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“Do you have Facebook?”
“Yes, of course. But I don’t think you can find me, as there are too many people who have the
same name as me. Try searching with my surname as well.”
“Hey, you celebrated your birthday in K-Box, right? I saw the photos in your Facebook.”
“Bro, I saw your comments about the YouTube video that I’ve posted in my blog. I’m happy that
you are also deeply moved by the ‘Dancing Peacock Man’ as well.”
Social media or “social networking” has almost become part of our daily lives and being tossed
around over the past few years. It is like any other media such as newspaper, radio and television
but it is far more than just about sharing information and ideas. Social networking tools like Twitter,
Facebook, Flickr and Blogs have facilitated creation and exchange of ideas so quickly and widely
than the conventional media. The power of define and control a brand is shifting from corporations
and institutions to individuals and communities. It is no longer on the 5Cs (e.g. condominium,
credit cards and car) that Singaporeans once talked about. Today, it is about the brand new Cs:
creativity, communication, connection, creation (of new ideas and products), community (of shared
interests), collaboration and (changing the game of) competition.
In January 2010, InSites Consulting has conducted an online survey with 2,884 consumers from
over 14 countries between the ages of 18 to 55 years old on social networking. More than 90% of
participants know at least 1 social networking site and 72% of participants are members of at least
1 social networking site. On the average, people have about 195 friends and they log in twice a
day to social networking sites. However, 55% of the users cannot access their social network
websites at work. In the past, not many adults were able to make more than 500 friends, but with
social media, even a child or teenager can get to know more than 500 people in a few days by just
clicking the mouse. Social media has devalued the traditional definition of “friend” where it means
trust, support, compatible values, etc. Although we get to know more people, we are not able to
build strong bond with all the people whom we met as our available time is limited. Hence, there is
an upcoming social trend of people with wider social circles, but weaker ties (people we don’t
know very well but who provide us with useful information and ideas).
Social media also influences people’s buying behaviours. Digital Influence Group reported that
91% of the people say consumer reviews are the #1 aid to buying decisions and 87% trust a
friend’s recommendation over critic’s review. It is thrice more likely to trust peer opinions over
advertising for purchasing decisions. 1 word-of-mouth conversation has an impact of 200 TV ads.
With the prevalence use of social media, there is numerous news related to it from the most
viewed YouTube video on “Armless pianist wins ‘China’s Got Talent’” to Web-assisted suicide
cases (e.g. New Jersey college student who killed himself after video of him in a sexual encounter
with another man was posted online). Thus, does social networking make us better or worse off as
a society?
Positive Effects of Social Media
Besides having opportunity to know a lot of people in a fast and easy way, social media also
helped teenagers who have social or physical mobility restrictions to build and maintain
relationships with their friends and families. Children who go overseas to study can still stay in
meaningful contact with their parents. To a greater extend, there is anecdotal evidence of positive
outcomes from these technologies.
In 2008, President-elected Obama won the election through the effective use of social media to
reach millions of audience or voters. The Obama campaign had generated and distributed huge
amount of contents and messages across email, SMS, social media platforms and their websites.
Obama and his campaign team fully understood the fundamental social need that everyone
shares – the need of being “who we are”. Therefore, the campaign sent the message as “Because
It’s about YOU” and chose the right form of media to connect with individuals, call for actions and
create community for a social movement. They encouraged citizens to share their voices, hold
discussion parties in houses and run their own campaign meetings. It truly changed the delivery of
political message.
Obama campaign had made 5 million “friends” on more than 15 social networking sites (3 million
friends on Facebook itself) and posted nearly 2,000 YouTube videos which were watched over 80
million times. At its peak, their website, MyBarackObama.com, had 8.5 million monthly visitors and
produced 400,000 blog posts. In order to ensure that their contents were found by people, the
Obama campaign spent $3.5 million on Google search in October alone, $600,000 on
Advertising.com, $467,000 on Facebook in 2008, etc. Currently, Obama’s Twitter account has
close to 6 million followers.
