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Advanced Social Media: Chicago 

450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive 
Chicago , IL  60611 
12/15/2010 8:00 AM  - 12/16/2010 5:00 PM 

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Listen to a sneak peek podcast by Instructor Dana VanDen Heuvel, Founder, The MarketingSavant Group

                     Advanced Social Media Brochure

Advanced Social Media is for the marketer who already has a social media program in place and is looking to take their social media success to the next level. Advanced Social Media will help you turn your followers into fans, your fans into advocates and your advocates into influencers and purchasers who are not just engaging online but energizing your bottom line.

You’ll learn advanced strategies and tactics for reaching influencers and building a long-lasting online community around your organization using the best practices in social media. You will also learn how to take social media beyond marketing and acquire the tools you need to deputize your employees for organization-wide social media engagement.

Finally, you’ll build a multi-channel social media campaign, social media metrics dashboard and engage in case-based problem solving with a high-energy group of marketing peers who are keen to take their social media programs to a new level.

Learning Objectives:

v    Be able to build a complete multi-channel, social media enabled marketing strategy and integrate social and traditional channels to deliver a competitive advantage

v    Be able to grow the base of followers, fans, readers and engaged participants across all of the social media channels that your organization or brand is currently engaged in

v    Understand how a variety of organizations have successfully used social media and what you can apply from their successes

v    Apply advanced social media best practices to ensure a reasonable rate of return on your social media investment

 Day 1:

Morning:

1.     Level Setting and Expectations

a.     What’s working in social media for you

b.     What’s the pain point that you’ve come here to resolve (determined through pre-event survey)

2.     Mobilizing the Ongoing Conversation

a.     Building influencer maps and influencer groups

b.     Building and conducting a viral influencer marketing campaign

c.     How successful social media campaigns have mobilized the conversation

3.     Building a Community that Lasts

a.     Tapping into existing industry and marketplace communities

                                                    i.     Where are your customers/constituents already organizing independently

b.     Tools and tactics that build lasting community and followers

                                                    i.     Getting to 100,000 followers on Facebook

                                                   ii.     Building a community of Twitter followers

                                                 iii.     Growing the following of your social media presence

4.     Consumer Behavior Change in Social Media

a.     Consumer sentiment shifts as a result of social media engagement

b.     Meeting and managing consumer expectations through social media

5.     Social Media Beyond Marketing

a.     Customer service in social media

b.     Gathering donations, building a cause, etc.

Afternoon: 

1.     Planning the Social Media Enabled Campaign

a.     How to integrate social media into your existing online and offline campaigns

b.     Behind the scenes: Examples of fully integrated – social media enabled campaigns

2.     Exercise – Build a Multi-Channel Social Media Enabled Campaign (Nonprofit, B2B, B2C)

3.     Behind the Scenes of 5 Large Social Media Marketing Success Stories

4.     Response and Engagement in Social Media

a.     How to handle interaction

b.     Working with positive and negative interaction

c.     Crisis management

d.     Joining the Conversation

5.     Staying Out of Trouble with Social Media

a.     The FTC and you

b.     Navigating the recent social media and online marketing legislation

Day 2:

Morning:

1.     Advanced Social Media Asset Management – connecting all of the social media dots

a.     How to leverage your social media assets for more comprehensive lead gen/awareness building/thought leadership

2.     Enabling the Social Media Organization

a.     Social media policy and education for the enterprise

b.     How to mobilize and deputize an entire company for social media success

c.     Staffing up for social media

                                                    i.     How do organizations both large and small manage their social media presence

1.     Who do they hire? Why? What positions?

2.     How much time do they devote?

3.     Social Media Analytics

a.     Platform-specific metrics and what they mean

                                                    i.     Facebook metrics

                                                   ii.     Twitter metrics (and the variety of tools to measure them)

                                                 iii.     Blog metrics

                                                 iv.     Video and photo metrics

                                                  v.     How to tie social media metrics to your web analytics tools

4.     Social Media ROI

a.     Determining the value of social media interactions

b.     How 5 leading organizations calculate the ROI of their social media engagement

c.     Building a social media engagement dashboard

d.     Using advanced social media monitoring tools to gather industry and market intelligence

