Nate Riggs educates audiences on the human business concepts, and communication strategies related to using the social web to connect with valuable business relationships.  His interactive talks focus on taking the fear out of technology adoption and using tools like social media sites to achieve professional objectives, both for organizational and personal.  As a trained communicator, Nate delivers his presentations with a contagious passion that hooks audiences and keeps them interested, laughing and engaged in the learning.  He’s been called a cheerleader for all things web.

His presentations use video interviews and case studies to drive home key messages on how social web technology can be applied in a variety of business settings.  Audiences also learn how to apply communication theory and other assessment tools that help them maximize the web.

Nate can adjust all of his content to fit the specific needs of any audience.  You can find more about Nate’s background, his company Social Business Strategies and his affiliate partners here.  If you would to learn more about his speaking fee for in-state and out-of-state events, please contact him by using this short form.

Upcoming 2010 Speaking Events & Appearances

• Ohio State University Social Media Society – Keynote @ Ohio State University, Columbus Ohio
• Ohio University Schey Sales Symposium – Breakout Presenter @ Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
• Blog Talk Radio – Interviewee (online)
• PRSSA Conference – Breakout Presenter @ Otterbein College, Westerville, Ohio
• TechColumbus Social Media Measurement Panel @ Panelist – Columbus, Ohio
• Ohio Library Council – Breakout Presenter – March 31 @ Kent State University, Kent, Ohio
  
• American Teleservices Association – Breakout Presenter – March 23 @ Columbus, Ohio
• Air Conditioning Contractors of America – Keynote – March 18 @ Fawcett Center Clinton Ballroom, Columbus, Ohio
• Skyline Exhibitor Exchange – Panelist – March 4th @ Hilliard Ohio
• AMA SIG Roundtables – LinkedIn Table Facilitator – March 3 @ Dublin, Ohio
• Miami Valley Golf Association – Keynote – February 24 @ Beaver Creek, Ohio
• NAPICS North America Pizza & Ice Cream Show – Social Media Panelist – February 21 @ Columbus, Ohio
• Dennison University – Guest Speaker for Communications – February 1 @ Granville, Ohio
• Young Professionals of Columbus – Panel Moderator – January 13 @ Columbus, Ohio
  

2009 Speaking Events & Appearances

• Skyline Exhibitor Exchange – Panelist
• Columbus Apartment Association – Keynote
• Campbell Hill Growth Summit – Keynote
• Building Industry Association – Keynote
• IABC Pacific Plains Region Exchange Conference – Panelist, Breakout Presenter
• PRSA Master Series – Panelist
• Social Media TV, Social Web Video with Best Light Video – Series Host
• The Success Group – Keynote
• Ohio Search & Staffing Association – Keynote
• Ohio Web Leaders – Keynote
• Columbus Business First Social Media Summer Camp – Keynote
• Social Media Television, with Tiffany Odutoye – Interviewee
• The Ohio Growth Summit – Breakout Presenter
• TMCA Annual Conference – Breakout Presenter, Round-table Discussion Leader
• WordCamp Columbus – Moderator

A Few Sample Presentations by Nate Riggs

At Ohio Web Leaders

At Columbus Business First: Social Media Summer Camp 2009

At the 2009 Campbell Hill Growth Summit

Human Business Topic Ideas for Your Next Event

The hype around social media that we all experience in 2009 is over.  Kaput.  Finished.  And you know what?  That’s good.  It’s time to get down to business.  It’s time to use what we’ve learned and make things happen!

2010 is about applying what we now know about the social web and how relationship-focused human business will be conducted in the coming years.  There’s lots to discuss, and all of my topics and presentations can be customized to fit the specific needs and learning goals of your audiences.  Here are some ideas that interest me.  Hopefully this will to help get you started in planning the content of your next event.  If you see something you like, or you want to discuss ideas for content that you don’t see, please contact me directly and we can chat.

Building Brand YOU
The people we know attribute certain words, phrases and beliefs to our persona, based on their own experiences.   Our personality traits, our work, the way we interact with others and even the way we dress all influence how people feel about us.  Strong human brand result in establishing trust, which leads to multiple opportunities.  Building Brand YOU is an exploration into a methodology for defining and promoting your unique human brand, both online and off.

