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7 Experts – 7 Tips – 7 Minutes

Retooling and Rethinking Your Efforts To Stay Profitable and Relevant During Changing Times

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Ground rules: 1. Each EXPERT will have SEVEN MINUTES to share

their TIP.2. A one-minute warning will sound. 3. Once the signal sounds, no more TIPS! 4. Please hold all questions until the end. 5. There will be approximately 30 minutes for questions

and answers after all have shared. 6. Questions should be directed to the moderator. 7. Please keep track of TIPS on the back of your info

sheet.

Today’s moderator

Veronica Williamshmc2 advertising

www.hmc2agency.com

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Christine D. MoriartyMoney Peace

www.moneypeace.com

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Maintain Perspective

Use Time and Money Wisely

Creativity Counts

Counter Intuitive Moves Matter

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Green Up Days

Reduce

Reuse

Recycle

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Rich MaggianiSolari Communication

www.solari.net

Rich MaggianiSolari Communication

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As a means of promoting your company.

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Trust has shifted.

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Official messages to conversations.

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Leaders to peers.

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A revised communication strategyincorporating…

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The five C’s of social media:

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Conversation.

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Contribution.

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Collaboration.

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Connection.

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Community!

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wikis

microblogs

socialnetworks

podcasts

videocasts

blogsprofessional

networksonline newswires

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wikis

microblogspodcasts

videocasts

blogsprofessional

networksonline newswires

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microblogspodcasts

videocasts

blogsprofessional

networksonline newswires

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microblogsvideocasts

blogsprofessional

networksonline newswires

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microblogs

blogsprofessional

networksonline newswires

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microblogs

blogs

online newswires

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microblogs

blogs

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Twitter(actually)

Blogs

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Write one

Blogs

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Post an entry at least once a week.

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Perceptions

Blogs

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68% of readers have positive thoughts about companies with blogs.

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They trust the opinionsabout products and services.

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Writers perceived as peers.

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What to Write

Blogs

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Start with your product or service.

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Integrate customer resource management.

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Information useful to your audience.

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Stories that resonate.

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Make them smarter, help them succeed.

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How to Engage

Blogs

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Personal voice, converse as yourself.

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Human face, not a corporate face.

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Write for them.

Not you!

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It’s a dialogue.

Not marketing materials or advertisements.

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Respond to comments.

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Listen!

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How to Promote

Blogs

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Write a bunch of posts first, then promote.

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Printed materials listing your blog.

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Facebook

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LinkedIn

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Twitter

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StumbleUpon

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Flickr

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YouTube

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Email

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Business Card

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In Person!

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Social Bookmarking

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(Micro) Blogging at 140 Characters

Twitter

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Followers and Following

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Twitter Growth

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What to Tweet About

Twitter

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Your Blog

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Customer Service

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Your Customers

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Your Brand

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Promotions

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Breaking News

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Tweet in the morning.

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Schedule tweets for later delivery.

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Prospect for Followers

Twitter

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By first following.

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Facebook buddies

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LinkedIn connections

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Email and contact lists.

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Go to wefollow.com to find people.

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Go to twitter.com/invitations/suggestions

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Top influencers;

and the people they follow.

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Go to twollow.com to follow people based on keywords.

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Search for and follow people you meet.

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Tips

Twitter

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Keep your Twitter profile updated.

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Understand the discourse of Twitter.

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Keep your followers and who you are following in balance.

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To Succeed

(Macro)Blogs and Microblogs

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Write an engaging blog to generate regular readership.

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Make it worthwhile to follow you on Twitter.

Gregg Banse7th Pixel

www.7thpixel.com

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Janice St. OngeVermont Sustainable Jobs Fund

www.vsjf.org

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From CFLs to... managing your carbon footprintThe move to a low carbon economy...

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It’s a sustainability strategy

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Stay relevant by riding the green Tsunami orrisk getting left behind!

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Just a few examples of who’s riding the wave in Vermont

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The Tip: Start today, measure first.You can’t manage what you don’t measure.

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Where can you start? EPA Climate Leaders http://www.epa.gov/stateply/

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And, Vermont Business Environmental Partnership http://www.vbep.org/

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Just a few, of many, resources to help you ride the wave• EPA Climate Leaders at http://www.epa.gov/stateply/• Vermont Business Environmental Partnership at www.vbep.org• Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative at www.ghgprotocol.org • 10% Challenge at www.10percentchallenge.org • Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility at www.vbsr.org • Efficiency Vermont at www.efficiencyvermont.com• Spring Hill Solutions at www.spring-hill.biz • Peer to Peer Collaborative at www.vsjf.org • Native Energy at www.nativeenergy.com • Kilawatt Technologies at www.kilawatt.com • Institute for Global Sustainability at http://learn.uvm.edu/igs/ • Sustainable Business Leadership Program at http://www.greenmtn.edu/mba/certificate.aspx• MBA in Managing for Sustainability at http://gradcenter.marlboro.edu/academics/mba/ • Vermont Environmental Consortium at www.vecgreenvalley.org • Sustainable Business.com at www.sustainablebusiness.com • Workshop on “Beyond Footprinting: Managing Carbon For Growth", at

http://www.springhillsolutions.com/presentation.html

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Gordon PetersonWorkplace Solutions

www.workplacesolutions.vt.com

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Emotional processes (in humans) are knowable and observable (especially in times of high anxiety)

• The higher the level of anxiety the more predictable process becomes. With an increase in anxiety one will see corresponding increases in:• Conflict• Distance• cut – off• Triangles• reciprocity in functioning• projection of blame / tension on to others• symptoms (physical / emotional)

Navigating these predictable processes (that increased anxiety brings) depends on:

• Keeping one’s focus on a broader perspective• Not getting too caught up in detail  • Getting at the fact• Resisting “group think”• Staying connected with relationships of consequence• Not getting cut – off from relationships of

consequence......human primates need to groom• Recognizing how distance and conflict increases when

anxiety is high• A basic knowledge of how triangles work (hint: triangles are

regulators of anxiety)

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Look for reciprocity in functioning in hard times

• There will be exaggerated “over-functioning and under-functioning”

• Cast a watchful eye at rumor mills…….• Make every effort to “think for yourself”; take “I” positions

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make every effort to manage your own anxiety and not the anxiety of others

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Last but not least.....

Finally: Remember the higher the anxiety the greater the pressure to have “answers” and “solutions”…….so here are a few keys:

• Acknowledge ambiguity associated with anxious times• Be as flexible as you can• What does resiliency look like for you• Pick your battles (and you weapons) carefully

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In the face of strong winds, let me be a blade of grass, In the face of strong walls,

let me be a gale of wind

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Liz DallasCoaching Center of Vermontwww.coachingcenterofvt.com

A BB

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Visionary Leader Model

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Erik FilkornErik Filkorn Public Relations

www.filkorn.com

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Questions?

• Please direct either towards a specific panelist or in general for any to answer

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THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING TODAY

• Copies of today’s presentation are available for sharing or download at: • www.twitter.com/vfbi• http://uvm.edu/familybusiness

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