The document discusses how qualitative researchers can leverage social media platforms. It describes how social media continues to grow and evolve, providing opportunities for researchers to find information, expand their horizons, and connect with others. The document recommends that researchers identify their goals and relevant audiences to guide their social media strategy. It also provides tips on using different platforms for professional and personal purposes, and managing multiple social media accounts.
6. What Does This Have To
Do With Me?
Finding information
7. What Does This Have To
Do With Me?
Find information
Expanding horizons
8. What Does This Have To
Do With Me?
Find information
Expand horizons
Connecting with people who share your interests
9. What Does This Have To
Do With Me?
Finding information
Expanding horizons
Connecting with people who share your interests
Tracking thoughts/journal
10. What Does This Have To
Do With Me?
Finding information
Expanding horizons
Connecting with people who share your interests
Tracking thoughts/journal
Creating your own voice
15. Exploring Social Media
What do you want to accomplish?
What is relevant to you?
What is relevant to your followers?
Don’t have to be on every channel
16. You are Already a Great
Picture
You just need the
right frame.
17. Usage Categories
Professional Personality Information
Twitter Pinterest Twitter
LinkedIn Facebook Groups
Quora Instagram Quora
Blogs Foursquare YouTube
Slideshare Flickr Slideshare
YouTube Twitter Facebook
18. Professional
Establish Expertise Twitter
Make Connections LinkedIn
Sharing information Quora
Getting Work! Blogs
Slideshare
YouTube
19. Keep up on it!
Staying current is a priority
Experiment with different strategies
25. You are a Publisher
Think like a Magazine Editor.
26. Create Content That
Reflects YOU.
(….or what you want to be)
Re-Imagine vs Re-Post
27. Invent-A-Researcher
Name
Twitter handle
Area of industry focus
Expert Skill
Two passionate hobbies/interests/causes
Five things this person likes a lot/enjoys.
28. Invent-A-Researcher
Sally Bright
@salbright
Consumer financial and healthcare
In-home focus groups and online groups
Avid gourmet cook and Harley Davidsons
Likes: dogs, jazz, magic tricks, hiking
Active in groups and associations
29. Invent-A-Researcher
How might she mix who she is into what she does?
What channels might it make sense for this person to
use?
30. Invent-A-Researcher
@salbright Learning real reason why diabetes patients go
off medications #diabeticfocus
@salbright How to conduct effective online
studies.(slideshare link)
salbright 2nd day Coq Au Vin (pic)always tastes better
after a great day of in home IDIs! #IDI
@salbright 5 emotional reasons people save money (link
to article) I just have one (pic of Harley)
32. Social Media
Management Tools
TweetDeck
Hootsuite
Seesmic
MarketMe
Sprout Social
33. Social Media Management
Tools
Schedule posts
Multiple posts at once
Keep track of Information Streams
Stay up on your connections/followers
Follow relevant information/topics
37. Helpful Links
The Social Media Daily (socialmediadaily.com)
Twitter for Business (http://bit.ly/K9W0TO)
What’s New(ish) with LinkedIn
(http://slidesha.re/JtY88l )
Visual.ly (http://visual.ly/)
Mashable (http://mashable.com)
(Anti) Social Development
(http://www.kimwoodbridge.com/)
The Social Media Guide
(http://thesocialmediaguide.com
Argyle Social ( http://argylesocial.com/)
38. Can we use our collective digital presence to
grow Minnesota reputation and create more
opportunities for ourselves?
39. Let’s Get the Qual Ball
Rolling
Opportunity to create a
Minnesota industry ecosystem?
How many have website? Blogs Signed up for Social Media Accounts (Twitter, FB, LinkedIn) how often do you use?
Don’t really see qualitative researcher digital presence. Interesting because what we do is about people! There is a good deal of opportunity. Just haven’t been able to use it as well as we could.
Wonderful exercise. Drill down. Makes you think about owning who you are. Great feedback loop.
It’s a jungle out there!
Think Niche Markets. Where Digital Presence comes into play.
Just be on the channels that make sense for you.
Create a composite.
Don’t have to do all of these. Just pick one or two.
Professional – LinkedIn. Just bought slideshare
What’s your business’s persona?
Base channel selection on how she is presenting herself.
LinkedIn, Slideshare, Intstagram, Twitter
How do you manage all these tools?
Use these to keep information under control. Manage connections. Create a publishing schedule