5.     Exercise – Determine the Multi-Channel and Social Media Metrics for Your Organization

Afternoon: 

1.     Advanced Tactics

a.     Advanced blogging techniques for the established conversationalist

b.     Advanced Facebook pages and group tactics that grow your fan base

c.     Advanced Twitter tools and tactics

d.     Advanced video and multimedia tools and tactics

2.     Enabling the Social Media Sales Force

a.     Connecting your sales force, distributors, volunteers and other human assets to your social media mission

3.     Taking it Back to the Job, Wrap-up and Review

Hotel Air Travel Rental Car Ground Transportation

Training Series Conference Center Location
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
Gleacher Center
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL 60611-4316
Phone: 1 312.464.8787
Fax: 1 312.464.8683
www.gleachercenter.com

The Gleacher Center is conveniently located in the heart of Chicago’s business community just blocks away from the Loop and steps away from Magnificent Mile shopping, restaurants and hotels.  It is easily accessible from public transportation and adjacent parking lots.

Hotels within One Mile of the Gleacher Center
*Courtyard by Marriott  312-660-2401 165 E. Ontario St.
**Embassy Suites Hotel  312-423-6312 511 N. Columbus Drive
*Fairmont Hotel   312-565-6674 200 N. Columbus Drive
Four Seasons   312-649-2314 120 E. Delaware Place
Hilton Garden Inn  312-527-2656 10 East Grand Avenue
Holiday Inn Chicago City Center 312-787-6100 300 E. Ohio
Hilton Suites Chicago/  312-664-1100 198 E. Delaware Place
 Magnificent Mile
*Homewood Suites by Hilton 312-644-2222 40 E. Grand Ave.
**Hotel Inter-Continental 312-944-4100 505 N. Michigan Ave.
*Hotel Monaco Chicago  312-960-8500 225 N. Wabash
*Hyatt Regency Chicago  312-616-6953 151 E. Wacker Drive
**Le Meridien Chicago  312-327-0644 520 N. Michigan Ave.
**Marriott Downtown Chicago 312-836-0100 540 N. Michigan Ave.
*Omni Chicago Hotel  312-944-6664 676 N. Michigan Ave.
The Peninsula Chicago  312-573-6604 108 East Superior Street
The Ritz Carlton Hotel  312-266-1000 160 E. Pearson
**Sheraton Chicago Hotel 312-464-1000 301 E. North Water St.
 & Towers
*Swissotel   312-565-0565 323 E. Wacker Drive
W  Hotel   312-943-9200 644 N. Lake Shore Drive
*Westin River North  312-744-1900 320 N. Dearborn Street
*Wyndham Chicago  312-274-4429 633 N. St. Clair Street

** walking distance to the Gleacher Center: 1-2 blocks
*  walking distance to the Gleacher Center: 2-5 blocks

Area Attractions, Events and Tourism
Please visit www.choosechicago.com for additional city information.

ADA
The AMA is committed to providing equal access to our meetings for all attendees.  If you are an attendee with a disability and require program accommodations, please contact the AMA Meeting Services Department, and a member of our staff will ensure that appropriate access arrangements are made.  If you have specific disability related needs for your hotel sleeping room, please be sure to communicate those directly to the hotel when you make your reservation.  In an effort to provide the highest quality of service to all attendees, we require that details of all access requests be communicated to our office at least 14 days in advance of the beginning of the meeting.

Travel
AMA's travel coordinator, Tower Travel Management, is available to assist with reservations.  Call 1 800.542.9700 within the U.S. and Canada.  Reservation lines are open Monday through
Friday 8 a.m. – 6 p.m. CST or, you may contact them via email at association@towertravel.com

Tower Travel will proactively research airfares on ALL airline carriers to ensure that the lowest available fares are offered to all attendees.  They are dedicated to providing superior customer service and hassle-free travel arrangements.  Please note that fees, restrictions and cancellation penalties will apply.

Rental Car
For your convenience, the American Marketing Association has made arrangements with Avis for your car rental needs. Special rates have been negotiated for you.  Please contact 1 800-331-1600 to reserve a car. In addition, please be sure to use the AVIS Worldwide Discount Number:  D098599.

