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Social media strategy workshop

This workshop/session is designed to help facilitate senior managers to a level of understanding of Social Media that they then become comfortable with it.

  • What IS Social Media?
    • Wikipedia definition
    • Stats: who is doing all this stuff?
    • Geek talk: RSS, XML, AJAX, widget... wtf?
      • (It's all technology that has been around a long time; it's just suddenly exploded out of the tiny geek community and gone mainstream)
  • Why is it so important?
    • Change in the communication landscape
      • Collaborative
      • Co-operative
      • 'Declarative living'
        • (The idea that rather than posting stuff that allows people to stalk us, we purposefully digitise and post our lives so that we get more value back - contacts, connections, etc.)
  • Discussion: What is NEW about the communication landscape? Do they see these changes already? What are the risks of these changes? What are the opportunities?

  • The 'Flat Earth': Discussion about Freidman's book -- the book focuses on India, but what are the implications for you (and not just with call centres)?

    • Overview of the tools of social media
    • The future: coming soon to a browser near you
      • The metaverse
        • Second Life
        • World Of Warcraft
        • There
        • IBM's own metaverse (see Roo Reynolds' presentation here and here)
    • Integration with the already
      • How do you add social media into your mix?
      • What are the resource implications?
      • What can you jettison to create space for some web2.0 tactics?
      • What are the risks?
      • Where do you find/hire the people who know about this stuff?
    • Blogger Relations - not pissing off those who could firestorm you
    • How to develop Social Media Brand Evangelists
    • How to handle personal use of social networking during office hours
    • BlogStorm Risk Strategy & Crisis Communications
    • I don’t have enough time for a first life! - The Future and how to keep on top of it


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