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Social Media and
Crisis Management

        Mark Gibbs
     mgibbs@gibbs.com
      http://gibbs.com
•   Join and leave conversations
•   Sometimes just listen in
•   Have private conversations
•   Hear interesting things
•   Say interesting things
•   Hear news and gossip
•   Spread news and gossip
Social Networking
 •   Just like a huge cocktail party
 •   But virtualized …
 •   With everything recorded …
 •   And global …
 •   And minimally structured …
 •   And very, very new.
What is Social Media?

• Media that provides an open
  communications channel
• Characterized by a many-to-many
  connection model
• Fosters community
What is Social Media?

• Now accounts for 11 percent of all time
  spent online in the US.
• Over 25% of U.S. internet page views
  occurred at one of the top social
  networking sites in December 2009, up
  from 13.8% a year before.
What is Social Media?

 •   Forums
 •   Weblogs
 •   Microblogs
 •   Wikis
 •   Content rating services
 •   Social bookmarking
What is Social Media?

• Media that allows engagement
  – Feedback
  – Rating
  – Citing
  – Forwarding
What is a Crisis?

Three elements are common to most
definitions of crisis:

  – a threat to the organization
  – the element of surprise
  – a short decision time
What Do You Need In A Crisis?

    • Communications channels
        – Inbound
        – Outbound
    •   Data
    •   Information
    •   Flexibility
    •   Reliability
Social Media Are
Communications Channels

           Internal
           Affiliates
        Communities
         News Media
      The General Public
The Social Media Universe
Blogs: Blogger, LiveJournal, Open Diary, TypePad, WordPress, Vox,
ExpressionEngine, Xanga / Micro-blogging & Presence applications:
FMyLife, Jaiku, Plurk, Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, Yammer, Qaiku / Social
networking: Facebook, Geni.com, Hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Orkut,
Skyrock, Qzone, Vkontakte, RenRen, Kaixin, ASmallWorld, studivz, Xing,
RunAlong.se, Bebo, BigTent, Elgg, Hyves, Flirtomatic / Social network
aggregation: NutshellMail, FriendFeed,dillidost.com / Events: Upcoming,
Eventful, Meetup.com / Wikis: Wikimedia, PBworks, Wetpaint / Social
bookmarking (or social tagging): Delicious, StumbleUpon, Google Reader,
CiteULike / Social news: Digg, Mixx, Reddit, NowPublic / Photography and
art sharing: deviantArt, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, SmugMug, Zooomr /
Video sharing: YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, sevenload, Zideo / Livecasting:
Ustream.tv, Justin.tv, Stickam, Skype, OpenCU / Music and audio sharing:
MySpace Music, The Hype Machine, Last.fm, ccMixter, ShareTheMusic /
Presentation sharing: slideshare, scribd / Product reviews: epinions.com,
MouthShut.com / Business reviews: Customer Lobby, yelp.com /
Community Q&A: Yahoo! Answers, WikiAnswers, Askville, Google Answers
/ Media and entertainment platforms: Cisco Eos / Virtual worlds: Second
Life, The Sims Online, Forterra / Game sharing: Miniclip, Kongregate
• Founded 2006
   • Founder Biz Stone: "2010 is really going to
     be the revenue year. I don't know if we're
     going to be profitable, but we have plenty of
     time.“
   • Google and Bing deals
   • $4M predicted for ’10 *
   • Promoted tweets launched 4/14
   • Projections for the end of 2013:
       • $1.54 billion in revenue
       • $111 million in net earnings
       • 1 billion users
   • Investment: ~$150 million
   • Worth …


$1,000,000,000
     * http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-will-earn-4-million-this-year-2009-10
What is Twitter?




