December 15, 2010 - December 16, 2010
Advanced Social Media
A Conference on Moving Beyond Platforms to Maximizing Organizational Performance
Presented by Training Series Conference
Advanced Social Media is for the marketer who already has a social media program in place and is looking to take their social media success to the next level. Advanced Social Media will help you turn your followers into fans, your fans into advocates and your advocates into influencers and purchasers who are not just engaging online but energizing your bottom line.
You’ll learn advanced strategies and tactics for reaching influencers and building a long-lasting online community around your organization using the best practices in social media. You will also learn how to take social media beyond marketing and acquire the tools you need to deputize your employees for organization-wide social media engagement.
Finally, you’ll build a multi-channel social media campaign, social media metrics dashboard and engage in case-based problem solving with a high-energy group of marketing peers who are keen to take their social media programs to a new level.
Learning Objectives:
v Be able to build a complete multi-channel, social media enabled marketing strategy and integrate social and traditional channels to deliver a competitive advantage
v Be able to grow the base of followers, fans, readers and engaged participants across all of the social media channels that your organization or brand is currently engaged in
v Understand how a variety of organizations have successfully used social media and what you can apply from their successes
v Apply advanced social media best practices to ensure a reasonable rate of return on your social media investment
Listen to a sneak peek podcast by Instructor Dana VanDen Heuvel, Founder, The MarketingSavant Group
Location
Training Series Conference Center Location
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Gleacher Center
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL 60611-4316
Agenda
Day 1:
Morning:
1. Level Setting and Expectations
a. What’s working in social media for you
b. What’s the pain point that you’ve come here to resolve (determined through pre-event survey)
2. Mobilizing the Ongoing Conversation
a. Building influencer maps and influencer groups
b. Building and conducting a viral influencer marketing campaign
c. How successful social media campaigns have mobilized the conversation
3. Building a Community that Lasts
a. Tapping into existing industry and marketplace communities
i. Where are your customers/constituents already organizing independently
b. Tools and tactics that build lasting community and followers
i. Getting to 100,000 followers on Facebook
ii. Building a community of Twitter followers
iii. Growing the following of your social media presence
4. Consumer Behavior Change in Social Media
a. Consumer sentiment shifts as a result of social media engagement
b. Meeting and managing consumer expectations through social media
5. Social Media Beyond Marketing
a. Customer service in social media
b. Gathering donations, building a cause, etc.
Afternoon:
1. Planning the Social Media Enabled Campaign
a. How to integrate social media into your existing online and offline campaigns
b. Behind the scenes: Examples of fully integrated – social media enabled campaigns
2. Exercise – Build a Multi-Channel Social Media Enabled Campaign (Nonprofit, B2B, B2C)
3. Behind the Scenes of 5 Large Social Media Marketing Success Stories
4. Response and Engagement in Social Media
a. How to handle interaction
b. Working with positive and negative interaction
c. Crisis management
d. Joining the Conversation
5. Staying Out of Trouble with Social Media
a. The FTC and you
b. Navigating the recent social media and online marketing legislation
Day 2:
Morning:
1. Advanced Social Media Asset Management – connecting all of the social media dots
a. How to leverage your social media assets for more comprehensive lead gen/awareness building/thought leadership
2. Enabling the Social Media Organization
a. Social media policy and education for the enterprise
b. How to mobilize and deputize an entire company for social media success
c. Staffing up for social media
i. How do organizations both large and small manage their social media presence
1. Who do they hire? Why? What positions?
2. How much time do they devote?
3. Social Media Analytics
a. Platform-specific metrics and what they mean
i. Facebook metrics
ii. Twitter metrics (and the variety of tools to measure them)
iii. Blog metrics
iv. Video and photo metrics
v. How to tie social media metrics to your web analytics tools
4. Social Media ROI
a. Determining the value of social media interactions
b. How 5 leading organizations calculate the ROI of their social media engagement
c. Building a social media engagement dashboard
d. Using advanced social media monitoring tools to gather industry and market intelligence
5. Exercise – Determine the Multi-Channel and Social Media Metrics for Your Organization
Afternoon:
1. Advanced Tactics
a. Advanced blogging techniques for the established conversationalist
b. Advanced Facebook pages and group tactics that grow your fan base
c. Advanced Twitter tools and tactics
d. Advanced video and multimedia tools and tactics
2. Enabling the Social Media Sales Force
a. Connecting your sales force, distributors, volunteers and other human assets to your social media mission
3. Taking it Back to the Job, Wrap-up and Review
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