Engaging customers, reaching new
ones and improving organizational
effectiveness through social media
              Lee Aase
 Manager, Syndication and Social Media
             Mayo Clinic

               #AAFWI

           October 19, 2009
Today’s Agenda
• What are social media tools and why
 should you care about them?
• What is the Mayo Clinic experience and
 why is it relevant for you?
• How can you get started?
• Any other questions you have...
Help you shoot down arguments
    that social media tools...
• ...aren’t worth your time and money
• ...are too risky for your organization
• ...are beyond your capability to
 implement, either because of cost or
 complexity
• ...are optional
Help you make the case that
     social media tools are...

• Immensely powerful
• Consistent with your organization’s
 values (or should be)
• Free (or ridiculously inexpensive)
• and...
Disclaimers
•   These results not typical
•   Use as directed
•   Read and follow label directions
•   Side effects may include vertigo, watery
    eyes, crackberry thumb and iPhone
    application addiction
•   Social media tools are an essential part of a
    balanced communications diet
•   If insufficient media coverage persists,
    consult your communications doctor
•   Batteries not included
•   Some assembly required
•   Your mileage may vary
Disclosures

• No financial interest in any product or
 service mentioned in this presentation
• Full-time salaried employee of Mayo
 Clinic
About Lee Aase (@LeeAase)
• B.S. Political Science
• 14 years in politics and government at
 local, state, national levels
• Mayo Clinic since April 2000
  − Media relations consultant
  − Manager since 2004
    − Media Relations/Research Comm
    − Syndication and Social Media
A Grandpa who appreciates the
     power of Facebook
The One Percent Solution
No genius necessary...
The MacGyver Mindset
Note-Taking Not Necessary
Reasons to Care about Social
 Media: Risks are Unavoidable
• Anyone (especially determined
 detractors) can
  − Start a blog
  − Launch a YouTube channel
• A significant portion of your
 employees are in Facebook now (e.g.
 >5,000 at Mayo Clinic)
• ROI = Risk of Ignoring (Hat tip: USCG)
United Breaks Guitars Breaks United
Star Tribune Values and The
   Changing Media Landscape

• 1998 $1.2 Billion
• 2006: $530 Million
• Emerged from
 bankruptcy last
 week
What business are you in?
• Selling (and marking up) advertising?
• Developing great creative?
• Helping clients build profitable
 relationships?
The Most Important Word (and Book
   Recommendation) in Web 2.0
Intro to Today’s FREE Tools

    Blogs           RSS

  Podcasts     Social Networks

    Skype         YouTube

    Wikis          Twitter

  Slideshare      uStream
Intro to Blogs




• Just an easy-to-publish Web site that
 allows comments
• Blogs in Plain English - Lee LeFever
RSS = Really Simple Syndication



• Lets you easily track dozens of blogs
 or other Web sites without surfing
• Truly opt-in “email”
• RSS “baked in” to IE 7, Safari
• Google Reader a free Web option
Podcasts
• TiVo for Audio (and now video)
• Don’t need an iPod to use
• Series of segments to which you can
 subscribe via RSS
• iTunes free for PC or Mac
• Create your own FREE podcast (listed
 in iTunes) through SMUG
Social Networking Sites
Wikis
• Collaborative editing tools
• Wikipedia the most famous
• 2.9 million articles in English
• Definitive stories quickly on
  − 35W Bridge Collapse
  − Virginia Tech shooting
YouTube

• World’s second largest search engine
• Google bought for $1.65 Billion
• “The world has voted, and we want to
 watch videos on YouTube.” - Andy
 Sernovitz, SocialMedia.org
Other Important Platforms
• Slideshare.net: YouTube for PowerPoint
 and Keynote
• uStream.tv: Your own global television
 channel
• Mix and Match
Mayo Clinic’s Social Media
      Experience
Mayo Clinic’s Origin




http://tinyurl.com/32xbjx
Sources of Information Influencing
        Preference for Mayo Clinic