In 2010, after the earthquake happened in Haiti, many of the official communication lines were
down. The rest of the world was not able to grasp the full picture of the situation there. To facilitate
the sharing of information and make up for the lack of information, social media came in very
handy to report the news about the affected area on what happened and what help was needed.
Tweets from many people provided an impressive overview of the ongoing events from the
earthquake. BBC covered the event by combining tweets from the work of its reporter Matthew
Price in Port-au-Prince at the ground. Guardian’s live blog also used social media together with
the information from other news organizations to report about the rescue mission.
It has been two years since CNN officially launched iReport as a section of its website where
people can upload video material, with contact information. During the Haiti crisis, CNN had
published a range of social media material but not all the materials were verified. The editorial staff
would vet the reports from the citizen journalists and labeled them differently compared to
unverified contents. On Facebook, a group, named “Earthquake Haiti”, was formed to show
support and share updates and news. It had more than 14,000 members and some users even
pleaded for assistance to the injured Haitians in the group. Using email, Twitter and social
networking sites like Facebook, thousands of volunteers as part of Project Ushahidi were able to
map reports sent by people from Haiti.
The most impressive part of the social media’s impact on Haiti is the charity text-message
donations that soared to over $10 million for the victims in Haiti. People interested in helping the
victims are encouraged to text, tweet and publicize their support using various social networking
sites. The Global Philanthropy Group had also started a campaign to ask wealthy people and
celebrities, like Ben Stiller and John Legend to use Twitter and Facebook to encourage others to
give to UNICEF. An aid worker, Saundra Schimmelpfennig, allowed the advice from other aid
workers and donors to post on her blog regarding to choosing which charitable organisations to
support. In the meantime, donors were asking questions in Twitter, Facebook and blogs about
their donations and endorsements of their favorite charities. After every crisis, the social media
for social cause becomes a more effective medium to spread the word.
Negative Effects of Social Media
There are always two sides of every coin. Social media is just a tool or mean for people to use. It
is still up to the users on how to use this tool (just like a knife, can help you to cut food or hurt
others). Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining
the Internet Center conducted a study on “The Future of Online Socializing” from the highly
engaged, diverse set of respondents to an online, opt-in survey consisted of 895 technology
stakeholders and critics. The negative effects presented by the respondents included time spent
online robs time from important face-to-face relationships; the internet fosters mostly shallow
relationships; the act of leveraging the internet to engage in social connection exposes private
information; the internet allows people to silo themselves, limiting their exposure to new ideas; and
the internet is being used to engender intolerance.
Some respondents also highlighted that there will be development of some new psychological and
medical syndromes that will be “variations of depression caused by the lack of meaningful quality
relationships”, and a “new world society”. The term, “Social Networking”, has begun to deceive the
users to believe they are social creatures. For instance, spending a couple of hours using
Farmville and chatting with friends concurrently does not convert into social skills. People become
dependent on the technology and forget how to socialize in face-to-face context. The online
personality of a person might be totally different from his/her offline character, causing chaos when
the two personalities meet. It is apparent in online dating when the couple gets together in face-to-face
for the first time. Their written profiles do not clearly represent their real-life characters. It is
more enticing for people to type something that others want to hear than saying the truth.
Besides the “friendship”, creators of social networking sites and users redefine the term, “privacy”
in the Internet as well. The challenge in data privacy is to share data while protecting personally
identifiable information. Almost any information posted on social networking sites is permanent.
Whenever someone posts pictures or videos on the web, it becomes viral. When the user deletes
a video from his/her social network, someone might have kept it and then posted it onto other sites
like YouTube already. People post photographs and video files on social networking sites without
thinking and the files can reappear at the worst possible time. In 2008, a video of a group of ACJC
students hazing a female student in school on her birthday was circulated and another video of a
SCDF recruit being “welcomed” (was hosed with water and tarred with shoe polish) to a local fire
station made its way online.
Much news has been reported about online privacy breach in Facebook and Facebook is
constantly revising their privacy policy and changing their privacy controls for the users.
Interestingly, even when users delete their personal information and deactivate their Facebook
account, Facebook will still keep that information and will continue to use it for data mining. A
reporter asked whether the data will at least be anonymized. The Facebook representative
declined to comment.
