4. New forms of communications…Not so new…
“The telephone cannot think or talk for
you, but it carries your thought where
you will. It’s yours to use.”
“The telephone is essentially democratic;
it carries the voice of the child and the
grown-up with equal speed and
directness”
AT&T PR Announcement, 1916
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5. Typical cycle for organizations using social media:
1. Use it like a megaphone: post outward messages, no monitoring, no engagement.
(Marketing)
2. Add a layer of engagement over the megaphone—follow key stakeholders or
influencers, RT posts about the organization, reply to direct questions or inquiries
related to content posted. (Communications)
3. Social media as a customer service channel (Support)
4. Data mining… Discovering the hidden business intelligence. (Research)
5. Filtering feedback and trends back through the organization (Management)
6. Changing process, culture and business operation
The ”social business” is a natural evolution.
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7. What I’m going to cover today…
• Interesting and current Canadian stats
• Three ways you can move your organization through the social media cycle a little
faster:
• Better integration with communications planning
• Establishing rounded governance and policy
• Using social media for research to guide strategy
• Why government will ultimately succeed in social media use
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13. The Social Business
Social business is the idea that social media permeates every
process, division and employee in a company.
Social media is viewed less as a marketing tactic and more of an essential
business tool.
The social business incorporates social elements into its process and
structure-> Often requires a drastic culture shift.
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14. Social Business in Large Organizations…
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We do not have a program yet.
Conducting trials but don’t have a
formal strategy.
Formalized program and
short term direction.
Have a formalized program and long term
direction across MOST of the enterprise
Have a formalized program and long term
direction across ENTIRE enterprise
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15. A social media strategy approach – Why Government will succeed…
• Governance: process for using social media, includes policy development,
crisis/issues management procedure, interaction guidelines and external
guidelines
• Content: Content recipe, editorial calendar, key messages and keywords.
Mapped back to strategy and created with results in mind.
• Engagement: How do you interact? When? Define actual scenarios and
typical response
• Measurement: Social media measurement is easy if you plan for it.
All supported by research…
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16. Governance and policy
• Even if you’re not a federal department, start by reading the Treasury Board’s
Guidelines for the External Use of 2.0
• Personal and official use policy
• Internal policy for employee vs. External guidelines/terms of use
• Internal process documentation
• Get buy-in... Interview stakeholders even if you don’t really need to
• Great governance documents how social media will be used, personally and
professionally, why it will be used, and what exactly will be used.
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19. • Also includes:
• Accessibility
• Official languages
• Employee use
• Privacy
• Media inquries
• Similar policies for Youtube and
Twitter as well.
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21. Social media for research
“Social media is the world’s largest focus group”
Uses:
• Audience insight
• Media impact measurement
• Public Opinion Research *Light*
• Social media measurement
• To justify/back up strategy recommendations
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22. How to use social media for research
• Define a methodology: What will you look for and how?
• Include any limitations
• Select a tool that will help you accomplish what you need
• My favourite free tools: Socialmention.com, TweetStats, Crowdbooster,
• My favourite paid tools: Sysomos MAP
• Double check and validate
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STEPHListen: Monitoring, researching, and analyzing how the target audience communicates sociallyCollaboration: Social Media is not a one department jobContent Guidelines: Establishing what the company can talk about on social media and what it cannot.Content Sourcing: Gathering of assets (videos, photos, website) Content Creation (Ghost Writing): Writing posts on behalf of client (with their guidance)Editorial Calendars: Organizing content into a calendar for consistency, establishing when and how often to publish postsPublishing: Look into publishing tools like Hootsuite, TweetDeck, etc. to manage timing of posts
Change how your organization thinks and operates in social mediaSocial media to improve communicationsSocial media to improve operations Social media for business insight
http://www.slideshare.net/delviniainteractive/state-of-the-social-media-nationOther stats:900 million FB500 million Twitter3 billion hours of videos watched on YouTube each month120 million users on Tumblr170 million on Google+11.7 million Pinterest – the average user spends 405 minutes per month170 million LinkedInhttp://www.mediabistro.com/alltwitter/social-media-users_b22556http://royal.pingdom.com/2012/01/17/internet-2011-in-numbers/
Source: National PR
Source: National PR
Kelly
Kelly
Almost every monitoring tool out there includes sentiment analysis. In fact there’s a whole subsector of social media tools that ONLY do sentiment analysis. It’s hot because I will absolutely agree that it’s the best insight you can possibly get from social media data.Sentiment tells you why someone said something and it gives context to the situation. If you are monitoring a specific issue relative to your organization it gives you an indication for how people react to that issue. But the issue is accuracy of these tools. Does anyone know what the most accurately rated tool scores?
I’m sorry that was a trick question. This article though it does have the kind of sensationalized heading I mentioned earlier explains the problem with sentiment accuracy claim and that is there’s absolutely no standard or common metric for measuring accuracy. Therefore any company can make any claim on accuracy using any formula they made up to make it sound believable. There is so much grey area and the fact is computers are built to measure quantifiable data and measuring sentiment is really more about qualitative. It’s not a simple positive or negative, depending on who your organization is and what you do and what your stance is on an issue, something could be perceived as negative or positive or neutral. It’s not black and white.
The alternative is human powered sentiment but that in itself is not a perfect solution…