The Social Media Learning Lab now has a new site here.  Or go to:  SocialMediaLearnLab.com.

We have new events, videos and community oriented information to share.  Here's what we look like at our new on-line location.

Tour the new SMLL site here.

Return to the home page of Reveln Social Business 

 Are you ready to build your business using social media ?  Just DO IT, hands-on?

Are you curious about learning social media business strategy in a safe, casual group coaching class/teleclass setting tailored to your needs?  

If you are ready for examples, tools, Social Media Learning Lab insights, you are on the right page!  Examples below include: 

• A recent "taste of" the Social Media Learning Lab shot in High Def. in Detroit, Ron & Deb
  
• Dr. Diana Wong's video testimonial, (another, Heidi, soon to be added!),
• Lab Social Media HD & iphone video testimonial examples,
• Terry Wisner Kodak Zi8 video camera with an external microphone, example - shot while driving his yellow Corvette, and,
• Charlie Curve - how to make your FIRST videos.

Deb at the April SCORE Ikea presentation on Video & Social Media for Business.

A new on-line Learning Lab Webinar series is coming soon...  This page was developed all from just "doing it" with available free or low-cost social media tools.

For example, video is BIG, and shows up well in search results on Google.  This 7 second video clip (and the iPhone testimonials below) were edited with a FREE, simple video editor (described below.) 

Welcome!  By way of a thank-you for visiting this page, here is a free hybrid slide show of the Social Media & Video for Business class Deb offered at Ikea in Michigan this April, 2011 blended with the joint session Deb offered with Ron in Detroit at WCCC in May:

A .pdf version is also here (downloads and opens on most computers):

How to do EASY, free video EDITING  (connected to the slides)

Long story short:  How did I find myself here, on-line, offering a social media group coaching class and series? I'm a process consultant, Organization Development (OD), by profession and passion via this video with Professor & Consultant, Dr. Diana Wong:

Photo:

Full VIDEO with cool music (!)

Check out the new Social Media & Technology Learning Lab YouTube channel here with lessons learned and tutorials being added. 

Here are the links Ron Koller and I used for the The Social Media Learning Lab Method:  Power of Community - session with Mark Maupin, on May 12, 2011:

Reveln Social Business  (takes you to the main blog page of this site - you're ON the site right now)

or  see the blog article:    A Web Presence Without a Website - YEP! | Wall Street Journal & Reveln

Join one of our Open Groups (free):

Linked In:  Social Media for Coaches, Consultants and Small Business Owners 

It's an open LinkedIn group.  Ask permission to join, as we'll permit you in.  (It helps us keep out SPAM.)

 

Our Facebook business page group:  Social Media Learning Lab   

"Like" the page to join and to be able to ask questions and comment.

This is a great place for beginners & intermediates to join just with a "like" on the page.

Our small  Social Business Learning Lab Group - Reveln

This group was created to demonstrate the difference between a Facebook group and a Facebook business page.  For this group, you request permission to join.

To see what we have going on YouTube, go to:

S‪ocial Media Free Preview Coach, Consult & BIzOwners - HD Version‬  

• Our other videos are here as well, including how to use Posterous, Deb's FAVORITE and EASIEST blogging platform ever!  Accessible by mobile phone, email.  Friendly to video, photos, documents, audio - voice/music.

The amazing OraBrush - Dentist success story with YouTube

Forbes Insights white paper:  Video in the C-Suite:

A demo of iPhone photos integrated with iPhone video, seamlessly is here:
Making the Khandvi Noodles - Woof! The Video with Nic | DebNystrom LifeStream

 Here's a consulting friend, Terry Wisner, using the Kodak Zi8 video camera with a microphone input, in an open Corvette.  The sound is greatly enhanced with a clip on microphone.

Interested in getting in on the ground floor for using Social Media? 

E

Story time:  I found myself pulled into coaching first, by client request before I took an early retirement from the University of Michigan in 2009 in my internal consulting role.  I also couldn't ignore "you should be there" regarding a November statewide 2010 PCAM (coaching) conference that both surprised and delighted me in content, professionalism and with connections.  I met wonderfully experienced and talented coaches as well as an OD partner in arms. 

By lunch of the second day of the conference, one of the keynote speaker's key points, "your niche chooses you" was brought home by a rather magical lunch experience described in the new iMovie HD video below. 

Social Business for Coaches, Consultants & Small Business Owners 

Are you interested in a personalized group coaching teleclass focused on coaches, consultants and small business owners who want to "do" social media from the ground up?  It is now available focused on growing your business.   