     Word of mouth                                        84


Stories in the media                            57


MD recommendation                          44


        Advertising              27


  Internet/Websites             26


Personal experience             24


   Mailings to home        18

                       0   20         40        60   80        100
                           40
Mayo Clinic and Word of Mouth
• 91 percent of patients surveyed say
 they have said “good things” to an
 average of 40 people following a Mayo
 visit
• 85 percent say they recommended
 Mayo to a friend
 − Advised an average of 16 to come
  − 5 actually came
Mayo Clinic Medical Edge
News Media Syndications
First Foray in New Media




• Existing Medical Edge radio mp3s
• Launched Sept. ‘05; Downloads up
 8,217 percent Oct. vs. Aug.
Step 2: More, Longer Podcasts
Total Cost for Mayo Clinic
Facebook, YouTube and Twitter




  $0.00
Key Tool: Flip Video Camera*
• Affordable for all campuses (and you)
• Recording interviews (with tripod)
 improves existing processes
• Authenticity without writer’s cramp
• Provides potential blog resources
  − Audio of full interview
  − Video excerpts
• Limited group of video editors to ease
 adoption, ensure quality
Cost for a Standard Definition
      Flip Video Camera




$150.00
   HD available for an additional $80
HD: Worth the Investment
podcasts.mayoclinic.org
newsblog.mayoclinic.org
Sharing Mayo Clinic
• Gathering global Mayo community
  − Patients telling their stories
  − Employee bloggers recruited from
    throughout organization
  − Video profiles of patients/staff
• Hub to integrate Mayo social media
• Interactive companion to print edition
• sharing.mayoclinic.org
sharing.mayoclinic.org
The Next Big Thing:

Radio Syndication
Healthline becomes Medical
         Edge Weekend
• Host is Mayo Clinic M.D. with 20 years
 local radio experience
• Previous syndication not feasible
  − 1999: Unlikely profitable
  − 2008: $20K/month unavailable
• Opportunity for creative application of
 social media tools
The MacGyver Syndication Plan
• Production continues at KROC-AM
• Segments delivered to affiliates as
 mp3 files for next week’s broadcast
• Topic for live production posted to
 blog, promoted via Twitter
• Listen live through audio stream from
 flagship station
• Podcasts posted 9 days later
Official Launch Last Month
• Already a “win”: formerly local
 program now on >10 stations,
 including international
• Gradual growth is practical because
 costs are nearly $0.00
• Unbridling a physician’s passion
• Significant new social media content
• Questions “tweeted” from four
 continents
Follow Medical Edge Weekend
          Progress
• radio.mayoclinic.org
• #mayoradio
• @mayoclinic
Yearly Cost for a
 Customized Blog




$75.00
Answers to Objections
• “But what about the cost in staff time to
 maintain all of these social media
 platforms? They’re not really that
 cheap!”
  − AT&T free phone service in 1969
  − Pitney Bowes free fax machines and
    supplies in 1989
  − YouTube, Facebook and Twitter free in
    2009
Beyond the “Seven Habits”
“8th Habit” Opportunity
I can go to any group, and I do it all the time, all over the world, and I
ask a simple question: “How many honestly believe that the vast
majority of the workforce in your organizations possess more talent,
more intelligence, more capability, more creativity, more resourcefulness
than their present jobs require or even allow them to use?” Literally,
almost everyone raises their hands…. Think of the loss of what we could
call “voice,” of people’s intelligence, capability, creativity. And yet I
can ask the next question: … “How many feel pressured to produce
more for less?” and you know what, the same amount of hands go up.

Now just put those two questions together: Here there’s this enormous
capability and talent and intelligence, and also this great pressure to
produce more for less, and they’re not able to even use it.

                                                        -- Stephen Covey
Stephen Covey’s “8th Habit”
Going beyond effectiveness to greatness


 “Find your voice and inspire
     others to find theirs”
Giving Voice to Some Stories...
Twitter Case Study: Listening
Ensuing Conversation
Affirming our Employees

Dear staff,
This 4 minute video actually made me tear
up…the patients mentioning our Judd
Sessions, classes and pamphlets…in relation
to their satisfaction with their care. How
wonderful to hear.

