7. Episode 1 - Your perfect
customer experience
Why the perfect customer
experience needs integrated
social media, thought leadership
and online service design
13. Episode 2 – Thought
Leadership
Thought Leader… recognized among peers
and mentors for innovative ideas and
demonstrates the confidence to promote
or share those ideas as actionable distilled
insights
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thought_Leadershipç
76. KNEXUS ENTERPRISE EDITION - Datasheet
SELECTED CUSTOMERS
Integrated Social Media & Rapid Learning Bupa GlaxoSmithKline Nokia
Cadbury
Dell Johnson & Johnson Prudential
Ingram Micro Shell
Knexus Enterprise Edition is the leading integrated social
media & rapid learning platform, offering you best-in-
class, flexible and feature rich capabilities to create KEY USE CASES
vibrant communities and team networks within your
organization. Accelerate understanding & engagement with colleagues
through media rich videos and podcasts information delivery
Integrate rapid learning into everyday business, with easy
sharing, networking and collaboration capabilities around content
Stimulate innovation and insights within and across teams &
The Enterprise Edition provides a fast, simple user regions
experience, with networking, collaboration, sharing and
rapid information dissemination. Easy-to-use admin panel with rich functionality makes content &
site management fast and convenient
Improve business performance with powerful analytics
Rapidly deploy a cost effective, integrated online solution that’s
globally scalable
Knexus can help you to integrate social into your business, Integrate Knexus Enterprise Edition with your existing intranet
create profitable interactions amongst colleagues,
communicate faster, stimulate innovation and
accurately measure business value creation. CASE STUDIES
Find out how companies are using Knexus Enterprise Edition
to effectively disseminate information and create profitable
interactions amongst colleagues
www.knexusgroup.com/success_stories_enterprise
BENEFITS
Effectively and timely dissemination of information GET STARTED
Create profitable interactions To get started or request a quote, please contact Philip Hobbs
Stimulate innovation at philip.hobbs@knexusgroup.com
77. KNEXUS ENTERPRISE EDITION - Datasheet
KEY SOCIAL MEDIA FEATURES
Enterprise Edition Features Forums – Ask and find answers to specific questions
Blogging – Share interesting opinions and ideas
Knexus Enterprise Edition is the leading integrated social Secure Collaboration – Create secure online collaboration spaces for
media & rapid learning platform – providing everything sharing
you need to create profitable interactions amongst Networking – Confidential, secure connections
colleagues, effectively disseminate information, RSS Feeds & Aggregation – Stay update with the latest information
stimulate innovation and measure business value Mash-ups – Integrate popular social media destinations (e.g. Twitter,
creation. Features include: Facebook) with content on the platform
Ratings & comments –Rate media and interactions
Profiles – Create personalization profile pages
Directory – Create a directory of users
Events & Calendar – Organize and promote upcoming events via
KEY MEDIA MANAGEMENT FEATURES events calendar
User driven preferences – That can be aligned with your corporate
segmentation to target content
Videos – Watch online videos
Personalization – Tailor your media and collaboration preferences
Podcasts – Listen to and download podcasts
iTunes subscribe – Subscribe to podcasts with iTunes
podcast feed
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User Generated Content (UGC) – Upload UGC quickly and KEY ADMIN FEATURES
easily No technical knowledge or skills required to customise and
manage your Community environment quickly and easily:
Sharing – Share favourite videos, podcasts and documents
by embed, links and email Content Manager – Powerful and intuitive content
KEY ANALYTICS FEATURES management system (CMS)
Favorites – Organize and find favourites with one click
Userinterface & reporting – Track your own activities on the
tracking Site Manager – Manage site navigation, site pages and
platform to gauge success navigation blocks
Webcasts – Live webcast management
Team reporting – Create and monitor teams of users to measure User Manager – Add new users or edit details and profiles of
ROI existing users
Admin reporting – Powerful analysis of usage, media popularity Email Manager – Create, manage and edit email
and more communications
