Workshop: Blogs & Social Media Marketing 101
This workshop will cover the fundamentals of blogging, social media marketing, and community evangelism using a variety of tools, content, and techniques (but primarily blogging!). Additional topics to cover may include viral videos, photoblogging, podcasting, and microblogging,
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My biggest takeaway for a tip that 75% of the post is a good a good headline that they should be "plausibly sensational". Good way to remember it.
After the introductions and a little into how they all got into blogging, I walked out to find a session a little more engaging. I am already a well-followed and subscribed blogger in my community. While the rest of the world really hasn't been introduced to my thoughts, I thought this session would have something to add. It seemed to be as I suspected, but didn't want to believe. It was too "101".
No offense to the presenters on the panel. I read their stuff and its good. But it was my fault to pick a session in which was too light of a topic.
The first part of the presentation started off slow, but then gave some good tools for distribution to check out. The presentation by Trisha was very well put together and entertaining. I thought her 10-step list was a good outline for making sure your blog is a success.
I enjoyed Trisha a lot, she understands how to make a presentation, she had me engaged.
I enjoyed the part where the panel reviewed attendee blogs.
I would have like to have a better understanding on why blog, and some examples of how blogs make a difference.
I sure the first two speakers work for some impressive blogs, but i had never heard of them, so I had no reference to what they were taking about.
I don't think the description matched the content. more general background prior to talking about their personal experience should have been done. I think it was clear that there wasn't a lot of prep done for this workshop.
I enjoyed the session. Although it was mostly about personal experience, I feel that blogging is quite a personal thing, and to market through blogging would be personal.
There were some great ideas shared. I still didn't get any bits of "marketing" wisdom that I could use, but it was a great overview of some nice tools to dig deeper on. I coach facilitators and presenters, so I felt it was a bit disorganized, visually boring, and "off the cuff" -- keep in mind, folks have a short attention span, so you have to put yourself in their (our) shoes. You folks are bright and really had a great opportunity to create some audience excitement for your topic, so work on effective presenting/communicating to live audiences.
Its good to get mainstream bloggers views on what works and what does not. Most of it pretty obvious to those already blogging but it is always good to get reinforcement. Some nice touch suggestions.