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Girl Geek Dinner Presentation
1. Social Media,
LindaEnterprise & You
The Skrocki
Sr. Engineering Program Mgr.
Sun Blogs, Wikis, Forums
Deirdre Straughan
Community Builder & Videoblogger
Linda Skrocki
Community Engineering Program Manager
2. Social Media Explosion
Platforms for photo
sharing, video sharing
and blogging are the
fastest growing web
brands
Social media
democratizes the Web –
enables everyone to
entertain, educate, and
inform each other
creatively
•Data source: Hitwise.com
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3. Why Engage?
Experience serendipitous connections
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• Collaborate with others who share your passion
Engage directly with the experts
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Contribute to the sum of all knowledge
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• Drive awareness of your initiative
Advance a cause
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It's the new resume
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17. Realized Value
• Twitter: the globally distributed virtual water cooler
> Driven awareness of company-wide initiatives
> Enabled collaboration and a sense of team unity
> Built fruitful business relationships between Sun & the market
place
• 900k forums threads
> Community self-resolving support issues
> Possible leads
> Advocates of Sun
• 128k thousand marketplace conversations on blogs
• 270k collaborative wiki page revisions between Sun &
non Sun content contributers
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18. More Realized Value
• SmugMug's CEO blog post about why he chose Sun:
> “ Their CEO blogs, and he blogs in an open and honest way.
Yes, this was a key selling point for me.”
> “Lots of Sun employees use SmugMug. They rallied to make
sure we were talking to the right people.”
• Shared our blogging experiences with the United Nations
• CEO collaborates with SEC Chairman to improve policy
that enables companies to use the web for financial
announcements
• Deals are won against competitors because of social
network based business relationships
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