If you are looking for some detailed information and education on social media, then consider the Social Media Club LA sessions! We have a great line-up of teachers with real-world experience! I’ll be teaching social media monitoring and measurement… The schedule is below!

If there is something particular you’d like to see covered under the section I am teaching – social media monitoring and measurement, please let me know! Here’s the discount code for 30% off: SMCLAX Use this when you go to sign up!

Look forward to seeing you there!
@drnatalie

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THE SCHEDULE and MORE DETAILS – where, who is teaching, etc…
Sept 9th, 9:00am – 6:00pm

• Building Corporate Social Infrastructure with Sam Fiorella
• Lessons from the Facebook Trenches: Thinking Beyond “Likes” with Matt Hicks
• Online Community Building with Patrick O’Keefe
• Social Business, Holistic Strategy with Chris Heuer
• Social Media Monitoring and Measurement: Understanding How To Turn Data Into Business Insights with Data with Dr. Natalie Petouhoff
• Are You Prepared to Weather An Online Crisis? How to map your brand’s social graph and identify threats and opportunities with Sally Falkow

Here’s a bit about each course….

BUILDING CORPORATE SOCIAL INFRASTRUCTURE
It’s no secret that C-Suite execs in most large businesses have been slow to acknowledge the social economy or to formalize and fund social engagements across their organizations. But the communication tidal wave that is social media cannot be stopped and many business silos have begun their own individual efforts given the lack of executive leadership in this area.

Be it Customer Service Managers scouring Twitter feeds, HR teams monitoring LinkedIn, Marketers advertising in social networks or PR Professionals engaging social influencers, most enterprises are engaged in social relationships through disjointed efforts initiated by the customer or customer-facing departments. Therein lies the challenge for enterprise leaders; and the opportunity if they accept this call to action.

How does the enterprise adapt to the internal communications changes that are pushing it to be more open? More social? The employee’s adoption of social communication does not translate well to the kind of work groups that are formed in most businesses. So the inevitable introduction of social networking-style communication into an office culture will have powerful implications on how businesses are structured and managed. But you need to understand how to enable it without losing control of your business’ corporate vision. In this session Sam will outline:

• The challenges that social communications will place on your
  workforce and business silos
• The needs, abilities and challenges of generational communications
  within the organization
• Cross-silo methodologies used to embrace and take advantage of the
  changes in how people communicate

Using real examples from the corporate world, you’ll leave the session with a blue print for your own corporate cross-silo social communication plan.

LESSONS FROM THE FACEBOOK TRENCHES: THINKING BEYOND “LIKES”
The power of Facebook for businesses goes beyond the number of people who click “Like” to connect with your Page. It’s about building relationships where people want to engage with and share your content, and it’s about building an authentic persona for your company that talks with people on their terms. This session will explore how to make your Facebook Page and other activities more personal and engaging through a mix of real-world tips, case studies, demos and group exercises. Topics to be covered include:

• Advanced features for managing and setting up your Page
• Developing a voice for your Page and creating the best mix of content
• How to compete for attention in News Feed
• Emerging opportunities beyond the Page and off of Facebook

MAP YOUR BRAND’S SOCIAL GRAPH AND IDENTIFY THREATS AND OPPORTUNITIES
79% of business leaders in the U.S., Europe, Asia Pacific and Latin America say they believe their company is less than 12 months away from a potentially serious crisis fueled by online conversations and the 24/7 news cycle. Most expect it to occur with the next year, yet they admit to being totally unprepared to manage and survive a crisis.

Almost half of those polled say they are not effectively monitoring the online conversations. They have no idea who makes up their social graph and how the nodes in a social graph are connecting and influencing one another. They don’t know who the people who shape the conversation in each social node are, or how to identify them. (Source: 2011 Burson–Marstellar Digital Crisis Preparedness Report)

This session will cover:

• What the social graph is.
• How to map your brand’s social graph.
• How to prepare for the Digital Storm Ahead: Find the right conversations to track, Identify the influencers in each node, Identify threats and opportunities, Build a community of supporters before you need them, Reach the friends of your fans and followers, Train your employees.

ONLINE COMMUNITY BUILDING
The question isn’t whether or not you have a community. Your community – the people who love and support what you do – is out there. The question is how you engage with them. In this session, we’ll talk about community management and engagement in spaces you control and spaces you don’t, from Facebook and Twitter to forums and blogs. This is the art of community building on the web, both the good and the bad, steeped in real world experience.

SOCIAL BUSINESS, HOLISTIC STRATEGY
After spending the past 12 years on the top of search results for “holistic business strategy”, Chris Heuer believes the day has finally come for his insights to become part of mainstream management thinking. As the disruption caused by social media reverberates across all aspects of organizational operations and culture, market leaders are turning to social business to transform the enterprise and seize a competitive advantage. The rise of social business is not only the sucessor to eBusiness, it signals the dawn of the post digital era. Today, being digital is expected, it’s the price of entry. If you can’t think holistically, collaborate across traditional organizational boundaries, optimize your organization to act as one and earn the trust needed to truly serve your market, your business may soon be extinct.

Chris will share his insights on how to think and act like a social business along with the perspective from his colleagues at Deloitte Consulting LLP on the dawning of the post digital era.

SOCIAL MEDIA MONITORING AND MEASUREMENT: UNDERSTANDING HOW TO TURN DATA INTO BUSINESS INSIGHTS
With Social Media and Digital Communications becoming part of how business gets done, businesses are wondering how should they use social media to enhance their business. When social media first started, companies reacted by putting up Facebook pages, signing up for a Twitter handle and adding a blog to their website and other basic social/digital interactions. Now the game has gotten far more complicated. Without a lot of knowledge or framework around how to make sense of all the social media and digital interactions, professionals from all walks of life—PR, Marketing, Customer Service, Production Development, Engineering, etc… want to know, “How does social media affect my business? Does it:

• Increase Marketing conversion rates and Sales?
• Reduce Marketing and Sales costs?
• Reduce costs for building and maintaining brand reputation?
• Shorten Product Development cycles?
• Increase positive word-of-mouth and awareness?
• Decrease agent-assisted calls in Customer Service?
• Decrease overall costs by reducing items like return merchandise (RMAs)….

Yes, it does. And the question on everyone’s mind is How.” This session will use real-life case studies to illustrate with examples so you’ll leave with tools, tips, strategy and tactical capabilities to monitor and measure the success of your social media and digital communication programs. We’ll cover the how’s, the what’s and the why’s to social media monitoring and measurement:

• Monitoring: What to monitor and why. Who and what to monitor. Where to find the audiences to monitor. Understanding what your audiences want and care about. What free social media monitoring tools to use. What paid social media monitoring tools to use. How to set-up social media monitoring searches to make sure you get what you need.
• Measure: Once you have the data, how to turn it into business value. Secrets to taking data and turning it into insights. What metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs) and measurements you need. How to connect metrics, formulas and calculations. Social media ROI calculations, models and methodologies to show business value.