It seems like no online marketing seminar is complete nowadays without at least one session on social media. SES San Jose was no exception - social media optimization is definitely creating a buzz in the industry (as it has been for at least the last year).
Moderator:
Kevin Ryan, VP, Global Content Director, Search Engine Strategies & Search Engine Watch
Speakers:
Andy Beal, Consultant, Blogger & Author, Marketing Pilgrim LLC
David Snyder, Search Specialist, JRDunn.com
Neil Patel, Co-founder, ACS
Brian Morrissey, Digital Editor, AdWeek
Andy:
Twitter
Make sure you secure your company name - even if you aren't going to use it.
Basic symbols:
- @andybeal directs a message to that user (public)
- d andybeal sends a direct message that is
- #olympics are used for tagging tweets
- favorites are used to bookmark tweets you want to revisit
- delete: this is possible but beware, Tweets can get syndicated in different places so even though you may delete a Tweet, it isn't necessarily gone
Be selective with who you follow. You'll realize why after a while. With Twitter it is easy to receive a lot of noise from people or subjects you don't care about. Some people you might want to follow:
- Peers
- Press
- Influencers
- Customers
Look out for interesting conversations. The medium really supports these when they happen. Don't send Twitter spam - this is such a conversational medium, any attempts to use it solely for commercial gains looks transparently salesy and just doesn't go down well.
If you want to get into someone else's network, think to copy your message into their thread using @[username] at the beginning of the post. Their network of followers will see you message.
Use services like Twitterfeed to cross-promote blog content on Twitter (everytime you blog, all those following you on Twitter are automatically notified).
Your Twitter reputation IS your reputation so don't get pulled into negative conversations - in most cases you can just let them play themselves out.
Use search to find those with similar interests (who you can choose to follow).
Brian:
As a journalist, I use Twitter to develop sources and find out who is writing on certain issues. Comcast and Zappos are good examples of companies using Twitter to manage their reputation online.
Neil:
Facebook
Some Facebook stats:
- 73% of people are white
- 30% make over 100k
- 43% didn't go to college
David:
Friendfeed
The best way to describe this service is as RSS on steroids - brings all social network data to one place and allow you to interact with that data. The big problem with social media is that it is so diverse. If you post images on Flickr, post on Blogger or leave content in any of a number of places across the web, then bring all your activity into one place with Friendfeed.
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