The patient/family testimonials reminded me
how we are making a difference through patient
education in the lives of our patients/families.
Jillayn Hey’s “Remarkable” Story
 “One statement has stuck out above
 all of the medical jargon written by
 the surgeons and various nurses who
 cared for me, and that is this:
 ‘patient's stay was unremarkable.’
 Well, although things went fairly
 smoothly after a difficult surgery, I
 would like to say that there was
 nothing unremarkable about my
 experience with Mayo.”
Therapeutic Storytelling...
“I recently read an (Utne Reader) article ... (which said) that
through telling our personal stories of illness and disease, we
assist in creating a new story of wellness that facilitates
healing and in turn directs a person towards recovery. This is
just one aspect that Sharing Mayo Clinic provides. It is not
only an opportunity for many patients and perhaps future
patients to tell their unique stories to work their way towards
health but it also provides a voice for its employees to share
parts of their daily work which I know must include joy and
sorrow as some of us become well and some of us
unfortunately do not. In my opinion, this is just another area
that Mayo is ahead of the curve in caring for its patients and
obviously their employees as well.”
VVP for Philadelphia Phillies
Enhancing Distribution of
    Patient-Generated Content
• Alerted to interesting video of elderly
 couple playing piano in Gonda atrium
• Embedded in Sharing Mayo Clinic,
 posted to Facebook, Tweeted on 4/7/09
• Video had been seen 1,005 times in six
 preceding months since upload
The next day...
Six days later...
April 22
Sunday, May 3
May 4
Cinco de Mayo
May 10
May 11
May 12
A sampling of the comments...
May 15
Early Morning May 26
May 26, 2009: Live in Studio
  Good Morning America
May 28, 2009
Results to Date

• More than 4.7 million views on YouTube
• More than 1.4 million views on Sharing
 Mayo Clinic
• Before posting to Sharing Mayo Clinic:
 1,000 views in six months
• After posting, Facebooking and
 Tweeting: 5,000 views per hour
Lessons
• Your mileage may vary, but...
• You’ll go a lot farther if you get a car.
Summary

• Twitter, Facebook, YouTube: $0
• Sharing Mayo Clinic blog: $75
• Bringing joy to the world through
 music: Priceless
Immense Potential
• Marketing we couldn’t buy at any price
  − 500,000 annual unique patients,
    50,000 employees as ambassadors
• More efficient care delivery
  − Patient support groups
  − Chronic disease management
  − Workplace Collaboration
• Free versions let you prove concept,
 gauge readiness
So what’s an advertiser to do?
• Don’t treat social media like another
 channel for blasting messages, but do...
  − Consider what your real business is and
    how social media can contribute
  − Get familiar with social media tools and
    join communities to learn standards
  − Become a catalytic resource to your
    clients, training them to engage
  − Coordinate social media with ads
  − Create compelling content
Tips on Personal Steps to
             Explore
• Establish a permanent personal email
• Get profiles in Facebook, LinkedIn
• Get a Twitter account
• Get a Flip camera (or iPhone 3G S?)
• Create a personal YouTube account
• Start a personal Blog
Visit Mayo Clinic Social Media
               Sites
• Follow, subscribe or “Fan”
  − http://twitter.com/mayoclinic
  − http://www.youtube.com/user/mayoclinic
  − http://sharing.mayoclinic.org/
  − http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mayo-Clinic/
    7673082516
• Consider sharing your Mayo Clinic story
Starter Steps for Organizations
• Claim your Twitter “handle”
• Create a Facebook “fan” page
• Create a YouTube channel
• For Extra Credit: If you have
 organizational commitment, create a
 multi-author blog
U.S. TV Contributions
  to World Culture
The worst show in the
 history of U.S. TV?
“Kids will take a chance.
   If they don’t know,
   they’ll have a go.”
 -- Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006
“Your kids aren’t
smarter than you are.
   They’re just not
afraid to look dumb.”
If you have an iPhone, Let’s Bump!
If not, contact me by...

