The pressure to be social is coming, or likely already here for many organizations. Marketing departments everywhere are looking for ways to initiate social collaboration. Sometimes the ideas are sound; other times, it is painfully obvious that the initiative is a misplaced reaction after a conference presentation on the joys of being social, or a vendor meeting for social software. As communicators, training in social media and social business is not part of curriculum. So how do you determine what is an appropriate direction to take or appropriate initiative to consider, when you have no research or framework to help guide you?
You may be looking to go beyond the company's social media campaign of Twitter and Facebook. Perhaps you are looking for ways to enter the social business arena responsibly. Or maybe you simply want to be able to respond to pressures from outside forces in an informed way. This presentation looks at social collaboration within a digital maturity model, and provides a basic process for looking at social initiatives, and some guidance around key decision points.
This presentation was given at Information Development World on October 1, 2015.
And just to keep things interesting, it turns out that there is more than one type of trust.
There is soft trust, which about the brand itself, and there’s hard trust, about the underlying technology.
There is trust for transient interactions and trust for long-term relationships.
And we have to take into account the difference between rational, or cognitive, trust and emotional trust.