Case Study: Setting Content Free at Ford

Hashtag: #fordw2e

Ford changed…

… to this.

Questions?

First, a little background

2007

Sept 2007

We wanted to make storytelling…

www.ford.digitalsnippets.com/focus

This is not a campaign.

Members Only.

It’s a revolution

Ford Changed.

We stopped pretending.

Results?

Content has been used in over 5,000 posts since Sept 2007 - meaning that journalists, enthusiasts and others are telling richer, better-informed Ford stories online* SMPRs are regularly used as a source of news and assets by Autoblog.com (Technorati Top 50), Wired, NYTimes, ABC News & many others, both traditional & “new” media Approximately 1.2 million video views on YouTube, 499 channel subscribers, 120,000 views on Flickr images Enthusiast communities are embedding SMPR RSS feeds into their sites as a credible source of Ford news *Based on 1300 links - sample surveys indicate that only about 1 in 4 people actually observe the attribution terms of the CC license The goods.

Well, no. Not really.

Make it less scary

Do your homework

Make your case

DRM is still a challenge

How has setting our content free changed us?

Everyone is a publisher

Digital is no longer an afterthought Everyone is a publisher

Experimentation and “test, learn, refine”

Where to next?

Integration

www.TheFordStory.com

It came back.

Thanks. www.ford.digitalsnippets.com @ScottMonty Digital Communications Manager Ford Motor Company [email_address] @MaggieFox CEO Social Media Group [email_address]

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