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JEDI MIND TRICKS

Help your clients embrace the risks and opportunities of implementing social media

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How to implement social media in a hostile or challenging environment

The psychology behind resistance Strategies that have worked

Mind tricks you will learn

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Me• Mark Farmer• [email protected]• @Markus64

webness.biz

acaweb.ca

wittyandvibrant.com

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Pedigree

Earth Day Canada

ebooster

TransCanada Pipelines

IBM Global Services

RMOC

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Organizations

SNCR

Humber College

Social Media Club

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My thing

I bridge the worlds of traditional & electronic communications

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Gurus

I see two kinds of talks... ...ALL THE TIME!

% VS.

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Conferences

Less

More

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Age barriers?

Pre-1945

1945

1965

1985

Skeptical / ThreatenedLack of understanding / Lower comfort level

Little intuitive understanding of social media. Significant barriers to entry

Understand of social media, but very specific, targeted adoption

High adoption rate of social media. ‘Grew up’ with it. A primary means of interaction with information, friends & colleagues

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Gatekeeper profile?

Conservative Skepticism Often intimidated by technology Don’t always understand the

medium, its uses & limitations People are often threatened by

what they don’t understand What is their frame of reference?

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Case #1: stealth blog

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Newsletter

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“Landing pages”

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Wordpress in a site wrapper

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Case #2: webinars

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Webinars =?

Podcasting

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General guidelines

Little words Other words Introduce industry-specific terms at the

right time / gradually Understand how an organization

changes – what is its change complexion?

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Case studies

Create the opportunity and the medium will follow.

Business doesn’t hang its hat on delivery - it hangs it hat on results.

sncr.org

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Resources

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Thank you