There are many use cases and benefits associated with social media monitoring and intelligence, from PR and campaign measurement to market research and risk monitoring. Multinational technology giant Cisco, however, has a unique take: The company uses social monitoring and analytics to drive employee advocacy.
Using Brandwatch Analytics, Cisco tracks their employees in EMEA on social channels, analyzing Impact score, top topics being discussed, and Kred scores, among others. To gamify the project, Cisco has created social league tables and rewards the staff members who are at the top of the leaderboards with prizes.
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Has x10 more followers
than corporate networks
90% of their social
audience
is new to the brand
An employee advocate is x2
more trusted than a CEO
Content shared by
employees receives 8X
more engagement than
content shared by brand
channels
Meet
The Social Employee
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Social League Tables
Objective
Measure social impact
and stimulate social
engagement of Cisco
employees
How does it work?
Users are scored and
ranked by based on their
impact score which
considers activity, reach
and number of reactions
generated on Twitter.
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Cisco Employee Advocacy Potential in EMEAR
All Cisco
Employees in
EMEAR
Marketing
Team EMEAR
Social
Media
Managers
300 tweets per month
50,000 users reached per month
1,500 tweets per month
150,000 users reached per month
150,000 tweets per month
15,000,000 users reached per month
*Estimates based on only Cisco related tweets
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Advocates Recognition
Michael Medhat
GVSO Egypt
Shared over 2,000 Posts
Generated
• 263,000 impressions
• 149 Re-shares
• 2,000 clicks
Shared over 711 Posts
Generated
• 378,000 impressions
• 372 Re-shares
• 1,000 clicks
Fabien Medat
SE Collaboration France
Shared over 690 Posts
Generated
• 591,000 impressions
• 479 Re-shares
• 3,000 clicks
Nicole Wajer
SE Security Netherlands
Top
Publisher
Top
Amplifier
Top
Engager
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Results
Cisco Employees social
activities increased by over
140% in 6 months
Average number of tweets posted by employee
increased by 55%, from 0.9 a day to 1.4.
232 users from 25 teams are
currently using SLT to measure
their social impact
Delivered over
120 hours of
Social Media
trainings to
200 people in
FY15
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Key Takeaways
Ranking users by Social
Impact stimulates
healthy competition
within the teams
increasing social
engagement.
Rewarding participation by
acknowledging who generate
the most engagement, helps
users to stay motivated and
active.
Social Media Trainings help
users to become more
social-savvy and learn how
to improve their social
influence.
Social Listening tools help users
to measure their social impact
and benchmark themselves
against others in the company.
Measurement Education
GamificationRecognition
Change of Social Networks Algorithm
Overload of content
Meet the Employee Advocate, Employees actually have on average 10x more social connections than a brand does (Source: Social Chorus)
Through their network we can be more
Relevant: Using an employees social network as opposed to a corporate channel enables the content to be more relevant, because we follow or connect with those we share an interest in-
Trusted Advisor:
Visual Storytelling: Employees share more visual content than corporate which converts at a much higher rate
Tweets with images receive 18% more clicks, 89% more favorites and 150% more retweets
Engage: Enable employees to share the content through their channels will result in more engagement
)
Reach: Extend the reach at a very low cost…….Leads developed through employee social marketing convert 7 times more frequently than other leads
We take the outside network in.
More human experience - give an authentic voice
If tool is not open you always have separate scoring => Alex to check openeness
LinkedIn: Social Selling Influence Score => manually provided by LinkedIn as pdf => on a quarterly basis => Infografic
New Dashboard => 1hr to set up
MARKETING EMEAR 160
CISCO EMEAR 15k
Has x10 more followers than
corporate networks
90% of their social audience
is new to the brand
12% increase in brand
advocacy generates x2
in revenue
NOT TO MENTION….
Socially engaged employees are
58% more likely to attract
top talent
Fabian and Nicole went through the social media Bootcamp
Nicole is good in creating content, created a cisco live video
Get social center stage with a command center display in your offices
Put social data in the hands of your employees with automated reports
Contextualise social data with other marketing, customer services or sales data using API to pipe it into internal marketing platforms. Or use Vizia to display these other data sources next to social data [maybe replace API image with Vizia CSV scene?]
Train – Give them advise on ways to find content to share e.g. following co social channels and sharing that content, checking in on the blog, setting up Signals to get Alerts to new brand trends. We have a slack channel where we share press clippings as they appear. Make them aware that you’re tracking brand conversation and make them comfortable with how and why.
Promote – make sure your social handles are shared in signatures, use your internal comm channels, make sure employees are aware of hashtags you use like brandwatchsocial
Collate – ask employees to share their social handles with you so you can filter your reports to only include employees
Within analytics you can filter dashboards and components by Author Lists
You can sort by impact which looks at a combination of number of relevant tweets, influence metrics and reach
Or just plain old volume if you want to stop your senior management from completely dominating your chart!
You can put tables like this up anywhere if you have a command center like vizia up and running