Comments on: How Willow Creek Has Embraced Social Media for the Global Leadership Summit #wcagls

By: PaulSteinbrueck

PaulSteinbrueck — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 18:13:45 +0000

In reply to Chris.

Chris, that's a tough spot where I think a lot of people find themselves. Is there anyone in your organization who does blog and use social media well? If there is, get up next to them and learn from them regardless of their position within your organization. If not, I can think of 3 options off hand:

1) hire someone onto your staff who understands social media,
2) hire a social media consultant who can teach you, answer your questions, and possibly set things up for you.
3) try to learn by reading blogs and watching what those who are successful say and do.

If you'd be interested in hiring me as a consultant, let me know. If you'd like to learn by reading blogs, let me suggest you start with this… 7 Practical Steps to Getting Started in Social Media – http://ow.ly/6gRfF

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 17:05:33 +0000

How does someone like me who is middle aged and works with many who are older and don't blog or tweet, etc. suppose to learn or understand how to do this or discuss it with people who don't understand it either? I can see it's the coming media, but how do you get on the wagon train without getting run over by it or left in the dust of it?

By: PaulSteinbrueck

PaulSteinbrueck — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 11:40:30 +0000

In reply to Hanna, WCA. Hanna, thanks for all your hard work to engage people with the Summit through social media. This post is just my limited outsiders view. I'd love to hear more about the WCAs social media strategies, how many people and how much time were invested, what metrics were measured, and to what extent your believes it was worth the time and resources invested.

By: Hanna, WCA

Hanna, WCA — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:46:22 +0000

In reply to Jon. Jon- you're right all of our WCA 'official' bloggers this year were LIVE-blogging (and they were all onsite). We were set up backstage in a social media 'green room'. Great insight about the two sites- willowcreek.com and wcablog.com. We're working to become integrated and love hearing your feedback. We decided to post updates on the blog b/c wordpress is such a great platform to work within ;) Anways... thanks for your comments.

By: Hanna, WCA

Hanna, WCA — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 22:43:11 +0000

Paul! Thanks so much for this post! It makes the WCA social media team happy 🙂 Throughout the event the team of bloggers we're set up backstage, in front of their computers, blogging and tweeting away! It was pretty intense- but all good! Also, thanks for sharing your blog post with us on Friday.

Have a great weekend and hope you enjoyed the event!

By: Jon

Jon — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 20:50:17 +0000

In reply to Paul Clifford. I'm pretty sure all or most of the "guest bloggers" were live-blogging the event. I'm pretty sure they were on both the wca site and the individual blogger sites. It may be confusing in that the wca social media site was wcablog.com and the regular website was willowcreek.com - could be a bit confusing but i'm sure it will get integrated over time.

By: Paul Clifford

Paul Clifford — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:34:17 +0000

There are some videos on the blog now. Check out http://www.wcablog.com/welcome/ to see them. I watched the Seth Godin one, nice work. It looks to me like they're highly produced and needed a little more turn-around time. I was hoping for live blogging, but JustinWise seems to be the only one doing it and he's doing it on his site, not the summit's site. That's a missed opportunity in my mind, but then again I always read liveblogs during the apple announcements.

By: PaulSteinbrueck

PaulSteinbrueck — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:16:49 +0000

In reply to brucecrews. That's cool, Bruce. It's great to hear your perspective as someone who isn't attending.

By: brucecrews

brucecrews — Fri, 12 Aug 2011 12:05:00 +0000

Without being in attendance yesterday, I feel like I caught most of what was spoken. That was directly in part to those that were a part of the conference sharing with us in real time the ideas being introduced. Numerous attendees were either blogging and/or tweeting bullets as the words flowed out of the speakers mouth. I think modelling social media efforts (the 6 official bloggers, mentioning outlets, etc.) almost effortlessly increased attendance immediately via online exposure.

Feels like a homerun to me.

Looking forward to even more delicious content today. Thanks!