In the corporate world, human resource managers can access Facebook or MySpace to get to
know about a candidate’s true colours, especially when job seekers do not set their profiles to
private. Research has found that almost half of employers have rejected a potential worker after
finding incriminating material on their Facebook pages. Some employers have also checked the
candidates’ online details in Facebook pages to see if they are lying about their qualifications.
Nowadays, younger generations have a complete disregard for their own privacy, opening doors
to unwelcome predators or stalkers.
Raymond Tay
Founder & Trainer of Leader’s Wheel LLP
Having strong interest in personal development and helping others.
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Before you can put any of these rules to use, you may want to understand a little more about the
differences between social media marketing and social media optimization.
SMM = Social Media Marketing
Social Media Marketing is strategically using the big social sites to spread your brand name or
drive traffic back to your web presence.
SMO = Social Media Optimization
Social Media Optimization is adding key elements to your websites or content that make them
easy to spread across the big social sites.
Rohit Bhargava Developed Social Media Optimization Rules 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
1. Increase your linkability
Linkability is the willingness of other websites or articles to link back to your site. One way to
increase your natural Google listing is to increase how many authority sites link to you, so to
increase your linkability with social media optimization is to make your site more informative and
useful to others. You can do this in many ways; blog, white papers, press releases, keyword
targeted articles, RSS feeds, etc. This is the most important step in Social Media Optimization and
should be your first priority.
2. Make tagging and bookmarking easy
The act of tagging is to bookmark the website to social bookmarking websites. For example, if you
like the content or services provided at a website you tag it. This will show others that you approve
of this site and they will check it out, making viral traffic. To include social media optimization
tagging on your site, you can add tagging links such as Digg, Del.icio.us, Technorati, etc. Also,
add the tagging links to other pages in your site (not just the homepage) and when visitors click
the tag button make sure that there is a suggestion box to help your visitor list a relevant tag and
notes.
3. Reward inbound links
As I mentioned before one way to increase your natural listing with Google using social media
optimization is to get more back links. You can do this by rewarding people/websites that link to
you (inbound links). Inbound links are links that send people to your site from somewhere else.
One way to reward people for linking to your site is to have a “Recently Linked” that lists all of the websites that have linked to you.
4. Help your content travel
Social media optimization focuses on providing useful content to your market. When you publish
content such as an article, video, or audio file you must help it reach as many people on the web
as possible. You can do this by submitting to relevant high traffic websites. When the word gets
out about your great content (no matter what format) you’ll receive backlinks to your site.
5. Encourage the mashup
To mash up is to use two websites content and mash them together. For example, Youtube makes
it easy to mash their content (videos) onto your site. In addition, because it is so easy you have
added a video to your site that has a Youtube logo on the video as well as a link back to you tube.
So to encourage a mashup with social media optimization is to make it easy for other websites to
use your content and reference it to drive traffic back to your site.
Jeremiah Owyang Developed Social Media Optimization Rules 6 and 7
6. Be a User Resource, even if it doesn’t help you.
One thing all visitors appreciate is honesty. With social media optimization you should include links
to other websites that will help your visitor reach their goal or find the information they want. Do
this, even when it doesn’t benefit you. By linking to competitors or information not created by you,
you reap the benefits of having the all inclusive information on a particular topic. In the end, more
people will link to you because you have lumped all information (or links) on a topic on one
location.
7. Reward helpful and valuable users
Valuable users are your best friends. A valuable user can be determined in many ways; they may
send traffic to your site, add valuable content to your site, or assist visitors at your site. No matter
what their doing, if it benefits you, your site, or your service you need to reward them. This could
be by sending a personal message thanking them for their dedication. Other ways to reward your
valuable users is to create reward systems, advertise for them or promote their efforts on your
homepage.
Cameron Olthuis Developed Social Media Optimization Rules 8, 9, 10, and 11
8. Participate
With Social Media Optimization you can participate by joining on the conversation about your topic
(or targeted keyword). Simply posting articles and sharing content isn’t going to keep the buzz
going. You should continue to share information on other websites. This participation will share
your knowledge with more people. One way to do this is to find people that are blogging on your
topic and to give input on the conversation. Also, participate in forums or other social groups that
are discussing your topic. Read comments on your articles, videos, and audios and respond to
them.
