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  It's All About the Customer:
Commercial and Social Marketing Perspectives on Customer-Driven Organizations and Social Change Programs
 
     
 

Sunday, April 15, 2007

1:30 – 2:00

It’s All About the Customer…. What do we mean by customer focused and how can a customer focus help us be more effective in implementing social marketing programs?

Speaker:
Gregory R. Niblett
ISM 2007 Conference Chair &
Senior Vice President & Director
AED Social Change Group

  • Overview of the purpose of ISM
  • A positioning presentation to frame the conference theme and content answering the above question.
  • Q&A

2:00 – 3:00

It’s All About the Customer …
Commercial Perspectives on Customer-Centric Marketing and Managing the Customer Relationship.

Moderator:
Nancy Lee, M.B.A.
Co-Author of “Marketing in the Public Sector: A Roadmap for Improved Performance”

Speakers:
Robert Spector
Author of "The Nordstrom Way: The Inside Story of America's #1 Customer Service Company"

Becky Ryan
Director of Marketing
Bel Brands, USA

(Marketers of La vache qui rit and Laughing Cow Cheese; promoted as a recommended protein snack for the South Beach Diet)

 

3:00 – 3:30

Full Group Discussion

3:30 – 3:45

Break

3:45 – 4:45

Transferring Commercial Perspectives on Customer Focus to Social Marketing Small Group Breakout Sessions – Participants discuss how the commercial marketing perspectives relate to the social marketing field.

  • What do I like and what can I apply?
  • What is not easy to apply?

 

4:45 – 5:15

Full Group Discussion - Re-convene

Moderator:
Beverly Schwartz, M.S.
Vice President and Senior Marketing Counsel, ASHOKA: Innovators for the Public

 

5:15 – 6:15

Break/Free Time

6:15 – 7:00

Reception with Cash Bar

7:00 – 9:00

Dinner

Perspectives on Marketing to "Consumers That Give a Damn."

Speaker:
Max Schorr
Publisher/Founding Editor – “Good” Magazine
Good Magazine is for people that give a damn.  It’s an entertaining magazine about things that matter

 

Monday, April 16, 2007

7:30 – 9:00

Breakfast

7:30 – 8:45

Academic Roundtable
Positioning Social Marketing in the Academic Environment

What skills and frameworks do social marketers need to be successful?

Moderators:
Alan Andreasen, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
McDonough School of Business of Georgetown University

Kelli McCormack-Brown, Ph.D., CHES
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs & Professor
University of Florida
College of Health & Human Performance

 

9:00 – 9:15

Welcome/Housekeeping Notes

9:15 – 10:00

How Design Thinking and Innovation Can Influence Customer-Oriented Behavior Change Strategies.

Speaker:
Chris Waugh
Practice Lead
Consumer Experience Design
IDEO

Holly Kretschmar
Practice Lead
Consumer Experience Design
IDEO

 

10:00 – 10:15

Q & A

10:15 – 10:45

Empathy Exercise to Understand Customers' Emotional Drivers.

 

10:45 – 11:00

Selected Presentations

11:00 – 11:15

Break

11:15 – 12:00

The New Technology: The Consumer as Participant Rather Than Target Audience.

Speaker:
Craig Lefebvre, Ph.D.
Lefebvre Consulting Group

 

12:00 – 12:15

Open Mike - Q & A

12:15 – 1:15

Lunch

1:15 – 2:15

Marketing-Driven, Customer-Oriented Government Programs and Barriers They Overcame.

Moderator:
Carol A. Bryant, Ph.D.
Editor, Social Marketing Quarterly; Professor, Department of Communications and Family Health, University of South Florida

Panelists:
Betsy Humphreys, M.L.S.
Deputy Director, National Library of Medicine How the Library of Medicine re-invented itself to 1) be more relevant and responsive to the public and its various consumers who are seeking health information, and 2) be a more effective agent in promoting health literacy.

Jill Abelson
Communications Director, Energy Star Program, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) How a regulatory agency designed a social marketing program based on marketing and consumer driven strategies and influenced how EPA as an organization thinks about consumer-based, energy conservation programming.

 

2:15 – 2:30

Open Mike - Q & A

2:30 – 5:30

Break

5:30 – 6:30

Reception with Cash Bar

6:30 – 7:30

Group Discussion on “Moving the Social Marketing Field Forward.” 

Speakers:
Gregory R. Niblett
ISM 2007 Conference Chair &
Senior Vice President & Director
AED Social Change Group


Michael Rothschild, Ph.D.
Emeritus Professor, University of Wisconsin

 

7:30

Dinner

 

Tuesday, April 17, 2007

7:30-9:00 Breakfast

9:00 – 10:00

Synthesis Panel

Moderator:
François Lagarde, M.A.
Social Marketing Consultant and Associate Professor
Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal

Panelists:
Mark Albion, Ph.D.
Social entrepreneur, founder of Net Impact, former Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, and author of “Making a Life, Making a Living”

Lynne Doner Lotenberg, M.A.
Independent Consultant
Social Marketing, Research, Evaluation
Co-Author of “Marketing Public Health: 
Strategies to Promote Social Change”

Gerard Hastings, Ph.D.
Professor Gerard Hastings
Director of the Institute for Social Marketing and
Centre for Tobacco Control Research
University of Stirling, U.K.

 

10:00 – 10:45

Plenary Synthesis Discussion

10:45 – 11:00

Break

11:00 – 11:30

Perspectives on Building the Social Marketing Practice in the U.K. How the United Kingdom became the first country to undertake a national review of social marketing, develop a national strategy and launch a national social marketing centre. This work is now influencing many other UK government departments who are beginning a process of adopting a social marketing approach to assist them with their behavioral change agendas.

Moderator:
Alan Andreasen, Ph.D.
Professor of Marketing
McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University

Speakers:
Jeff French, Ph.D.
Director
National Social Marketing Centre

Fiona Adshead, Ph.D.
Director General for Health Improvement
Deputy Chief Medical Officer
Department of Health
United Kingdom

 

11:30 – 12:00

Q&A Plenary

12:00

Adjourn

 
     
   
     
 
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