Formic Media provides stats and an overview of basic social media sites, and they're individual components. This is an excellent overview for those interested in learning more about social media. This is intended for beginners/novices to social media.
1. Social Media (the basics) – Part 1
Presenter: Alex Peerenboom & Anna Hutson
Date: February 8th, 2012
Location: Formic Media
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• Specializes in search, social and website
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Agenda:
• Intro to Social
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google+
• HootSuite
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Benefits of Social Media:
• Build a brand community (optimize for
visibility)
• Online Reputation Management (ORM)
• Gain industry and constituent insights
• Engage with your community
• Build community & thought leadership
• Brand advocates
• Provide affordable customer service
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Growth of Social Media:
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Growth of Social Media:
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Growth of Social Media:
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Growth of Social Media:
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Social Media Trends:
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Social Media Trends:
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Facebook:
• Brand awareness/SEO
• Monitor what people are saying about your
brand online
• Proactively prevent customer issues
• Provide an outlet for customers to reach you
• Own up to your mistakes (if any)
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Facebook:
• Timely news updates
• Deals & Coupons
• Special contests & promotions
• Demos, tutorials & how-to’s
• Testimonials & case studies
• Expert content
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Facebook Best Practices:
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Facebook Best Practices:
• Sign-up for a ‘Fan’ Page
• Fill out business ‘Information’ tab
• Add other social media profiles
• Use keywords
• Include products, services, etc.
• Find & claim ‘Place’ Page
• Once claimed, business owner can merge
pages
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Profile vs. Page/Admins:
Page
Profile
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Insights –
the Google
The Wall Analytics of
Facebook
Tabbed
Content
Status
updates
Like count
Facebook ads
Likes of the
Brand Page
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• #Likes, reach,
people talking
about this
• Top posts, etc.
• Fan
demographics &
location data
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•Customize via iFrames
•Side Navigation
•Custom Tabs
•Set Default Landing
Tab
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Twitter:
• Brand awareness
• Monitor what people are saying about your
brand online
• Listen to your market
• Another outlet for customers to reach you
• Bring customer issues from public to private
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Twitter:
• Timely news updates
• Expert content
• Promoting followers and their content (RTs)
• Engage entire communities
• Customer service
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Twitter Best Practices:
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Google+:
• Search Plus Your World (SEO)
• Stay ahead of competitors
• Ability to segment customers
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Google+:
• Timely news updates
• Expert content
• Video engagement
• Provide tailored content to Circles
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Google+ Best Practices:
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Creating Efficiencies: HootSuite
• Track & analyze
• Collaborate with a team
• Monitor mentions
• Schedule in advance
• Customize feeds, networks, etc.
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Twitter Search
Multiple
Profiles
Customized
Navigational Feeds
Menu
Type your
140 Tweet &
Send
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Set access
permissions
and send
posts to
multiple social
networks in
one click.
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Editor's Notes
Intro (Infographics could probably provide some great information):·        Social media growth·        User expectations·        Brands and social media use
Facebook:·        Basics – Page vs. Profile, multiple admins, etc·        Filling out the basic page information·        iFrames·        Insights·        Best Practices
individual webpages that you create and host on your own servers (perhaps where you website is hosted) and pulled into Facebook through the iFrame app.