9. Know how to target your audience
Social media marketing is about sharing content/information. Not everyone is interested in your
topic, so be sure to do your marketing research and post your information and knowledge where it
will be understood and appreciated.
10. Create content
Content is considered to be any form on information that benefits a visitor. Content can be a white
paper, article, video, audio, widget, the list goes on. Your job is to find a piece of content that will
spark interest in visitors. No matter what market you enter there is always a form of content that
they will share with others. Find out what it is and give it to them. This will in turn have them
coming back for more useful content. If this happens, then you know that your social media
optimization is successful.
11. Be real
Internet users are searching the web for specific content. If you are providing content that links
back to a website, be sure that the website is relevant. You will not be rewarded for coaxing a
visitor to a site that has nothing to do with the content they just read (or watched depending on the
type of content you provided).
Loren Baker developed Social Media Optimization Rules 12 and 13
12. Don’t forget your roots, be humble
It’s easy to let popularity get to your head. When you become the shining star in your market be
sure to recognize those that helped you get to the front of the pack. (this ties into #7 a little)
13. Don’t be afraid to try new things, stay fresh.
Any one on the internet knows how quickly things change. Keep up with new media content, new
types of websites, and new interests in your market. By staying on top of new information you can
maintain top rankings.
Lee Odden developed Social Media Optimization Rules 14, 15 and 16
14. Develop a Social Media Optimization strategy
Social Media serves multiple purposes. You need to identify what your purpose is and then publish
content that will promote that purpose. Some purposes for Social Media Optimization include:
branding, reputation, charity, increase traffic, build reputation, increase sales, credibility, etc. Make
sure that as you develop content that you are publishing and creating with that purpose in mind.
15. Choose your SMO tactics wisely.
Of all the content available on the web only about 10% of people on the web are content creators.
The other 90% are consumers and are willing to share your content. Make your content easy to
consume and spread. Also be sure to create content that will have the most impact on your
original purpose (which could be any of the following: branding, reputation, charity, increase traffic,
build reputation, increase sales, credibility, etc).
16. Make Social Media Optimization – SMO part of your process and best practices.
We all know that there are specific Search engine optimization tactics that every website should
include. Just as you include keywords in your title tags and keywords in your H1 tag, you should
find ways to include social media optimization aspects into the building of your website. This can
be small details like including social bookmark tags on your site or encouraging incoming links with
the “recently Linked” list I covered in #3.
17. Don’t be afraid to let go of a message or idea and let others own it.
Finally, when you create a movement, spark and idea, or develop a new topic don’t be afraid to let
others run with it. Collaboration is key. Others can improve upon your original idea and give you
credit for the start. Be sure to give credit where it’s due.
Justin Brooke started with just a $2/day marketing budget and grew his business past 6 figures in
just 1 year. At just 25 years old he has been Vice President of a multi-million dollar company and
nominated “Best Marketer of 2007″ by the American Business Awards. Justin’s award winning
social media optimization company wants to handle your social media marketing needs.