78. KNEXUS COMMERCIAL EDITION - Datasheet
SELECTED CUSTOMERS
Power of Social Media and Rapid Bupa GlaxoSmithKline Nokia
Learning Cadbury
Dell Johnson & Johnson Prudential
Ingram Micro Shell
Knexus Commercial Edition is the leading integrated social
media & rapid learning platform for increasing revenue, KEY USE CASES
building brand recognition, creating profitable Use video content integrated with collaboration to accelerate
conversations and driving monetization through understanding and stimulate purchasing behavior
enhanced engagement with customers and partners. Use social media functionality to build more trusted customer
relationships
Enhance interaction with and between customers to create
The Commercial Edition is ideal for companies who want to profitable conversations
use the power of online social media and rapid learning Generate and rapidly capture new leads
to increase sales, improve engagement and reward Reward loyal customers with added value online experience
loyalty with customers and partners. Track key marketing metrics with powerful analytics
Rapidly deploy a cost effective, integrated online solution that’s
globally scalable
Integrate Knexus Commercial Edition with existing online sites
BENEFITS
CASE STUDIES
Increase revenue Find out how companies are using Knexus Commercial Edition
to create profitable conversations with customers and partners
Build brand recognition
www.knexusgroup.com/success_stories_commercial
Create profitable conversations
Build & reward loyalty
GET STARTED
Drive monetization through enhanced engagement
To get started or request a quote, please contact Philip Hobbs
Powerful metrics at philip.hobbs@knexusgroup.com
Self-service interface for maximum agility
79. KNEXUS COMMERCIAL EDITION - Datasheet
KEY MEDIA MANAGEMENT FEATURES
Commercial Edition Features
Videos – Watch online videos
Podcasts – Listen to and download podcasts
Knexus Commercial Edition combines comprehensive social
media features & rapid learning functionality – On Demand interface – For fast, flexible access to content
providing everything you need to improve engagement, User Generated Content (UGC) – Upload UGC quickly and
insight and interaction with customers & partners. easily
iTunes subscribe – Subscribe to podcasts with iTunes podcast
feed
The platform can be deployed flexibly to fit with your Read documents
business objectives and existing online investments.
Features include: Sharing – Share favourite videos, podcasts and documents by
embed, links and email
Favorites – Organize and find favourites with one click
interface
Webcasts – Live webcast management
Search – Flexible search for media files and more within
seconds
KEY SOCIAL MEDIA FEATURES Metatags – Add descriptive meta tags for your media
Forums – Ask and answer questions KEY ANALYTICS FEATURES
Blogging – Share opinions and ideas User tracking & reporting – Track your own activities on the
Ratings & comments –Rate media and interactions platform to gauge success
Personalization – Tailor your media and collaboration
preferences
KEY ADMIN FEATURES
Secure Collaboration – secure online collaboration
spaces for sharing CRM – Integrated CRM via salesforce.com
Content Manager – Powerful and intuitive content
Networking – Confidential, secure connections management system (CMS)
Mash-ups - integrate external social media with content Site Manager – Manage site navigation, site pages and
on the platform navigation blocks
User Manager – Add new users or edit details and profiles of
RSS Feeds & Aggregation – stay update with latest existing users
information
Email Manager – Create, manage and edit email
Conversion tracking - identify sales leads & conversion communications
Competitor web site analysis
Full persona and scenario development
Content strategy work
Operating model/process reviews
Competency/training reviews
Strategies for social media
Strategies for search, search engine optimisation and search engine marketing
Strategies for cross channel activities
Campaign strategies
Core/context analysis
RFP development
Strategic project execution project management
SaaS software evaluation
Competitor web site analysis
Full persona and scenario development
Content strategy work
Operating model/process reviews
Competency/training reviews
Strategies for social media
Strategies for search, search engine optimisation and search engine marketing
Strategies for cross channel activities
Campaign strategies
Core/context analysis
RFP development
Strategic project execution project management
