Speak For Yourself

...because the proof is in the pudding

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Introduction

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Speak For Yourself courses use a platform that introduces participants to the stripped-down, purely social platform that is twitter, addressing issues that new users tend to find confusing.

Speak For Yourself courses are:

 

  • Safe - We create a separate area for every tutor group of about 20 people, so that every participant feels safe in trying things out. All participants follow each other and give feedback to each other.
  • Establishing a new (good) habit - The only work we expect you to do is to update your status at least three times a day. You can update more but three is the minimum.
  • Low-intensity - A course lasts several weeks, usually 6 to 12. Every tutor group meets - usually on-line - at regular intervals for a short lesson. Usually lessons are made up for 3 segments: a quick history lesson, this week's task, and q&a and feedback session.
  • Helping you understand the important elements of social media - Nobody can tell anyone how to tweet. There are good practices, like completing a bio and being nice - but we all make it what it is.
  • Helping you understand that social media is not about technology.
  • introducing you to products and platforms that help you enrich social media stream

 

Last Updated on Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:32
 

Speak for yourself for Decision Makers

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You’re deciding who should handle the social media stream for your organisation, because you don’t think you know enough about it. Here’s what happens:

Let the IT department handle it – you get SEO specialists trying to automate tweets, because they can build a bot. Results – you wonder why no-one retweets.
Let your PR supplier handle it – they will say it’s a silly idea and you don’t need it at all, worrying about losing your account.
Let your sales department handle it – they will try to turn it into a marketing channel.
Let the intern handle it – heard of the Habitat intern debacle?
Let some bottom-rung marketing employee handle it – it will sound like a little marketing person.
You get a Social Media consultant in to solve this for you. It’s Russian Roulette – most social media consultants that are good at selling themselves are opportunists and don’t have the skills you need.
You hire a “digital agency” to handle your social media strategy.

Still going to let someone else do it? Your best bet, if you’re going to outsource it, is still to learn the basics. What you’re going to do with your £ several hundred K of Social Media budget after that is up to you!

A twitter channel is personal. You _want_ the most visionary person to run it. If this is your business, you want to ideally Speak For Yourself.

Speaking for yourself on Social Media. It’s not rocket science. Most importantly, it’s a habit. One of our courses teaches you some history, some lingo, some best practices, mostly it’s geared to form a new habit. Our courses are 6 – 12 weeks long, because that’s the time it takes to develop a habit.

 

For Small/Medium Business

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Do you hear a lot about businesses joining twitter, but you don't know enough about it? You hear conflicting stories on how simple yet complicated it is? A friend has tried and it hasn't worked for them, so you're wondering? A Speak For Yourself course will help you get it.

 

Is Twitter worth Investing time in?

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YES.

Of course I would say that, since I'm taking the trouble to build courses that help you understand it.

I don't want to add to the flurry of websites trying to tell you how good twitter is for your business. Of course by interacting with people you create trust, credibility and rapport, which helps you sell whatever you're selling. However, that's not the main issue here, by far.

Here are two bits of neutral information on why it's worth for anyone to have a good, well thought-out presence on twitter.

- in February 2010 Google changed its search patterns to push "social mentions" of the searched terms to the top of the results. That results in search terms returning results from your circle of friends on social media. Engage with a few people, you engage with many.

- when the new platform @anywhere will be launched by the company behind twitter, any organisation's twitter interactions become hugely visible even on all web platforms we usually think of as being static.

Speak For Yourself courses are meant to help you get a feel for what it's all about. We don't want you to get confused with all the offers of short-cuts for getting mentions on social media. If you're going to take part in the Social Media revolution, you might just as well do it right.

 

 

Last Updated on Saturday, 20 March 2010 19:01
 

For Everyone with an Opinion

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You haven't joined twitter yet because you don't feel that you want to talk about yourself all the time, but you do want to talk about issues that matter to you? A Speak For Yourself course helps you learn how to be yourself without being self-obsessed.

 

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