I watched an Altimeter webinar the other day that I thought was worth sharing from a “the state of corporate social media” perspective. Altimeter Webinar: A Strategy for Managing Social Media Proliferation, with Jeremiah Owyang from Altimeter Group on Vimeo. Altimeter Webinar: State of the Social Media Management System Industry. View more presentations from Jeremiah Owyang. Implementation Presentations Social CRM and ROIHere’s Jeremiah Owyang’s post with more details. It’s good. Here are the accompanying slides. MORE >>

Instead, I’d like you to think about using webinars to build awareness, create thought leadership, and generate leads. Following is the process I recommend you use: Determine your webinar topic and invite an influencer in your industry to present on your behalf. Radian6 does a nice job with this with monthly webinars. They invite a newly published author to present information found in their book and they offer the webinars for free. Do this three weeks before your webinar. Do this two weeks before your webinar. Where Do I Start? MORE >>

We have found that webinars are a very useful method of communicating, not only with customers, but with prospects as well. They are not hard to do and there are several services out there (we use  Go To Webinars ) that can help you put them on. This can be done with pre-webinar promotions and it could be as simple as the webinar title. Make sure your presentation is meaningful, and from a time element, it should be no longer than 30-40 minutes. Engage them during the webinar. Why Webinars are a Good Marketing Tool to Reach Professional Tradesmen. MORE >>

Home Blog Open Leadership Groundswell Resources Engagements News About Charlene “Finding and Supporting Open Leaders&# Webinar slides & recording now available I conducted the third of four Webinars on the ideas around “Open Leadership&# and am making available the slides as well as a video recording. This Webinar examines what it means to be an open leader — the characteristics, mindsets, skills, and behaviors. Registration information at [link] Finding and Supporting Your Open Leaders View more presentations from Charlene Li. MORE >>

To that end, I’ll be hosting a webinar on Sunday, January 4, at 4:00 pm (PST) to cover the basics and key ‘how-to’ concepts to get you started. DM (a private direct message) with the link to the webinar. Ordinarily, I charge for webinars as they are designed to deliver immediate value to you in boosting your networking efforts. just for being on the webinar Reply @JMarieDirect says: January 4, 2009 at 10:38 am Hi! Your presentation was wonderful – exceptionally well presented, easy to follow and filled with rich content! MORE >>