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Social Media Strategies Summit – Las Vegas – February 7-9, 2012

I will be presenting at the 2012 Las Vegas Social Media Strategies Summit at the Mirage Hotel.

Session Overview:

Social Media – How to Monitor, Measure and Report for the SMB

So you’re adding social media to your game plan for your organization, moving it from an afterthought to front-and-center. You’ve even got a staff member ready to roll up their sleeves and manage your social media strategy for the organization (and that person might be you!) But now what? In this session, we’ll explore three key aspects of getting started with social media: monitoring, measuring, and reporting.

Your session leader will walk you through how to succeed in each of these key areas by taking a hands on and practical approach to identifying the tools, resources and processes that will position your SMB for social media success.  Some of the topics covered will include:

  • Identifying your objectives for using social media
  • Defining the metrics and KPIs for success
  • Why monitoring social media is important
  • Free and paid tools to get you started with monitoring
  • Policies and procedures for social media management
  • Using Google Analytics and Facebook Insights for analysis
  • Creating simple dashboard spreadsheets in Excel for reporting KPIs/ROI

More on Measuring the Impact of Social Media

In my first post of 2012, I’d like to start by congratulating myself. I know that is a bit self-serving, but I managed to get 239 posts in during 2011 which beat my goal of four per week! Since I am not in sales and don’t like quotas, the good news is that I don’t have to raise it on myself for 2012. So I will stick to four per week (208) in 2012, and hopefully some of those will provide value.

So, for post 240, I’d like to revisit a topic very near and dear to my heart: measuring the value of social media for your business.

For the three people who read my blog besides my wife, you might recall that this is a topic I have spoken at conferences about:

At System Alliance’s Site Executive annual user conference in Baltimore, MD, I joined John Moore to present on “The Value of a Like”. This presentation looked at how to identify what you should measure, tools for monitoring and measuring (especially those juicy freebies such as HootSuite, Google Analytics, and Facebook Insights), and capped it off by showcasing some simple ways to create reports to share the results.

You can view my presentation here:

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Additionally, I will be presenting this topic in February in two locations:

In the mean time, here’s another great post by Nick Cifuentes at ClickZ on social media measurement that is a great place to start for understanding how to get started: http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/2134500/measure-social-media-results-suite

Next Up: Baltimore Double Feature

Hi folks! I will be at the upcoming Site Executive User Conference, “Empower” in Baltimore, MD on November 15, 16 & 17, 2011. This conference is free to all existing SE customers.

On Day 2, I will be participating on the keynote panel, “Creating an Excellent User Experience” along with Dan Greller – Legg Mason (@dgreller); Ken Nakata – Director Accessibility Consulting Practice, HiSoftware; Jeanne Ivy – D.C.D., Web Consultant, Systems Alliance (@jivydesign).

Following the keynote panel, I will be leading a session along with John Mohr (@johntmohr) entitled, Web Effectiveness Strategy Track: Social Media – The Value of a “Like”.