Social Media: Strategy, Tactics & Analytics

An Intensive 5-day Training Course

Social Media: Strategy, Tactics & Analytics

UPCOMING SESSIONS

Classroom sessions
DateVenueFee
24-28 Nov 2025Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
17-21 Aug 2026Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
23-27 Nov 2026Dubai - UAE$5,950RESERVE A SEAT
Online sessions
DateVenueFee
29 Jun-03 Jul 2026Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
21-25 Sep 2026Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT
19-23 Oct 2026Online$3,950RESERVE A SEAT

Training Course Overview

Social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube have revolutionized the way we engage with customers, friends, and family. As a result, customer service, public relations, and marketing strategies must evolve to keep up with this societal shift.

Leading organizations actively listen to their stakeholders and respond to their feedback. Social media gives everyone a platform to voice their opinions. It has also blurred the lines between customer service, PR, and marketing. Through social media, brands can engage with customers on a more personal level, improving service and generating positive PR, all while reaching a wider audience with minimal additional time or cost. However, social media is a double-edged sword, presenting both risks and opportunities.

This training course will enable you to:

  • Map the opportunities and threats to your organisation presented by social media
  • Create a coherent social media strategy
  • Develop a focused action plan to execute effectively on your strategy
  • Future proof your plan by the appropriate use of technology
  • Evaluate the effectiveness of your social media

Training Course Objectives

By the end of this training course, participants will be able to:

  • Build a framework to assess social media contribution to achieving business goals.
  • Familiarize themselves with the range of social media tools and match them to the tasks that your plan demands
  • Learn how to assess the impact of social media and its ROI
  • Acquire an in-depth knowlbdge of the key aspects of social media vision, policy, governance and operation.
  • Learn how to identify issues and develop a rapid crisis response plan

Designed for

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • Anyone in a customer service, PR or marketing role
  • Leaders, Managers, Supervisors
  • Those who wish to learn more about strategies for improving effectiveness in change, greater customer involvement and dealing with greater risk of crises

Learning Methods

The training course is fast-paced, fun and highly interactive. It will enable and encourage participation from all who attend, through a rich mixture of content input, group discussion, case studies practical exercises, video and use of the internet. Delegates will be taught how to communicate effectively with target groups and will have the chance to practice what they learn.

The Course Outline

Day One: Socialnomics – The Expanding Social Media universe
  • Introduction and welcome
  • Basic principles of Social Media
  • Reciprocity and Sharing of information
  • Conversations through Social Media - how to create a dialogue
  • Driving word of mouth
  • Cultivating relationships through Social Media
  • Delivering trust
  • The importance of honesty and integrity
Day Two: New Skills for Old – The Social Media Toolkit
  • Finding your audience and being found
  • Storytelling in 140 characters
  • Video content
  • Crowd sourcing
  • Flash mobs
  • Gameification
  • Developing Apps
Day Three: The Platforms and their Power
  • Communication forums - including blogs, discussion groups, micro-blogs
  • Collaboration - including wikis, social bookmarking, social news
  • Multi-media sharing - including photos, videos, audio sharing
  • Reviews, comments and opinions across all sectors
  • Entertainment, including games, virtual worlds, game sharing
  • Aggregators
  • Big Data and Data Mining
  • Trends and latest developments
  • Future trends
Day Four: Policies, Strategies and Control
  • Understanding how social media affects brands and businesses
  • Understanding the network economy
  • Case studies - good and bad examples
  • Assessing the roles of social media in your organisation
  • Assessing your social media environment
  • Social media policies
  • Developing a strategy
Day Five: Buy-in and Change Management
  • Basic analysis techniques and tools
  • What people are saying about your brand on the Social Media
  • Interpreting the results
  • Benchmarking best practices
  • Presenting a compelling case to top management
  • The change process
  • Planning the execution of your strategy
  • Course review and conclusion

The Certificate

  • Anderson Certificate of Completion will be provided to delegates who attend and complete the course.

In Association With

Aztech
Copex
Coventry
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