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Social Media and Construction Professionals

Joy Davis, CSI, CCPR

Communications & Web Community Manager

800-689-2900 ext. 4795

jdavis@csinet.org

www.twitter.com/CSIConstruction

www.linkedin.com/in/joysdavis

www.facebook.com/CSIJoy

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The #1 Most Important Thing

Why do people use smartphones?

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The #2 Most Important Thing

Are You Experienced?

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Tools YOU Use

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The Cone of Connection

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Know What YOU Want

• Stay Current• Support Relationships• Build Reputation

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Experience = Good Content

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Sheldon Wolfe, FCSI, CCS, CCCA

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Thought Leadership Strategy

Share of VoiceOffer Something Useful

Share of MindGain Their Respect

Share of CashBecome Their Go-to Resource

Anyone Can Be a Thought Leader

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Golden Reps

How hard is it to buy from a Golden Rep?

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Thought Leaders• Love what they do• Are driven to teach• Reach out & communicate• Are willing to learn• Put time in today for tomorrow’s

benefit• Never stop working, connecting,

& communicating• Have a point of view Alana Sunness Griffith,

FCSI, Lifetime Member, CCPR, NotAKid

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Two Types of Content

Stuff You WriteStuff You Endorse

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Stuff You Write• Answer Questions on LinkedIn• Commenting on Relevant News, Studies

and Information on Your Blog• White Papers on Your Website• Slides on SlideShare• Photos on Flickr• Videos on YouTube

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Become a Resource on the Web

Googling Mike Coan,

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Endorsing Content

Anatomy of a Re-Tweet

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Social Media Makes it Easy for Others to Share You

Love the People Who Love You the Most – They’ll Help You Reach Farther

Appeal to Experts to Reach Novices – They’ll Endorse You

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Darn Kids!

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What if The Firm Had a Blog?

What tools would make it easier for your team to work?

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Practical Advice

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Angry Specifier or Blogger?

Do not leave this to the Marketing

Team

Put your angry specifier to work

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What if his emails were blog entries?

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Pop Quiz

Should you repeat project-wide requirements (Ex. directions for submittals) laid out in Division

01 in the technical spec sections as well?

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“Say it Once In The Right Place” Is Good For More Than Specs

Post photos on Flickr, videos on YouTube, slides on Slideshare

Put links on website, newsletter, blog,

Facebook

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Pop Quiz

What are the 4 C’s of CSI?

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“Clear, Concise, Complete, Correct” Is Good For More Than Specs

To really get your attention, I should write like this:• Bulleted list• Occasional use of bold to prevent skimming• Short sentence fragments• Explanatory subheads• No puns• Did I mention lists?

-- “Lazy Eyes,” Slate.com

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Everyone Reads Like a Contractor

• No one has enough time to read thoroughly

• The 1-in-3 Words Rule• “3 Steps” “10 Tips” and Other Forwarding

Favorites

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Tie it All Together• Subscription Buttons• Does Your Web Presence Support Your

Face-to-Face?• What About Your Printed Marketing

Pieces?

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Choose Tools

Based on Content

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The Right Tool

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The Authentic You

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Tracking with Twitter

“I refuse to tweet...nothing I do is exciting enough

that someone would need to know about

it NOW!”

Lynn A. Javoroski, CSI, CCS

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They’re Talking --Are You Listening?

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"One of our factories is

after to do this stuff but we have not got

around to it..."

Keith Showell, CSI, CDT

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It’s Not A Big Failure If No One Noticed You Failed

• Social Media Tools are Free-to-Cheap

• Web Defines Failure As “Nobody Cared”

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The 10 Minute Social Media Plan• Skim FaceBook, LinkedIn and Twitter• Use Google Alerts to track keywords• You Don’t Have to Read Everything

Goal: Know what’s

going on

Goal: People know where to find

you

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Add an Hour a Week• Write a blog entry• Answer a question on LinkedIn• Send an e-newsletter

Goal: Build a reputation

Goal: Find new audiences

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The Big Picture: Your Phone has a Keyboard

These new forms of communication have exposed the fact that the voice

call is badly designed. It

deserves to die.- Clive Thompson, Wired

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So Why Aren’t We Using Second Life to Design and Sell

Buildings?

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Follow CSIWeb: www.csinet.org

Twitter: www.twitter.com/CSIConstruction

LinkedIn: Search “Groups” for “CSI Construction” at www.linkedin.com

CSI Weekly (www.csinet.org/weekly) promotes members who blog and tweet –

so let me know if you start!

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Recommended Reading• Free e-Newsletter on Social Media

www.smartbrief.com/socialmedia• Design advice www.webpagesthatsuck.com • Chris Anderson, “The Long Tail”• Seth Godin, “The Big Moo,” “Tribes”• Dana Van Den Heuvel www.marketingsavant.com • William Draves and Julie Coates, “Nine Shift”• Simon Sinek, “Start With Why”

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