• Googling Lee Aase or SMUG U
• @LeeAase on Twitter
• aase.lee@mayo.edu
• Continue conversation at #AAFWI
 (Twitter) or via SMUG comments

American Advertising Federation Presentations

  • 1.
    Engaging customers, reachingnew ones and improving organizational effectiveness through social media Lee Aase Manager, Syndication and Social Media Mayo Clinic #AAFWI October 19, 2009
  • 2.
    Today’s Agenda • Whatare social media tools and why should you care about them? • What is the Mayo Clinic experience and why is it relevant for you? • How can you get started? • Any other questions you have...
  • 4.
    Help you shootdown arguments that social media tools... • ...aren’t worth your time and money • ...are too risky for your organization • ...are beyond your capability to implement, either because of cost or complexity • ...are optional
  • 5.
    Help you makethe case that social media tools are... • Immensely powerful • Consistent with your organization’s values (or should be) • Free (or ridiculously inexpensive) • and...
  • 8.
    Disclaimers • These results not typical • Use as directed • Read and follow label directions • Side effects may include vertigo, watery eyes, crackberry thumb and iPhone application addiction • Social media tools are an essential part of a balanced communications diet • If insufficient media coverage persists, consult your communications doctor • Batteries not included • Some assembly required • Your mileage may vary
  • 9.
    Disclosures • No financialinterest in any product or service mentioned in this presentation • Full-time salaried employee of Mayo Clinic
  • 10.
    About Lee Aase(@LeeAase) • B.S. Political Science • 14 years in politics and government at local, state, national levels • Mayo Clinic since April 2000 − Media relations consultant − Manager since 2004 − Media Relations/Research Comm − Syndication and Social Media
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    A Grandpa whoappreciates the power of Facebook
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    Reasons to Careabout Social Media: Risks are Unavoidable • Anyone (especially determined detractors) can − Start a blog − Launch a YouTube channel • A significant portion of your employees are in Facebook now (e.g. >5,000 at Mayo Clinic) • ROI = Risk of Ignoring (Hat tip: USCG)
  • 22.
    United Breaks GuitarsBreaks United
  • 23.
    Star Tribune Valuesand The Changing Media Landscape • 1998 $1.2 Billion • 2006: $530 Million • Emerged from bankruptcy last week
  • 24.
    What business areyou in? • Selling (and marking up) advertising? • Developing great creative? • Helping clients build profitable relationships?
  • 25.
    The Most ImportantWord (and Book Recommendation) in Web 2.0
  • 27.
    Intro to Today’sFREE Tools Blogs RSS Podcasts Social Networks Skype YouTube Wikis Twitter Slideshare uStream
  • 28.
    Intro to Blogs •Just an easy-to-publish Web site that allows comments • Blogs in Plain English - Lee LeFever
  • 29.
    RSS = ReallySimple Syndication • Lets you easily track dozens of blogs or other Web sites without surfing • Truly opt-in “email” • RSS “baked in” to IE 7, Safari • Google Reader a free Web option
  • 30.
    Podcasts • TiVo forAudio (and now video) • Don’t need an iPod to use • Series of segments to which you can subscribe via RSS • iTunes free for PC or Mac • Create your own FREE podcast (listed in iTunes) through SMUG
  • 31.
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    Wikis • Collaborative editingtools • Wikipedia the most famous • 2.9 million articles in English • Definitive stories quickly on − 35W Bridge Collapse − Virginia Tech shooting
  • 34.
    YouTube • World’s secondlargest search engine • Google bought for $1.65 Billion • “The world has voted, and we want to watch videos on YouTube.” - Andy Sernovitz, SocialMedia.org
  • 36.
    Other Important Platforms •Slideshare.net: YouTube for PowerPoint and Keynote • uStream.tv: Your own global television channel • Mix and Match
  • 38.
    Mayo Clinic’s SocialMedia Experience
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    Sources of InformationInfluencing Preference for Mayo Clinic Word of mouth 84 Stories in the media 57 MD recommendation 44 Advertising 27 Internet/Websites 26 Personal experience 24 Mailings to home 18 0 20 40 60 80 100 40