LinkedIn Profile Basics
Are you on LinkedIn?  As the largest and most expansive social network for business professionals, LinkedIn is now utilized by over 50 million professionals around the world.  This presentation is geared toward first the learning basic communication principals of professional online networking, basic to intermediate LinkedIn profile  building techniques and methods for developing the offline habits needed to be a successful in using social networking for business.

Strategy-Based LinkedIn
You have a profile and about 100 connections, but you’re looking for the next level.  You’re ready to commit to really using LinkedIn to help reach your business goals.  Designed for marketers, account executives, business development and sales professionals and C-level leaders, Strategy-Based LinkedIn is customized on the spot to address your specific industry or target audience.  This presentation reviews constructing and testing keyword strategies and social search engine optimization, using groups and sub groups to find potential clusters of customers, branding through third party applications, question and answer strategies and much more.

27 Things You Need to Know About Doing Business Development in a Social World
Understanding how to generate new business is critical if you want to keep your doors open.  Over the past five years, technology has changed the rules.  From advances in CRM Systems to to professional social networks, it’s become a challenge to keep up.  Failure to keeop up often results in empty pipelines.  In this presentation, you will learn the latest best practices in how to stay ahead of your competition by redesigning your business development processes and approach.

Trend Engineering – The Power of Trending Topics on Twitter, and How To Use Them in Business
Loud & dense conversations.  Trending topics are global indicators of when, where and what people are talking about online.  Yet today, the full implications of trending topics seem to be overlooked by many organizations.  Trend Engineering outlines potential the formulas for creating and using trending topics, and how the resulting awareness can be used to affect online social behavior.

Communities in Context
How do you talk to the people you connect with on LinkedIn?  Are those conversations different from the ones you have with your friends on Facebook?  What about micro-blogs like Twitter where your updates are limited to 140 characters?  If the medium in which you choose to communicate becomes equally important as the messages you share, how do you choose the right platforms to engage for your business? Cultural context in communication is critical to finding success in using the social web.  Human behavior on the web is directly related to the rules of the technology.  Some rules are made to be bent, and some broken.  Communities in Context dives into the world of how human behavior is affected by different genres of social web technology.

Customer Service is the Social Marketing
Zappos.com.  Southwest Airlines.  Citrix Online.  RackSpace.  COSI Columbus.  The list goes on and on.  Big and small brands have embraced social web technology to form deeper relationships with their customers and provide better levels of service.  I turn, consumers have rewarded companies for going above and beyond expectations by spreading their own messages about great experiences, in around their own social circles using their native publishing platforms.  Don’t believe me?  Just Google “Zappos Customer Service” and look at the search results.  Great Customer Service is the Best Marketing discusses how businesses of all sizes can turn human customers into raving fans by using social web technology to listen, engage and exceed customer expectations with a new set of tools.

Building Human Business Team – A Unique Methodology for Selecting the Right People to Man Your Social Web Outposts
There’s a cardinal sin that can be committed when business leaders decide to integrate social media into their organizational communication mix.  When the decision to “do social media” is made, a good amount of owners and C-level managers simply opt to bring in a recent college graduate as an intern, and task them with the responsibility of operating social media tools on behalf of their brand.  Why?  Obviously the college kids get how to use things like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube and in some cases, even Twitter.  With that in mind, I’ll share one of my favorite quotes from Chris Brogan in 2009 – “Why on earth would you ever entrust your company brand to an intern?!?”.  In this presentation, you’ll learn that there’s a better, safer and much more productive way to man your social web outposts.  You’ll walk with me, step by step, through a methodology that we’ve developed at Social Business Strategies that is rooted in social network analysis, productivity and multitasking assessments, personality testing and qualitative interviews.  Following these steps will ensure that you select the right people inside your organization for the right job.  The result will be a functional and productive Human Business Team that will add value to your organization, and get you one-step closer to achieving your business communication objectives on the social web.

Ready to Talk About Your Next Event?

These are just a few ideas that have resonated with past audiences and clients.  Not quite what you’re looking for?  Contact me and we can discuss how to build a topic and presentation that will fit the unique needs of your audience, and position you and your organization as a go-to source for valuable information around using the social web.