This document summarizes a presentation on social technologies and strategies. It discusses learning from customers through social media monitoring and analytics. It emphasizes having an authentic dialogue with customers across multiple social channels. It also covers using social media to provide customer support in real-time and integrating social into existing support systems. Finally, it discusses how companies can encourage innovation through social media by participating in crowdsourcing, encouraging idea sharing, and bringing customers into the organization.
http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2009/gb20090619_984913.htmhttp://twitter.com/#!/vodafoneukAlmost ALL of Vodafone UK’s ~75,000 tweets are public @replies to customer inquiries. The only tweets that aren’t are to let customers now when their team is signing off for the night and signing back on in the morning. Although the article I read that mentioned them said they also used it for marketing purposes, I didn’t see any marketing messages recently.This is a great representation of dialog and support frameworks.
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_25232.shtmlTurespaña ( The Spanish Institute of Tourism) has launched an innovative online campaign on social networks, such as Facebook, Twitter and Youtube relating to the subject, “Spain, a country to share”. The project aims to completely change the way of communicating and promoting Spanish destinations, going beyond the classic idea of Spain as a destination for “sun and beach”.http://www.facebook.com/spain – nearly 500k fans, hundreds engaging on every post.http://www.formspring.me/ilovespainhttp://www.youtube.com/spain<tags>#europe#spain#facebook#dialog#tourism#charlene
We’ve seen South American telecom companies embrace social customer service to a higher degree – publically resolving issues on an individual basis. But Vodafone IT and ES both do a good job of listening to their customers and engaging in a way that supports their needs. Key differences: Italy tends to take things offline, aging customers to submit their numbers to the Italian team, while Vodafone Spain tackles issues head on, without publicly naming or tagging their Twitter customer support team.http://twitter.com/#!/vodafone_eshttp://twitter.com/#!/vodafoneit
Wind Italy (Italian Telecom company, roughly #3 in the country today) launched the Wind Business Network – a social network for budding entrepreneurs, small businesses and startups in Italy. It is receiving rave recognition in terms of awards…but engagement on the site is relatively lackluster. Still, they’ve provided support to 200+ small business, interacting together as a community. The community was launched as a means to grow subscriptions, and while data on results is not available – it is a truly innovative way for a service provider that all businesses need (phone, internet, etc) to support their community of potential customers.http://www.slideshare.net/TheBlogTV/theblogtv-value-behind-community-may-2011http://www.windbusinessfactor.it/
http://www.facebook.com/danskebank?v=app_177360692283592http://www.visible-banking.com/2011/02/idebank-danske-bank-leverages-facebook-to-improve-its-mobile-banking-application.html“Activity & UsageIn its first few weeks, Idebank has generated a good level of activity and usage. It is a good experiment which already generated a good level of involvement. Please find below a few stats:* 9,950+ monthly active users* 2,000+ votes* 169 ideas* 128 comments”Great quote here from the blog post:“Danske Bank has chosen one of the best ways to leverage its page: mobile banking is still cool, innovative, and customers are enthusiastic. The feedback is not a concern because it doesn't involve products, and it gives the bank a unique opportunity to identify its key advocates, its most passionate and influential customers about mobile and innovation, and build relationships with them.”March 16, 2011<tags>#financial#europe#sweden#facebook#innovate
I think the frame stopped here in part 1 of the YouTube series is a powerful message. “Fiat stopped to listen.” It’s step 1 in the objectives (learn) and one that permeates through every aspect of the framework. Fiat set out (with help from the agency AgenciaClick Isobar) in unprecedented fashion to launch the first ever crowdsourced car. Fiat built a forum at http://www.fiatmio.cc/ - really a small social network – that created a workspace for exchange of dialog between Fiat drivers and car designers. Drivers posed and answered questions about features and functions they’d like to see. They told Fiat EXACTLY what they wanted to see via social media. This is the ultimate engagement, and exercise of trust between brand and consumer.More info: http://adage.com/article/global-news/top-social-media-campaigns-brazil-china-hungary/227440/#auto#b2c#innovate#learn#youtube
Starbucks has a site where people can make suggestions on how they should improve. The key difference is that the suggestions are public, and people can vote for their favorite suggestions. Here’s an example of automatic ordering. Note that there is a status update here “Under Review”.http://mystarbucksidea.force.com/<tags>#foodbev<region><country>#community#innovate<market><research area>#charlene