SaaS software evaluation
2/3 OF THE GLOBAL INTERNET POPULATION VISIT SOCIAL NETWORKS.– Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, 2009
TIME SPENT ON SOCIAL NETWORK AND BLOGGING SITES GROWING AT OVER 3x THE RATE OF OVERALL INTERNET GROWTH, ACCOUNTING FOR ~10% OF ALL INTERNET TIME.– Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, 2009
SOCIAL NETWORK AND BLOGGING SITES ARE NOWTHE FOURTH MOST POPULAR ACTIVITY ON THEINTERNET – AHEAD OF PERSONAL EMAIL.– Nielsen, Global Faces & Networked Places, 2009
Only 14% of people trust advertisement. 78% of people trust the recommendations of other consumers– Nielsen, Trust In Advertisement Report, 2007
Forrester surveyed more than 1,200 business technology buyers and found that they exceed all previous benchmarks for social participation. B2B marketers, eager to know how social media fits into the marketing mix, can use the Social Technographics® Profiles of business decision-makers to design marketing programs that not only capitalize on emerging social behaviors but also fundamentally change the nature of the marketing relationship between B2B buyers and sellers.
Starbucks: Starbuck is clearly dialed in to the world of social media, and that is reflected in the Starbucks fan page. The page incorporates great videos, varied content, and has active engagement with the fans. But what makes it truly exceptional, is its use of status updates.
Status updates are an important aspect of any fan page because they provide two-way communication between company and fan, while keeping the page fresh with new content and information, which gives fans a reason to return. So many companies struggle to understand how best to utilize these updates and either don’t use them at all, update solely about product announcements, or update so often users become overwhelmed and the updates turn into so much noise. Starbucks, on the other hand, has established a good frequency of updates, sharing something new every couple of days.
More importantly, though, the content is varied, fun, and interesting. Their updates share videos, blog posts about all aspects of coffee — and not just on the official company blog — including how to grow coffee beans, articles about Starbucks and Starbucks employees. The tone of each update is informative and casual, and even their product updates are kept varied enough to remain interesting, for example, by offering up reviews of new music or books for sale in their cafes. As a result, the quality status update content has led to a very engaged fan base, with every update receiving thousands of comments.
The Starbucks Facebook fan page is a great example of how a company can still engage fans without the use of flashy apps, and instead simply focusing on quality content.
DELL: In early 2005, Dell was bashed around blogosphere
Dell dispatched technicians to reach out to complaining bloggers and solve their problems, earning pleasantly surprised buzz
Starts Direct2Dell blog where chief blogger Lionel Menchaca gave the company a frank and credible human voice
In 2007, Dell launched IdeaStorm.com, asking customers to tell the company what to do
Today, Dell even enables customers to rate its products on its site.
Negative blog posts about Dell have dropped from 49% to 22%.
Dell Outlet faces a common but vexing challenge. A division of the giant made-to-order computer business, Dell Outlet carries refurbished equipment and other inventory that it needs to sell quickly. Because the division has to get the word out fast, it doesn’t have the luxury of hiring an agency and developing an ad campaign.Instead, the outlet relies primarily on email marketing, paid search results, search-engine optimization and affiliate links to raise awareness and drive sales. It’s always looking for new, cost-effective ways to reach people.
Holding Conversations When company employee Ricardo Guerrero discovered Twitter at the South by Southwest conference in 2007, he thought he’d hit on a good channel for pushing out information. The rest of the team agreed.“We thought, ‘Great—this has a really short lead time, and it will let us communicate our message effectively,’” says Stefanie Nelson, manager of demand generation at Dell Outlet. “We started using it for one-way communication.”The company was surprised when people responded. “They wanted to ask questions. They wanted to share their experiences, good and bad,” says Nelson, who’s based in Austin, TX. “We realized that people were really interested in talking with us.”
