These are the slides form the talk I recently gave at the CIPR as part of their social summer series. The CIPR asked me to talk through the content of the chapter 'Measuring social media' in the forthcoming book "The CIPR Guise to Social Media".
15. % OF BRITISH POPULATION READING DAILY NEWSPAPER
42% of British population
don’t read a daily paper
CIPRsm Source: Metrica / Gorkana UKPulse survey 2010 – base 13,000
IntroBegan career in PR in very late 80sIn house, PR agencyRB, ex MD Metrica, now insight & analytics at Gorkana Group.Database, monitoring, measurement, Social media tooChair of AMEC group looking at measurement standardsWrote chapter on CIPR book about to be Published – hence my invite here – discuss the content of the chapter
Used to be simple!120 years press clipping innovation! 1880 – 2000!And the press clippings fed into the measurement businessNext – sack of mail slide
As a measurement company – pride at first sack of mailA metric of our own successAnecdote – photocopier story 108%Truth was that measurement was pretty basic. As an industry basically stuck measuring outputsNext: recap on what I mean by outputs
The internet has changed everything1st media to have native support for conversations and for groupsThe internet is a many to many platform
Rise of mobile is only going to amplify this
Meaning that we don’t need the editors or the newspapers as much as we did before.
We’re all editors now grouping the information into relevant categories that ourselves, our colleagues and our friends are interested in
Significant and structural changeNext % of Population not reading a daily paper
Ken Burbary – wiki226 and counting options!Not all built the same
In the meantime, what can you do? Focus on your objectives!When choosing a hammer or a screw driver, it’s useful to know whether you have a screw or a nailMust consider what your objectives are. This is the process that all organisations should follow.
In the meantime, what can you do? Focus on your objectives!When choosing a hammer or a screw driver, it’s useful to know whether you have a screw or a nailMust consider what your objectives are. This is the process that all organisations should follow.
Monitor and measure effectively – To be aware of content in close to real time- To know about crises before their bosses or clientsTo bring intelligence, information & order to the fire-hose of content - Bringing order to chaosTo understand the drivers and influencers of the conversations - From all these conversations, who and what really matter?To gauge how this impacts the reputation of their organisationTo educate colleagues about the importance of monitoring & measuring online conversations– sometimes with limited budgetTo point to ROI and demonstrate value for the social media investment - Demonstrate success and prove their value