The ‘tribalisation’ of business. A chance to take a step back and look at the day’s presentations and discussions in the context of the wider evolution of business practices.
Knowledge management: Security, Intellectual Property and Privacy. A key challenge for all corporations in embracing new social tools is the need to balance confidentiality, privacy and intellectual property protection against the benefits of increased openness. How can this be achieved without stifling innovation?
Internal comms: Improving relations and efficiency. SocialText CEO Eugene Lee examines the importance of social media and enterprise 2.0 software with regards to internal communication and improving relationships with employees along with general efficiency.
What companies can learn from politics 2.0. Obama’s leadership style ushers in a new era of dealing with stakeholder communities. How can we extrapolate those lessons to benefit the business?
Designing twenty-first century organisations with social tools. A corporate social media pioneer looks at how we can use the lessons of Enterprise 2.0 to help structure new, more resilient and low-cost corporations able to weather the current storm.
Using virals to find new customers. Insights into how to use viral campaigns to find and attract new customers, and get the message to spread to potential customers based on interest, behaviour and contextuality.
What your community can tell you about R&D (his "SHIP IT!" concept). XING’s Chief Product Officer looks at the evolution of social media networks and the important role of user feedback in shaping future trends.
Leading stakeholder communities. Long-time community expert and content strategist Marilyn Pratt discusses how communities are created to bring key stakeholders to the conversation. Her presentation will cover approaches to the moderator role and how enabling questions can help the conversation be more successful.
Final Session SOMESSO London 09, discussing sociable business with opening up for wider debate. MySpace, BDO Stoy Hayward, Viceral Business, and Publicis Groupe discuss key topics in corporate social media today: 16:40: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION Topics: ’Confession session’: Is this all networky stuff even a good idea? Reservations about social media engagement. A corporate culture of rapid response: Real-time content creation is increasingly common. How will companies anticipate and participate in this upcoming trend? Waging guerrilla warfare against corporate IT: How can corporates become more flexible in adoption of new tools when the ‘guys in the basement’ have the power to determine what a company does? Security, ‘trusted provider’ questions, more open sharing and collaboration all create power struggles between the IT department and the rest of a company. Nurturing the evangelist: How do corporates find the heroes inside? Many companies already employ people who are adopting new tools: how can we help identify, trust and empower these evangelists? Empowering experimentation: Current IT procurement typically focuses on large, expensive deployments that can often lock companies into expensive proprietary systems. How can we encourage a shift to shorter, more ‘agile’ deployments and a more open, experimental and cost-effective IT strategy? “Fudging the ROI”: Large corporations understandably want to see cost-benefit analyses before investing in change. How can we measure and quantify the benefits of social tools? Do we even have to do this?
Nurturing your Inner Maverick. Google pioneer and serial innovator Wesley Chan shares stories from the early development of Google Voice and Analytics: taking advantage of failure, maintaining a healthy disregard for doom-mongers, and keeping a maniacal focus on what’s important.
Unmarketing and the ‘Webful Brand’. “If brands are to have any juice in this new online future, those that are advocating them will have to drop all the mass media shouting, and move past the ‘markets are conversations’ trivialization of the web, too. Their representatives will have to roll up their sleeves and do something, shoulder to shoulder, aspiring to make something in the world, collectively with us, not just selling us the parts.
Leveraging Social Media In Regulated Industries. When legal or regulatory compliance departments are presented with social media opportunities the risk assessment warning lights go on. But not participating in the social media space can be as risky for brands, even those in regulated industries. Jason Falls will discuss both the challenges and the paths to implementing social connections in regulated industries.
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Social media is a new, rapidly evolving trend that is changing the way corporations work and interact with each other. It entails the future of how individuals and corporations communicate. Therefore, corporations need to understand the dynamics and potential that social can mean for their organization – internally and externally.
SOMESSO Conferences are a series of recurring one-day events organized throughout large cities in Europe where industry leaders, sales and marketing experts, agency new media specialists, Internet marketers, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and other financiers share their ideas about corporate social media and present their latest initiatives, projects and discoveries.
SOMESSO recognizes the importance and enormous potential of social media in driving companies’ business values. The mission of SOMESSO is to bring these industry experts together on a regular basis to explore tactics, trends and successes in social corporate media around the world.