Social Media In The Enterprise - An evening of learning by SMCSeattle Education

Special thanks to Allyis for sponsoring the space for the event!

After a very successful first event, SMCSeattle Education Series presents the second session -

"Social Media In The Enterprise" on Thursday, September 17th, 6 p.m. at Allyis, Inc

OVERVIEW

As individuals we use social media every day to listen, to connect, to build relationships and build trust. Increasingly, businesses are realizing that they can use social media to achieve these same benefits in their marketing and promotion efforts. Often overlooked, however, are the benefits that a business can experience when it allows social media tools inside the firewall to enhance listening and communication between management and employees, to improve employees’ ability to discover and connect with expertise within the organization, to establish and nurture relationships within the company that foster greater trust, improved knowledge sharing, better collaboration, and faster innovation.
 
In this session we’ll look at the changing landscape of the workplace and how social media is both supporting and accelerating those changes. Areas of focus will include:

-      Is your organization ready for internal social media? How to tell, how to get ready

-      Making the case for internal social media to your management

-      Determining ROI for social media applications inside the enterprise

-      Three key benefits of social networking behind the firewall

-      Integrating internal and external social media strategies

-      Examples of internal social media in action

SPEAKERS

Ethan Yarbourgh

As President and Co-Founder of Allyis, Inc. , a consultancy focused on the development and adoption of 2.0 technologies and practices within the Enterprise, Ethan is a social computing thought leader and active participant in the Enterprise 2.0 conversation. Via his Emerging Web Memo blog , Tweets , white papers and speaking engagements, Ethan actively drives conversations around how organizations can leverage and prosper from using social technologies and cultures inside the firewall to foster knowledge management, collaboration and innovation, as well as to contribute to employee morale and retention.
 
Ethan has been recognized by the Puget Sound Business Journal as one of the region’s “40 Under 40”, an award celebrating rising stars and young entrepreneurs in the business community and was also honored by Western Washington University as a "Young Alumnus of the Year" in 2007. Ethan holds an M.A. in English Literature from Western Washington University and enjoys spending his free time in creative pursuits such as writing and photography.

Paolo Tosolini

Paolo Tosolini is the New Media Business Manager at Microsoft where he focuses on the utilization of social media, online video and enterprise podcasting to foster employee knowledge sharing within the company.  Prior to this role, Paolo worked in several other groups at Microsoft, including Enterprise & Partner Group, MSN, and Office, where he managed the Office 2007 partner early adoption program, including more than 500 partner solutions that were developed in time for the software launch.  Paolo also blogs and podcasts personally about Italy and travel.

Charl Pearce

Charl is a Product Manager for the Worldwide Partner Group at Microsoft where she focuses on global social media strategy, metrics and the digital marketing lifecycle.  She provides internal training on social & digital best practices for various Microsoft segments, global subsidiaries and global partners.  Charl is also the founder and lead of the Microsoft Social Media Minds, a cross-group of digital and social thought leaders that drive best practices within Microsoft.
 
Outside of work, she volunteers her time to educate non profits on implementing social media practices within their digital marketing plan (@SeattleNP).  Charl also blogs about fashion and local Seattle events through @Simchababe.
 
You can find Charl on Twitter at @Simchabe.

NOTE - We encourage everyone to participate by asking questions ahead of time.

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Special thanks to Allyis for sponsoring the space for the event!

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