The social media strategist : build a successful program from the inside out / Christopher Barger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barger, Christopher, author.

Contributor:

Books24x7, Inc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social media--Economic aspects.

Social media.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 v.) : ill.

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, [2012]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Build a powerful social media strategy to increase buzz—and the bottom line In today’s fast-paced professional climate, large companies are learning that launching a website and taking a wait-and-see approach to engaging customers is not enough. Competition is fierce, and those who master the social media space are the ones who come out on top. There is greater urgency than ever before to establish a vibrant social media program—and it all starts with a key strategist who can best organize and leverage all of the organization’s resources to cut through the bureaucracy and get real-time results. This is where The Social Media Strategist comes in. Before tackling specific social media programs, you first have to get your own organization—and everyone in it—on board with making social media a business strategy priority. Christopher Barger, the award-winning former social media director at General Motors and IBM’s former “blogger-in-chief,” describes all the challenges particular to getting a comprehensive social media program off the ground in a large firm. The Social Media Strategist teaches you how to: Manage internal office politics, from your legal team to the policy makers to the human resource department Present new ideas to lawyers and executives in a compelling, convincing way Teach your employees the guidelines and protocols they’ll need to represent your company Turn your organization into a true media outlet, publishing content that is generated by in-house employees and is truly engaging to an outside audience “Telling a company from the outside what it should do is one thing,” writes Barger. “Actually making it happen from the inside is quite another.” Here, he takes the bold step of starting where all successful endeavors begin: by planning well, by putting all the moving parts in the right place, by constructing a solid foundation. Consult The Social Media Strategist and build the best-suited social media infrastructure for your company. Then, and only then, can you begin to raise your profile, connect with customers, and increase your profits using the most powerful new business tool.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1 The Lay of the Land

Chapter 2 The Executive Champion

Chapter 3 Owning Social Media

Chapter 4 The Social Media Evangelist

Chapter 5 Deal Breakers

Chapter 6 Roi and Measurement

Chapter 7 The First Thing we do . . . Let's Work with the Lawyers

Chapter 8 A Solid Social Media Policy

Chapter 9 Teaching the Organization to Fish

Chapter 10 Working with Bloggers

Chapter 11 Moneyball: Winning Big by Going Small

Chapter 12 When all Hell Breaks Loose

Chapter 13 Three Mile Island: The GM Bankruptcy Crisis

Afterword

Notes

Index.

Notes:

Title from title screen.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9786613425584

9781283425582

1283425580

9780071768559

0071768556

OCLC:

1024281473