Raising awareness So instead of using Twitter just to let people know about deals, the company has come to think of it as a good place to interact with customers—and to raise awareness about the brand. “When we respond to people on Twitter, they get really excited, and we gain advocates.”That doesn’t mean Dell Outlet has abandoned the deals. In fact, the company often posts offers that are exclusive to Twitter. They twitter only a few times a week so as not to spam their followers, and they use tracking URLs to gauge what followers find most appealing.
Increasing sales Do the coupons work? Big time. Not only do they get retweeted and picked up by coupon sites—both of which spread the brand name—they also drive sales. Dell Outlet has booked more than $3 million in revenue attributable to its Twitter posts. In addition, the division has done research showing that awareness of the outlet has grown, too. “The uplift has been more than we dreamed,” says Nelson.
Connecting with customers Dell now has more than 80 Dell-branded Twitter accounts (including @dellhomeoffers for new system deals) offering everything from videos of new technologies to promotions for Asia-Pacific customers. It also encourages employees to twitter, and has well over 100 employee accounts. Dell uses many of those accounts (with names like @StefanieAtDell), primarily for customer service exchanges that require direct messages (Twitter’s private channel) and to reach out to people who are twittering about Dell (which they find via Twitter search).Nelson has learned when starting a new account on Twitter, it’s smart to reach out to your current customer base. They’re already interested in chatting with you, and they’ll tell other people about you. But no matter who’s following you on Twitter, she says, “offering relevant information that people are interested in is key.”
DELL: Listen first. Learn from what your customers are saying to establish your baseline.
Engage employees internally through social media. Use blogs, Yammer or company-specific social tools to get people used to and excited about the platforms.
Encourage employees to set up social media accounts. As you know, social media is addictive! Once people try it, not only will they be itching for more, they’ll be coming up with ideas for how it can benefit their team.
Starbucks: The key takeaways are that you have to know your audience, you have to provide quality, regular content, you need to encourage discussion and engagement, and you must not take yourself too seriously.
Create ads that work as content. Create fun or arresting videos that tell a story and seamlessly integrate your brand. Extreme Sheep LED Art for Samsung is a great example of how to do this right.It's all about the dialogue. Be aware of and harness the social exchange process on YouTube, including comments, ratings, and the cycle of video responses, remixes, and mashups. Hip-hop artist Soulja Boy rose to fame largely because fans shared hundreds of video responses showing them doing his signature dance.Ideas come from everywhere. Lee Clow, chairman and chief creative officer, TBWA Worldwide told "The New York Times" that having consumers create commercials "is part of this brave new world we live in." Crowdsourcing is a legitimate and effective tool, so stay open to it. This iPod ad created by an 18-year-old UK student is a fantastic piece of user-generated content that was then parlayed into a real Apple ad.Find the talent and use it. YouTube has a well-established pantheon of video stars, with built-in audiences. Partner where appropriate and secure exposure for your video. Carl's Jr. successfully teamed up with popular YouTube personality iJustine, instantly accessing her over 150,000 subscribers.Tools exist. Use them. Explore ways to best place and promote your video. "Featured videos" garner far more traffic in shorter time. And buying supporting media can help your content reach and grow its audience. YouTube is using its own channel to spread awareness of new tools via the "Adopt a Feature" program.
Balanced Info. How much information and how many tabs should you have on your Facebook page?  Just ask Goldilocks.  You want enough information to keep your users engaged but not so much it’s information overload. Example of Effective Tab StructureBoxes are so 2008. When Facebook launched major updates to Facebook pages a few months ago, a lot of the original content was relegated to the “Boxes” tab just like it was for personal profiles.  Things were starting to get cluttered and disorienting on personal and brand pages, which is most likely why the switch was made.  You can tell which brands haven’t updated their pages when you see a bunch of info on the Boxes tab, aka, the bucket of left over information from the days of infinite scrolling.  Users expect intuitively named tabs so they know where they are going when browsing your page – not a bunch of random stuff in a Boxes tab.
