Social Media Idol – An Interactive Seminar Series on Social Media
A few weeks ago Tom and I did an impromptu interactive social media seminar at the 3000 Club Friday networking meeting. It went so well that we decided to get together with our friend, Christine Springer, an expert and teacher on all things LinkedIn, and create a seminar series on social media.
The first of that series – ‘Social Media Idol‘ starts on April 20th. Jasper is the seminars’ Simon Cowell character and the event and series have been designed to be interactive – in other words, you do all the work and we stand there and give our critique! Only kidding – don’t worry, Jasper isn’t nearly as harsh as Simon Cowell can be! This first seminar is based on the premise that you need to know what the job is before you choose which tools you are going to use, and covers lots of interesting subjects like ‘purple cows‘, ‘buyer personas‘, ’inbound marketing‘ and Web 2.0!
This first seminar provides the groundwork for the later seminars in which we look at some of the specific tools of social media, such as Blogs, Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, and Video Blogging – yes, even the video blogging will be interactive!
Join Christine, Tom Hinchey and myself on Monday, April 20th OR Monday, April 27th from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. at Catch 22 Sports Grill in Phoenix . (Food and drink specials will be available!) The cost is $34 in advance for the initial seminar – register here or at Christine’s site www.LinkForSuccess.com.
Tags: Blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, Phoenix, Seminar, Social Media Idol, Twitter, Video Blogging
April 15th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I think it’s cool and exciting ……. naturally impromtu and interactive social media seminar.
April 22nd, 2009 at 8:20 am
Just a question – in this first seminar, will you be covering the tools of social media at all or just the strategy/set up?
Oh, and one more question, is this something we bring our computers to so we can interact with these?
Thanks!
April 24th, 2009 at 2:17 am
Hi Kim,
We will be giving an overview of the social media tools at the end of the first seminar, but the key to creating a conversation with your customers is to understand what to say and how to say it in a way that they will want to respond.
You also need to know where to find them.
The following 4 seminars look at practical conversations using blogs, Facebook/LinkedIn, Twitter, and video.
However, we do not look at how to set up LinkedIn or Twitter accounts etc – this is more about how to use them in a way that will illicit a response from your ideal customer. There is some inputting of information onto the class laptop which will be attached to a screen so the whole class can see it, but you don’t need to bring your own laptop.
Look forward to seeing you there!