{"id":2197,"date":"2010-04-21T13:03:30","date_gmt":"2010-04-21T20:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=2197"},"modified":"2010-04-21T13:03:30","modified_gmt":"2010-04-21T20:03:30","slug":"conquer-that-social-media-fear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/?p=2197","title":{"rendered":"Conquer That Social Media Fear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zimmcomm.biz\/images\/nama\/nama-10-13.jpg\" align=\"right\"border=\"1\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" title=\"David Meerman Scott\" alt=\"David Meerman Scott\" \/>Are you afraid of social media? Is the leadership in your company afraid of it?  Then you need to visit with David Meerman Scott.  He&#8217;s a recovering VP of Marketing and author of the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwiderave.com\/\">World Wide Rave<\/a>.  He is conducting the NAMA Pre-Conference Workshop, &#8220;Conquering the Fear of Social Media.&#8221;  David will also be the keynote speaker at tomorrow&#8217;s opening general session.  You can find him on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dmscott\">@dmscott<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I spoke with David before his session and he says that he wants attendees to leave the session realizing that &#8220;the companies that aren&#8217;t engaged are losing out.&#8221;  He says this is because people are going on line to search engines and social networks to look for products and recommendations.  He also recommends that companies create a social media policy which will help management, legal and employees know what they can and can&#8217;t do and that helps create more of a comfort zone.<\/p>\n<p>You can download and listen to my interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zimmcomm.biz\/nama\/nama-10-scott.mp3\">David here<\/a> (mp3).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/zimmcomm\/sets\/72157623774667723\/\"><br \/>\n2010 National Agri-Marketing Conference Photo Album<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you afraid of social media? Is the leadership in your company afraid of it? Then you need to visit with David Meerman Scott. He&#8217;s a recovering VP of Marketing and author of the book World Wide Rave. He is conducting the NAMA Pre-Conference Workshop, &#8220;Conquering the Fear of Social Media.&#8221; David will also be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agri-marketing-conf","category-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2197"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2200,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2197\/revisions\/2200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.namablog.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}