As the Cisco conference room became quiet for the start of day 2 of Social Media Week – San Francisco, attendees were typing rapidly. What may otherwise be construed as rude was actually a room full of attentive people eager to post in-the-moment thoughts about the days’ presentations.
Here are 5 things I liked, and 5 things I loved:
“Likes”
1. Rebecca Brown, Director of Social Media at Intel, shared her guidelines for social media: disclose who you are, never disclose confidential information, and use common sense. Now that’s refreshing, and a lot easier to follow than a verbose social media policy.
Michael Brito, left, moderating a panel with Todd Wilms of SAP, Gina Ballenger of Wells Fargo, Rebecca Brown of Intel, and Maria Poveromo of Adobe.
2. Robb Begg, VP of marketing at Radian 6 pointed out that people focus too much time on the extreme situations, causing unwarranted fear and doubt. For every terrible outlier, there are hundreds of thousands of positive interactions and opportunities.
3. During a panel on the future of social business, Mario Sundar from LinkedIn said we can look forward to measurement tools that will be able to calculate return on investment (ROI) for social media.
Tags: #SMWCisco, #SMWSF, Adobe, Altimeter, Cisco, Intel, linkedin, radian6, san francisco, SAP, Social Media Week, Wells Fargo
