This Is The Year! Social Media Resolutions

Friday January 1, 2010

2009 whipped by in a flash, and you heard all the crazy buzz about social media. You read the stories and heard the buzz, watched the status updates fly by on Twitter and Facebook, and heard that social media is changing the landscape of how marketing and communications impacts business.

But maybe you haven’t started yet. You’ve listened carefully, and you’ve decided that 2010 is the year you’re going to get started implementing social media in your organization.

If you still need a few resources to help get you on the right track, we’ve got a few choices from our bookshelves and media libraries to get you started. Take a look and Take One (or a few) to add to your arsenal.

Already in the trenches? Maybe this is the year that you’re going to do a little more, dig a little deeper, and move your social media efforts deeper into your business.

We’ve visited a few topics in our past couple of months, like how to listen better and deeper, how to get started with some social media strategies, or how to build a business case for social media inside your organization.

This month, perhaps you need to do a bit of reflection on how social media fits into your organization. Lauren Vargas has written you a 12-step program to not only help you put community first, but consider how social media will plug into your business as you’re mapping out your 2010 efforts.

And if you’re getting serious about social, that might include putting some dedicated human resources toward making it happen. Check out some ideas about hiring and getting hired for social media roles.

This month on the blog, we’ll be talking about all sorts of other social media resolutions: better measurement, better engagement, better integration. What are you resolving to do with your social media initiatives in 2010? We want to hear from you.

Videos to Watch