This Talk was given at the Integrated Media Association conference in Austin as a precursor to SXSW #ima, #swsx. How we define success, impact and growth should have great bearing on our strategic operations. The nature of storytelling and engagement is changing right before our eyes and offers great opportunity to build depth and breadth of reach and relationships with the people formerly known as the audience. An overview framework and philosophy is presented followed by case studies.
Metrics soup for the growth soul alisa miller march 2013
1. “Metrics Soup for
the Growth Soul”
Alisa Miller
CEO, PRI
March 2013
Austin #IMA #SWSW
2. Impact is
the
business
model Alisa Miller, 2013
3. Content + Engagement = IMPACT
For PRI, IMPACT Means:
Successfully setting the media and/or public’s
agenda based on PRI’s content and engagement
initiatives.
Genuinely engaging people, connecting them to
one another and affecting positive change in
Social
Justice
people’s lives and the world.
Science
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4. Content leadership
For PRI, Means:
Identify and fulfill unmet content needs in the broader
media landscape.
Create assets and tools that help people and
organizations collaborate to shape, share and act on
stories at a significant scale, AKA “Ripple Effects.”
Foster new programming and provide an expansive
Social
Justice
value-driven portfolio.
Science
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5. Commitment to Engagement
For PRI, Means:
Create Content Assets/Tools for Investigating Issues
Together
Treat Listeners as Content and Conversation Collaborators
Make/Share Digital Storytelling and Social Media Assets
Social
Justice
Science
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6. The „good‟ ole days…
Story
me
Time
Goes Public
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7. Then…
Story
me
Time
Goes Public
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11. “Engagement Depth”…
Make life changes
Civic participation
Organize and help
Donate or buy
Offer insight, contribute to content
Comment
Share
Learn more
‘Consume’
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12. For PRI, what type(s) of
„Engagement‟ is our focus?
Learn
Organize
Share
Co-Create
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13. Our worldview impacts our
strategic operations,
Introducing…
PRI’s Collaborative
Production Model
Social
Justice
Science
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14. PRI‟s Collaborative
Production
1. Listen/add value early on
2. Build and tell our stories – together
3. Create/offer “ripple effects assets”
4. Give tools to partners, organizations, public to
engage
5. Let go of your control freak but align incentives!
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15. Metrics – Breadth/Depth
• Reach
• PRI Some
• Beyond PRI are immediate,
• Sharing
others tracked
over time
• Conversations and Co-Creation
• Connecting and Organizing
• Satisfaction Measures
• Partners and users
• Recognition
• Agenda Setting
• Did we change or start a new conversation?
• Influence more media coverage?
• Did we help to improve society?
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18. Elements of the Investigation
• Three lead partners
• Risk index of 330 questions
• 50 state reporters
• 49 independent reviewers
• 16 major station partners
• Social properties (Tw, FB)
• 5000+ social community
• Web site
• Public engagement
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19. Impact 10 Days After
Release
• 1000+ press stories
• 12 million people
• 50+ editorials (NYT,WP,CSM…)
• State actions in SC, VA, GA, MI…
• 1500+ report cards emailed to officials
• 26+ public radio stations had stories
• 160,000+ unique visitors to site
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20. Impact ~1 Year After Release
• 1300+ press stories
• 17 million people
• NYT, ABC News, 23 public radio stations, etc.
• Measures passed: DE, IA, ME, RI, SC
• Measures introduced: CA, FL, GA, MI, OH, SC, ND
• Campaigns for reform: NY, AR, HI, TX
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22. „Thank You‟ from WLRN in
Miami you for letting us be a part of this important
“Thank
project. It was an honor”
- Dan Grech, News Director, WLRN-Miami Herald News
• Front page in Miami Herald
• Story in El Nuevo Herald
• Six-part series on WLRN
• Audio stories distributed to Florida public radio
stations
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31. Engaged: Brought others
together Research
• Center for Global Development
• Centre for Infectious Disease
• Rwandan Minister of Health
• GAVI Alliance
• Global Health Delivery Partnership
• Harvard Kennedy School
• Human Rights Watch
• Instituto Nacional de Cancerologica (Mexico)
• Ivano-Frankivsk Hospice (Ukraine)
• Johns Hopkins
• Livestrong
• Susan G. Komen
• The Max Foundation
• United Nations Foundation
• World Health Organization
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33. In Summary
• Get clear on what IMPACT MEANS and the
strategy, metrics and learnings will follow
• Establish organization’s DEDICATION– i.e.,
what you do and measure is what you care about.
• Experiment & collaborate to LEARN and
don’t relegate those experiments to places that
don’t matter
• Double down on SUCCESS and learn from and
discuss failure to build further impact & growth
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34. What‟s next
Please Join us!
• GENERATE GROWTH and make big impact,
locally, nationally, internationally.
• LEARN TOGETHER and further develop the
collaborative production model and metrics
• COMING SOON:
• Rising Minds, Launches next week!