On the Web or
through an app                    A “microblogging” Web
                                  site and Web service

    A “tweet”: Maximum 140
    characters including spaces
Twitter & Everyone




                            Public Timeline
                      Now 600 tweets per second!
That’s about 50 million tweets a day or roughly 20,000,000,000 per year.
You & Everyone




21,287,217 unique visitors in March, 2010
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/2009/more-truth-about-twitter/
How Active Are Twitter Users?
• 1 billion tweets by November 2008
• 1.6 billion by the end of April 2009
• The 5 billionth ("The Pentagigatweet“) on
  October 18th, 2009




                http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10378353-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Types of Tweets
This is a tweet that will be seen in the public timeline and by my followers

     This is a tweet with a URL – http://gibbsuniversal.com/sentimeter

        This is a tweet with a shortened URL – http://bit.ly/44iVMz

              This is a tweet with hashtags that will be seen
               in the #public #timeline and by my followers

  @fred This is a tweet that will seen by “fred” even if he isn’t following
     me and will be seen in the public timeline and by my followers

RT @fred This is a re-tweet that will that will seen by “fred” even if he isn’t
        following me, in the public timeline, and by my followers

    This is a tweet that will that will seen in the public timeline, and by
                my followers that asks for a re-tweet; Pls RT

        D fred This is a private tweet that will only be seen by “fred”
Successful Tweets

• You must have an agenda
• Work your agenda
• Make timely responses
• Bring news to the party
• Retweet to engage (always attribute)
• Ask for Retweets
• Repeat your tweets
Twitter Growth
• Twitter grew over 650% in 2009 -- (compete.com)
• Now more than 1,800 Twitter-based or connected tools and
  applications -- (oneforty.com)




                             http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter.com/
http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/blogger/2007/04/19/twitter-social-network-analysis/
@quistuipater
My Tweets




 http://tweetstats.com/
Client Software I Use




      http://tweetstats.com/
My Followers
Followers I Don’t Need
What Do We Tweet About?
              4%
                         6%
         4%                                 Spam
                   6%          4%      Spam Self promotio
                         4%            Self promotion
                                            News
                                       News
                                            Pass along va
                                    9% Pass along value
                               9%           Conversation
                                       Conversational
41%           The WYAFL
 41%                                   Pointless babblebab
                                            Pointless
               Syndrome




                        38%
                              38%
What’s the
Business Value?
Twitter for Business
• Competitive Insight
   – News
   – Sentiment
• Public relations
   – News
   – Brand building and maintenance
• Customer service
• Advertising and selling stuff
• Internal social networking
How Reliable is Twitter?
http://www.pingdom.com/reports/vb1395a6sww3/check_overview/?name=twitter.com%2Fhome
http://www.pingdom.com/reports/vb1395a6sww3/check_overview/?name=twitter.com%2Fhome
Google search -- site:twitter.com/*username
Success


•   Dell
•   Starbucks
•   JetBlue
•   Wholefoods
$6,500,000 earned from Twitter
           (since 2007)
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/10/09/cheating.death.suspended.animation/index.html?iref=topnews
Making Twitter Your %@#$&
Twitter Clients




http://www.seesmic.com/




                             http://www.tweetdeck.com/
Twitter for Crises

 •   News monitoring
 •   Feedback
 •   Realtime status
 •   Resource tracking
Twitter API




http://apiwiki.twitter.com/
Web Applications
Hashtag Tracker




   http://gibbs.com/motm/
Xcelsius
CTC Blog


              RSS Feed – automatically
              checked every six hours




Twitterfeed



              Twitter API




    Twitter
http://gibbsuniversal.com/sentimeter/
Analyzing Sentiment
•The Twitter Search API

•The OpenAmplify API; a linguistic
analysis engine offered as a Web
service.




        http://www.openamplify.com/
Search Twitter for a term




  Submit search result
    to OpenAmplify




Extract sentiment “signals”




     Graph Results
http://gibbs.com/guii/sentimeter.html
http://gibbs.com/guii/sentimeter.html
Next Steps

• Reimplement in Runtime Revolution
  and or Alpha Five
• Add multiple search term support
• Add alerts
• Add collaborative analysis
• Add server-based analysis
Should You Care
       About Social Media?

