How is your chamber and your staff using social media? And what successes are you enjoying?
I'm doing more research looking for upcoming whitepapers, webinars and technology presentations and I'd like to include your success stories.
- Are you using your blog to position your chamber as an expert and engage your business community in discussions of the issues?
- Have you used Twitter to reach out to prospects and convert them to members? Or have you connected existing members to each other to foster a business relationship?
- Do you have a Facebook or LinkedIn page/group that is active with member participation? Are your members asking/answering questions and having conversations on these sites?
- Have you used YouTube or other video site to promote your members or your community?
- Does your chamber or community manage a Wiki where community members can collaborate on business topics?
- Do you have your own social network where members are connecting and building relationships?
- How else are you using social media?
Please send me an email at curt.moss@weblinkinternational.com to let me know how you are using social media (or if you have questons about how your chamber could use social media).
There are so many chambers of commerce doing great work and evolving their organizations. Let's show everyone that chambers are progressive and using new media to engage their members and their community!
I really do want to hear your stories! Thank you.


Posted by: Laura on Tuesday, March 10, 2009
http://www.detroiteronline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1489 Here's a link to the interactive timeline we published for members about the bridge loans to GM and Chrysler in December. There's also a link there that talks a little about our social media outreach on that issue.
Posted by: Frank Kenny on Friday, March 13, 2009
Curt, Our chamber networking site has been up for about 2 weeks. In just that short amount of time, we have posted more than 65 member videos, have 50 members signed up, and we are generating buzz in the community. Some stats: more than 10,000 views, 8 pages per viewer, 29% bounce, average time of 8 minutes.These are huge numbers for only 2 weeks. The videos have been a key source of buzz. And I know of multiple deals and new business relationships that have developed strictly through this service. It is a big deal and chambers that don't use will find that someone else creates the networking platform and replaces this core chamber function. We are also on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and have two blogs. I give you and Kyle Sexton a lot of the credit for making see the potential