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The Social CEO: Trends and Practices of Top Executives
The document discusses the role of CEOs in leveraging social media to enhance organizational competitiveness and adapt to market changes. It highlights that a majority of executives see social business as critical for the future and outlines the benefits of personal and professional engagement in social media. Additionally, it emphasizes the importance of establishing a structured approach to social media within organizations.
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The Social CEO: Trends and Practices of Top Executives
- 1. THE SOCIAL CEO TRENDSAND PRACTICES OF TOP EXECUTIVES
- 2. Agenda • The LatestSocial Media Statistics • Industry Trends – The C-Suite on Social • How to be a Social CEO
- 3. I consider myorganization to be… • New to social media • Comfortable, but still experimenting • Using social media strategically • A fully integrated social business
- 4. I myself am… •Too busy to spend any time on social media • Interested, but unsure how best to use social personally • Happy to let my staff manage our social media • A very social leader
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- 6. • Source: TheRealtime Report, March 22, 2013
- 7. Association Social MediaSurvey • Collaboration of: – Association Trends – Qrisp Research
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- 10. 2012 Social MediaUse in the Industrial Sector LinkedIn Source: Global Spec Industry Trends Report
- 11. Facebook 2012 Social MediaUse in the Industrial Sector
- 12. Twitter 2012 Social MediaUse in the Industrial Sector
- 13. 2012 Social MediaUse in the Industrial Sector
- 14. So what aboutthe C-suite?
- 15. 2012 IBM CEOStudy
- 16. 71% 70% 71% Text of CEOs feltsocial business will be important to their organization in 3 years 70% of CIOs Source: Deloitte/MIT Study
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- 19. What’s in itfor your staff?
- 20. 41% 43% Agree Strongly Agree 84% believesocial media gives their company a competitive edge
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- 25. What’s in itfor your customers?
- 28. What’s in itfor you?
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- 32. Source: Digital Dayaon Mashable
- 33. There are twoways to be a social CEO. 1. Use social media personally and professionally
- 34. Benefits of Twitterfor CEOs • Break real time news and information • Establish thought leadership • Build presence in case of crisis • Be the face of the company – transparency • Be the face of the company – values • Build relationships with influencers • Be the influencer others want to connect to
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- 36. Tip: SPI TwitterList
- 37. Tip: SPI LinkedInGroup
- 38. There are twoways to be a social CEO. 1. Use social media personally and professionally 2. Bring social principles to life and support your organization’s social efforts.
- 39. Build the infrastructurefor social • Assign a social media team • Define goals • Set policies • Establish training • Manage change
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- 42. “Simply put, CEOsand their executives set the cultural tone for an organization. Through participation, they implicitly promote the use of social technologies. That will make their organizations more competitive and better able to adapt to sudden market changes.” - Forbes.com on the IBM CEO Study
- 43. THANK YOU Maddie Grant webstrategist, association practice ICF Ironworks maddie.grant@icfi.com @maddiegrant
Editor's Notes
- #11 Global Spec recently conducted its third annual social media usage survey of engineering, technical, manufacturing, and industrial professionals, which showed that use of social media for work-related purposes among this audience is focused on a few platforms and audience is steadily increasing.
- #16 1,709 CEOs, general managers and senior public sector leaders from around the globe – 64 countries, 18 industries.
- #19 On the left, the Social Leadership Survey I conducted with my co-author Jamie Notter, related to our book Humanize. On the right, a survey by a branding agency called BrandFog. Both of our survey respondents spanned hundreds of professionals from all kinds of companies, large and small in various industries.
- #20 Both surveys asked people questions about their CEO’s use of social media and social leadership.
- #24 Here’s more from the Brandfog study. Remember this is what your staff want from you as leaders.
- #41 Blue side = using social media personally. Green side = supporting your organization’s social infrastructureProducer – the CEO who is a very public figure and uses video to talk about the company and industry. [Gary Shapiro, consumer electronics?]Distributor – this could be a CEO with a blog and large readership. [ Bill Marriott]Recipient – the CEO who curates information from the internet for his followers – could be someone who has a large Twitter following but not necessarily their own blog – Richard Branson, maybe.-------------------Adviser – leaders who play a proactive role in raising the media literacy of their staff. [Bill Carteaux]Architect – balance the sharing of content internally and externally [BahratMasrani, CEO of TD Bank]Analyst – stays ahead of the technology curve and understands the cultural impact of innovations [Redd Hastings, Netflix]