1. Managing the Chaos of Social Media
GAWDA Spring Management Conference
May 1, 2012
Karl Meinhardt
Leadership Advisors Group
2. Background
• Technology
• Internet
• Start up
• Leadership
• Social Media
karl@leadershipadvisors.com Twitter: @karl_meinhardt
3. Background
@karl_meinhardt IT Strategy, Social Media,
Product Development. Proven leader.
I deliver results (not Dew). http://bit.ly/GgtzX
karl@leadershipadvisors.com Twitter: @karl_meinhardt
4. Digital Presence
Web
• Digital Channels
– Web
– Email
– Mobile
Your
Email
– Social Customer
– SEO Social
Mobile
karl@leadershipadvisors.com Twitter: @karl_meinhardt
5. What is Social Networking?
• Construct a public or semi-public
profile
• Connect with others in the service
• Create, upload, and share content
• Comment on other’s content
• SoMe = Social Media
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6. What is Social Networking?
• Social networks
• Media networks
• Micro-blogging
• Geo-Location
• Blogs
• RSS feeds
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8. The new “shiny object.”
So? What’s the big deal.
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9. Shiny for a reason
• 900+ million Facebook users
• 230+ million Twitter users
• 230+ million tweets / day (up 110% from 1/1/11)
• 4,000,000,000 YouTube views/day
• 215+ million Zynga (215+ mil in “villes”)
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10. There’s interest for a reason.
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11. Facebook
Facebook hit 1,000,000,000,000 page views in June 2011
Facebook accounts for 53.5% of total time spent online
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12. What’s a Fan worth?
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13. I don’t “get” Twitter.
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15. Social Media is…
A paradigm shift in the way people
communicate
– Customers are now a conversation
– Products are now a conversation
– YOUR BRAND is a conversation
– Your LEADERSHIP is a conversation
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16. Shift in Behavior
@BogusBasin closes night skiing #fail
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17. Shift in Attitude
Twitter #fail
“I find it ironic that Detroit is known as the
#motorcity and yet no one here knows how to
f***ing drive”
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18. Shift in Awareness
"Cisco just offered me a job! Now I have to
weigh the utility of a fatty paycheck against
the daily commute to San Jose and hating the
work.”
@theconner
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19. Shift in Awareness
"Who is the hiring manager. I’m sure they
would love to know that you will hate the
work. We here at Cisco are versed in the
web."
@timlevad
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29. Social Enterprise Successes
• 60% of workforce are baby boomers
• Implemented internal social network:
• capture domain knowledge - wiki
• facilitate team efforts - blog & RSS
• expose retirement intentions - polls
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30. Social Enterprise Successes
• Reverse Mentoring Program
• Gen Y helps executives to learn Web 2.0
• Targeted social learning
• Adopted by HR as part of official
mentoring program
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32. Social Enterprise Strategy
• Implement internal social tools
• Engage the leadership team
• Establish
• Metrics for success
• Tone / topics / direction of the conversation
• Measure, respond, connect
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33. Social Enterprise Authenticity
• Requires new levels of “openness”
• to dialogue with everyone in the company
• to dialogue with customers
• NO handles or pseudonyms
• NO ghost writers
• Be reachable and believable
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34. Authenticity
Return on Relationship
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35. Brian Dunn
“I’VE BEEN HAVING A LOT OF GREAT SEX LATELY, AND HERE’S WHY.”
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36. Social Strategy
• Dedicate resources!
• Listen
• Respond in “real time”
• Participate with good and bad
• Deliver content with a personality!
• DO NOT JUST SELL.
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38. WWW
• Get a CMS
• Provide a mobile-friendly version (.mobi)
• eComm is great. mComm is better!
• Connect to your social properties!
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39. Mobile
Smartphone adoption
60% of the US population at the
end of 2011 had a smartphone
6.8 Million Android & iOS Devices
were activated on Xmas Day 2012,
242 million apps downloaded
4.8 billion people have mobile -
only 4.2 billion own a toothbrush
Mobile advertising to reach
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41. Integrate Your Email
• 92% of internet users read email
• 27 percent of emails were opened on a mobile
device during the second half of 2011
• Provide valuable content
• Link to your social properties!
karl@leadershipadvisors.com Twitter: @karl_meinhardt
42. Digital Presence
Web
• Digital Channels
– Web
– Email
– Mobile
Your
Email
– Social Customer
– SEO Social
Mobile
karl@leadershipadvisors.com Twitter: @karl_meinhardt
43. Final Thoughts
• Embrace the speed of change
• Learn to speak Chinese
• Rethink Content
karl@leadershipadvisors.com Twitter: @karl_meinhardt
44. SoMe Me
karl_meinhardt@hotmail.com
facebook.com/karlmeinhardt
@karl_meinhardt
linkedin.com/in/karlmeinhardt
youtube.com/karlmeinhardt
leadershipadvisors.com
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