1. What is Social Media?
A conversation and a discussion on the Social Media Principles
Chris Heuer
Creative Social Strategist and Coach
Founder, Social Media Club
3. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
4. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
5. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
Who is going to be a social entrepreneur?
6. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
Who is going to be a social entrepreneur?
Who has teachers who are actually doing it and not just reading it
7. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
Who is going to be a social entrepreneur?
Who has teachers who are actually doing it and not just reading it
Who has read the cluetrain?
8. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
Who is going to be a social entrepreneur?
Who has teachers who are actually doing it and not just reading it
Who has read the cluetrain?
How about Groundswell?
9. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
Who is going to be a social entrepreneur?
Who has teachers who are actually doing it and not just reading it
Who has read the cluetrain?
How about Groundswell?
What tools are you using?
10. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
Who is going to be a social entrepreneur?
Who has teachers who are actually doing it and not just reading it
Who has read the cluetrain?
How about Groundswell?
What tools are you using?
Facebook
11. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
Who is going to be a social entrepreneur?
Who has teachers who are actually doing it and not just reading it
Who has read the cluetrain?
How about Groundswell?
What tools are you using?
Facebook
MysSpce
12. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
Who is going to be a social entrepreneur?
Who has teachers who are actually doing it and not just reading it
Who has read the cluetrain?
How about Groundswell?
What tools are you using?
Facebook
MysSpce
Delicious
13. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
Who is going to be a social entrepreneur?
Who has teachers who are actually doing it and not just reading it
Who has read the cluetrain?
How about Groundswell?
What tools are you using?
Facebook
MysSpce
Delicious
Digg
14. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
Who is going to be a social entrepreneur?
Who has teachers who are actually doing it and not just reading it
Who has read the cluetrain?
How about Groundswell?
What tools are you using?
Facebook
MysSpce
Delicious
Digg
Blog
15. My name is Chris, who are you?
Who is being taught social media in school right now?
Who is expecting a life in business?
Who is going to be a social entrepreneur?
Who has teachers who are actually doing it and not just reading it
Who has read the cluetrain?
How about Groundswell?
What tools are you using?
Facebook
MysSpce
Delicious
Digg
Blog
Wiki
16. What do you really want to learn this morning?
What are the most
important questions
you want to have
answered on these
topics?
25. Welcome to the social world...
• Welcome to the era of conversation
26. Welcome to the social world...
• Welcome to the era of conversation
• Spin doesn’t work, people smell BS a mile away, and they tell their
friends (and everyone else) to avoid it
27. Welcome to the social world...
• Welcome to the era of conversation
• Spin doesn’t work, people smell BS a mile away, and they tell their
friends (and everyone else) to avoid it
• Advertising isn’t effective anymore, no one is watching the ads and no
one cares
28. Welcome to the social world...
• Welcome to the era of conversation
• Spin doesn’t work, people smell BS a mile away, and they tell their
friends (and everyone else) to avoid it
• Advertising isn’t effective anymore, no one is watching the ads and no
one cares
• People want to talk to people, not marketing and communications
professionals
29. Welcome to the social world...
• Welcome to the era of conversation
• Spin doesn’t work, people smell BS a mile away, and they tell their
friends (and everyone else) to avoid it
• Advertising isn’t effective anymore, no one is watching the ads and no
one cares
• People want to talk to people, not marketing and communications
professionals
• The Cluetrain is well on its way to the future, are you on it?
http://cluetrain.com/
30. Social Media is tearing
down the walls that keep
us apart and changing
the rules that have kept
us from being human
inside our companies.
32. It’s not about pulling
levers & getting results
Being social is a way of thinking
from which you can create new
opportunities to talk WITH your
audiences and get the cash
register ringing BECAUSE you are
being helpful and focused on
them, not yourself
33. photo by Dave Gray - Xplane
http://flickr.com/photos/davegray/82865014/in/set-1776148/
It’s more art then science How do you use the brush?
50. Which is why I think these Social Media Principles
are where we must start.
51. Success in this next era, the network age, the social
age, the knowledge age requires you to change
your everything
52. Success in this next era, the network age, the social
age, the knowledge age requires you to change
your everything
• Attitude
53. Success in this next era, the network age, the social
age, the knowledge age requires you to change
your everything
• Attitude
• Perspective
54. Success in this next era, the network age, the social
age, the knowledge age requires you to change
your everything
• Attitude
• Perspective
• Philosophy
55. Success in this next era, the network age, the social
age, the knowledge age requires you to change
your everything
• Attitude
• Perspective
• Philosophy
• Understanding
56. Success in this next era, the network age, the social
age, the knowledge age requires you to change
your everything
• Attitude
• Perspective
• Philosophy
• Understanding
• Skillset
57. Great Products aren’t
sold, they’re bought
“Advertising is the tax you
pay for mediocre products.”
- Peter Hirshberg
Chairman,
The Conversation Group
photo by chris heuer
58. The Golden Rules of Marketing
1. Marketing is the work we do to match a company’s product or service with the
people or companies who will get the most value and/or satisfaction from it.
2. The best marketing is done during the product development process, where
the needs and desires of those who will use the product or service are
considered and designed into the product or service with an understanding of
the broader marketplace in which they will be sold. You can’t easily market a
product that was not well made, but the iPhone sells itself.
3. Marketing is not the transactional process with which it has become
associated despite its close proximity. If markets are indeed conversations,
then marketing is a series of conversations intended to serve the better
interests of the market. (David Weinberger has famously said ’somewhere
along the way marketing became what we did TO people’)
http://www.chrisheuer.com/2008/03/14/the-golden-rules-of-marketing/
59. Markets, not Marketing
• Conversations Aren’t Marketing
• Talk With Your Customers, Not At Them
• Be of Service, Provide Real Value
• Don’t Just Listen to Customers, Hear Them
• Spend on Marketing, Invest in Support
• Make Customer Relationships Meaningful