COURSEWARE: social media and PR Crisis Communication

by Laurel Papworth on April 23, 2009 · 27 comments

Courseware for Social Media Workshops

I’m going to gradually, as time permits, migrate all my courseware across to the new format, offer it for free download under Creative Commons for download (lulu or scribd), or physical colour workbooks via publish on demand Lulu (http://stores.lulu.com/laurelpapworth) . WARNING: I’ve ordered the new format printed workbook from Lulu but I need to check formatting, make sure fonts etc haven’t gone mad. Check back here – I’ll remove the warning in 3 days when the workbook arrives.

By the way, the converting, uploading and distributing of this content for free would go faster if I have a SPONSOR. hint hint. Otherwise it’s a weekend, evenings job I guess. In other words, don’t get mad if I seem slow! Here’s the first one.

COURSEWARE: Social Media PR Crisis Communication

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Scribd offers a YouTube style embed, Lulu offers both hardcopy and a free download service.

Let me know what you think. I’m also setting up SocialWebForum for students/clients/companies to ask questions on social media and courses. Feel free to participate as an expert (consultant) or as a student (attendee). Am looking for helpers with SocialWebForum, not just forum participants.

My courseware is under Creative Commons Attribute and Non Derivative. So it is available for COMMERCIAL purposes – just download for free or order the printed workbooks cheaply on Lulu. But you can’t change it in anyway without emailing me first (hint: removing my name from the book and just adding it as a tiny postscript ain’t on). If you really need to slap your company logo all over the front page, or edit it for some non-nefarious purpose, just email me so I can confirm the licence change for you.

Please please use the courseware, write back comments/suggestions/criticisms, blog about it, RETWEET it. Social media that is not discussed does not exist. I hope some one finds this first workbook useful. But remember, it’s just a foundation – you have to bring your own case studies, experience and skills as a trainer to provide attendees with a clear, practical foundation in social media skills.

The Social Network courseware I have produced over the last 4 or 5 years includes Monetizing and Revenue in Social Media, Creating Social Media Marketing Campaigns, Social Media for Arts, TV and Film workshops, Measuring and Analytics for Social Media, Social Media workbooks for Art Galleries, Museums, Archivists and Libraries. Others for Education, Government, Entertainment (general). Promotions and Event Management with Social Media. Other PR workbooks for example are How to Create a Social Media Press Release (used to be Multimedia Content For Bloggers) and Blogger Relations. H.R., Recruitment and Social Networks. How to Build and Manage a Forum Community (was How To Build and Maintain an Online Community), Social Network Economies – Banking, Telecommunications and Publishing. Game Moderating in Virtual Worlds, Leadership and Innovation in MMORPGs. World of Warcraft for Future Business Leaders, Workshop on Profile, Identity, Trust and Reputation in Social Networks. Social Networks and Small/Medium Size Businesses (same as Dept State & Regional Dev. courseware) and Social Networks for Not For Profits (was Volunteers, Fundraising and Online Communities). You might already have the How to Blog for Business, How to Facebook for Business and How to Twitter for Business but the new format will be also up soon. And a bunch of others. The first three I’ll probably convert first will be Monetizing and Measurement and Event Management courseware, possibly also Enterprise 2.0: Social Media behind the Firewall unless you have a preference for one of the others?

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1 Lee Hopkins April 23, 2009 at 1:00 pm

G’day Laurel,

This is a VERY interesting direction for you — giving away IP content for free? Wither the monetization model?

Naturally, I’d be flattered to be a part of this all — how can I help?

Lee

Lee Hopkins’s last blog post..IABC World Conference: getting closer

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2 Laurel Papworth April 23, 2009 at 1:28 pm: You always ask such interesting questions Lee

I don’t think many of the social media consultants offering workshops have workbooks for their attendees at the moment. This is maybe a bit more useful than a free or $$$ whitepaper? They can print them and give it to students.

I’ve been sitting on this content, refining it for a few years now, updating it when new stuff comes out. Sooner or later, content has to be freed – and this will put my brand to work quicker and easier than anything else I could do in real world terms. My name after all is slapped one every page (like a normal author) and inserted in a paragraph here and there (kinda like advertising). I’m not naive Anyway the social media economy is an experiential one, not a product/service one. In English that means I charge for personal performances, not for my IP.

The coursebooks are either something workshop trainers will love – or totally not find useful. Doubtful that the courseware will sell as a single book, more likely organisations will order 20 or so from Lulu, printed up.

I think there are employees in PR and marketing and whatevs who get told to organise or run a session on this stuff. This helps them, the socialwebforum.org can help, and ultimately we all benefit as an industry.

Plus, it will soon be time for me to move away from presentations/workshop, into some new projects – shoving out the courseware releases both me and the content.

Finally, people have been asking nicely, individually for access to my workbooks and courseware to run their own courses. I’m a sucker for please and thankyous. And chocolate.

As for what you can do – dunno, wanna help with socialwebforum? I hope to create somewhere less for Social Media ppl and more for newbies to find consultants, trainers and workshops. Plus, if you could tell ppl about the courseware, that might help anyone planning on running an internal enterprise course. Email me if you have anything else you are up for . Heh.

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3 Ari Herzog April 23, 2009 at 2:52 pm

Awww, you didn’t have to thank me. Isn’t that what Twitterville is for? I appreciate the gesture, though.

Perusing through the doc and your response to Lee, it sounds like this is what someone last fall referred to as a “special report,” whereby if I’m speaking at an event, I can have a whitepaper-like document to provide to attendees either for free or cheaply to gain value and then follow-up.

