Hiya, I’m running my last 3 Day social media intensive for this year, in December. A very practical course with small group (about 10 people) – bring your laptop to set up tools for improving Facebook, Twitter, blogs, social media press releases, measurement, strategy, campaigns and so on. Not sure if/when I’m running them next year due to available dates but here’s the details for this December course:

Social Media 3 Day Intensive Course (hands on) in Sydney December 2014

Are you looking for an intensive social media strategy and campaign course with hands on practical setting up of blogs, Facebook, Twitter and other social media tools? This 3 Day Social Media course is a mix of lecture, group challenges and computer based exercises (bring your own laptop or use ours ). Social Media Press Releases & Media Rooms for Bloggers and Twitterers, Social Media Campaign vs Strategy vs Tactics: Facebook Pages and Google Plus for Business and Twitter Tools including Measurement and Monitoring.  See Day by Day Schedule below to learn more. This course has been very popular for corporate organisations in Australia and in Singapore and is now being offered as a small class, publiclysuitable for small to medium size businesses, consultants and hobbyists wanting indepth social media knowledge.

Prerequisites: While the first part of each session is for beginners, this workshop is fastpaced and very indepth. A Facebook personal profile and other social media profiles such as Twitter are assumed. Those who do not yet have any social media profiles online will have them set up by the end of the course, more advanced users will be building deeper engagement and conversations. Please also consider forwarding to a friend who might be interested?

PLEASE BRING YOUR LAPTOP: Don’t forget to bring the power supply.  If you do not have a laptop please email us at pa@laurelpapworth.com so we can organise one for you.  Laptop hire costs are $50 a day.

Lunch and light refreshments are included as part of the course.

Workshop Facilitator: Laurel was named by Forbes magazine in the Top 50 Social Media Influencers globally, and Marketing Magazine named her “Head of Industry, Social Media”. Author of Social Media Revenue, Laurel has consulted globally including with Singapore Government and Middle East Broadcasting, and in Australia, with Westpac, Sony, local, State and Federal Government. Laurel is the CEO of The Community Crew managing massive gaming and online communities where they use the best hardware for gaming as the https://www.hotrate.com/electronics/best-gaming-mouse/, also other comunities including Facebook and forums for reality TV shows such as Junior Masterchef. Since 2005, Laurel has been teaching online community management at the University of Sydney and she has been managing virtual communities since 1989. Laurel’s blog laurelpapworth.com has been named by AdAge in the Power150 media blogs worldwide and she is in the top 10 bloggers for Australia. More About Laurel.

Dates:  Not suitable? Let us know. Know a friend who might like the course? Please pass on! 

Social Media Workshop Outline

Three Day Class for the Advanced Social Media Specialist

Modules over the Three Days.

The 7 steps of social media Engagement 

understanding social media from an organisational evolutionary perspective. The steps include:  developing Social Media Policies and Guidelines for Staff, Building Viral Engagement for promotion in social media sites,  Collaborating with Customers in building Social Products and Services. This segment takes you through all seven steps that most organisation evolve through and prepare for the next session on Nine Steps of a Social Media Strategy.

OUTCOME: Students will gain an understanding of the 7 Steps of Social Media Engagement.
Computer Based Session: Build a blog and social media press room with socmed press releases, blog and social objects.

Nine Steps of a Social Media Strategy.

Before you build a social media campaign, you need a strategy. This section takes the student through all nine steps of building a Strategy including: Purpose and Values and determining why and what customers will follow on social media sites, Influencer and Blogger Relationship strategies – how to determine who will help promote your products online and how to encourage Twitter users, and bloggers and Facebook users to connect  with you and the other 7 steps. Two steps (campaign and diary) will be covered tomorrow in depth).

OUTCOME: Students will have enough information to work on their own 9 Step Social Media Strategy.
Computer Based Session:  Build a business hub on emergent social tools such as Google Plus and Pinterest and LinkedIn Business Pages.

5 step Social Media campaigns

including building a hub and spoke practical demonstration session and Creating a Conversation Diary to facilitate in-depth, community building conversations. This afternoon, The Five Steps of a social media campaign will cover from how to Monitor social media through the campaign lifecycle to brief introduction to Social Media Measurement (covered in more depth on Day THREE). No matter whether your campaign is to promote a product or service, to recruit new staff or to offer online customer service, these 5 steps are the way to effectively engage in social media.

OUTCOME: Students be able to build a 5 Step Social Media Campaign.
COMPUTER SESSION: Maximise Twitter account, and apps to schedule, measure effect of tweets, auto tweeting do’s and don’ts and tools.

Creating a Conversation Diary 

the importance of a calendar for working with staff, creating social objects for conversations, FBO (Facebook Optimisation) and SMO (Social Media Optimisation). Understanding Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn optimisation

OUTCOME: Students will gain a thorough understanding on how to create a Conversation Diary for better SEO, FBO and SMO rankings.
COMPUTER SESSION: Maximise Facebook Business Page and tools to ensure engagement and FBO

Measuring Social Media

Six Key Performance Indicators in  social media – The Return on Investment (ROI) and the Cost of Inaction (COI) figures. Six points of measurement from Circulation (number of followers) to Reach ( number of Shares) to Velocity, Sentiment and so on. We look in depth at tools and analyse statistics and bottom line figures in social media.

Please contact my assistant, on pa@laurelpapworth.com for direct debit information, testimonials or other queries.  Interested in other training?  Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, Foursquare, 2 hour, 1/2 day and full day classes are available.  More social media courses here

Organisations, Government, Enterprise: This course can be run inhouse tailored to your needs. Please email pa@laurelpapworth.com for dates and pricing.

The venue is cnr of Daniel and Pine in Chippendale – 8 minutes walk from Central Station and about the same from Broadway Shopping Centre. Parking is available at Broadway Shopping Centre.