News & Notes

Adrian Pittman

• All the technologies in development today will be available as a platform for the future generations.
• When you hire an expert, make sure you give them the resources (and the freedom) to do their job.

Ken Burbary

• 93% of customers expect your brand to have a social media presence
• customers want your brand to be involved
• include consumers i how you make your products better
• everyone is an influencer – every interaction counts

Amber Naslund

• The Five Faces of Community Management
  • Anthropologist – figure out who customers are, and how we should interact with them, and how to help them make connections with people that matter to them
  • Bridge Building – liason for customers to connect with anyone inside the company plus internal bridge building of tearing down silos between departments
  • Diplomat – knowing how to edit, handling crisis
  • Director – Setting the scene, figuring out what the story is and helping actors to figure out their parts
  • Builder – need bricklayers and carpenters, figure out what works and what doesn’t, bring feedback to company and results back to community

Damian Rintelmann

• Your website is not a mousetrap – its for interacting with visitors
• Offline customer engagement just as important as online
• Visitors need to be able to take your content and share it outside your website walls
• Opportunities to share, focus on goals, measure and make small adjustments.

Marcel Lebrun

• Marshal McLuhan – “media itself has a social effect because it changes things”
• Community manager is about adding personality to your brand
• There’s no single owner of social media – it has a more broad set of purposes and uses
• Social media is more measureable than traditional media

At the Module09 conference or watching online?  What are your thoughts?

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