Social Media Masters Session: Becoming a Social Business – IBM’s Journey
Posted on 30. Jul, 2011 by kristie in Announcements, Events, Masters, New York
Cities Available: New York (September 23, 2011)
Kat Mandelstein will share insights on the IBM journey to becoming a Social Business and share practical strategies for how to empower your employees to live social, how to execute effective social media campaigns, and how to leverage social thought leadership to influence the influencers. B2B companies have unique opportunities when it comes to how social transforms their business. Starting from social media marketing to attract and retain customers and evolving into business process changes like crowdsourcing innovation with input from partners and early adopters of your products and services. Social is rapidly turning the traditional marketing and product development plans on their heads and creating two-way real-time dialogue for customer interaction. The guarded walls of the corporation are slowly turning into windows with a new level of transparency inside an effective Social Business.
As the world’s leading global technology brand with over 400,000 employees around the world, IBM is a great case study in leveraging both public social networks as well as their own innovations from IBM Research and product development. Being so large and geographically dispersed, it is the ideal test market for this transformation into a Social Business. IBM takes social seriously and leverages it far beyond the average company: for developing products and services; enabling sellers to find and stay connected with clients; training the next generation of leaders. Social has also been at the core of how IBM shares its vision of the transformation to a Smarter Planet among clients, employees, partners, governments, NGOs, and other key influencer communities. This year social also played a key role in the IBM Centennial celebration, where Watson may have won Jeopardy, but is now on to more serious business.
Presented by: Kathy (Kat) Mandelstein
Kat Mandelstein currently oversees worldwide marketing programs, web and events as the Director for IBM Collaboration Solutions in IBM Software and for Social Business for all of IBM (http://www.ibm.com/socialbusiness). Kathy is a regular contributor to BtoB Magazine’s BtoBlog. She also serves on the Board of Directors for Social Media Club (http//www.socialmedia.club.org) and is the Vice President of the local Austin Chapter. Previously, Kathy led the IBM Rational marketing team focused on the business value of effective software delivery.
Kathy has been a pioneer in launching successful web and social media marketing efforts, as well as developing dedicated web communities dating back to the time that she led http://www.ibm.com/developerWorks and http://www.ibm.com/alphaWorks in addition to marketing programs to developers for IBM. Her past history includes leading various marketing, channel and Web development teams in IBM. Before joining IBM, Kathy managed one of the earliest successful retail Web sites, http://www.jcpenney.com. Kat holds a B.S. in Advertising with Minor in Marketing from the University of Texas at Austin and a Global Leadership MBA from the University of Texas at Dallas. You can find her on twitter @katmandelstein.
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