1. Social Media for Business
Maine Telecommunications Users Group • 5.28.09
Michelle Riggen-Ransom (@mriggen)
Communications Director
BatchBlue Software (@batchblue)
Adam Darowski (@adarowski)
User Experience Designer
BatchBlue Software (@batchblue)
2. Agenda
• Part I: Types of social media sites
• Part II: How we’re using social media
• Part III: What can YOU do with social media?
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3. Types of Social Media Sites
• Social Networking
• Blogs
• Microblogging
• Social Bookmarking & News
• Photos, Videos & Podcasts
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4. Types of Social Media Sites
• Social Networking
• Blogs
• Microblogging
• Social Bookmarking & News
• Photos, Videos & Podcasts
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5. Social Networking
• The players: MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn
MySpace Facebook LinkedIn
Traffic Rank 9 4 96
Avg Time on Site 20.2 min/day 25.0 min/day 6.7 min/day
Data from alexa.com
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6. MySpace
• “A place for friends”
• Friends network, personal profiles, blogs,
groups, photos, music, and videos
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7. MySpace
• “A place for friends”
• Friends network, personal profiles, blogs,
groups, photos, music, and videos
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8. MySpace
• “A place for friends”
• Friends network, personal profiles, blogs,
groups, photos, music, and videos
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9. Site Traffic
Reach: Percentage of global Pageviews: Percentage of global
Internet users who visit the site. pageviews on site.
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10. Age Demographics
MySpace Facebook LinkedIn
Figures relative to general internet population (green = more common, red = less common)
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11. Education Demographics
MySpace Facebook LinkedIn
Figures relative to general internet population (green = more common, red = less common)
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12. Niche & DIY Social Networks
• Niche networks: Smaller communities focused
around a very niche topic.
- Less quantity, more quality
• DIY networks: Sites like Ning allow you to
create your own social network.
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13. MySpace
• “A place for friends”
• Friends network, personal profiles, blogs,
groups, photos, music, and videos
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14. MySpace
• “A place for friends”
• Friends network, personal profiles, blogs,
groups, photos, music, and videos
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15. Types of Social Media Sites
• Social Networking
• Blogs
• Microblogging
• Social Bookmarking & News
• Photos, Videos & Podcasts
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16. Blogs
• DuctTape Marketing
• Small Biz Survival
• Small Business Trends
• BatchBlue blog
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24. What’s so special?
• Short format makes it easy to take part
• A way to get into the minds of industry experts,
celebrities, or just your friends & acquaintances
• Third party clients with various features & UIs
• Easily searchable
• Hashtags for topic-based searching, events and online
quot;Tweetchatsquot;
- ex: That pitch was way low! #redsox
- ex: We use MailChimp for email marketing. #sbbuzz
- ex: We’re presenting at #MTUG09 tomorrow. Come say hi!
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25. Types of Social Media Sites
• Social Networking
• Blogs
• Microblogging
• Social Bookmarking & News
• Photos, Videos & Podcasts
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26. Social Bookmarking
• The players: Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon
Digg Delicious StumbleUpon
Traffic Rank 181 958 440
Avg Time on Site 4.6 min/day 2.6 min/day 4.2 min/day
Data from alexa.com
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32. How BatchBlue is using Social Media to
Win Friends and Influence Customers
• Twitter (sbbuzz, cs, blog links, news,
promotions)
• Blog (Company news, product updates,
community events/contest promotion)
• YouTube (presentations, behind the scenes,
Realtors Using Social Media)
• Flickr (behind the scenes, presentations and
conferences)
• Facebook (connecting with “fans”, company
info, blog feed)
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42. What YOU can do with Social Media?
1. Identify and most relevant social network(s); start exploring
2. Decide on your brand: you, yourself, company, combo
3. Create a page for your business
4. Create a Twitter account
5. Twitter search on topics, products, etc. to find people to
follow; look at their followers' list
6. Twellow.com/twellowhood to find local Tweeters
7. Read blogs in your industry. Find some favorites, leave
comments, engage with pre-existing community
8. Have fun!
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