Social Media At Work

Social Media at WorkJennifer Berk

Amplify Public Affairs

March 4, 2009

Amplify Public Affairs, LLC ~ www.amplifypublicaffairs.net

What is social media?


What is social media?

• Tools for sharing information between people• Usually cheap/quick to set up and start using

• Not a quick fix• Not an isolated effort• Not a strategy


Why use social media?


Social media at work can be…

…public relations


Public Relations

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…public relations

…fundraising


Fundraising

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…public relations

…fundraising

…customer service


Customer Service



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…public relations

…fundraising

…customer service

…program development


Program Development



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…public relations

…fundraising

…customer service

…program development

…anything involving people, inside or outside the organization


How do I use social media?


POST (Groundswell)

• People

• Objectives

• Strategy

• Technology


POST - People

• Who are you trying to reach?

• Do they use social media? How?

• What tools do they use, and for what purposes?

• Who are they already talking to?

• Where will they want to hear from you?


POST - People

• Colleagues

• Volunteers

• Donors

• Clients


POST - Objectives

• Listening (you monitor)

• Talking (you publish)

• Energizing (you connect others)

• Supporting (you provide tools)

• Embracing (you collaborate)


POST - Strategy

• What will change?

• How will you know it changed?

• How will your organization need to change in response?


POST - Technology

What technology or technologies will help you reach your customers and bring about that change?


Blogs


Delicious and Digg


Podcasts and Flickr


YouTube


Facebook and MySpace


Mobile and Twitter


LinkedIn, Ning, and Change.org


IM, Skype, and Videoconferences


Games and Virtual Worlds


Pulling it all together


Being human

• Don’t sound too programmed

• Help others

• Have conversations

• Follow social norms - give a name, post a photo, etc.


Crisis management

• Have a policy ahead of time

• Notice there’s a crisis

• Offer your take on the situation

• Respond politely to reasonable critics


Summary

• Social media can create powerful connections• Think about your audience and strategy before

picking what tools to use• Incorporate social media into your regular

planning, and not just communication planning• Be creative, experiment, have fun! Behave like a

human being, not like an organization.


A few resources

• Groundswell, by Josh Bernoff and Charlene Li, and http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell

• Seth Godin’s Blog, http://sethgodin.typepad.com• Beth’s Blog, http://beth.typepad.com, and the We Are

Media wiki http://www.wearemedia.org• Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN), http://nten.org• NetSquared, http://www.netsquared.org• and the Association Social Media Wiki,

http://associationsocialmedia.com

http://blogs.forrester.com/groundswell

http://sethgodin.typepad.com/





http://beth.typepad.com/

http://www.wearemedia.org/

http://nten.org/

http://www.netsquared.org/

http://associationsocialmedia.com/

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