Social Media Practical Essentials
Jonnie Jensen – Digital Coach
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What We Can Do Today
• Cover three concepts
– People
– Content
– Participation
• Not covering
– Proposition
– Your added value
– Why you are doing this and for who?
• No apologies for going fast
• You will not leave an expert
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Before We Get Started
• Preconceptions
• Misconceptions
• Leave your baggage at the door
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Using social media for business
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What Will Success Require
• To be successful you need
– Create an audience
– Add Value through content
– Be present and participate
• This builds reputation and awareness
• This raises your influence
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Personal vs Corporate
• LinkedIn & Facebook have both
• Twitter – There will only ever be one you
– Your business brand may not be yours forever
– Can you effectively manage both?
– Which has the most impact?
– What would your audience expect to see?
– I say • Personal is more important
• Make business one easier with some automated content – Yahoo Pipes & Twittterfeed
• Be present on both
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Social Media Flow
• Example of content finding and sharing process from Oscar Berg
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The Power Of Content
• Content – Which you have found
– Which you have created
– Which you are part of…
• Following
• Sharing
• Commenting
• Publishing
• Networking
ref: ChrisBrogan.com
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Social Media Capital – What’s Yours?
• What is that you want to achieve?
• What are you passionate about?
• What subjects are you going to lead?
• What value is it that you offer?
• What are going to be known for?
• What are you going to be liked for?
• What are you going to be followed for?
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A New Way Of Thinking…
Open, Random, Supportive Vs
Closed, Controlled, Selective
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Social Networking
• It involves people
• Open Networking
– Allowing for random opportunities and connections
• Be known for something
• Be willing
• Be flexible
• Be real
• Stay consistent
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Services you could use: • Twitter
• Slideshare
• YouTube
• A blog
• Scribd
• Vimeo
• Ustream
• Foursquare
• Flickr
• RSS feeds
• Podcasts
• Gravatar
• FriendFeed
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Find Content
Create Content
Find Audience
Share With Audience
Engage with Audience
Drive Traffic & Sales
Your Basic Goals
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Mobile Phone
• …they are not just for talking on!
• Get a smart phone and stay connected
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Set Up Gravatar
• It is a tool for commenting on blogs and other sites
• Your picture and bio will be universally shared
• It makes your time more effective and efficient
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Gravatar
http://gravatar.com
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Google RSS Reader
• Set Up Google Account
• Wide range of excellent services
• Helps Google know you
• Google Reader is an RSS Reader
• Easy access to latest information
• Ability to share content with your network
• Look for RSS button on website
• Add site via Google Reader
• Organise in folders
• Shortcut to other content
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Google Reader
http://google.com/reader
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Adding & Managing Subscriptions
• Click Add Subscription
– Type in web address
– Google will look for feed
– Subscribe to feed
– Review suggestions
• Managing Feeds
– Click Feed Settings
– Add Folder
– Use broad titles
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Subscribe Direct From Web Page
• You can look for the RSS image on any page
– Click and Add to Google Reader
• Even easier, Add Google Reader Bookmarklet
– Click Settings
– Google Reader
– Goodies
– Drag Subscribe
button to browser
– Click it to add page
your viewing
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Sharing Content
• Set up your Twitter account and use Send To
• Open link and share via Bit.ly bookmark
(covered today)
• Delicious – creates a library of favourite content
• FriendFeed – will share to Twitter automatically
• Ping.FM – will share to many services
(not covered today)
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Sharing from Google Reader Click Settings
Click Send To
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• Does everyone know what Twitter is?
