"What would you like to see in PowerPoint design in 2009?" That's what Olivia Mitchell, who writes the fantastic Speaking About Presenting blog, asked me last month. Lots of great ideas!) My PowerPoint design wishes for 2009? The look and feel of social media techniques will transition into PowerPoint design. The more people use Twitter, the more your audience will come to expect Now, Olivia didn't ask just me: she also acted as community organizer, posing the question to a plethora of presentation bloggers. She asked us to write one post on this topic.

And that sounds an awful lot like social media as Wikipedia defines it: Social media is information content created by people using highly accessible and scalable publishing technologies. At its most basic sense, social media is a shift in how people discover, read and share news, information and content. It’s much more powerful than those young whippersnappers–Twitter and Facebook We often talk about the need to develop a content marketing mindset.

What are the liabilities governing blogs and other social media vehicles? With the rise of blogs, Twitter, Facebook and other forms of social media, communications professionals have a wide range of options to connect with audiences. Tags: Business Communication blogging corporate communications risk Social Medi Does the risk mean you should prohibit blogging by corporate officers? With These extend beyond that of delivering a speech in [...] ...Tags:

Social media marketing is a trend, not a fad. We have just written about a powerful new research study that paints a picture of how thousands of smart companies are already benefiting from the inclusion of social media. What’s clear from that research is that when we evaluate social media, we are not talking about the marketing longevity equivalent of the hula hoop or the Lambada. But, most small to medium-sized businesses have yet to participate fully and enthusiastically. Social media marketing is here to stay.

In fact, visitors searching our site for the phrase “content marketing” increased by 85% in 2009 over 2008. Social media certainly loomed larger in the past 12 months but interest in content marketing strategy accounted for the majority of the most popular posts. 6 Reasons Why Your Blog Is Your Most Important Social Media Tool It’s been a very good year for content marketing. Here is the Cliff’s Notes bullet point version with more detail and links to the full articles following:

The Internet and social media changed everything, as we know. Clay Shirky , author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations , has a new TED talk that is not just appropriate for our times in general, but given what is happening in Iran, it's actually perfectly poignant for this particular week. For generations communication was one-to-one or one-to-many — the one-to-many being largely the domain of the professionals.

If you’ve been dragging your feet on social media, it’s time to take both of those feet and jump right in. The just released study on business use of social media from the folks at Business.com is must reading for content marketers who are active, tentative or hesitant about social media. Their research, 2009 Business Social Media Benchmarking Study makes it clear that even small business owners need to take social media very seriously indeed. The study was designed to assess current trends in the use of social media in North American businesses.

Tags: Musings Twitter and Social Medi You build relationships through spontaneous, casual, open and 'dialogue' communications. This is primarily done in the communications medium of face-to-face and not in text - until Twitter . Twitter is powerful enough to use right now, but will become even more of a relationship builder as people use the 'group' function.

Tags: social media Presentation Twitte Much ado over a Twittering Congress. Last week during the President's address to the joint session of Congress, some members Twittered through the speech . Almost immediately, two basic attitude camps sprang up among pundits: 1. How dare they!

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