[MUSIC] How can we develop effective social strategies in today's digital marketplace? In talking with executives and entrepreneurs around the world, there are six important perspectives you need to develop, to really be profitable and build profitable social strategies. While each of these perspectives will be reinforced by the experts we will interview in the next four MOOCs, it is important to discuss them now to allow you to bring these perspectives when you're viewing social media. And to do that in a different way. Thus far in our MOOC, we started with an introduction to our social marketing specialization. Next we looked at social trends which are impacting executives, owners, entrepreneurs, and individuals around the world. We saw how social and mobile are merging to become the preferred way many people engage with each other, and with businesses. We saw how massive social has become throughout the world. And then we listen to Professor Judy Franks on the changing world of media. Now, we will explore six mega-trends, which you need to develop social marketing strategies, which grow market share. And which maximize results and profits for your organization. Today it's critical you develop a holistic view of Social. Every aspect of marketing has been disrupted by the transition to a digital marketplace. As we heard from Professor Franks, digital has changed the way we need to think of media. Today, your high value audiences are likely consuming text, videos, audio, and even new media, like infographics, a subject we will explore in week four with Randy Krum of Cool Infographics. We need to think multimedia and learn how your high value audiences are consuming it. Media will be explored in greater detail in MOOCs three and four, with Professor Franks and other experts. Marketing channels are now changing as we shift to smart phones, tablets and mobile apps as a way to consume content. There isn't a day when we aren't hearing about new apps and new social sites. The key is to learn how to manage them. We'll start to discuss that a bit in this MOOC, and then we will detail it more in MOOCs three and four when we explore three social marketing strategies. We also need to explore big data in the social cloud. We can learn, in real time, a great deal about the individuals we are engaging. In MOOC two, we will follow the transition from big data to big information to big insights. Big insights we will use to drive and thrive in social marketing. In MOOC two we will hear from social experts from companies like Lexalytics, Northwestern Engineering, Social Gists, and a number of others who are on the cutting edge of social monitoring, social marketing, and social big data. Content is also changing. We will talk with advertising and content experts in MOOC four to learn news ways to develop content which will engage and empower your high value audiences. Perspective two is think real time. One of the biggest changes social brings to executives and entrepreneurs is it's ability to engage our high value audiences in real time. We will explore how we can use real time insights in MOOC two. And then MOOCs three and four, we'll explore two important marketing strategies. Nurture marketing in MOOC three, and social IMC in MOOC four. Both of these strategies use real time marketing systems to engage people with relevant personalized content. Today, we are moving from pushing marketing messages to our high value audiences, to engaging with them in real time on communities, forum and social networking sites. Marketing is moving from pushing messages to pulling in audiences with our content in the media they like to use. [MUSIC]