Social Media,
LindaEnterprise & You
The Skrocki
Sr. Engineering Program Mgr.
Sun Blogs, Wikis, Forums
Deirdre Straughan
Community Builder & Videoblogger
Linda Skrocki
Community Engineering Program Manager

Social Media Explosion
Platforms for photo
sharing, video sharing
and blogging are the
fastest growing web
brands
Social media
democratizes the Web –
enables everyone to
entertain, educate, and
inform each other
creatively
•Data source: Hitwise.com
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Why Engage?
Experience serendipitous connections
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• Collaborate with others who share your passion
Engage directly with the experts
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Contribute to the sum of all knowledge
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• Drive awareness of your initiative
Advance a cause
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It's the new resume
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Sun's Community Galaxy
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Sun Blogs
Overview
• 4,268 Bloggers
(16% of all employees)
• 5,224 Blogs
• 128k Posts
• 140k Comments
• 22M Page Views 2008
• Jonathan Schwartz's (Sun
CEO) blog:
http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan
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Sun Wikis
Overview
• Sun & Non Sun
Contributors
• 71k Users
• 23k Pages
• 270k Revisions
• 4,459 Comments
• 4.5M Page Views 2008
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Sun Forums
Overview
919k Contributors
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900k Threads
•
4M Messages
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66M Page views 2008
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Sun Audio Sharing
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/stations/sunradio
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Sun File Sharing
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Sun Video Sharing
http://channelsun.sun.com
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Sun Learning eXchange
http://slx.sun.com
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Sun Planets
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Sun on Twitter
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Sun on Facebook
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Sun in Second Life
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems/230/96/24
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More Community content on Sun.com
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Realized Value
• Twitter: the globally distributed virtual water cooler
> Driven awareness of company-wide initiatives
> Enabled collaboration and a sense of team unity
> Built fruitful business relationships between Sun & the market
place
• 900k forums threads
> Community self-resolving support issues
> Possible leads
> Advocates of Sun
• 128k thousand marketplace conversations on blogs
• 270k collaborative wiki page revisions between Sun &
non Sun content contributers
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More Realized Value
• SmugMug's CEO blog post about why he chose Sun:
> “ Their CEO blogs, and he blogs in an open and honest way.
Yes, this was a key selling point for me.”
> “Lots of Sun employees use SmugMug. They rallied to make
sure we were talking to the right people.”
• Shared our blogging experiences with the United Nations
• CEO collaborates with SEC Chairman to improve policy
that enables companies to use the web for financial
announcements
• Deals are won against competitors because of social
network based business relationships
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Questions?
Thanks!
Deirdre Straughan
blogs.sun.com/deirdre
twitter.com/DeirdreS
Linda Skrocki
blogs.sun.com/lskrocki
twitter.com/lskrocki