The document discusses emerging social media platforms Yammer, Storify, and Quora. It summarizes their key features and benefits. Yammer facilitates workplace collaboration and increases productivity. Storify allows users to curate content from across the web and engage audiences. Quora makes it easy for users to create and share content through questions and answers.

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Emerging
Social Media
Gretchen Edwards & Lisa Snedeker
Social Media Strategies Summit: Las Vegas
February 6, 2013

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Welcome
n Gretchen Edwards
n Lisa Snedeker

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In the next hour, you will learn
n HowYammer facilitates workplace
collaboration and increases employee
productivity.
n How
Storify curates content, engages your
audience, and promotes your business or
product.
n HowQuora allows you to easily create and
share new content.

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YAMMER

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About
n “Yammeris shared with colleagues in the
company — not just your close colleagues
— but potentially EVERYONE, from your
manager all the way up to the CEO…”
—Capgemini
Global Consultancy Firm
* via Mashable.com on January 23, 2012

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About

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About

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Collaborate
Break out of your silo
n “It
breaks down silos across the university
by helping get your message out and
finding out what others are working on. It
facilitates workplace collaboration across
departments.”
— Kathy Baker
Director, Family Business Center
Wake Forest University

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Collaborate
Get & give feedback
n “Shout out” to coworkers.
n Earn stakeholder buy-in on proposals.
n Publicize and critique projects
before launch.

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Collaborate
Gain internal support
n "Yammer helps me connect with colleagues
across campus. Sometimes I learn about projects
that tie in with work that I am doing, so we can
collaborate more effectively. Other times, I've
used Yammer to help other faculty and staff
members become aware of some stories or other
communications my office has done so they can
stay informed about issues or projects.”
—Stephanie Skordas
Associate Director of News & Communications
Wake Forest University

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Increase productivity
Get a read on company culture
n Makesboth experienced and new
employees feel more comfortable within
the workplace.

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Increase
productivity
Provides a new forum
for communication

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STORIFY

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About
n Curateand share social and web-based
content.
n Public beta went live in late April 2011.
n In
2012, Storify users posted 554,000 stories
which were viewed 367 million times.*
*As of December 19, 2012 (via thenextweb.com)

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Curate content

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Curate content
Slideshow mode

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Curate content
Slideshow mode

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Curate content
Linear mode

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Curate content
Linear mode

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Curate content
Linear mode

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Curate content
Custom mode

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Curate content
Custom mode

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Curate content
But it’s not an archive
n Storify simply links back to existing content

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Curate content
HAVE FUN!

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Engage
Tell a story
n Feature
user-generated
content.
n Present
through the eyes of
your audience.

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Engage
Repurpose
content

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Engage
Reach & reward your audience

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Engage
Reach & reward your audience

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Engage
Reach & reward your audience

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Promote
Drive traffic to your website

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Promote
Drive traffic to your website

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Promote
Drive traffic to your website

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Promote
Get people talking

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QUORA

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About
n Question and answers collaboration
network.
n Conceived
in the fall of 2008 by two
Facebook engineers.
n 812,245 unique visitors in May 2012.
n Averages a little over 1 million users / month.
*As of July 19, 2012 (via tamba.co.uk)

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About
*As of July 19, 2012 (via tamba.co.uk)

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Create & Share
*As of July 19, 2012 (via tamba.co.uk)

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Create & Share

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Create & Share

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Create & Share

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QUESTIONS?

46. + Gretchen
Edwards
@gretch
Edwards
Contact
Lisa
Snedeker
@lisa_
snedeker