•   It’s YACC (“yet another communications channel”)
•   It’s being leveraged by all sorts of organizations
•   It’s a consumer focus
•   It’s low cost with high potential
Yes, you absolutely
       should care!

 If you ignore social media you
will be missing out on a strategic
      business opportunity …
Thank-you.

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Social Media and Crisis Management

  • 1. Social Media and Crisis Management Mark Gibbs mgibbs@gibbs.com http://gibbs.com
  • 2.
  • 3.
  • 4. Join and leave conversations • Sometimes just listen in • Have private conversations • Hear interesting things • Say interesting things • Hear news and gossip • Spread news and gossip
  • 5.
  • 6.
  • 7. Social Networking • Just like a huge cocktail party • But virtualized … • With everything recorded … • And global … • And minimally structured … • And very, very new.
  • 8. What is Social Media? • Media that provides an open communications channel • Characterized by a many-to-many connection model • Fosters community
  • 9. What is Social Media? • Now accounts for 11 percent of all time spent online in the US. • Over 25% of U.S. internet page views occurred at one of the top social networking sites in December 2009, up from 13.8% a year before.
  • 10. What is Social Media? • Forums • Weblogs • Microblogs • Wikis • Content rating services • Social bookmarking
  • 11. What is Social Media? • Media that allows engagement – Feedback – Rating – Citing – Forwarding
  • 12. What is a Crisis? Three elements are common to most definitions of crisis: – a threat to the organization – the element of surprise – a short decision time
  • 13. What Do You Need In A Crisis? • Communications channels – Inbound – Outbound • Data • Information • Flexibility • Reliability
  • 14. Social Media Are Communications Channels Internal Affiliates Communities News Media The General Public
  • 15. The Social Media Universe Blogs: Blogger, LiveJournal, Open Diary, TypePad, WordPress, Vox, ExpressionEngine, Xanga / Micro-blogging & Presence applications: FMyLife, Jaiku, Plurk, Twitter, Tumblr, Posterous, Yammer, Qaiku / Social networking: Facebook, Geni.com, Hi5, LinkedIn, MySpace, Ning, Orkut, Skyrock, Qzone, Vkontakte, RenRen, Kaixin, ASmallWorld, studivz, Xing, RunAlong.se, Bebo, BigTent, Elgg, Hyves, Flirtomatic / Social network aggregation: NutshellMail, FriendFeed,dillidost.com / Events: Upcoming, Eventful, Meetup.com / Wikis: Wikimedia, PBworks, Wetpaint / Social bookmarking (or social tagging): Delicious, StumbleUpon, Google Reader, CiteULike / Social news: Digg, Mixx, Reddit, NowPublic / Photography and art sharing: deviantArt, Flickr, Photobucket, Picasa, SmugMug, Zooomr / Video sharing: YouTube, Viddler, Vimeo, sevenload, Zideo / Livecasting: Ustream.tv, Justin.tv, Stickam, Skype, OpenCU / Music and audio sharing: MySpace Music, The Hype Machine, Last.fm, ccMixter, ShareTheMusic / Presentation sharing: slideshare, scribd / Product reviews: epinions.com, MouthShut.com / Business reviews: Customer Lobby, yelp.com / Community Q&A: Yahoo! Answers, WikiAnswers, Askville, Google Answers / Media and entertainment platforms: Cisco Eos / Virtual worlds: Second Life, The Sims Online, Forterra / Game sharing: Miniclip, Kongregate
  • 16.
  • 17. • Founded 2006 • Founder Biz Stone: "2010 is really going to be the revenue year. I don't know if we're going to be profitable, but we have plenty of time.“ • Google and Bing deals • $4M predicted for ’10 * • Promoted tweets launched 4/14 • Projections for the end of 2013: • $1.54 billion in revenue • $111 million in net earnings • 1 billion users • Investment: ~$150 million • Worth … $1,000,000,000 * http://www.businessinsider.com/twitter-will-earn-4-million-this-year-2009-10