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    Mayo Clinic andWord of Mouth • 91 percent of patients surveyed say they have said “good things” to an average of 40 people following a Mayo visit • 85 percent say they recommended Mayo to a friend − Advised an average of 16 to come − 5 actually came
  • 42.
    Mayo Clinic MedicalEdge News Media Syndications
  • 43.
    First Foray inNew Media • Existing Medical Edge radio mp3s • Launched Sept. ‘05; Downloads up 8,217 percent Oct. vs. Aug.
  • 44.
    Step 2: More,Longer Podcasts
  • 49.
    Total Cost forMayo Clinic Facebook, YouTube and Twitter $0.00
  • 50.
    Key Tool: FlipVideo Camera* • Affordable for all campuses (and you) • Recording interviews (with tripod) improves existing processes • Authenticity without writer’s cramp • Provides potential blog resources − Audio of full interview − Video excerpts • Limited group of video editors to ease adoption, ensure quality
  • 51.
    Cost for aStandard Definition Flip Video Camera $150.00 HD available for an additional $80
  • 52.
    HD: Worth theInvestment
  • 53.
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  • 55.
    Sharing Mayo Clinic •Gathering global Mayo community − Patients telling their stories − Employee bloggers recruited from throughout organization − Video profiles of patients/staff • Hub to integrate Mayo social media • Interactive companion to print edition • sharing.mayoclinic.org
  • 56.
  • 58.
    The Next BigThing: Radio Syndication
  • 59.
    Healthline becomes Medical Edge Weekend • Host is Mayo Clinic M.D. with 20 years local radio experience • Previous syndication not feasible − 1999: Unlikely profitable − 2008: $20K/month unavailable • Opportunity for creative application of social media tools
  • 60.
    The MacGyver SyndicationPlan • Production continues at KROC-AM • Segments delivered to affiliates as mp3 files for next week’s broadcast • Topic for live production posted to blog, promoted via Twitter • Listen live through audio stream from flagship station • Podcasts posted 9 days later
  • 61.
    Official Launch LastMonth • Already a “win”: formerly local program now on >10 stations, including international • Gradual growth is practical because costs are nearly $0.00 • Unbridling a physician’s passion • Significant new social media content • Questions “tweeted” from four continents
  • 63.
    Follow Medical EdgeWeekend Progress • radio.mayoclinic.org • #mayoradio • @mayoclinic
  • 64.
    Yearly Cost fora Customized Blog $75.00
  • 65.
    Answers to Objections •“But what about the cost in staff time to maintain all of these social media platforms? They’re not really that cheap!” − AT&T free phone service in 1969 − Pitney Bowes free fax machines and supplies in 1989 − YouTube, Facebook and Twitter free in 2009
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    “8th Habit” Opportunity Ican go to any group, and I do it all the time, all over the world, and I ask a simple question: “How many honestly believe that the vast majority of the workforce in your organizations possess more talent, more intelligence, more capability, more creativity, more resourcefulness than their present jobs require or even allow them to use?” Literally, almost everyone raises their hands…. Think of the loss of what we could call “voice,” of people’s intelligence, capability, creativity. And yet I can ask the next question: … “How many feel pressured to produce more for less?” and you know what, the same amount of hands go up. Now just put those two questions together: Here there’s this enormous capability and talent and intelligence, and also this great pressure to produce more for less, and they’re not able to even use it. -- Stephen Covey
  • 68.
    Stephen Covey’s “8thHabit” Going beyond effectiveness to greatness “Find your voice and inspire others to find theirs”
  • 69.
    Giving Voice toSome Stories...
  • 70.
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  • 75.
    Affirming our Employees Dearstaff, This 4 minute video actually made me tear up…the patients mentioning our Judd Sessions, classes and pamphlets…in relation to their satisfaction with their care. How wonderful to hear. The patient/family testimonials reminded me how we are making a difference through patient education in the lives of our patients/families.