Airports

O’Hare International Airport
Taxi:  Allow 1½ to 2 hours
Approximately $40-55

Airport shuttle:  www.airportexpress.com  
Approx. $28 one way (subject to change)

Subway:  $2.25 (subject to change)
Allow approximately 45 minutes to an hour
*Airport signs will direct you to “Trains to City”   
*Depart at Clark/Lake stop and either:
*Take cab to our address (approximately $7)
*Walk east to Michigan Avenue, turn left walking north, cross Chicago River (you can see our building on right along the river) and immediately after the bridge turn right to walk through plaza to our building entrance (approximately 7 long blocks)
*Take bus by walking 2 short blocks to Lake & State to catch one of the following buses: #10, #145, or #146 and depart at the first stop after you’ve crossed the river.  Then just walk through the plaza you’re in to our building entrance.

Midway Airport 
Taxi:  Allow 45 minutes to 1½ hours
Approximately $30-45

Airport shuttle:  www.airportexpress.com    
Approx. $23 one way (subject to change)

Subway:  $2.25 (subject to change)
Allow approximately 45 minutes to an hour
*Airport signs will direct you to “Trains to City”
*Depart at State and Lake stop and either:
*Take cab to our address (approximately $7)
*Walk east to Michigan Avenue, turn left walking north, cross Chicago River (you can see our building on right along the river) and immediately after the bridge turn right to walk through plaza to our building entrance (approximately 5 long blocks)
*Take bus from State & Lake to catch one of the following buses:  #10, #145, or #146 and depart at the first stop after you’ve crossed the river.  Then just walk through the plaza you’re in to our building entrance.

Public Transportation Directions
From El (subway): 
Red Line (Howard/Dan Ryan)
*Depart at Grand Avenue stop
*Walk east to Michigan Avenue (walk up stairs at the Nordstrom’s building to access main upper Michigan)
*Turn right to head southbound
*Cross to east side of Michigan
*Turn left to walk through plaza just after the Chicago Tribune Tower (we’re the only 6-story building in that plaza)

From Buses: 
Buses running along Michigan Avenue
2, 3, 10, 145, 146, 147, 151 (from Union station), and 157 (from Ogilvie station)
*Depart on north side of Chicago River in front of either the Equitable Building and Chicago Tribune Tower or Wrigley Building (depending on which direction you’re traveling)
*Gleacher Center is in the same plaza as the Equitable Building and Tribune Tower (it’s the only 6-story building in that plaza)

Commuter Trains: 
Union Station:    Take the 151 bus and follow directions above
Ogilvie Station:  Take 157 bus and follow directions above
LaSalle Station:  Walk to bus station on corner of Well and Congress to catch #147 bus and follow directions above
IC Randolph Station:  Walk west 1 block to Michigan Avenue, turn right and walk approximately 4 blocks. Once you’ve crossed the bridge, we’re directly on the right along the river just behind the Equitable Building in the same plaza as Tribune Tower

Helpful Websites: 
www.transitchicago.com
www.metrarail.com

Driving Directions
From Interstate 90/94
To entrance: Heading either north or south on I-90/94, exit at Ohio Street. Follow Ohio east to Michigan Avenue. Turn right. At the second light, turn left on Illinois Street. At stop sign, turn right. Gleacher Center is on the right.
To area parking: Heading either north or south on I-90/94, exit Ohio Street east. Follow Ohio Street east to St. Clair Street, which is one block beyond Michigan Avenue and turn right. Travel two blocks on St. Clair Street to lower Illinois Street and turn left. Travel one block on lower Illinois Street and parking is one block on the right. Standard parking rates apply.

From Lake Shore Drive
To entrance: Heading either north or south on Lake Shore Drive, exit at Grand Avenue. Follow Grand west to Columbus Drive/Fairbanks Court; turn left to East North Water Street and turn right. Gleacher Center is straight ahead.
To area parking: Heading either north or south on Lake Shore Drive, exit Grand Avenue. Follow Grand Avenue west to St. Clair Street, approximately four blocks, and turn left. Travel one block to lower Illinois Street and turn left. Parking is one block down on the right. Standard parking rates apply.

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