Let's Get Down to Business

I have to apologize about my forgetting we had class the first week of the year. Things came up fast and I made an error. I would like to make up that class if that is what you would like or you could get your money's worth coming to me for connections, internships, advice and more. Really I am willing to do whatever it takes to win you guys over. So let me know what you'd like. Another class in a bar with a couple speakers later on this year? Let me know.




Today it's about business. Business use cases. Your impressions. What's obvious working? What's obviously not working? Let's talk about it. Below are a number of link to business practices with social networks and social media. What are some campaigns that have worked on you on social media?



Scott Stratten - The Biz Media Sessions.  @unmarketing
Social technologies are about a whole lot more than just marketing. Some of the uses of these technologies are: customer service, fundraising, making art, crowd-sourcing solutions, professional networking and thought leadership. Let's get an overview by going through a few of the first and strongest use cases...

Uses of social technologies in business

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As our first exercise you will each be asked to research a business use case of social media for 15 minutes and then some of you will be called on to tell the class what you learned about the business use you noted.

• Extensive Lists of Organizations using Social Media
• Four Social Media Lessons for Associations
• Social Media Policies - Association Social Media Wiki
• Social Media Case Studies
• Successful Social Media Case Studies [PDF]

The Mashable Collection

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• 35+ Examples of Corporate Social Media
• Killer Facebook Fan Pages: 5 Examples
• 5 Surprising Social Media Business Success Stories
• 5 Small Business Social Media Success Stories

150+ Social Media Policy Examples - A MUST SEE DATABASE

Social Media is Dead? A few informative presentations...

Social Media Is Dead: Long Live Common Sense.

-David Armano.

You Don't Need a Social Media Strategy

-Eric Weaver

Assignments & Grades
Let's go through your assignments to date and your final assignment. Everyone has done a good job on attendance and participation marks are strong for most students. Completing the assignments listed below and submitting the final assignment will nearly guarantee you a passing grade.

You will be marked based on your level of completion of the given assignments listed here:

• Assignment #1: Have a complete Twitter profile, Setup an RSS reader with 3 feeds.
• Assignment #2: Part 1 - MemeTown, Part 2 - Tweetbox
• Assignment #3: Create the following social network profiles...
• Assignment #4: Twitter Guidebook, Hootsuite, searches, #hashtags, follow 20 people
• Assignment #5: Setup a blog, write two posts.
• Assignment #6: Facebook Page, Custom FBML, add image & form, add Involver tabs
• Assignment #7: Evaluate 5 new Social Networks

NOTE: The brief descriptions are not the entire assignment please follow each link and ensure that you've done each step in the assignment as listed at the bottom of each post.

Final Assignment
Your final assignment is to evaluate your own use of social networks this semester. Choose 5 of the networks you've explored and use at least 500 word each to describe your experience with the 5 networks. This assignment should be at least 2500 words. For full marks each 500 word section will answer the following questions:

1. What was your experience with each network?
2. How you can improve your use?
3. How would or wouldn't use this tool for business?
4. Did you find any articles or advice on this tool? Please link to at least two.

You may submit the final assignment by posting it to your blog and emailing me a link to kemp_edmonds@bcit.ca You can also submit the assignment by attaching it to an email and sending it to me.

Your final homework is not for marks but for your own information. As a group please decide what you would like to cover in the final class next week. Let me know 5-10 topics that you want to learn more about and I will talk to those topics and as a group we can explore them further.

Thanks for being such an amazing class. Next week you will also have a chance to fill out anonymous course surveys. I will probably has a short survey of my own for you with specific questions focused on improving this course.