• Optimise your profile – Picture
– Bio & Location
– Background
• Find people – By name
– By location
– By keyword
• Search – Tweets
– Bio
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The Twitter Basics
• How to send
• Private messages
• RT (ReTweet)
• @mention
• Hashtag
• Location
• Reply
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How To Read A Tweet
• Clicking on elements of a Tweet will expand it
– Profile
– Pictures
– Video
– Links
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How to Send
• Sending a Tweet is as simple as typing a message
• A Tweet is public to the World
• Nothing or Anything could happen
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Private Message
• Only a Direct Message is private
• You can only DM if they follow you – Click New Message and find name
– Start Tweet with D username
Click Messages
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Replies & Messaging People
• If you start a message with Twitter Username this is between you two and anyone that follows both of you
• It is less public but still searchable
Click Reply
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@mentions
• Placing someone’s Twitter name in a Tweet will share that message with them and your followers
• Use it to reference and share
• Good for engagement
• Reply to all your @mentions
Click Reply
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RT (ReTweet)
• Share someone else’s Tweet with others – Notifies them you shared it
• Shows you value and agree
• Automatic via Retweet – Shares their tweet exactly as you received it
– Shared with your followers
• Manual (classic) – RT @username at start of message
– Via @username at end of message
• Manual allows personalisation – Better for engagement
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RT (ReTweet)
Retweet (Auto) They See – no adjustments
You See
Classic (Manual) They See – personalised
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Hashtags (#)
• Group Tweets around subjects
• #subject or #anyphraseyoulike
• You cant own them
• Easy to find and share
• Follow relevant others
• Spot key influencers
• Identify related Lists
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Sending powerful Tweets
• You want your messages to get clicked on
• You want your messages to get noticed
• You want your messages to get reTweeted (RT)
Twitter Tips
• Include hyperlinks in your Tweets – shortened URL’s
• Use @twitter_name and # to promote your tweets
• Leave enough space for the RT @name
– 120 characters
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Connecting with people • Send 15-20 tweets first
• Add LinkedIn connections
– create a list first
• Add contacts via Gmail
– export Outlook contacts
• Email your contacts
• Search people’s bios
– http://tweepz.com/
• Look at who others follow
– via their page
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Find people
• Search Twitter Content
– lets you find people based on the topics they’re talking about
– http://icerocket.com http://search.twitter.com
• Search #hashtags
– Presume keywords that people might use as #hashtags
– Follow #hashtags used by your network or by events
• Search by location & keyword
– http://tweepz.com http://geochirp.com
• LinkedIn profiles show Twitter names
• Search other peoples follower’s
– Look at who are the influential and active followers
– http://tweepi.com
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URL shortening
• Shorten URL’s to
– Enable reporting
– Free up character space
– Clean up your messages
• Many services available
– http://bit.ly is recommended
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Bit.ly
http://bit.ly
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Enabling Bit.ly Across Social Networks
Click Settings
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• Sidebar Bookmarklet button enables quick sharing from web page
Shortening & Sharing From Browser
Click Tools
Click Bookmarklet
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TweetDeck
• Social media messaging and search suite
• Use what you have learnt plus common sense
• Click to view, learn and take actions
• Set up profiles from Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, FourSquare
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Tweetdeck
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Recommended TweetDeck Settings
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Recommended TweetDeck Settings
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Recommended TweetDeck Settings
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Recommended TweetDeck Settings
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Adding A Search Column
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Following
• Click Tweeter’s name to view profile
• View bio and Tweets
• Follow
• Add to List
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Additional Recommended Tools
• Bit.ly bookmarklet – Share web pages quickly and easily on Twitter
• Drag on to your Chrome or Firefox browser
• http://j.mp/pages/tools
• Google Reader Bookmarklet – Add web sites to your Google Reader
• http://j.mp/dKdsnd
– Share content you like (and save it for later) by sharing • Visit Google Reader
• Click on Your stuff (located on the left hand side)
• Once the page loads, you should see the Note in Reader
• Drag the Note in Reader button onto your browser toolbar
• Delicious Browser Add On – Add web pages you like to public bookmark service
• http://www.delicious.com/help/quicktour/firefox
• http://www.delicious.com/help/quicktour/chrome
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Staying Efficient
• Synchronising your profiles
– FriendFeed optimisation
– Twitter app on LinkedIn
– Google Reader sharing
• Optimising your Outlook
– Using rules to manage the volume of messages
– Receive select RSS feeds into your RSS inbox
• Passwords
– Level 1, 2 & 3
• Daily schedule
– If you don’t make time you wont have time
– Use a calendar/schedule to help build habits
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Why LinkedIn? • Acquire new customers through online recommendations and word of mouth.
• Keep in touch with people who care most about your business.
• Find the right vendors to outsource services you’re not an expert on.
• Build your industry network—online and in person.
• Get answers to tough business questions with a little help from your real friends.
• Win new business by answering questions in your area of expertise.
• Raise funding
• Identify mentors
• Network with peers in your industry for repeat business referrals.
• Convince potential customers of your expertise by sharing unique blog content.
• Keep your friends close and your competition closer.
