to reformat
– Catchy title
30. What one number do you want to move?
• Signups
• Leads
• Search placement for important keyword?
• Microfame (or microinfamy?)
• Klout score
• Followers
• Likes
• Sentiment
32. Start by “listening”
• Blogs
• Facebook and LinkedIn groups
• Twitter
• Google Alerts
• Podcasts
• Trade press
• GroupWise or Google reader for
aggregation
33. Find conversations
• Blogs are still relevant
• Find blogs in your area
• Be the expert in your
domain
44. Leave comments
• Find some place you feel confident
• People you know
45. When commenting
• Stay on topic
• Contribute new information to the discussion
• Don’t comment for the sake of commenting
• Make the tone of your message clear
• Be succinct
• Cite your sources with links or inline quoting
• Be courteous
• Don’t post when you’re angry, upset, or emotional
• Do not feed or tease the trolls
> Source: Steve Rubel, Micro Persuasion blog via the Lifehacker blog
46. Don't feed the trolls...
“A troll is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-
topic messages in an online community ... with the primary
intent of provoking other users into a desired emotional
response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic
discussion.”
> Wikipedia via PCMagazine.com
Image source: Wikipedia
47. Start a conversation
• Questions work better than statements
– What do you think about … ?
– Does anyone know ... ?
– How do you ... ?
• These are two way media
48. Share the wealth
• Share something original
• “Like” on Facebook
• Retweet on Twitter
56. Stay tangy my friends…
Frank Days
VP, Marketing, Correlsense
Co-host of Marketing Agility Podcast
LinkedIn.com/tangyslice
Soccer dad, BBQ lover and chili head