Utilizing Social Media to Promote Your Speaking Engagements (ILTA Speakers Webinar)

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ILTA Speakers/

Committee Webinar

July 17, 2013

#ILTA13

Welcome…

2013 ILTA

Conference

Vice Presidents

#ILTA13

Rachelle Rennagel

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler

@irshal

Skip Lohmeyer

Jackson Kelly PLLC

Promoting

Your ILTA Session

Through Social

Media

#ILTA13

JoAnna Forshee

@InsideLegal

ILTA Social Media Channels

#ILTA13

Twitter

• ILTA Organization Account @ILTANet

• ILTA Conference Account @ILTAConf

• 2013 ILTA Conference Hashtag - #ILTA13

• Join Twitter list of ILTA 2013 Attendees at bit.ly/ILTAList13

Blog - ILTA Conference [bit.ly/ILTABlog]

Facebook

• ILTA Event Page [bit.ly/ILTAFBE]

• ILTA Main Page [bit.ly/ILTAFB]

Connected Community - ILTA Connected Community [bit.ly/ILTACC]

LinkedIn - ILTA Group [bit.ly/ILTALink] (members only)

Access this list at bit.ly/ilta2013

Hashtags

Attach hashtags to your messages to connect them to

the ILTA conversation

ILTA hashtags - #ILTA13 #SPEC9 #BigData

Utilize hashtags to monitor messages

Track/search hashtags with tools such as HootSuite or

TweetDeck

#ILTA13 @InsideLegal

Get Involved in the

ILTA Conversation

Spend 10 minutes/day catching up on conference chatter

(based on specific topics/themes/interests)

Monitor Twitter/hashtags

Review ILTA blogs & Connected Community posts

Scan LinkedIn Group discussions

Author a blog post (either your own or guest column) on a

specific subject matter that is being covered at conference -

does not need to be session specific

Collaborate with your peers - either peer groups or co-presenters

on ‘turning up’ the ILTA conversation volume

#ILTA13 @InsideLegal

What to Tweet? Quality over quantity

Talk about your session and what you’ll be covering

Introduce your panelists/fellow speakers

Tweet out pertinent facts, stats and metrics

Support/reinforce your session with complementary blog

posts

Invite co-presenters to create content

Submit post for inclusion in the ILTA Conference Blog

#ILTA13 @InsideLegal

Utilizing Social Media

to Promote Your Session Pre-Conference

Utilizing Social Media

to Promote Your Session Pre-Conference

Get setup

Announce that you’ll be presenting

Think outside your session box … promote related sessions

Ask what your audience wants covered - engage in

community feedback

Invite specific people to attend

Make it easy – include the day, time & room

Remember to include your session hashtag

Schedule tweets before you leave for conference

#ILTA13 @InsideLegal

Schedule last-minute tweets before your session

Utilize the Audience Polling system during your session

Send out poll results from session the next day

Encourage your fellow speakers to promote your content

based on the session

#ILTA13 @InsideLegal

Utilizing Social Media

to Promote Your Session At Conference

After the conference is a slow time – perfect for follow-up

Create detailed content based on findings/discussion from

your session

Use your content to pitch articles to legal/tech publications

Use the audio recordings/other downloads to re-energize

your session & discussion

Plan post-conference social media follow-up

#ILTA13 @InsideLegal

Utilizing Social Media

to Promote Your Session Post-Conference

Social Media Tools

Dashboard - Monitor/Schedule tweets early

HootSuite

TweetDeck

Search Tools

http://search.twitter.com

Topsy.com

Google – Blog search

Twilert.com (small monthly fee)