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Learn more about Social Media http://web20promotions.com ==== ==== The hype is what often kills any effort to incorporate social media into a marketing plan; and the hype has been huge. Expect the initial wave to die down, as serious marketers get serious about social media as a tool to listen to and communicate with the customer. There are a lot of great articles on the web about social media; how to start it, how to convince the CEO you need it, how it is not a panacea for bad marketing; the list goes on and on. It’s getting a huge amount of attention and many people have developed strong opinions (read love/hate) about social media. Regardless of how you feel about it, it is a tool that needs to be as seriously evaluated as you would any new business initiative. The best way to evaluate social media is to make a business case for using it. Use your existing business plan as your cornerstone. There are two areas where you will focus your efforts: marketing and customer service. By targeting prospects and customers you will be better able to evaluate its potential for a meaningful impact on the bottom line. Let’s get started. Step 1: Do your Homework First get the facts as you would any new initiative. This will form your summary overview to present to others in your organization, if you decide to move forward. 1) Gain a working understanding of the tools: Twitter, LinkedIn, Blog sites, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare, Foursquare, Tumblr, etc. To monitor activity, popular tools are ViralHeat, Radian6, Spokesignal, etc. Each has its unique niche in the user community. Make sure you know the pros and cons of each. While I don’t normally recommend Wikipedia, it actually has a good section on application examples. Just wiki “Social Media” and you’re there. There are links from each example that provide more detail. 2) Understand the trends as they pertain to your demographic. It’s easy to find. Nielson puts out quarterly reports on social media as do other agencies. Put together a couple paragraphs and a chart or two, just enough to prove to yourself that social media is real and is actually used by your target demographic. The latest Nielson report for Q3 2011 can be found on their website. 3) Query at least 10 customers. This is key. Social media, used properly, is not about broadcasting commercials about your company; it’s about your customers. Talk with them. Where do they get their information? Would they visit a Facebook or LinkedIn group if you provided them with useful information or special coupons? What kind of information would they find useful? Make sure they are willing to join a LinkedIn group. Would they sign up for Twitter? Would they view a demo or training class over YouTube? This is important as you begin to build your communities. Users won’t connect if there is no value. You need to find the best way to encourage involvement. 4) Conduct a quick check on your competitors. What social media are they using? Step 2: Insert Social Media into your Business Plan This step is critical to assess the fit of social media within existing initiatives and to put it in its rightful place, alongside traditional tools. 1) Highlight all areas of the plan that touch on communications with prospects and customers. This is where your social media entrance points will be. As an example: a. Customer communications: surveys, newsletters, focus groups, feed-back b. Prospect communications: advertising, press releases, trade shows, TV spots, radio spots, email campaigns c. Although social media is not a replacement for any of these programs, it needs to be present along with these traditional communications tools so that it can be properly implemented and measured. 2) In each of these areas, insert the best social media tool to compliment or extend existing communications tools. a. Example: As an extension to a newsletter sent to end users once a month, you might recommend a monthly WordPress blog, targeted to users. The blog can be set up to encourage responses and comments. It can be authored by one of your customer service reps or a technical person. Each new blog can be announced via a LinkedIn group that is set up for end users only. It can also be posted as a link from your website. The value-add is that now you have a “circuit” that encourages discussion and interaction, in place of a single one way newsletter event. Step 3: Create an Implementation Plan How will the program be executed? Key is content, consistency and measurement. 1) Decide who will own the social media program. This is not easy in that everyone should own this and there are many good articles that passionately make this point. The truth is that it is very hard to change the mindset of senior executives if they are wary of social media. Please do not assign this job to an intern! It must be connected to at least a mid-level marketing person, with oversight by an executive. This individual will be responsible for the schedule and tapping inhouse talent for content. 2) Who will own the monitoring piece? There are plenty of tools available to help companies tune in to what customers are saying about them. Some are free, others have a monthly charge. You need the involvement of a customer service manager to coordinate with marketing in that area. For more reading on the subject you might want to visit this site: http://www.informationweek.com/thebrainyard/news/social_crm/231400038. 3) How will you build your communities? Include a plan for getting membership for LinkedIn groups, Twitter accounts, Facebook friends, etc. Use the data collected from your customer queries. These customers can become your first community members. 1) Who will provide content? If you do not have buy in from people who can produce quality content, all your efforts may be in vain. Thinly disguised “commercials” in the form of tweets and blogs will quickly be dismissed by your audience. Content should come from marketing, customer service and at least one senior level manager, ideally your president or CEO. If that’s you, great. If not, remember, your CEO does not have to have his/her own WordPress and Twitter accounts, but there has to be a commitment to provide content on a regular basis. Be clear that you are not asking executives to blog or tweet. You are asking them to share their knowledge and expertise at least once a month. This can be achieved via a short interview with a marketing person, over a cup of coffee. It is an excellent opportunity for them to share their thought leadership — something they should be doing anyway! 