Companies And Social Media for SearchFest

Companies and Social Media Participating without being sleazy Dawn Foster dawn@fastwonder.com Fast Wonder Consulting http://FastWonderBlog.com 03/02/09 FastWonderBlog.com 1

Why Companies Should Participate People: gives people a place to engage with ● your company Product Innovation: get product feedback ● Evangelism: help you grow evangelists for ● your products from outside of your company Brand Loyalty: engagement can drive a ● tremendous amount of loyalty for your products 03/02/09 FastWonderBlog.com 2

Guiding Principles: It's All About the People Focus on the individuals: Participate as a ● person, not a corporate entity Be Sincere: Sincerity = believability & credibility ● Not all about you: Community is about ● conversation, which is by definition two-way Be a Part of the Community: Don't try to control ● the community or the conversations Everyone’s a Peer: You are not the expert; ● knowledge comes from everywhere 03/02/09 FastWonderBlog.com 3

Participation Guidelines Do quietly monitor competitor’s communities ● and learn from them Do not participate on competitor's sites – Do participate as a person with diverse ● interests Do not participate in communities solely to pimp – your products. Do talk about the industry first & your ● products second Do not mention your products in every post or – comment. 03/02/09 FastWonderBlog.com 4

Where (and how) to Participate Industry Communities (PCWorld, etc.) ● Participation by subject experts (not marketing) – Find people passionate about the topic and have – them participate as part of their job Blogging (corporate & personal) ● Talk about ideas, thoughts, & industry trends – Comment on other blogs with insightful information – Social Media sites ● Engage as people on Facebook, Twitter, etc. with – discussions about your job as one part 03/02/09 FastWonderBlog.com 5

Community Managers What Skills do they need? “Jobs of the future, #1: Online Community Organizer Patience – ... If you were great at this, I'd imagine Networking – you'd never ever have trouble finding good work.” Communication – --Seth Godin Facilitation – What do they do? Technical Skills – Ongoing Facilitation – Marketing – Content Creation – Self-Motivation – Evangelism – Workaholic Tendencies – Community Evolution – Organization Monitoring – – 03/02/09 FastWonderBlog.com 6

Make it Fun Why do you sit there like that? I know it is wet. And the sun is not sunny. But we can have lots of good fun that is funny! I know some good games we could play. I know some new tricks. I will show them to you. Your mother will not mind at Translation: all if I do. Have fun! Lighten it up occasionally! 03/02/09 FastWonderBlog.com 7

More Information Additional Resources: http://fastwonderblog.com/starting-point/ ● http://www.web-strategist.com/blog ● http://www.onlinecommunityreport.com/ ● http://socialmediatoday.com/ ● About Dawn: Online Community and Social Media Consultant ● More Info: http://fastwonderblog.com/consulting ● Dawn@FastWonder.com ● @geekygirldawn on Twitter ● 03/02/09 FastWonderBlog.com 8

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