Hotel Bloom Social Media Strategy

6. Set up Google News Alert using Google architecture creating a full monitoring service for analyzing Bloom buzz on Google News Search, Google Blog Search and Google Organic Search. Produce RSS Feed for capture. Step 1: Conversation Discovery

7. Set up and use Twitter to monitor Bloom buzz in realtime Internet. Create RSS feeds to monitor. Step 1: Conversation Discovery

8. Use Social Mention to gather intelligence and monitor Hotel Bloom Brand in various social media landscapes. Create RSS feed for aggregation. Step 1: Conversation Discovery

9. Step 2: Conversation Aggregation Create Free account in Google reader to consolidate social monitoring RSS feeds for marketing team to keep tabs on in order to give directions where to react to queries, complaints or positive statements being made around the Internet. We will set this up for social monitoring, analysis and reaction team to consolidate, plan and execute responses and social media strategy.

10. What’s the best way to participate? There are many ways – you can prioritize and pursue direct methods, like comments, posts, tweets, emails, etc. And there are more indirect methods of participation like social bookmarks, tagging, favoriting’, etc? We are big believers that participation takes a variety of shapes and forms, and Hotel Bloom/SmoodS should not only be reactionary but also proactive and set the stage for conversations online by syndicating both blogs in the socialsphere. Step 4: Conversation Participation

11. How do we keep track of all the posts, tweets, comments, links, and otherwise, where Hotel Bloom marketing staff is participating in conversations? We like co.comment and will teach the staff how to use it. Posts will also be archived in Google Reader. Step 5: Conversation Tracking

13. Proactive – Work with IT team and set up a blog on the server Create Content to Increase Positive Conversations We will facilitate installation, design the site, and post a number of blogs throughout August and September by coming down to Hotel Bloom and ‘blogging’ with text, video and images on the hotel and restaurant. We will then teach staff to work with Wordpress blog.

14. Proactive – Disseminate and syndicate Hotel Bloom and SmoodS Wordpress blogs throughout the Socialsphere. Then create RSS feeds of fresh content generated from Wordpress blogs which can be disseminated to social media using API integration and methodology developed by Expathos.

15. Setup Youtube account Expathos will setup a Youtube account and ensure that all existing footage and newly created footage (by Expathos team) is uploaded. Then we will train marketing team on Youtube basics and how to encourage staff and guest participation in capturing the essence of Bloom through moving imagery.

16. Expathos will setup a Flickr account and ensure that all existing images and newly created photographs (by Expathos team) is uploaded. Then we will train marketing team on Flickr basics and how to encourage staff and guest participation in capturing the essence of Bloom through still imagery. Setup Flickr account

17. Setup Linkedin account Expathos will setup a company profile at Linkedin and we will train marketing team on how to effectively bring Hotel Bloom into the Internet’s most important online business social environ.

18. Setup Facebook account Expathos will setup a company profile at Facebook and we will train marketing team on how to effectively bring Hotel Bloom into the most important overall social media player on the Internet with over 200 million members.

19. Setup Twitter account Expathos will setup a company profile at Twitter and we will train marketing team on how to effectively bring Hotel Bloom into the most important realtime social media player on the Internet which is a rapidly rising star – with millions of new users monthly and recently featured on Oprah and the front cover of Time Magazine.

20. Hotel Bloom Website Expathos will work closely and provide consultation and advice to design and webmaster team to discuss social media integration into the main site, using widgets from Twitter, badges from Facebook and other methods of inviting site visitors to join Hotel Bloom in the socialsphere.

21. Hotel Bloom and Smoods Team Richard Kastelein http://www.linkedin.com/in/expathos Gianluigi Cuccureddu http://www.linkedin.com/in/gianluigicuccureddu