Here's the new HD movie about the class below!  Weeee!

A mobile version of the video is also below.  

 

__________________________________

After [the first session], I am hopeful, delighted that you are offering this at the level at which I really needed.

__________________________________

For fun, I've posted a 15 second video, below, I made after a two presentations & discussions at my church on social media.  Laughter with one of my favorite couples is included.  It was made using a new Lumix DMC ZS6 HDMI video camera.  It is the size of a disposal film camera, about 3 iPhones wide and tall.

 

This is a group coaching environment where we teach each other how to learn in this fast changing business environment.  Strategic agility is a  catch-phrase for business.  Social media helps it happen.

Charlie Curve (Wollburg) has some great stuff on creating your first videos for business, as he's in the New Media business.  Take a look at Charlie's informative & fun video:

Learning Lab Investment, Enrollment:

As I recently wrote to someone asking about the course, I'm in the business of sharing knowledge, setting up a learning environment with easy access to good information and to peers & colleagues, and creating a space for some risk, challenge and fun in learning with safety as well. 

If you like that mix (shared learning, controlled risk), then, read on! 

Video and fresh class testimonials are below. 

We will be offering a day LIVE class at an inexpensive rate this Fall, 2011.  If you want to be notified, email me at RevelnGroupCoaching@gmail.com

Check out more about our work on the YouTube new channels here:

• SocMediaLearnLab   and
• ChangeResults

For earlier teleclasses, we used a Doodle poll to select meetings times.  The most recent class group finished April 4th.  They selected, as a group:   Mondays, 4:00 to 5:15 p.m. EST    Feb 21, 28, Mar 14, 21, Apr 4, 18  -  2011 

BENEFITS of the Group On-Line 6 Session Lab:

Here are the live class and webinar series benefits

Here's the podcast from the free teleclass offered in February.  The class (and AUDIO quality) has evolved a good bit since I held this first, free PHONE teleclass session. 

I'm exploring WebEx, FreeConferencing.com with screen sharing, JustinTV & GoToMeeting for offering the third teleclass.

 Slides are here:

 

The original raw video version is on my personal page with video testimonials of what happened.   I am enjoying facilitating this social business teleclass for the fun and sheer challenge of it.

Also see Deb's Reveln Coaching site here.

I also host a blog ecosystem for my consulting work, represented by my email signature line below: 

---

DebNystrom@Reveln.com - Reveln Consulting      &  dnrevel@umich.edu  - Ph: 734-846-5631  Ann Arbor, Michigan Leadership: www.Reveln.com    LinkedIn:  Deborah Nystrom   Change & Transition: CMRsite.com   Social: Reveln Social Business My profiles:      My blog: Misery Mornings, My First Cruise and the Impact of a Goal, Parasailing!

YouTube Channels:  SocMediaLearnLab  & ChangeResults

My Reveln Consulting Blog: Joey Fitts, Democratizing Competitive Insight Video | Future Midwest 2011 & Reveln Consults

 Return to the home blog page of Reveln Social Business

Fresh Testimonials!

Experienced Coaches & Consultants had this to say about the new Beta Class tailored to their Small Businesses January 2011:

• After [the first session], I am hopeful, delighted that you are offering this at the level at which I really needed.

• I'm feeling a sense ...that I don't have to do it all.  I will find which thing works in my world.  That is really helpful.

• The biggest take away, ...[social media] feels like I've been swatting at gnats.  I've been getting a better sense of what it is...rather than feeling it is swarming at me. ...Actually I leave much calmer today. 

Grace, in the red, the inspiration behind the January 2011 Beta Class in session now, facilitated/coached by Deb.

Platform specific feedback:

• I was totally ignorant of blogs.  Just going through the preparation materials...that were great, succinct & simple and totally helpful.  I didn't know how simple it was...  My eyes have been opened...

• I'm pretty involved with LinkedIn.  It is a good reminder to stay on top of things

• Liked learning about Facebook and letting people know you are out there.  I like learning the three E's and am surprised that you keep your wall (reference business page) open to everybody.

• I like the idea of a modest project.  I'm pretty intrigued by twitter, because I often have a good article or book to recommend to my clients.

• I'm really a newbie, like others in the group.  I love the permission today and encouragement to just focus on one thing.   ...It will be well worth my time to have exposure to all and some skill in one in particular.   So I'm  feeling a little bit more encouraged than I have been.

 

More Video Testimonials  -  Interest in Social Media

____________________________

"You will be able to do it."

____________________________