PFURMANS @ WORK TECHNOLOGY CONSULTING
Consulting
Pfurmans @ Work Technology
Currently accepting new clients.
Pfurman @ Work Technology Consulting focuses on the business value of engaging with online communities and social media by helping companies find a way to engage that supports the overall strategies and business goals of the company. The consulting approach focuses on identifying the best way for your company to participate while helping you navigate the complicated waters of unwritten rules and norms associated with online communities and social media sites. Consulting services include online community building, social media strategy, blogging strategy, RSS-based information monitoring, custom employee training sessions, and more.
What people say about Pfurmans@Work and Patricia Williams
• Patricia is quickly gathering value through work with bleeding edge projects like Carlton’s Room and location-based social networks twitter and facebook.”
• “Your approach resonates with folks.”
• Great presentation.”
• Great Internet Marketing Strategy
Standard Consulting Packages
• The Community Strategy and Planning Kickstart: This package is for companies wanting to create a new community or improve the engagement with an existing community, but who aren’t quite sure where to start. Fast Wonder will spend four to six hours with you (in one block or spread out over several sessions) to talk about your company strategy, business goals and ideas for your community. Approximately a week later, a high level implementation strategy and plan outline will be delivered that focuses on online community efforts that will support your business goals and company strategy. After receiving the strategy and plan outline, you can decide whether to engage Fast Wonder to assist with the initial implementation, or you can take the plan and complete the work in house.
• Blogging Kickstart: Companies who need to create a company blog or revive a neglected blog can benefit from this package designed to put a focus on creating and maintaining a regular stream of great blog content that remains aligned with your corporate strategy and business plans. Pfurmans will work with your key employees to come up with a content roadmap containing blog post topics and deadlines for a period of one month. During this month, Pfurmans will provide monitoring dashboards, coaching, writing help, encouragement and feedback to the company’s bloggers to get them started on the right track. This package also includes coaching for the person who will become responsible for maintaining the content roadmap after the completion of the one month consulting engagement.
• Ongoing Community Planning and Implementation Assistance: Companies building a new community who need extended assistance with strategy, planning, implementation, configuration, training, and management can benefit from this service. Pfurmans will help you through all aspects of the community building process from evaluating the company strategy to set the initial objectives all the way through the first months of the launch. You can engage with Pfurmans for the entire community building process or for individual elements of the plan. This is a flexible package with as much or as little help as you need depending on the expertise of your staff.
• Social Media and Social Networking Presence: If your company is relatively new to social media and social networking, Pfurmans can help you figure out the best way to participate to achieve your company’s objectives. We will work together to determine the best places to participate, create your presence on those sites, get your employees set up with accounts, and train your staff on the best ways to engage in those environments.
• Yahoo Pipes Training: Using Yahoo Pipes can help you understand what people are saying about you, your industry, your competitors and more through smart filtering of blogs, news sources, Twitter, and other online sites. Your customers are talking about you and your competitors are revealing information that you want to know online. In the 2 hour Yahoo Pipes training, we will help you understand how to find this critical business information by covering the basics of building Yahoo Pipes and provide some custom content if needed to help meet the specific needs of your organization.
Why Should I Hire Pfurmans@Work Technology?
Patricia Williams is a consultant, community manager, event organizer, blogger, podcaster, technology enthusiast and business professional. She provides consulting services for companies wanting to engage with online communities and has more than 13 years of experience in business and technology with expertise in strategic planning, management, market research, social media, blogging, podcasting, rss, community building, web 2.0, and open source software.
Patricia owns pfurmanswebmall.com affiliated marketing website, blogs and is an events consultant. She is also the author of Carlton’s Room blog, creator of Hampton County’s official Social Network and can be found on twitter, facebook, linkedin as well as other bookmarking and social networks.She worked at IBM in Durham,NC ,currently services on Brunson Town Council and is the Computer Lab test proctor and system admin at Brunson Elementary School.
Areas of Expertise
Online Community Building
• Building a community around your products
• Managing communities
• Open source communitiee
• Assistance with interviewing and hiring a community manager
Social Media
• Blogging strategy and implementation guidance
• Social networking presence (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)
Information Monitoring and Industry Intelligence
• Using various RSS tools and Monitoring Dashboards to monitor what people are saying about you, your company, competitors, and the industry.
Training and Speaking
• Customized training for employees on a variety of community engagement and social media topics.
• Speaking engagements.
Contact Information
The best way to contact Patricia Williams at Pfurmans@Work Technologies
patriciawilliams1954@gmail.com
pat.punch@rocketmail.com
Pfurmansatworktechnologies.com
P.O. Box 314
Brunson,SC 29911
803-842-9549
Patricia Williams advises businesses, organizations, and individuals on how to use websites social media and social networks to build relationships and deliver value.