2. Online Community Best Practices Jeremiah Owyang Senior Analyst Forrester Research March, 2008

3. Theme Community Are Powerful Tools, As Long As You Put Members’ Needs First.

8. Communication and Self-Expression important Sources: North American Technographics Retail And Marketing Online Youth Survey, Q4 2007 40% Watched a video: 55% Wrote on someone’s profile page (e.g., wrote on a wall, posted a testimonial): 51% Read a blog or journal: 47% Listened to music: 53% Send a friend/connection request: 59% Searched for someone that I used to know: 65% Looked at profiles of people I didn’t know: 70% Posted/updated my profile: 79% Sent a message to someone: 86% See what my friends are up to: Frequency Activity

10. Not sure where to start?

11. The four step approach to the groundswell People Assess your customers’ Social Technographics profile Objectives Decide what you want to accomplish Strategy Plan for how relationships with customers will change Technology Decide which social technologies to use P O S T

18. Figure 2: A Taxonomy Of Detractors Type of detractor Why they make trouble How to recognize What you should do Address individually and privately, if complaints continue in face of attempts to resolve, remove from community Complains continuously and cannot be satisfied; uses incendiary language Have a grudge against company; hope to create problems Troublemaker Refocus discussion on higher goals of community Tend to participate in “flame wars” and may have specific other members they target Like to argue with other members Flamer Create forum to encourage discussion; recognize good ideas publicly Makes suggestions, not just complaints; responds intelligently to others’ criticisms Think they can make things better Engaged critic Engage rationally and respectfully with your company’s perspective Continues to mention other brands; parrots their marketing messages Want to promote competing products Competitor Solve problems or explain policies, publicly if possible Raises legitimate issue; may use strong language but seems open to reason Needs help with products or services or wants to warn others Legitimate complainer

37. Obama, primary blog

38. Obama on Facebook

39. Obama on MySpace

40. Obama on Twitter

41. Obama on MySpace

46. Case study: “Vampires” and movie “skins” Sources: Facebook Screenshots

49. Thank you Jeremiah Owyang Blog: web-strategist.com Email: [email_address] Twitter: twitter.com/jowyang www.forrester.com