Kami Watson Huyse

Strategic Social Media Management

March 23, 2010 by Kami Huyse

I am doing a teleseminar today with PRSA about how to strategically approach social media in a company or organization. I have included the outline and the presentation below. Situation Audit - Communication Audit - Charting - Environmental Scan
Overcoming Internal Objections - Get senior management involved - Cultural integration - Manage risk - Analyze opportunities Become a Reporter - Editorial strategy - Relational Objectives - Social Media Ecosystem Human resources - Social media team - Social media guidelines - Laws and regulations Measurement and Objectives - Setting measureable objectives - read more...

5 Cs that businesses should consider to avoid business disaster online

March 15, 2010 by Kami Huyse

Anjuan Simmons and I conducted a CORE Conversation at SxSW Interactive this year called: How Social Media Can Destroy Your Business Model. I will quickly outline the five ideas that we had. The audience had many more, plus lots of questions and feedback. We also discussed a number of case studies, which you can look at in the Slideshare presentation I have embedded at the end of this post that we developed to accompany the discussion.

You can also look at the transcript of the Twitter conversation, with the hashtag read more...

Cause Marketing that Leads to Real Social Change

March 12, 2010 by Kami Huyse

The following is a joint post by Beth Kanter, Geoff Livingston and myself. Social media is in is toddlerhood, especially as it applies to cause-based corporate giving campaigns and CSR initiatives. Due to the very public nature of pioneer campaigns, we are able to peer into the box to gleen the strongest approaches towards social media and avoid the weaknesses. At Zoetica, we have been examining social media-based cause campaigns in depth and would like to offer some thoughts on read more...

Giving Back: Win a Ticket to SxSW and Advice From Social Media Community

February 22, 2010 by Kami Huyse

Sometimes an certain ideas are just good and survive the test of time. When I served on the PRSA Board in San Antonio, every year we dedicated one of our luncheons to helping smaller non-profits put together a PR plan. The Gift of Guidance was always a great community service project. When Beth Kanter, Geoff Livingston and I started to discuss a potential launch party for our new company, read more...