Hi! Fellow eMarketers!

This RatanKK from GutsGo.

I am working on my presentation "Is Social Media really worth it?".

So, if you are coming (and even if you are not coming), share the questions that you want my preso to be addressing in this meetup.

I am eager to hear from each one of you!

:-)

PS: Asking Qs now will make my preso effective for you! :-)

Hi Ratan,
Some suggestions for areas to cover:
Synergies with conventional media and other online media, age / behavior / geographic biases and/or trends in social media audiences, the nature of content for social media (is it different?), what time frames to keep in mind for sustainable results, what strategies for various desired objectives like sales or brand awareness or building opinion, and how to build a social media campaign team. Looking forward to your talk.

Hello! Nitin!

Thanks for your inputs, and let me go with your list to see what will be covered.

Synergies with Conventional Media - will touch upon it. (WTUI)
Synergies with other online Media - Yes
Trends in Social Media - WTUI
Nature of Content for social media - Yes
Time Frame for Sustainable Results - WTUI
Objectives for Social Meida - Yes
How to Build a social media team - No

I am so eager to see you, once again, Nitin!

:-)

PS: Any other questions? Anybody?

Hello Ratan,

I would be pleased if you can add on some good SMM tools too, where we can measure the success or failure of Social Media efforts.

How we can use Social Media for community engagement ways to for Max impact from social media's usage and effectiveness for individuals, and small/medium/large organizations.

Looking forward to meet you all Guys.

Thanks :-)

Hello MAK,

Tks 4 ur inputs.

For the paucity of the time, I am afraid I may not be able to cover the SMM tools in the session.

However, some of the tools that you can use gets covered extensively in my paid 2 day workshop on Social Media.

Community Engagement is another thing that is covered extensively in my social Media workshops, but I am afraid, again for the paucity of time, I will not be able to cover them extensively.

Let me see what I can squeeze in! :-)

Any more?

Hi! Raaj!
You were right! When you said positive RSVPs will happen in the last two weeks. :-)

I have given IAMAI Office location on the map link below.

<http://maps.google.co.in/maps/ms?oe=utf-8&client=fire...;

Eager to see you guys there!

:-)

It will be great to see you people again... This will be my second meet up with u all... hope we make the best out of it

can I also bring a colleague of mine to attend the meet
sowmya

Hi Sowmya, Thanks for your interest in attending the meetup. You are welcome to bring guests - just indicate that in your RSVP - You can edit it anytime.

WOV ! This is an amazing lineup for the up-coming event ! last time we were running out of space because of the unexpected turn out !

Guys please let us know and update your availability - that way the organizers can manage better & we all benefit! Kudoz to all !!

Hi! I am giving you some links that will help you get started on Social Media.
? What is World Wide Web? (3:09 Min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZoMbBzqxyc
? What is Social Media in Plain English? (3:44 Min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpIOClX1jPE
? Social Networking in Plain English (1:48 Min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a_KF7TYKVc
? What is Social Search or Real Time Search? (1:14 Min)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRkYmx4A9D

Tomorrow, Watch out for some more links!

Hi! As promised, some more links. Blogs in Plain English (2:58 Min) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN2I1pWXjXI What is Pod Casting? (2:49 Min) http://commoncraft.com/podcasting What is Cloud Computing? (3 Min) http://commoncraft.com/cloud-computing-video What is online Photo Sharing? (2:45 Min) http://commoncraft.com/photosharing What is Social Book Marking? (3:22 Min) http://commoncraft.com/bookmarking-plain-english. Lemme know your comments, before I post few more links. :-). C u on Sat'day!

This was a really great SEO meetup. Thank you Raaj, Thank you RatanKK. Those who could not attend, you really missed a great session. Time flew by and I did not feel its passing, I was so caught up in what was happening. I either learned something new or confirmed something that I knew but was doubting from others who were really skilled and so willing to share.

Hii...I remember Mr Ivan Bayross was so keen to hear on talks on social media tools & resource to leverage Online Marketing, so here's a link I am sharing with "How Using Social Media as a Marketing Tool" http://www.marketingzen.com/articles-about-using-social-m...

I hope it will satisfy the Quest which Mr Ivan was having on social tools.

Lemme know am I able to help you in right direction, if not will make sure to share the best available resource on this topic.

Hi Mohammed Afzal Khan, very good website.... good tips.... i have "registered" it in my mind....

but Ivan is looking for ROI (Return on Investments) on Social media as a marketing tool ....do u know of any article like that?

sumeet

Hi all, so bad I cudn't make it to the meetup :( this time. Anyways, Ivan, I hope you will agree how difficult it is to do social media ROI tracking due to various combination involved in every other campaign. It is quite hard to have a one size fit all tool for such thing. I read this book http://www.forrester.com/Groundswell recently, and it offers a very practical approach with generously described case studies on how to measure ROI for various kind of campaigns. I hope you find it useful.

Hey Sumit, good to see response from you, b/w I would love to be called as "Afzal" or simply "Afzee" :-)...."Mohammed Afzal Khan" seems toooooo lengthy...

Well thanks for directing me in right direction.... Mashable.com is one of fav's.....I beleive in sharing knowledge for FREE that's what they also..

Here's a very good article which itches in my mind right now on "HOW TO: Measure Social Media ROI" http://mashable.com/2009/10/27/social-media-roi/

Enjoy....