Introduction to social media and social marketing. Part one of a two part seminar by Kelsey Ruger on the use of social media in business,

1. ocial
Media
Understanding the conversations below the surface
The end of business as usual
Social Media
Bootcamp

2. What do you think when you
think when you hear...
Social Media?

3. Social
What is
Media

4. Social Media
foundations?
Friendster
March 2002
Myspace
August 2003

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6. As time passed
for a variety of reasons the human
connection faded

7. OK...
Social
what is
Media

8. A key lesson from
The Cluetrain Manifesto
Networked markets are beginning to self-organize
faster than the companies that have traditionally
served them. Thanks to the web, markets are
becoming better informed, smarter, and more
demanding of qualities missing from most
business organizations.”

9. Social Media is a
conversation
Supported by online tools

10. like these

11. The important thing in Social Media is
the real people who use it
and their social interactions

12. It’s all about the Cs
Competition
Creative Creation
Collaboration
Communication
Community
Creative Class
Connected convergence

13. most company still just
don’t get it
They haven’t
gotten
on the cluetrain...

14. The foundations of
Social Media
Internal Markets Conversations External Markets

15. People are not just demographics anymore
to connect with them you need to understand...
relationships are more powerful than marketing
Pownce
SXSW
Twitter
Facebook
Friends
Imeem
Art &
Design
Corporate
Last.FM Blogs
Marketing

17. Instead of slick images of what they’d like people to think they are...
to open so
companies
People want see them
can really
people

18. Don’t
Why
they

19. hang
Because they
on to the one
thing they think
they can’t live
without

20. Control

21. They only think they are in control.
- Cluetrain Manifesto

23. Conversation
will happen
without you
initiating them

24. Once companies realize this
they’ll be much better off

25. The rules of
Social Media
Participation Connections
Conversation Community
Listen to your market place

26. It’s not just a new
messaging channel...
Social Media and PR are cousins
but they aren’t the same thing

27. What we learned from
The Cluetrain
Manifesto