  • 18.
  • 19. What is Twitter? On the Web or through an app A “microblogging” Web site and Web service A “tweet”: Maximum 140 characters including spaces
  • 20. Twitter & Everyone Public Timeline Now 600 tweets per second! That’s about 50 million tweets a day or roughly 20,000,000,000 per year.
  • 21. You & Everyone 21,287,217 unique visitors in March, 2010
  • 23. How Active Are Twitter Users? • 1 billion tweets by November 2008 • 1.6 billion by the end of April 2009 • The 5 billionth ("The Pentagigatweet“) on October 18th, 2009 http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10378353-36.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
  • 24. Types of Tweets This is a tweet that will be seen in the public timeline and by my followers This is a tweet with a URL – http://gibbsuniversal.com/sentimeter This is a tweet with a shortened URL – http://bit.ly/44iVMz This is a tweet with hashtags that will be seen in the #public #timeline and by my followers @fred This is a tweet that will seen by “fred” even if he isn’t following me and will be seen in the public timeline and by my followers RT @fred This is a re-tweet that will that will seen by “fred” even if he isn’t following me, in the public timeline, and by my followers This is a tweet that will that will seen in the public timeline, and by my followers that asks for a re-tweet; Pls RT D fred This is a private tweet that will only be seen by “fred”
  • 25. Successful Tweets • You must have an agenda • Work your agenda • Make timely responses • Bring news to the party • Retweet to engage (always attribute) • Ask for Retweets • Repeat your tweets
  • 26. Twitter Growth • Twitter grew over 650% in 2009 -- (compete.com) • Now more than 1,800 Twitter-based or connected tools and applications -- (oneforty.com) http://siteanalytics.compete.com/twitter.com/
  • 29.
  • 30.
  • 32.
  • 33. Client Software I Use http://tweetstats.com/
  • 36. What Do We Tweet About? 4% 6% 4% Spam 6% 4% Spam Self promotio 4% Self promotion News News Pass along va 9% Pass along value 9% Conversation Conversational 41% The WYAFL 41% Pointless babblebab Pointless Syndrome 38% 38%
  • 38. Twitter for Business • Competitive Insight – News – Sentiment • Public relations – News – Brand building and maintenance • Customer service • Advertising and selling stuff • Internal social networking
  • 39. How Reliable is Twitter?
  • 40.
  • 43. Google search -- site:twitter.com/*username
  • 44.
  • 45.
  • 46. Success • Dell • Starbucks • JetBlue • Wholefoods
  • 47. $6,500,000 earned from Twitter (since 2007)
  • 48.
  • 49.
  • 50.
  • 51.
  • 52.
  • 54.
  • 56. Twitter Clients http://www.seesmic.com/ http://www.tweetdeck.com/
  • 57. Twitter for Crises • News monitoring • Feedback • Realtime status • Resource tracking
  • 60. Hashtag Tracker http://gibbs.com/motm/
  • 62.
  • 63. CTC Blog RSS Feed – automatically checked every six hours Twitterfeed Twitter API Twitter
  • 65. Analyzing Sentiment •The Twitter Search API •The OpenAmplify API; a linguistic analysis engine offered as a Web service. http://www.openamplify.com/
  • 66. Search Twitter for a term Submit search result to OpenAmplify Extract sentiment “signals” Graph Results
  • 69. Next Steps • Reimplement in Runtime Revolution and or Alpha Five • Add multiple search term support • Add alerts • Add collaborative analysis • Add server-based analysis
  • 70. Should You Care About Social Media? • It’s YACC (“yet another communications channel”) • It’s being leveraged by all sorts of organizations • It’s a consumer focus • It’s low cost with high potential
  • 71. Yes, you absolutely should care! If you ignore social media you will be missing out on a strategic business opportunity …