• Global Nation, Summer 2013 Alisa Miller, 2013
Editor's Notes
Good afternoon, thank you for that generous introduction.Im here today to talk about PRI’s metrics soup for our Growth soulKey to how we look at metrics, is to first address to what end. What are we trying to accomplish, what good are we trying to put into the world. Not simple questions.But I am excited to share some of PRI’s leading edge work to answer these questions.And, in the spirit of collaboration, please join us , we have a lot to learn from each other. And lets be crystal clear, our communities need us to dive in and dramatically increase our impact and grow. So lets do it!I also hope that there are aspects of what PRI is doing that you can take back to your own institutions and apply in your markets. So I will begin with a brief summary of PRI’s current strategic thinking about what IMPACT means to us, followed by how we look at stories as part of that impact and conclude with a two examples of initiatives that demonstrate how our view of impact and how we think about metrics come together.
First, For us IMPACT is the business model. How we define impact is transforming PRI’s strategy and operations.Our success in driving impact will support our term sustainability.So for any institution, we had to ask ourselves in today’s world, what do we mean by IMPACT?
For us, content plus engagement equals impact.
So lets take the first piece of the equation is Content.
Engagement means
I’ve defined IMPACT, how we view stories and engagement, and shortly will be diving into examples of what we have measured.But before I do, I wanted to underscore how these POVs on IMPACT, STORIES and ENGAGMENT, affect our strategy and what we are doing each day operationally. Well, introducing..In many ways you can look at PRI’s history in three major phases, PURE distribution business, when we introduced the co-production model to public media, in the mid 1990s which is when we intensively work with a few stations to produce full programs and now, PRI’s Collaborative Production Model.
So what metric categories does this translate into ….
State Integrity investigation was a joint partnership between PRI and two other public media organizations, Center for public Integrity and a group called Global Integrity. We created comprehensive report cards of the 50 state governments, rating them for the potential for corruption and then told stories and engaged people about the results.The success of the Investigation was the result of three organizations combining their complementary strengths for a single project and vision. Global Integrity provided a wealth of experience in research and data-gathering in the area of government transparency and accountability. The CPI brought a network of investigative journalists and important editorial leadership. And PRI contributed editorial expertise, leadership in web, social media and digital tools and its collaborative skills by selecting and working with a network of public radio station collaborators.In the end, PRI’s project goals were three-fold: contributing to the creation of a storytelling platform for government transparency and effectiveness, partnering with leading stations and other news players to tell local-national-and-international angles on these stories, and finally inspiring people to share the results with their family, friends, neighbors and the elected officials who have the power to change the way state government is working or not working.
Right after the release of the report cards, we tracked what influence we had on the broader press, and I’m happy to report public media lead this effort!What actions that state began to takeFor example:Noof stories, reach,How many people did things with the content.How many stations contributed stories.And what website traffic and social media conversations ensued
Over time, we have continued to track our impact but less time and effort is spent on tracking consumption, and more is focused on the continued Ripple Effects in the broader civic participation arenaSo as you can see here, measured passed, measures introduced, etc.
We also tracked what stations got involved as collaborators, as we believe strengthening our overall ecosystem as part of our impact. To be a station collaborator, stations had to sign up to report on the topic. They attended a Report Card Camp at PRI to prepare for the release, work on story ideas, etc.We heard from many of our partners who were thrilled to be no kidding leaders in their communities on this important topic. That’s a win-win.
And tracked the level of satisfaction..
The next very brief example I will share is that of Global Cancer, as this project is one where we focused on learning more about engagement people earlier on in the story creation process. This was deeply focused on learning more about where engagement, content and reach meet. It was a limited series of five stories on TW that was married inextricably with our engagement strategy.Our program TW decided to investigate Cancer in the Developing world. So PRI and TW working together, we began to build out our project.
We learned what was important. It raised issues and some insights for us, like people think Cancer in the developing world is hopeless and one of the reasons cited was that Cancer is not an infectious disease so it cant be prevented.
Before any story saw the air, we began byproviding value by releasing infographic maps and shared social media packages with stations, so people could compare cancer rates and types, around the world.
And by sharing infographicsthat illuminated that more people die of cancer in the developing world than …
We added more value:We found there were lots of pockets of people talking but no unifying way to collect them together, so we introduced a hashtag#globalcancer
And THEN we told a series of stories, one of which illuminated that a sizable percentage of cancer in the developing world is actually caused by viruses (much more so in the US), so it is at least partially “preventable”
We engaged listeners as conversationalists
We brought interested groups together
And we had impact, over a one week broadcast series on The World, we….2.5 million people were reached in broadcast on over 330 stations12,000 social mentions led to over 2,000,000 impressions of content related to our seriesOver 1 million pageviews were generated to articles/assets re the seriesOver 600 discreet conversations were tracked across social media mentioning global cancer.Over 50 organizations were connected and participated in spreading, and sharing the content.Saw Pickup of the content by other media organizations including BBC, local public radio stations, newspapers, bloggers.
I hope this has been helpful to have a glimpse into how PRI defines impact, view stories, engagement and metrics and new ways of working like the collaborative production model. Here are some key themes to take away as you consider impact, growth and metrics in your institutions….It is important to….
And finally, I hope you will also join us to develop the collaborative production model and its local, national and international impact.We are still learning and would love to learn with you to build on our mutual success and generate more collectiveimpact.Coming soon, We are really excited by two upcoming series….Rising Minds – looking at what’s working and what are the challenges in education using the US and a South African School as a lensAnd Global Nation a comprehensive and multi year initiative to tell stories and engage and understand the US through an immigrant perspective and making the local to global connection.Come see me or anyone else at PRI if you would like to get involved! Thanks.