3. Nafurahia Kuwa hapa Nairobi !
Digital Media consultant & speaker
Co-founder of Interact Egypt
Social Media visionary & believer
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5. Interact SpA
- Founded in 1995 in Italy
- Subsidiary of Eurel Group with offices in
Italy, Egypt & Luxemburg
- International Presence with running
operations in
Italy, Greece, Egypt, Tunisia, Pakistan, Alg
eria and Kuwait
- Joint Stock Company in December 2008
Interact Egypt
- Launched in June 2009
- Headquarter for MENA
solutions & services
- R&D for Mobile Solutions
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6. Digital Television
Digital Signage
on Mobile on the Web Iptv/digital signage
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7. Semantic CMS
Content Existing
Assets CMS/ECM
Online
TV
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19. Facebook
What is interesting in statistics per continent is that Africa is the most dynamic
continent on Facebook gaining more than 50% of its Facebook users in the last
6 months!
Socialbakers
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20. YouTube
In May 2010
YouTube
launched locally
in South Africa
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24. Your Online Identity?!
Online Newsletters Website
Video
Blog
Social
Title Text
Media
Identity
Online SEO
World
Web Data
Analytics
Mobile
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30. What’s Your Goal!?
Business Relations?
Building Awareness?
Selling?
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31. What’s Your Budget?
Cost Effective
Necessary not Complementary
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32. Message you
What is the
want to send?!
Remember to keep your Tone and Style
aligned with your Brand Image.
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33. Target
Do you know your
Audience!?
Know them well
Understand their language
and their Mediums
AKA : Social Networks!
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34. Tool
What’s Your
and Why!?
Facebook? Twitter? You Tube?!
Linkedin? Flickr!? Etc!
Your choice based on your Targets
Your Taregts based on your Goals
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36. Your Social Media “Identity”
Facebook
Linkedin
Youtube
Twitter
Title Text
Social
Media
Social
Monitoring Media Social
Media
tools
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52. Note 3:
No listening without
Engagement
No Engagement without
listening
53. LISTEN
People want their service/Product
Providers, to listen to what they
need!
They need Care and Attention!
They will stick to you..If you
listen to them!
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54. Engage
Be Yourself only
Answer questions & give feedback
Initiate a Conversation!
Give a SOUL to your Online identity!
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55. Build Trust & Credibility
portray yourself as an Expert
it shows how established and reliable you are!
That’s promotion, too!
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56. Be Fun
use attractive means to capture the attention.
Social Media is not newspapers
It’s a two-way communication
Interactive & lively
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59. Fail to plan, is plan to fail!
Priority Of Your Needs
Humanize your Brand
Listen
Train Show Expertise Behind Logo
Consult Build Comfort with Client
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60. Share “Valuable” Content
Content is KING
Exert effort and time in building and sharing it
Blog, tweets, posts, photos, videos, articles, sky is the limit
Keeps your image as the field expert
Measure how your audience respond to your content
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61. Involve!
Maintain your level of involvement with your audience!!
Create a dynamic online persona.
No one wants to read a Twitter stream that only deals with menu
updates or sales — people want to engage with a brand.
Make it Personal!
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62. Measure & Monitor
The KPIs
True reach: Your network size & dynamics
Social Media influence: How influential you are?
Amplification: The likelihood that your content will be acted upon.
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63. Boost your influence
Personal Brand, Trust and Expertise.
Understanding each is imperative to measuring influence, which can be
expressed as:
Influence = (Personal Brand * Trust * Expertise)
Of course, since Expertise = (Knowledge * Trust), we can
further refine the equation to:
Influence = (Personal Brand * Knowledge * Trust2)
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