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Social Media Breakfast Ottawa 1 - a delicious success! | women 2.0 Canada — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 14:09:22 +0000

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By: Marnie Richardson

Marnie Richardson — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:50:25 +0000

Excellent event – amazing that people were so friendly at a 7:30 am start time

Key takeaways:

1. Before you start your social media strategy be sure to have the resources in place to monitor and respond to the online discussion. You have to move fast to leverage the positive and control the negative.

2. Comments & posts can have a very long shelf life on search results.

3. Don’t necessarily need social media press releases but you do have to invest time to engage bloggers in an authentic dialogue/relationship.

By: allan isfan

allan isfan — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:49:07 +0000

A great session! Speaker and crowd was very high quality and engaging.

Key takeaways for me:
1) build something worth talking about
2) let the right people know about it and they will spread the word (especially if they benefit in some way)

Social media can be a low cost and very effective method but it does take lots of thought and work.