This document discusses Mayo Clinic's use of social media to engage key stakeholders. It describes Lee Aase, the manager of syndication and social media at Mayo Clinic, and outlines Mayo Clinic's social media plan to reach people directly through platforms like blogs and podcasts. The document also provides examples of Mayo Clinic's initial forays into social media, including blogs, YouTube, and Facebook, and encourages other organizations to practically use social media to meet their own goals.
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Mayo Clinic Social Media Plan
1. Engaging Key Stakeholders
through Social Media
Lee Aase
Manager, Syndication and Social Media
Mayo Clinic
June 6, 2008
2. About Lee Aase
• Political Science, B.S.
• 20 yrs. Media Relations
• Manager, Syndication/
Social Media
• Google/“Friend” me
3. What I told our Mayo Clinic Florida
Supervisors Yesterday
Word of Mouth, News Media have been
crucial to building Mayo preference
Social Media combine both:
Anyone can be a publisher or
broadcaster
Word of Mouth spreads rapidly
Social Media are here to stay, and
bring some threats but also immense
opportunities to Mayo
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4. So why should we pay
attention to new media?
• 2000: Tribune Co. buys
LA Times for $8 billion
• 2007: Sam Zell buys
Tribune (with Times) for
$8.2 billion
5. Media Values
• Wall Street Journal = $5 billion
• Chicago Tribune = $8.2 billion
• Star Tribune = $0.53 billion
• Total for all 3 < Facebook ($240
million for 1.6 percent)
• Facebook didn’t exist in Jan. ‘04
8. Mayo Clinic Social Media Plan
• Reach people directly
• Started with Medical Edge
• Produce economically to fit each
medium
• Provide platforms for sharing
• Create outposts on popular sites
• Energize word of mouth
• Leverage social media with mass
media and vice versa
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9. First Foray in New Media
• Existing Medical Edge radio mp3s
• Launched Sept. ‘05; Downloads up
8,217 percent Oct. vs. Aug.
14. Getting Started with Blogging
• Personal blog since July ’06
• Asked to Develop Public Affairs
Department blog in Dec. ’06
• How do you do it without IT Support?
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20. Let’s Talk
• First highly visible internal blog
• Wordpress on internal mainframe
• For discussion with VPs regarding
Mayo’s strategic priorities and how
we apply them to our work
• Virtual, asynchronous meeting
• Open discussion vs. “black box”
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21. Wikis
• Variable experience with Pilot
• Some teams building plans
collaboratively
• Others more traditional Word/
track changes mode
• Lack of WYSIWYG is barrier
• Advantage is easy linkage from
blog for reference
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31. Recent Mayo Clinic Social Media
Developments
• Health Policy Blog
• Podcast Blog
• Diversity in Education Blog
• YouTube Channel
• http://social-media-university-
global.org/2008/05/07/mayo-clinic-
social-media-progress-report/
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36. Key Tool: Flip Video Camera
• Affordable for all campuses
• Recording interviews (with tripod)
improves existing processes
• Provides potential blog resources
• Audio of full interview
• Video excerpts
• Limited group of video editors to
ease adoption, ensure quality
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37. “Your kids are not
smarter than you are.
They’re just not
afraid to look dumb.”
-- Lee Aase, Chancellor, Social
Media University, Global (SMUG)
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38. How can you practically use social
media to meet your goals?
• Blog or Facebook for support groups,
internal communications
• Facebook fan page, ads, secret groups
• Twitter to activate crisis or leadership team
• Wikis for collaborative editing
• Podcasts internally or externally
• YouTube - Tell Your Story
• Anything you’ve seen from Mayo examples
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39. No Barriers to Starting Yourself
• Get a FREE RSS reader, subscibe to feeds
• Get iTunes (FREE), subscribe to podcasts
• Start a FREE personal blog
• Open a FREE YouTube account and
upload a video
• Try Flickr or another FREE photo service
• Get Audacity to record audio FREE
• Open a FREE profile on Facebook and
“friend” me
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40. Don’t Go it Alone: Get SMUG
Social Media University, Global
• Origins in “12-Step Program” and
Facebook 101 seminar
• Social media for lifelong learners
• Free Tuition (Room & Board not incl.)
• Google Lee Aase or SMUG University
to audit classes, apply for admission
• Established Jan. 24, 2008
• social-media-university-global.org
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