Vanity URLs. As most know by now, Facebook is now offering vanity URLs that help with recall and ultimately SEO (e.g. http://www.facebook.com/vitrue).  Check out our earlier blog post for details.
Exclusive Fan Offers.  With a little know-how you can easily give special offers only to your Facebook fans.  They love this kind of stuff.  At Vitrue, we do this all the time for our clients. It’s a very powerful and simple way to build your fan-base.
Custom Apps. Many brands develop custom Facebook solutions to engage with their customers on a level beyond the standard Facebook features to help differentiate from the competition.  In many cases these custom solutions provide key viral discovery components, which share activities with friends via news feeds and notifications.  These features help spread the word and keep users coming back for repeat visits.
Take a moment to familiarize yourself with the rules. There are a few guidelines that determine what sort of content stays in Wikipedia and what gets removed by the army of volunteers who edit the site on a daily basis.Before creating an entry for your product or service, be sure the entry meets the notability requirement. Generally speaking, “a topic is presumed to be notable if it has received significant coverage in reliable sources that are independent of the subject.” While this isn’t a problem for an internet superstar like Joe, many new products and services may not yet qualify as notable. While it’s true that you can add anything to Wikipedia, chances are an editor will pull your entry if you aren’t notable. Worse yet, you risk offending the Wikipedia community who may consider your entry to be a form of spam. The last thing any of us want is to be accused of spamming. If you meet the notability requirement, be sure to write your entry from a Neutral Point of View (NPOV). Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales refers to the NPOV rule as “absolute and non-negotiable.” Be aware that, if your entry isn’t written from a NPOV, someone else will very likely modify it to conform with the rule. Given the opportunity, most of us would prefer to draft our own copy rather than have a stranger redraft the copy on our behalf.
Prepare to lose control. Once your entry is in Wikipedia anyone can update or modify it. Unlike your own website, you won’t have the final word on how your information is presented.
You may already be listed. There are millions of entries in Wikipedia, with thousands of new pages being added every day. Joe was surprised to find his entry, and you may be surprised to find that your name, product, or service is already listed without your knowledge. If that’s the case, it raises a few questions — who wrote the article and what did they say about you? Whether you plan on creating your own Wikipedia entry or not, ALL businesses should make an effort to monitor Wikipedia for mentions of their company name, key employees, brand names, and service offerings. Depending on the nature of your business monitoring Wikipedia could be as important as monitoring references to your business in the mainstream media and the blogosphere (you do monitor blogs, don’t you?). The fact that anyone can create or modify a Wikipedia entry means that your entry could be modified by an unhappy customer, or worse, an unethical competitor. As a result you’ll want to monitor your entries for any misleading or inaccurate information, and promptly make corrections when justified. This is an area where the NPOV rule can really work to your advantage — you can use the rule to ensure that your Wikipedia entry is a fair and balanced account of your business.
Consider how your listing will affect your Google ranking. Are you currently number one for the name, word, or phrase that would also be the title of your Wikipedia entry? If so, are you prepared to lose your top ranking to Wikipedia? It could happen. It’s well known that Google favors sites that it considers to be authoritative. Few sites are as authoritative as Wikipedia. Wikipedia ranks number one on Google for many popular search phrases. As I’ve noted, you don’t have the same level of control over your Wikipedia entry that you have over your own website. With that in mind, consider the possible issues that may arise if your Wikipedia entry were to outrank you on Google.
Sometimes a link is better than an dedicated entry. In the past, search engine experts have encouraged website owners to find relevant Wikipedia entries where they can insert links to their websites. Links from Wikipedia were believed to pass page rank and authority to the site being linked to. The problem is, lots of people had the same idea, and many unscrupulous SEO practitioners began indiscriminately spamming Wikipedia with off-topic links. As a result, Wikipedia has begun adding the “no follow” attribute to all outgoing links. This means that Google and other search engines won’t follow the link, and links of this sort will no longer improve your search engine ranking. However, it may still be a good idea to add links to information about your product or service where appropriate. I can’t stress enough how important it is to make the links appropriate and on topic — again, link spamming is never a good idea. Besides, a link of this sort is only useful if your website is relevant to the content of the Wikipedia page you’ve added the link to. Remember, the goal is to add relevant content that actually enhances the Wikipedia entry.
