Are you a passionate Community member? Are you pushing your local civic organizations to get online to grow your outreach and recruit some new blood? Click on for a high level overview of how social networking can help you grow your real world organization and community as never before.
2. What we’ll talk about
•Storytelling
•How to LISTEN and
engage online
•The art of Responding
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16. Listening and Engaging: Tracking Tools
Due diligence on your Story
www,technorati.com/watchlist
Powerful Social Media search engine
watches for your terms and updates you
www.google.com/alerts
Email updates for your company
name and keywords
http://alerts.yahoo.com
Yahoo! alerts you of any
occurrences of defined terms and
names
21. 2. Listening and Engaging: Facebook Magic!
Facebook - Not just for college kids
•Pages and Groups
ROCK!
•Be a leader, volunteer
and connector
•Create buzz for events
•Share your own
updates, links
and other content
Bill White:
www.billwhitefortx.com/facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Bill-White/7101618455
22. 2. Listening and Engaging: Facebook Magic!
Your Facebook profile at a glance
• Flesh out your profile
• Be picky on who you
connect with
• Re-purpose other content
• Add ALL of your
Social Media links
• Be fun and interesting
• Connect with
like-minded people
23. 2. Listening and Engaging: Facebook Magic!
Marketing Successful Events on Facebook
230 ‘yes’
348 ‘maybe’
670 members
24. 2. Listening and Engaging: Facebook Magic!
Are you a ‘Group’ie?
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2597976894
25. 2. Listening and Engaging: Facebook Magic!
Page Power in Facebook
26. 2. Listening and Engaging: Facebook Magic!
To Page or to Group - that is the question
• Groups = Not indexed in Google
• Pages = Visible to Google
• Groups = Messages go to inbox
• Pages = Messages go to ‘updates’
http://www.searchenginejournal.com/facebook-group-vs-
facebook-fan-page-whats-better/7761/
27. 3. Facebook: Community Building through Social tools
Facebook Do’s and Don’ts
•Be stiff and boring
•Grow your profile
•Create a ‘company’
•Upload pics and videos to
profile (deleted!!)
tag and send
•Keep all personal and pro
•Create and join biz and fun
life facets separate
Groups / Pages
•Post press releases
•Be picky on your friends
•Spam your contacts
•Cross promote your
(connect but be polite)
Social Media links
28. 3. Facebook: Community Building through Social tools
Facebook Buzzwords
•Friend - Connect with someone on Facebook
•Wall message - Write, draw or post something on someone’s wall
•Tag - Add names to photos or videos
•Status update - What are you doing?
•Public timeline - List of recent activity
29. 2. Listening and Engaging: MySpace or Your Space?
Connecting and promoting on MySpace
Bill White on MySpace: www.myspace.com/mayorbillwhite
30. 2. Listening and Engaging: Video takes it home
Playing with video on YouTube (www.youtube.com)
Yale St. Arts Market on YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/Madule
31. 2. Listening and Engaging: Not just snapshots...
Flickr - The Power of Visualization! (www.flickr.com)
www.flickr.com/groups/assignmenthouston/pool/
www.flickr.com/groups/superneighborhood22/
www.flickr.com/photos/laanba/2379353028/
32. 2. Listening and Engaging: Not just snapshots...
Geotagging fun on Flickr
www.flickr.com/map/
33. 2. Listening and Engaging: Twitter
Micro-Blogging with Twitter (www.twitter.com)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddO9idmax0o
34. 2. Listening and Engaging: Twitter
Twitter includes others in ongoing dialogue
Heights on Twitter: www.twitter.com/HoustonHeights
35. 2. Listening and Engaging: Twitter
Use as a platform to help others!
HPL on Twitter: www.twitter.com/HoustonLibrary
38. 3. Responding: Blogs and Commenting
Do’s and Don’t of Commenting
GOOD! BAD!
• Speak your mind • Be defensive / snarky
(respectfully)
• Think you can change
• Include links to relevant everyone’s mind
information
• Leave identical comments
• Give props / say thanks!
• Be ‘Anonymous’
• Bite your tongue (when
appropriate)
41. 3. Responding: How to make it a Positive
People get mad, don’t fuel the fire
Find your Happy Place.
42. 3. Responding: How to make it a Positive
The Power of Creation
www.lettexansruntexas.com
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKsoXHYICqU
43. Let’s Review:
•STORY
•Listen first, then talk
•Creative connectivity
•The art of Responding
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44. Can we help you? Let us know!
Ed Schipul // CEO
Email: eschipul@schipul.com
Personal blog: www.eschipul.com
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