What would you ask if you were to be my student in a social media workshop?
A few months ago, I offered a three-hour-long seminar on social media strategy as a prize for Twestival Vancouver 2010. My very good friend Rebecca Bollwitt organized Twestival and I wanted to support her fundraising efforts. I am about to give this workshop (this coming Tuesday) but the most recent workshops I’ve given have been focused on social media strategies for academics, education and non-profits. I am curious to hear from people – if you were to take a workshop I taught, what kind of questions would you want answered? I want to make this prize for the successful bidders at Vancouver Twestival 2010 as good and solid a workshop as they possibly could so the best feedback I could get is questions from those people who are curious. Please offer as many questions as you possibly can. Thanks!
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- Social Media 101: A Conversation with Vancouver’s Top Influencers (CPRS Student Event)
- Surveillance Games Research Workshop Livetweets #sgw
- My recent Social Media Club Victoria talk: “Towards an Action-Focused Agenda for Social Change Using Social Media” (#smcvictoria) @smcvictoria
- Social Media for Sustainability and Public Policy
- At the intersection of social media and sustainability
I would ask:
“What are the lesser known annoying things that PR professonals, and anyone wanting to promote their event/cause/product, do when reaching out to and working with bloggers.”
“What are the things that work and are positive?”
I would ask:
Clarify who should and who shouldn’t. When is it a waste of time?
Someone asked me that at a convention today and I answered but I’m curious where others would draw that line, or if there is one. I suggested a degrees of social media and plotted his industry on that continuum. Anyway, that’s what I would ask today. thx raul.
I would ask:
Can you give examples of how a powerful online voice can make an impact / create change on a grass roots level?
My consulting associates are concluding that we should be using the tools of social media but have some trepidation about this unfamiliar territory. The questions that arise:
- what is my personal exposure? (Yes, it is lots, so be real, truthful, and accept the loss of privacy, but enjoy the new contacts and friendships)
- Where is my time and creativity best used, e.g. twitter, blogging, Facebook, Linkedin, broadcasting, etc? (The response probably has to do with finding a voice, using a mix of tools that work with the individual, and sticking with it long enough to build a personal network)
- In my business planning can I express my costs of participating in social media (mainly my time time, but there may be training, attending events, and equipment), and the value received, in dollars and show a quantifiable cost/benefit formula?