...with thanks to Guy Kawasaki
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The rise of LinkedIn – why it works
People like you like people like you 2
nd and 3
rd level contacts put you in
reach of millions of business people +
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Getting Started
• http://linkedin.com
• Look at lots of peoples profiles
• Use your real name and email address
• Do not add contacts
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Build a great profile
Write a ‘movie trailer’ about you
Create a vanity URL
Get a great photo
Use ‘other’ to create descriptive links
Complete 100%
Add all jobs and education
Switch off profile whilst building it
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Use LinkedIn Applications
• Turn your profile into your professional social media hub
• Connect your content to LinkedIn
• Promote your content to LinkedIn audience
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Building your network
• Don’t add anyone until your profile is 100% complete
• Add your email contacts
• Add previous colleagues
• Put a link in your email sig, your business card, everywhere
• Ask for introductions
• Search for people – Define what type of people you want to connect with
– Use the search filter to find them
– Look to see who they are connected with
– Look to see who’s else their visitors have visited
– Join groups and introduce yourself
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Bulk Connect to your Contacts
• Bulk connect to people by clicking Add Connections
• Use your online accounts or upload a file
• You cant personalise the invite
• Create your own invite with link to your page
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Personally invite people • Use personalised
invites unless you know the person well
• Go to their profile page and click Add Name To Network
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Use LinkedIn Search
• Powerful tool for prospecting targets – Name
– Company
– Location
– Industry
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Browse other people’s connections
• See who your connections know
• The power is in your 2nd and 3rd degree contacts
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LinkedIn Recommendations = Trust • Build trust through
recommendations by others
• Validate your profile
• Promotes you on their profile page
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Give and you shall receive
• Give recommendations to your contacts
• The more you give the more you get
• It’s a reciprocal thing
• Don’t lie – what’s the point?!
• You get to choose the recommendations you show
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Raise your profile
• Update your status
• Amending your profile notifies all your contacts
• Participate in LinkedIn answers
• Be influential in a group
• Start your own groups
• Start discussions
• Participate in other discussions
• Add value to key influencers
• Create links to your site and outposts
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LinkedIn Answers builds your reputation
• Answer questions to raise your profile
• Subscribe to your industries Question RSS feed
• Have your answer chosen to become LinkedIn Expert
• Post a question if you want industry experts to engage with you
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Making Groups work for you
• Search for groups that interest you – Include your hobbies: all work and no play is very dull!
• Join groups and participate
• Find prospects – engage them
• Raise your profile – be an opinion leader
• Receive group messages immediately or daily digest – Set up email rule to alert you of keywords
– Reply early and keep adding to the conversation
– Note who else is and see who they are connected with
• Set up your own group – Make sure there is not a successful group already
– Become a figure head, steer the conversation and orchestrate the members
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Tips for successful LinkedIn discussions
• Research blogs for what content is being commented on • Start conversations in your communities • Good for research • Invite people to the conversation • Generate conversation around your content • Do not sell • Keep conversation on LinkedIn • Offer links to relevant content • Be concise • Be honest and genuine • Give back to the community – share findings with
respondents
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Take LinkedIn offline
• Make face to face contact
• Find events on LinkedIn
• Find events on Meetup.com
• Start your own event
• Become the community leader
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Promoting your events on LinkedIn
• Post events on LinkedIn
• Gets promoted to groups and contacts
• Anyone that chooses to attend will automatically promote it to all their contacts
• Find Questions in LinkedIn Answers that your event is appropriate to and mention it in an answer
• Ask attendees to confirm their attendance in LinkedIn event
– tell them they can meet other delegates in advance
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• Public photo – visible to everyone
• Public profile – display full profile
• Status visibility – everyone
• Member feed visibility – everyone
• Contact settings – receiving Introductions and InMails
• Invitation filtering – receiving all invitations
• Private RSS feed – enable
• Group invitations – receiving
• Profile updates – yes, notify
• Connections browse – allow
Optimise your settings
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Tracking LinkedIn results
• Tracking tools can be set up for LinkedIn
• You should monitor your performance manually – Number of contacts (check profile)
– Number of invitations to connect (keep a count)
– Number of recommendations (check profile)
– Number of clicks on profile links (use bit.ly to report)
– Number of comments/replies to status updates (use Google Reader to count)
– Comments in discussions I have participated in (manually check)
– Comments in discussions I have started (manually check)
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Find Content
Create Content
Find Audience
Share With Audience
Engage with Audience
Drive Traffic & Sales
Your Basic Goals
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Goals To Build Habits
• As a base line you should carry out these tasks in your first month • Twitter
– 5 tweets per day – Follow 2 people per day – 2 retweets per day – 2 @mention or replies per day – Follow at least 2 lists – Create at least 2 lists
• LinkedIn – Complete LinkedIn 100% profile – Update status twice per day – 1 recommendation per week – Participate in 2 discussions per week – Connect with two people per day