Social Media To Make a PIO's Job Easier - Presentation Transcript
Social Media toMake Your Job Easier NIOA Training Conference Nashville, TN August 24, 2009 Ike Pigott
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier
What is “Social Media?”
What can it do?
How can I use it?
What is RSS? (and why should I care?)
What are tags? (and why should I care?)
Tying it all together - workflow
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier What is “Social Media?” I think I’ll go home and watch some Expanded Cable! I think I’ll go homeand do some Social Media!
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier What is “Social Media?” A class of web services with specific attributes Technology + People + + Organization Freedom
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier What is “Social Media?” Social Media is “word of mouth” with two added dimensions Space T i m e
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier What is “Social Media?” Dynamic for success… once was what you knew then was what you could find now is what your network finds human powered search
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier What is “Social Media?” Example: research human powered search
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier What is “Social Media?” Example: research human powered search
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier What is “Social Media?” the conversations happen anyway
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier What can “Social Media” do? The PIO’s work is never done…
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier What can “Social Media” do? …so add these tools to your toolbox.
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier What can “Social Media” do? Who Why Where Evaluate the networks What When How How do people join? What are the attributes? What do they share?
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier Types of use for “Social Media”
Broadcast
Discussion (resource)
Monitoring
Curation/Aggregation
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier Types of use for “Social Media” What is RSS? Users – DVR for the internet Geeks – WD-40 for information PIOs – Tinkertoys for information management workflow
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier What is RSS? ReallySimpleSyndication RS S
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier Tags?
Data descriptions
Work across platforms
Makes searches easy
Makes searches human
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier Tying it all together External Incoming External Outgoing External Incoming Internal Outgoing Internal Internal
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier Tying it all together External
Blog monitoring
News monitoring
TAG monitoring
Blog-powered newsroom
Automated Twitter
Incoming External Outgoing External
Internal Blog
Talking Points
Talking Points
Incoming Internal Outgoing Internal
Talking Points
Internal
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier Tying it all together Look for “hooks” “Export” sites Wordpress
Multimedia
Supports many RSS feeds
Update via e-mail
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier Tying it all together Look for “hooks” “Import” sites Twitter
A great catch-all
Most robust
Update via any RSS feed
twitterfeed.com
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier Tying it all together Look for “hooks” Some sites do it all! http://posterous.com Facebook @posterous.com Twitter @posterous.com Wordpress @posterous.com
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier Tying it all together External Outgoing External Incoming External Incoming Internal Outgoing Internal Internal
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier Tying it all together Widgets Blocks of code that republish an RSS feed Update your main website on the fly
Social Media to Make Your Job Easier Tying it all together As long as we’re republishing information…
Choose the best of what others are writing and sharing…
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