2) Set a preliminary schedule. This will depend on the social media tools you use. Twitter generally requires multiple daily posts. Blogs can be written monthly, as long as there is consistency. 3) How will you measure impact? Take time to understand measurements that make sense for your company. There are a lot of articles about social media metrics. Find one that fits your business model. Step 4: Make a final assessment At some point along the line, as you learn more about social media, which customers are using it, what your competitors are doing and what the industry trends are, you will form an educated opinion as to its feasibility within your organization. There are few industries today that cannot benefit from using social media to engage their customers and articulate their unique value to their community. If you are the top executive of your business, your decision will carry the weight to make it happen. If you are at a mid-level spot, you’ll need to put together a report or presentation to properly communicate your findings. Either way, you have the confidence of knowing that you’ve evaluated it seriously and in context of your existing business plan. Step 5: Present your findings Regardless of your personal thoughts and opinions, your work should take a format that can be articulated to others in your organization and should contain the following: 1) A short overview containing the statistics, metrics that pertain to your markets, customer input and competitive use of social media that you collected in Step One. It’s important that others understand what social media is — without the hype, of course. 2) Breakout of the pertinent portions of your business plan, indicating where the social media would fit within the goals, objectives and tactics already outlined therein. 3) Implementation section, including who would run the program, how content would be created, schedules and measurement metrics. The way you measure your social media efforts will be key in assessing its value. There are many articles on the subject of measurement. Here is one from TopRank you may find helpful: http://bit.ly/pWEnsF. 4) Closing summary which reviews the main points, articulates the pros and cons; the potential value and the tasks required to implement, manage and measure a social media initiative. If you recommend social media for your company, as stated earlier in this report, it is critical to get commitment from the highest level of the organization and down through everyone who will have involvement. To be effective, the use of social media must be consistent, involve quality content, and encourage two way communications with your customers and prospects. Wow! Why go through all this work? If and when you get to the point of recommending your program, you will already understand the unique place social media holds within your business. Furthermore, you will have answered many of the key questions and demonstrated the tangible value of integrating social media within your business plan. You will have a sense of how to implement the program, along with who will provide content and a method of measuring its effectiveness downstream. Finally, by placing social media within the business plan, you’ve validated its importance as a critical tool to reach beyond traditional marketing and customer service activities. Not all marketers would agree with this approach. Some experts argue that social media is a phenomenon that cannot and should not be inserted into business plans. Others would assert that you “just do it!” and not over analyze it. This may be true. But our business plans form the cornerstones of our organizations. Social media, as a unique communications form, is being shortchanged if it does not hold a prominent place there. And that’s no hype! Good luck. Let me know where your evaluation of social media leads you. Sue Saldibar Susan Saldibar is an enthusiastic, results-driven marketing executive with over 20 years experience in helping small businesses profitably grow to the next level in Orange County, California. Her expertise ranges from branding and positioning of start-ups to life cycle management for mature product lines. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Susan_J_Saldibar ==== ====
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Web 20 Promotions is now offering Event Promotions. With this service we help you promote any event you may have planned for the Spring and Summer.
Our service will include press releases, news article, scheduling local radio stations at your event. Many of the Social Media channels, Facebook , Twitter, and Foursquare. We’re using many of the current event scheduling services including Eventbright and more. Give us a call for a free consultation at 609 384 4881 We will promote your NJ Events!
Welcome to Web 20 Promotions. Thanks for coming to our blog today. Why work with us? We want to be your local business expert. Our goal is to help you get more targeted traffic using social media and web 2.0 technologies. After many years in the automotive business, I understand business and people. But most importantly I understand that you have put your lifeblood and heart into your business. In fact I am in the same boat as you, the only way I can be successful is to help you succeed. Web 20 Promotions is dedicated to being the best local business source for local traffic by providing you with unique solutions that will drive local traffic to you store. I encourage you to visit our clients website and also the business directory too. I am just a phone call away, if you need help or have a question.
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WEB 20 Breaking News- This is a good read about what some marketers are planning for 2011. I found that online marketing is growing because of the trends in Social Media and alike. It’s more cost-effective to promote where the people are today. But in may be more important to know where the people are headed after Facebook and Twitter.
This is what we have been saying about business and Social Media!Now you will see how Facebook and LinkedIn are going after advertising dollars! A must read!