  • 78.
    Jillayn Hey’s “Remarkable”Story “One statement has stuck out above all of the medical jargon written by the surgeons and various nurses who cared for me, and that is this: ‘patient's stay was unremarkable.’ Well, although things went fairly smoothly after a difficult surgery, I would like to say that there was nothing unremarkable about my experience with Mayo.”
  • 79.
    Therapeutic Storytelling... “I recentlyread an (Utne Reader) article ... (which said) that through telling our personal stories of illness and disease, we assist in creating a new story of wellness that facilitates healing and in turn directs a person towards recovery. This is just one aspect that Sharing Mayo Clinic provides. It is not only an opportunity for many patients and perhaps future patients to tell their unique stories to work their way towards health but it also provides a voice for its employees to share parts of their daily work which I know must include joy and sorrow as some of us become well and some of us unfortunately do not. In my opinion, this is just another area that Mayo is ahead of the curve in caring for its patients and obviously their employees as well.”
  • 81.
  • 82.
    Enhancing Distribution of Patient-Generated Content • Alerted to interesting video of elderly couple playing piano in Gonda atrium • Embedded in Sharing Mayo Clinic, posted to Facebook, Tweeted on 4/7/09 • Video had been seen 1,005 times in six preceding months since upload
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    A sampling ofthe comments...
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    May 26, 2009:Live in Studio Good Morning America
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    Results to Date •More than 4.7 million views on YouTube • More than 1.4 million views on Sharing Mayo Clinic • Before posting to Sharing Mayo Clinic: 1,000 views in six months • After posting, Facebooking and Tweeting: 5,000 views per hour
  • 102.
    Lessons • Your mileagemay vary, but... • You’ll go a lot farther if you get a car.
  • 103.
    Summary • Twitter, Facebook,YouTube: $0 • Sharing Mayo Clinic blog: $75 • Bringing joy to the world through music: Priceless
  • 104.
    Immense Potential • Marketingwe couldn’t buy at any price − 500,000 annual unique patients, 50,000 employees as ambassadors • More efficient care delivery − Patient support groups − Chronic disease management − Workplace Collaboration • Free versions let you prove concept, gauge readiness
  • 106.
    So what’s anadvertiser to do? • Don’t treat social media like another channel for blasting messages, but do... − Consider what your real business is and how social media can contribute − Get familiar with social media tools and join communities to learn standards − Become a catalytic resource to your clients, training them to engage − Coordinate social media with ads − Create compelling content
  • 107.
    Tips on PersonalSteps to Explore • Establish a permanent personal email • Get profiles in Facebook, LinkedIn • Get a Twitter account • Get a Flip camera (or iPhone 3G S?) • Create a personal YouTube account • Start a personal Blog
  • 108.
    Visit Mayo ClinicSocial Media Sites • Follow, subscribe or “Fan” − http://twitter.com/mayoclinic − http://www.youtube.com/user/mayoclinic − http://sharing.mayoclinic.org/ − http://www.facebook.com/pages/Mayo-Clinic/ 7673082516 • Consider sharing your Mayo Clinic story
  • 109.
    Starter Steps forOrganizations • Claim your Twitter “handle” • Create a Facebook “fan” page • Create a YouTube channel • For Extra Credit: If you have organizational commitment, create a multi-author blog
  • 113.
    U.S. TV Contributions to World Culture
  • 117.
    The worst showin the history of U.S. TV?
  • 120.
    “Kids will takea chance. If they don’t know, they’ll have a go.” -- Sir Ken Robinson, TED 2006
  • 121.
    “Your kids aren’t smarterthan you are. They’re just not afraid to look dumb.”
  • 123.
    If you havean iPhone, Let’s Bump!
  • 124.
    If not, contactme by... • Googling Lee Aase or SMUG U • @LeeAase on Twitter • aase.lee@mayo.edu • Continue conversation at #AAFWI (Twitter) or via SMUG comments