While this is from 2009 it still tells an awesome story about how Social Media changed the face of Comcast. Sadly Comcast could never got to a point where the positive front end was igniting more change in the back end of the company. A pattern we see in many very early engaged companies who never actually introduced a comprehensive social media strategy and stood kind of still at the experimentation level.
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We blogged about this project before and I thought I give an update. For those who don’t know: The European Commission in Brussels initiated a program called “Digital Agenda Europe” and within this initiative 8 focus groups of which one is Social Media. Based on the overarching goal of a program called “Europe 2020″ we created the following objective for a Social Media Strategy proposal which we will present to the EU Commission June 21 in Brussels.
Objective
Stimulate small and medium size businesses and innovative start-ups across the EU leveraging social media to create a sustainable growth, additional jobs and being able to compete in a global market. Specifically we want to double the number of businesses, actively engaged in social media who created new jobs, year over year till 2016
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We all hear people saying “companies” do that or don’t do this. Companies don’t care about customers, companies don’t understand social media and on and on. I feel it would be helpful to change terminology towards the team of company X does this or fails to do that. The management of company X and so forth….
Companies are legal bodies – nothing but an entry in a register. Companies can’t use social media, but their teams can. Companies can’t create a better customer experience, but their teams can. Companies don’t ignore the changes in our society but executives may do.
This is not about semantics – it is about addressing people not walls of bricks and mortar behind teams and managers are hiding.
I believe if we change the way we address companies, the teams and managers would feel much more responsible for what is going on behind those walls. Today I can hide and say “Well, it’s how this ‘company’ works”. But if instead of the company wasting energy and polluting the air – we address the team that “the team is wasting energy and polluting the air”, woooh what a difference. If instead of the accusing a company providing a bad customer experience, we accuse the team providing a bad customer experience – again aaaarrrrrg - that maybe ME :(
1) I wonder what we could do to make that shift in the way we communicate?
2) What would be a good approach to introduce that?
3) How could we explain the benefits? – without having an epic story like this ;)
Thanks for any thoughts
How can you build a trusted network without spending hours and hours each day? How is it possible that some high ranking executives from Billion Dollar companies spend time in the social web while somebody working in the trenches cannot? Why chose other executives with equally big organizations to not participate at all – still wondering why they are just not as successful? How can people out of the blue just raise up the trust ladder and grow an enormous follower-ship all of a sudden? Today it looks like this is just a random pattern with no structure and all coincidental. But it is absolutely not. In this PART 1 I will talk about some fundamentals of Social Media Time Management.
Social Media is NOT a technology play
I guess you all rationalized that Social Media projects are typically difficult to close and painful to execute if executives are not well aware of the impact of Social Media to their business. The single biggest problem is that most executives do not speak your language.
Getting your or your client’s executives to understand Social Media has become for many the single biggest obstacle. Even if you have a good story, they may not trust you – but they may trust the Social Media Academy. SMACAD is trusted by executives from ADP, Dell, Salesforcce.com, SAP and many others. Based on our own experience dealing with world class executives, we created this brand new executive program: “Social Media Business Essentials” for executives and top executive consultants http://bit.ly/smacadsmbe $395 incl. certificate Continue Reading →
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Social Media @ Intel
Thought I’d share this video showing what market leader Intel thinks about Social Media and how they help their team to adopt and successfully use Social Media.
SEO (Search Engine Optimization) helps businesses and obviously also individuals or any other group to be found in the Internet. And as long as people search for a product not knowing their name or a technology, not knowing its source or a solution not knowing who is a potential supplier SEO is an important part of the marketing mix.
However, this is slowly and steadily changing. Today 60 – 80% of the so called educated purchase decision is based on recommendations.
Only people who care stand up and argue, defend, fight or otherwise make their position very clear. Interesting enough – the more disappointing a situation gets, the louder the conversation and the bigger the impact for a brand. An age old saying goes: "The worst thing to be talked about – is not to be talked about". A few companies are actually learning from the show business how this all works.
Scandals and disappointments – strategic tools
Kingdoms ruled the world for the past thousand years. People either lived in one of those kingdoms or were essentially outlaws or gypsies. Those who belonged to any of the kingdoms had to obey their rules or needed to leave to find a new place. That was very hard as you had to leave friends and family behind. When I hear from friends they are in twitter jail or even worst their account were blocked it reminds me on those kingdoms where the king decided the rules and their guard just executed whatever they felt is not right. One of my contacts tried for 3 month to get his Twitter account back and then finally created a new one – without knowing why. I had such a situation 3 years ago. Our Social Media Academy account was erased by Twitter and I had no way of knowing, getting in touch or getting an answer. Continue Reading →
Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, lately Google Plus have rapidly evolved over the past few years. Online interaction took center stage and having a profile is only a commodity. LinkedIn developed into a different direction. groups degraded to cheap classified add boards, question and answers were basically replaced by the likes of Quora and Focus and the actual "conversation" circles all around spam.
