8. Research shows that social media use is widespread throughout the organization and not limited to professional use in marketing and customer service. The CIO provides a holistic view of where social media can affect the business, both internally and externally, across all business operations.
10. Understanding the range of potential use cases will help identify key areas of risk and opportunity associated with social media. The CIO, in conjunction with the chief information security officer, must help peers in the C-suite weigh the pros and cons of any given policy choice with respect to security and risk.
12. The array of technologies available to monitor social media usage by employees and to record social media traffic for compliance is rapidly expanding. The CIO and the IT team play a pivotal role in helping to decide how technology may be harnessed to support an open social media policy or used to enforce a more restrictive social media policy. Depending on the technologies in use, IT’s role may extend to supporting or governing the selection of vendor partners to support the social media strategy.
13. Support the effort to inventory how employees are currently using social tools
14. Before drafting the social media policy, it is important to clearly understand how employees are presently using social media and social communities and to determine how employee usage is expected to change as a result of implementing the new social media policy. Although this effort is most likely to be driven by human resources (HR), CIOs can support it by tapping existing application usage reporting and/ or user survey processes.
15. Use the lessons of past experience to drive a successful policy rollout. While a new social media policy rollout will most likely be led by the HR team, the IT organization has a role to play. From organizational restructuring to policy implementation to new technology deployment and adoption, most CIOs have had more than their fair share of experience.
17. Many organizations have failed to enact a social media policy because the C-suite lacks an evangelist with the understanding of how critical a strong policy is for an organization’s health. Even in organizations with a social media policy, IT and the CIO are often seen as roadblocks to social media usage. CIOs are well-positioned to partner with the chief marketing officer to advocate for the implementation of a social media policy that empowers the workforce for the benefit of the customer and thus redefines the image of IT as an enabler.4
28. 7 Social Media Approach DISCOVERY STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION MANAGEMENT Listening – What are people saying about your brand? Listening to stakeholders offers the information required to produce relevant content and shape your social media strategy Social Tools – Which channels fit your strategy? Content Strategy – Content is the most important component of a social media campaign. It must be relevant/useful to your target audience and adaptable across social media channels Target Audience – Assess audience needs and buying questions that can be addressed through social media Objectives – What are your goals? Social Capacity – Assess your ability to create content, maintain social tools and manage your communities Governance – What social media policies do you want in place? Who– Sponsor, project manager, doer, etc. What– What content, tools, audience, etc. When– Timing, frequency, etc. How– Process, any approvals or review, etc. Data Collection – Use analytics tools to measure engagement (i.e., leads, sales, page views, visitors, subscribers, followers, fans, comments, etc.) Results vs. Goals – Measure results vs. objectives; Why did you succeed or fall short? Refine – Assess data; Adjust your strategy; Test new ideas
30. Establish your overall goals and objective(s) Determine success metrics (extent of reach, engagement, influence, etc.) Determine how to measure (reverb, engagement, leads/sales, etc.) Ensure resources are available to support the efforts Research competitors and differentiate your organization Determine the target audience (seniors and adults/children of seniors) Identify the social media vehicle most appropriate for your target audience Create the content strategy (page content, ads, etc.) Monitor and manage information about you and your organization icerocket.com | google.com/alerts | radian6.com | socialmention.com Repair any disparaging commentary quickly quickreprepair.com | socialmediareputation.com Utilize resources to manage multiple social media sites hootsuite.com | ping.fm | twitterfeed.com Go slow and do it right (remember to measure) Involve your compliance, legal, and risk officers Conduct a lunch and learn session with your employees A Social Media Roadmap 9
37. Register your company and C-level executives on common social media sites (manually or knowem.com)
38. For marketing services and products, provide links back to your website where all your compliance requirements are being metElements of a Marketing Policy 10
52. Businesses: If the site is being used for professional use, social media presence and communication can be considered to fall within the advertising rules.
53. Personal: Personal use and not intended to market or promote an organization.
54. Guidelines to include in the policy to educate your employees how not to create a professional site unless intended
55. Employees should not associate the organization’s name or email address with the site unless it is intended for professional use. This includes stating they are an employee of the organization.