Analytics

Internal – HootSuite

TweetArchivist.com

#ILTA13 @InsideLegal

HootSuite

#ILTA13 @InsideLegal

Schedule Tweets Ahead

#ILTA13 @InsideLegal #ILTA13

ILTA Audience Polling Service

http://ilta.cnf.io

#ILTA13 @InsideLegal

ILTA App

ILTA Conference App

Main Twitter Stream

#ILTA13

ILTA App

ILTA Conference App

Session View

#ILTA13

Remember to…

Let people know you’re attending & speaking

Utilize hashtags - #ILTA13 & your session hashtag

Follow the conference blog & check in on Facebook page

Track your session comments & respond to questions

Support your session with content

Schedule tweets & blog posts early

#ILTA13 @InsideLegal

Things to Avoid

#Too #many #hashtags

Too many tweets, posts and session reminders - engage

vs. talking ‘at’

Don’t post from multiple accounts when using hashtags

Don’t abandon – so many social media efforts begin &

then get abandoned

It’s great to show your personality in your social media

activity, but don’t cross the line. No one wants to know

what you ate for breakfast.

@InsideLegal #ILTA13

Experts’ Twitter Tips

I tweet from HootSuite because it shows multiple ‘streams’. Set it up to

show home, mentions and sent tweets and, at conferences add a stream

for the hashtag. Having all the streams in a single browser tab facilitates

monitoring an active Twitter discussion.

Ron Friedmann, Fireman & Company, @RonFriedmann

Attribute the comment you are tweeting to the specific speaker. Also

make tweets count and use discretion. Not all your followers are at ILTA.

Donna Payne, PayneGroup, @Donna_Payne

@InsideLegal #ILTA13

Experts’ Twitter Tips

Be Coordinated: set goals such as increasing awareness, sharing tips.

Be Consistent: find balance between too much tweeting and ‘just right’.

Be Careful: use common sense.

Rob Robinson, ComplexDiscovery, @ComplexD

Use social media to foster the ‘thank you economy’ … a way of having

meaningful, fun, informational and engaging relationships with your

clients and potential clients.

Roe Frazer, cicayda, @cicayda

@InsideLegal #ILTA13

Tweeting works well for note taking/onsite session discussion and post

event content sharing. Use hashtags to ID & organize content while

building awareness and offering value for attendees.

Jen Bullett, One North Interactive, @OneNorth

A picture is worth a 1,000 words. Timely stats & industry metrics are

worth nearly as much. Make it a point to tweet out informative visuals

such as links to infographics, charts/stats, etc.

Jobst Elster, InsideLegal.com, @InsideLegal

@InsideLegal #ILTA13

Experts’ Twitter Tips

Social Media

Case Studies

Mary Abraham

Above and Beyond KM

@VMaryAbraham

Charles Christian

Legal IT Insider @ChristianUncut

David Hobbie

Goodwin Procter

Blog “Caselines”

@KMHobbie

@InsideLegal

ILTA’s Connected

Community

A Tool to Promote, Engage and Add Value to Your Session

New this Year

an ILTA 2013 “Community”

Main site URL http://connect.iltanet.org

Direct Community URL:

http://connect.iltanet.org/Events/ILTA2013TheCatalyst

Quick Navigation

Your Audience

“Attendees” are automatically added to the ILTA 2013:

The Catalyst Community.

They are subscribed in Real Time to the Discussion area

and will have access to any shared files for the

community.

Community Features

you can leverage

Discussions

Shared Files

Blogs

The Mechanics

To Start a new Discussion

On the Community Home Page, Latest Discussions

Posting section, click Post

Continuing the Discussion

Community members receive the discussions via e-mail

and there are links in the e-mail to reply to the

discussion thread

Share Files

On the Community Home Page, Latest Shared Files, click

on Add Document

Share Files Continued

Share Files Continued

Blogs

Anyone can blog

Authors determines the blog visibility and who can

comment

Additional/optional reference to the community that

the blog is pertinent to.

To Create a New Blog

On the Community Home Page, Community Blogs, click on

Post

Recommended Blog Settings

Once you’ve completed your blog – you will want to

make sure to have it associated with the ILTA 2013

Community and Public Visibility

Need Help?

Jeanne Martinez – jeanne@iltanet.org

Questions?