Manage
The most important thing is to be an active manager. Every registration needs to be manually approved, preferably with a welcome email telling them how they can use the group, interact with you and how to get in touch with you.
Regularly contact members directly with helpful (not sales) information.
Scan Linkedin and your other networks for likely members and invite them through InMail or get introductions from members
When a user becomes prominent as a poster support them and encourage them. These are the catalyst to a thriving group.
Even if somebody is a bit obstreperous, unless they openly attack someone they can be good to stimulate the community. Handle them with care and they can turn into evangelists.
Are people continually posting off-topic discussions like jobs? Give them a place to post those and point them to the jobs board in the group.
Contact non-linked in members and ask them to join your group (did you know Linkedin requires this in the group agreement?)
Linkedin offers a host of useful tools to manage your Linkedin contacts.
Export your Linkedin contacts to outlook
Engage
Remember this is about COMMUNITY not YOU. You should participate by all means, but to support the community not sell yourself or your services.
As the group grows think of other ways to connect people. Meetups, teleclasses, webinars and online chat are great options.
Periodically take the temperature of the group. Poll or ask questions.
Listen to discussions and see if users are looking for added feature, if there are ways you can offer assistance yourself or point them to assistance off site. The goal is to become a source users rely on, not make the whole show about you.
In the development stage of the group, or later if discussion slows down, start discussions. These should be open ended posts to stimulate discussion, not statements. Give the users room to add their perspective
Brainstorm with your key community members within and outside of the group to get new ideas flowing.
Remember to thank people for their participation to the group. Feature people on occasion for their contributions.
Share
When new features are added to Linkedin, share how to use them with the group, ask for success stories and examples
Make connections and suggest connections between users where appropriate
Take the time to point out new features on Linkedin and how to use them for best advantage
Create a way for users to showcase their talents. Sharing Slideshare presentations, Visual CV’s links to new work if appropriate to the group’s goals
Promote
Promote your Linkedin group fron linked in itself by sharing it with your Linkedin network and ask users to do the same
Post the group URL on your website and related social media sites to encourage growth
Create a badge for users to put on their websites linking to the group
Talk about the group and feature conversations (with permission) on your other networks (Twitter, Facebook etc)
Use both Facebook and Linkedin Ads to promote your group
Whenever your do a presentation or attend a conference spread the word about your group
Our mission is to facilitate a strategic approach to the web. This requires some explanation:
Facilitate – according to Wikipedia, the term facilitation is broadly used to describe any activity, which makes tasks for others easy. In the context of this document, facilitation refers to all the activities needed to help businesses, of all sorts, build and execute their plans. We are a company of facilitators – we do not build things ourselves but help others.
A strategic approach – the best way to describe this is to place strategy within the related contexts of tactical and operational. Clearly there are strong overlaps between strategic, tactical and operational activities – but for this document’s perspective the focus is on those activities that a company engages in to:
build their vision of the world;
decide what they want to “be” as part of that vision (strategic intent);
identify the necessary changes to their business in order to “become” that part of the vision;
manage these changes to deliver the strategic intent.
 
The web – here we refer to the interaction between society (individuals, teams, organisations) and digital space in all its forms (Social media, internet, intranets, extranets, virtual worlds, Software as a Service - SaaS), across all channels.
Be good to put this in a blue box or something similar – also, if you have suggestions on how to priortise these, go ahead and change
Baynote provides about two dozen standard reports as well as a custom reporting capability to utilize the wealth of data being observed and collected.