Social Media for Community Building | Ice Age Trail Alliance Annual Mtg | April 23 2010

Using Social Media to Build Your Community Ice Age Trail Alliance, April 23, 2010 Wendy Soucie 25 years + experience Certified social media consultant Certified Integrated Alliances LinkedIn Trainer Based in the Midwest with national reach. 1 © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

What we are doing today • Share pictures and videos • Invite someone new to hike with you • Volunteer at an event and bring someone • Write an article • Public speaking at your local civic or service club Is this enough to reach membership goal? © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 3 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

With the Internet comes a new reality "The corporate homepage at Dell.com is not really the corporate homepage. The homepage today is Google.“ Bob Pearson, Dell's man in charge of social media strategy It took radio 38 years to reach 50 million users; It took television 13 years to reach 50 million users; It took the internet 4 years to reach 50 million users; It took Facebook 2 years to reach 50 million users. © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved 4

Social Media: Why? • Brand – building awareness in WI and nationally • Loyalty – improving the public’s knowledge - educating, sharing, expanding the experience for all • Advocacy – building and maintaining support • Mobilization – generating action from volunteers • Fundraising – building donor and Lodi IAT Bridge – longest bridge spanning support base the IAT (William Beers) To convince 5000 people to join IAT Alliance © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 9 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Reality Check • Facebook claims that 50% of active users log into the site daily. That’s 175m users every 24 hours. • Twitter now has 75m user accounts, • LinkedIn has over 50m members worldwide. • Flickr now hosts more than 4 billion images. • Wikipedia currently has in excess of 14m articles © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 10 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Do some searches Google Search Blogs Images Video Search within sites you are on List of 26 tools http://www.socialmediatoday.com/SMC/155299 http://www.dreamgrow.com/46-free-social-media-monitoring-tools/ 17 © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Tip: Profile for social media sites Use a headshot of just you (real picture) Complete the profile – picture, bio, link Decide where “home” is. Primary email should be a gmail or yahoo account Use your real and complete name – Add under hobbies or interest: IAT, IATA, Ice Age Trail, Ice Age Trail Alliance, hiking © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 22 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

How to behave on social media Be Generous, say good things Talk about ideas or others 80% of the time Share links, say thank you, send congrats, share best practices, listen, engage. Whatever you would do in person to help another individual you can do on social media. © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 23 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Don’t (s) Don’t say things you wouldn’t say to grandma, spouse, mother, boss, friend or enemy. Don’t put it on the Internet if it should be private. Don’t share all three pieces of info – birthday, address, SS# - Be cautious of identity theft. © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 24 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Where should our focus be? • Facebook – 3rd most visited website in U.S. (behind Google & Yahoo) • Blogs – 15% of bloggers spend 10 or more hours each week blogging – [Technorati's new State of the Blogosphere.] • Twitter – News generator and source • LinkedIn – 700K businesses, every Fortune 500 represented • YouTube – 4th most visited website in U.S. & one of the top three search engines • Flickr – pictures, video, groups and networking. • Other possible groups – Yahoo and Google Groups © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved Real time data from compete.com and Alexia 25

Social Networking - Facebook • 1.7 M people in Wisconsin are on FB • 332,240 FB users in Madison (more than the population) – 18+ over 90% – 35% 35+ – 15% are over 50+ IAT through Main St. Lodi © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie Consulting LLC - All Rights 26 Reserved

Facebook User Engagement: • 10 M users become fans of Pages each day • 2 B photos uploaded to the site each month • 14 M videos uploaded each month • 2 B pieces of content (web links, news stories, blog posts, notes, photos, etc.) shared / wk • 3 M events created each month • 45 M active user groups exist on the site* • 65 M active users accessing through mobile. © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 28 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Who else is on FB • Appalachian Mountain Trail Club – 7,414 or Appalachian Trail Conservancy (16K) – Ice Age Trail Alliance - 386 • REI (58K), Northface (17K), New Belgian Beer (77K) • Trekking, Hiking, Walking (11K); hiking (27K) – Hiking Wisconsin (<10) © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 29 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Pictures - Flickr Two Groups : “ Ice Age National Scenic Trail Ice Age Trail Total of 10 members 3,081 results for “ice age trail” 1,971 people in Wisconsin Group and 46, 303 photos shared 35 © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Other links and connections • GreyGhost • http://www.scribd.com/doc/22670799/Ice- Age-Trail-Mile-by-Mile-PDF-Spreadsheet • Jenny Addis http://www.inspirationspeaks.me/wiiceagetr ail.htm • Citizen Journalist – Examiner.com © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 39 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

ProjectGirl.org • OBJECTIVE: Drive youth to Website to vote on “Best Nonprofit”, time sensitive contest. • STRATEGIES: Get known quickly, give youth reasons to participate, be visible to adults • AUDIENCE: children and young adults 13-21, parents, educators, business professionals © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved 41

ThriveHere.org • OBJECTIVE: Promotion of the region, businesses, the organization and project work within region. • STRATEGIES: Increase traffic to website, get known as an economic driver in the region, cross pollination on all sites • AUDIENCE: Business owners, investors, entrepreneurs © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved 43

Ice Age Trail Alliance • OBJECTIVE: Grow to 5000 members with broad diversity in all areas, extend trail, engage with all partners • STRATEGIES: Listen, create evangelists, show family fun, engage GenY, share the experience • AUDIENCE: GenY, Kids, Adults, Retirees, business owners, partners © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved 45

Story – Lodi Bridge Dedication • Attended dedication • Video & pictures of the event • Video interviews of 2 people • Edited & posted to Youtube • Blog post for blogspot • Tweeted video and post • Picked up by Lodi Valley News • Articles in three papers and online by next day • Pictures uploaded to FB & Flickr (taged) • Gathering Waters Conservancy posted link for Youtube video on FB page • Top of the list for Google Search - videos © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 47 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Tip: Ways to use social media effectively • Sign up for an account, spend a week listening • Invite people to IAT events, promote an event using various tools, write about an event you attended • Connect with people you met during a hike – find in social places • Get your pictures and video up on a social media site - tag • Write a trail review about your recent hikes – submit to trail.com © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 49 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Local groups to learn more Photo credit :William Beers Social Media Club Madison (in many cities) Social Media Breakfast Madison (in many cities) © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie 50 Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Books Resources Rock the World with Your Online Presence by Mike O’Neill Most up to date LinkedIn book www.rocktheworldbook.com Twitter Marketing : An Hour a Day by Hollis Thomas Groundswell, Trust Agents, Six Pixels of Separation Blogs LinkedIn - http://blog.linkedin.com Integrated Alliances http://www.integratedalliances.com/blog WSC Blog - http://www.wendysoucie.com Mashable – http://www.mashable.com Social Media Today – http://www.socialmediatoday.com SocialMediaExaminer – http://www.socialmediaexaminer.com Chris Brogan – http://www.chrisbrogan.com Slide Presentations http://www.slideshare.net/wsoucie YouTube Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/wendysoucie Photo credits – Istockphoto.com, William Beers, and Wendy Soucie 51 © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

Strategic Alliances • Wendy Soucie Consulting – www.wendysoucie.com • Founder/Principal • Integrated Alliances • Regional Executive Director – WI • End Result Marketing – www.endresultmarketing.com • Social Media Strategist • Social Media Academy • Certified Social Media Consultant • Founding Gold Member and Alumni • Black Diamond Consultant • Xeesm Business Partner - Wisconsin 53 © Copyright 2009 Wendy Soucie Consulting LLC - All Rights Reserved

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