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  • + JohnSheridan John Sheridan 8 months ago
    Thank you very much.

    Forrester has the 'POST' approach, but we put Objectives first, and add Sustainment as a step not to be forgotten.
  • + guestb1dec4a guestb1dec4a 8 months ago
    Great presentation. I think your suggested tactics and strategies are heavily supported and echoed in such books on the topic as Groundswell by Forrester Research.
  • + JohnSheridan John Sheridan 9 months ago
    There are 50 slides in this deck. Slideshare does not always show them all, so please download a copy to see the full document.
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  1. Social Media Best Practices How To Create A Successful Program February 2009 John.Sheridan@SocialMedia404.com @JohnSheridan
  2. Introduction Social Media remains a mystery to many organizations, but actually, it just takes some planning. This slide deck will walk you through a highly simplified Social Media program example, using our proprietary Social Media Best Practices framework: OASIS.
  3. Problem: How To Start This Journey? flickr.com/photos/mikemike
  4. flickr.com/photos/schillergarcia
  5. Solution: Use a process. flickr.com/photos/botheredbybees
  6. Social Media Paradise: OASIS This easy-to-remember framework applies to: • For profit • Marketing, PR, Comms • Sales • Non-profit • Customer Service • Recruitment & Retention • Government • Product Management • Personal programs • Advocacy • Awareness • Special causes • Fundraising • Special events • Influence
  7. SO LET’S GET STARTED.
  8. OASIS Social Media 404’s OASIS: Best Practices Objectives – determine what you want to achieve first. Audience – profile your audience. Strategy – pick a path that fits. Implementation – select the technologies. Sustainment – nurture. measure. adjust. flickr.com/photos/batega
  9. OASIS Step 1 bjectives
  10. What Do You Want To Achieve? The first step is deciding OASIS what you are trying to do: • Increase revenue? Gain more customers? Raise awareness? Develop new products? Create a S.M.A.R.T*. Objective (or two) Make sure your Social Media objective contributes to at least one organizational objective *Specific, Measureable, Attainable, Relevant, Timed
  11. Example The Ugly Car Company “They’re not pretty, but they’re cheap and they work.” Corporate Objectives: • to increase sales by 15% this year. • To reduce operating expenses by 10% this year. Social Media Objective: for the next six months, use free technology to create customer champions who will recommend our products to new customers.
  12. OASIS Step 2 udience
  13. The internet is populated by individuals who each have their own capability, behaviours, and desires. Know your audience to know how to connect. “ flickr.com/photos/tonypeters
  14. Who Is Your Audience? OASIS This is the most critical step. Understanding audience is crucial to success. Determine from your available resources how you will: • segment your audience, and; • discover their online characteristics
  15. Who Are They? Part 1: • Customers? • Product reviewers/industry pundits? • News content creators? • Suppliers?
  16. Who Are They? Part 2: • Gender? • Age? • Location?
  17. Who Are They? What capabilities and behaviours do they have: • Lurkers? Contributors? Creators? Hunter/gatherers? • Use mobile? Web-only? • What sites do they visit? • What do they look for?
  18. What Are They Saying Now? What are we hearing in our own world? • Feedback to us through email, online comments, telephone, paper… What are we hearing everywhere else? • Bloggers, discussion forums, online news feeds…
  19. Put It All Together Use any recent existing research available Conduct secondary audience research to verify and validate Conduct primary audience research, if possible Research all online conversations
  20. Example Primary Audience: • Customers, aged 18-30, live in Northern USA and Canada, use our product during harsh winter months, generally tech-savvy and participatory online, high use of mobile devices, likely to have a profile in one or more social networks, high consumers of video, etc…
  21. Example Secondary Audience: • Automobile reviewers, aged 30-50, mostly North American, some European and Asia Pacific, mostly print content but high degree of online replication, more limited use of online technologies, etc… • Dealer network, aged 40-64, all North American, tech-savvy, mostly lurkers, etc…
  22. OASIS Step 3 trategy
  23. Select a “category” of tool (or two) Implementation still growing (e.g: widgets, measuring, ..) another dimension - “use” strategies (e.g: cross-posting, status donation, … flickr.com/photos/briansolis
  24. What Is The Best Path? OASIS Before you pick a tool, pick a type of tool: • Should we be blogging? • Host a discussion forum? • Create videos? • Join a social network? • Replicate content?
  25. Example Primary Audience will likely use: • Social networks • Video content sharing • Product development/customer service network Secondary Audience will likely use: • Blog feeds • Specifications documents
  26. OASIS Step 4 mplementation
  27. Now, Pick The Right Tool(s) OASIS
  28. A Fool With A Tool, Is Still A Fool We know. You’ve been dying to get your hands on the tools. Well, now is your chance. Find the type of tool that will most effectively connect to your audience. It will be a waste of time using any tool, if your audience does not use it, too. That’s why your audience research is so important.
  29. Example Our World: • Gather/re-package/create required content • Add social tools to our web site (content in, content out) • Draft Social Media Press Release announcing the Ugly Car Network • People: determine and allocate internal resources/ obtain external resources
  30. Example Everywhere else: • Create presence in selected networks • Create accounts with selected tools • Begin content distribution
  31. OASIS Step 5 ustainment
  32. keep the conversation going flickr.com/photos/polandeze
  33. Nurture, Measure, Adjust OASIS You’ve launched the Ugly Car Network. Now what?
  34. Nurture, Measure, Adjust You are the host of an ongoing conversation. Treat everyone you talk with as an important guest. Everyone is entitled to respect. Interact, gauge reaction, ask questions, give honest answers. Listen. Provide. Measure, measure, measure. Results not what you want? Do things differently. Results are good? Do more of the same!
  35. Example RSS subscribers up 45% => increase article output Professionally-produced video not being viewed as many times as anticipated => create new strategy: ask customers to submit video of themselves using the product; establish new publication channels Product enhancement suggestions from customers increasing => bring engineering directly into conversations High number of dealership enquires from new international markets => engage VP Business Development
  36. AND SO ON...
  37. In Conclusion Key Principles TO REMEMBER
  38. #1 Listen
  39. Listening Dimensions Measure: How To Listening my blog, forum, other blog(s), forum(s), external presence external presence(s) Aggregation, Interpretation, Adjustment “attention, “authority, participation” influence”* *beingpeterkim.com/2008/09/a-framework-for.html
  40. #2 People trust people, not institutions.
  41. Loose Lips Launch Ships I trust “a person like me”. SlideShare.net/davefleet/edelman-trust-barometer-2008
  42. #3 Bite Size
  43. All content must now be created and packaged in small pieces for easy mixing, sharing, consuming. flickr.com/photos/markhillary
  44. flickr.com/photos/dantaylor
  45. #4 Dip Your Toes
  46. Organizations: Making The Leap “Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers” start small => business case & pilot
  47. #5 If you need help, ask for it.
  48. Recap • Remember: • Listen Use a process: • People trust people • Bite Sized • Start Small • Ask for help
  49. what can we do for you… flickr.com/photos/ -bast-
  50. Talk With Us connect@SocialMedia404.com

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