I’d like to either get involved or maybe I can rework this for my own use, crediting you of course?

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4 Laurel Papworth April 23, 2009 at 3:12 pm: Hey Ari, I give this as a “take away” from my 1/2 day and 1 day workshops. Plus they can write notes and we do these exercises and more in class, reviewing diagrams etc. Reworking it as a marketing paper for conferences would be … interesting.
Wouldn’t that look totally different?

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5 Sarah Leaney April 23, 2009 at 3:57 pm

Hi Laurel,
Was just checking out your course work you are very generous with sharing your work!!
Are you thinking of including other Social media sites otehr than Twitter and Facebook? What about MySpace, Bebo, Friendster and all of the other number of share buttons that you have under your article?
Sarah

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6 Laurel Papworth April 23, 2009 at 4:06 pm: At the moment I’m focussing on moving across courseware I’ve already written or taught in depth. Easier to trim up and republish. So twitter, facebook and how to blog with blogspot and wordpress are pretty fast turnarounds. The others would take research first – plus, I prefer to teach a workshop a few times before finalizing the text and exercises…. I guess I’m saying, maybe

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7 Akanksha April 23, 2009 at 7:22 pm

Hello Laurel,

Came across this on Ari’s tweet – fantastic idea. I recently gave a talk in Dubai about the basics on web 2.0 and was stunned by the number of companies that just pick people from the marketing team to ‘educate’ the rest of the company about social media and how they can harness it – even though the marketing managers know very little themselves.

These course books (especially the forum) could be very helpful to companies looking to have internal sessions and jump onto the marketing 2.0 bandwagon without too much fuss.

Infact you could also get social media prof’s/specialists out there to contribute case studies etc. Look up: Michael Netzley – he’s a rockstar.

- A

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8 beth kanter April 25, 2009 at 10:59 am

I have always set my courseware free ..

also this project http://www.wearemedia.org

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9 Laurel Papworth April 25, 2009 at 12:52 pm: There’s quite a lot of open source, shareware courseware in the Education and Not For Profit sectors. Incidentally Ive given courses on social networks for volunteers etc to NFPs for free. That must muck around with business models for consultants in that sector. Always an issue – I charge for consultancy that agencies do for free. I guess we just rely that sometimes people will pay even if other stuff is being thrown at them.
Incidentally my first courseware that was shareware was in the late ’80s for Eudora. I gave a copy of it to Steve Dorner the dev to hand out – he was at one Uni, I was at Uni NSW. I never – like in the case above – offered it up for others to make money out of (commercial), though.

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10 Paul O'Mahony (Omaniblog) April 28, 2009 at 5:46 pm

Laurel,

Thank you very much: for writing such an interesting account of your current approach, and for showing how to give stuff away for free, intelligently.

I’ve a book in planning stage, to be called “How to do 99% of your work for free and live well on 1%”. I’d like to use you as a case study, if ever I focus sufficiently on this project.

It strikes me that many artists have faced the situation you describe: they’ve painted the paintings, exhibited them commercially, and stacked up a load of unsold paintings in the garage.

Thanks again

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11 Laurel Papworth April 28, 2009 at 5:54 pm: hahahaha that’s funny. The only difference for me is that my (free) blog brought me work in Singapore and the Middle East and in June, Portugal.

The courseware has been downloaded a lot already in the last day or two. I doubt I will be a starving artist

Sure go ahead, use me as a case study

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12 blogpreneur Online marketing May 10, 2009 at 7:05 pm

it’s really so great about your courseware . I’m looking for another 8 courseware series… Is that already to download ?…

blogpreneur Online marketing’s last blog post..Bedah strategy emarketing sbypresidenku

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13 Alex Marshall May 22, 2009 at 1:00 pm

Just going through your Social Media Courseware doco – fantastic! Succinct docs like this are fantastic to find! Excellent resource thanks Laurel.

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14 Sarah Stokely May 26, 2009 at 3:17 pm

Thanks for sharing, Laurel. I look forward to reading these!

Cheers,
Sarah

Sarah Stokely’s last blog post..Online Reputation Management in Smart Company

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15 SouthOz June 8, 2009 at 1:13 pm

Thanks, Laurel for generously sharing your wealth of experience and knowledge via Creative Commons licensed courseware, on Scribd and Lulu.
I found this excellent resource via my Twitter network and have shared it with my community via RT, blog post & social bookmarking.
And you now have one more @silkcharm follower in your extensive network – me.

SouthOz’s last blog post..Highlighting Social Media courseware

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16 Nick Wreden June 14, 2009 at 5:26 pm

Interesting. I’ve published several branding books (Plug: “ProfitBrand: How to Increase the Profitability, Accountability & Sustainability of Brands”), which has done OK, but the bulk of income has come from speaking/seminar opportunities resulting from the book.

I’m now working on the next book, which is about branding based on cultural, ethnic and religious segmentation, and have been thinking about several models. The first option is easy…a detailed outline will be going online in about a month, with a call for input, ideas, revisions and case studies.

Then the options get interesting. My former publisher has expressed interest, and another publisher wants to talk when the book is further along. But I’m also looking at the scribd/lulu model like you.

So I have two questions. Have you done any cost/benefit analysis concerning scribd/lulu vs. trad. publishing, and do you expect your returns via speaking/consultancy/etc. to justify the time and effort you’ve put into generating the content.

(BTW: Somewhat agree with your comment about the inevitability of free content. As a writer friend put it: “I don’t care about privacy. I just want visibility.”)

Best,
N.

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17 Student July 14, 2009 at 2:02 pm