56. Do not use the organization’s assets to update personal sites. This includes any organization owned laptop or computer, I-Phone or blackberry, firm IP address, and email address. Using the organization’s email address implies the employee is acting on the organization’s behalf.
57. Create an advertising disclaimer to help employees specifically state their use is personal or professional. Advertising Rules 13 13
120. Competitive informationCustomers Concerns 23 United Breaks Guitars The video was posted on July 6, 2009. In its first 23 hours, had drawn 461 comments on YouTube, most of them maligning the airline. Then it went viral. (Over 10 million views so far)
151. Based on the recent National Labor Relations Board ruling, make sure it does not limit employees from communicating with each other around working conditions, wages, supervisors, etc.
152. Understand it is an evolving policy and be judicious in how it is enforcedA Social Media Policy 26 26
159. Enforce personal responsibility for posts and subject to liability and disciplinary action if posts are obscene, libelous, abusive, hateful, defamatory, harassing, threatening, create a hostile work environment orare in violation of any other law.
Social media should be aligned with your business goals. Starts with the clear definition of your business goals and target customers. At the end of the day, you have the responsibility to ensure the tools and methods have a proven result /or a good chance of meeting your goals.Social media is not something that is nice to do, just to say you have done.It should build on itself. Better to do slowly and well.
Manager’s can get too much informationConcerns if managers try to “friend” subordinates changes supervisor/subordinate dynamicMay add to post employment policy a prohibition on manager’s recommending or commenting on the job performance without approval from HR.Only conduct performance reviews as part of normal review system; no “informal” reviews.
Equates to less than 10 minutes a day, less than other breaks.People need to recharge.Can access via smart phones, etc. even if not on company’s computer.
Cisco's legal trouble stems from a Blogspot-hosted blog called Patent Troll Tracker, which Rick Frenkel, who directs the company's intellectual property department, launched last May. His posts focused on patents and patent litigation--an issue that Cisco has pressed Congress to address by overhauling what it views as a broken U.S. patent system. A few weeks ago, Frenkel revealed his identity, and two patent attorneys in Texas filed suit, accusing him of tarnishing their good names and disparaging a patent case their client had filed against Cisco--all the while allegedly concealing his affiliation with the company. On June 27, 2007, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued an administrative complaint challenging Whole Foods Market, Inc.’s acquisition of Wild Oats Markets Inc. According to the complaint, the FTC believed that the proposed transaction would violate federal antitrust laws by eliminating the substantial competition between two close competitors in the operation of premium natural and organic supermarkets nationwide. The FTC contended that if the transaction were to proceed Whole Foods Market would have the ability to raise prices and reduce quality and services. Both Whole Foods Market and Wild Oats stated their intention to vigorously oppose the FTC’s complaint and a court hearing on the issue was scheduled for July 31 and August 1, 2007. Whole Foods Market CEO John Mackey took the unusual step of initiating a blog on the subject to explain his opposition to the FTC’s stance. Papers filed by the FTC revealed that for several years Mackey posted highly opinionated comments under the pseudonym "Rahodeb" on the Whole Foods Yahoo! investment message board, raising serious legal and ethical questions.It was revealed today that Whole Foods Market Chief Executive Officer John Mackey has been anonymously posting to the Yahoostock market message board of competitor Wild Oats for the last eight years. Posting under the name Rahodeb, an anagram of his wife Deborah's name, Mackey mostly bashed Wild Oats and sang the virtues of Whole Foods. One post stated that the management of Wild Oats "clearly doesn't know what it is doing .... OATS has no value and no future."Unethical? Yes. Earlier this year, Whole Foods agreed to acquire Wild Oats for $565 million. Was Mackey attempting to drive Wild Oats stock down in advance of the acquisition? The FTC is not investigating Whole Foods because of the postings but rather is blocking the merger because of antitrust concerns. The chairman of the SEC told the Wall Street Journal that the postings were "bizarre and ill-advised, even if it's not illegal." Mackey claims that his postings were just for "fun" and that everyone does it. Yes, but when you are the CEO of a corporation, fiddling with market dynamics is a no-no.