Presentation from the September 7, 2012 Social Media Club of Kansas City Breakfast, featuring the community-led Social Media Command Center for the MLB All-Star Game.
4. The Strategy
Multi-faceted communications strategy about the KC experience
â˘âŻ Social Media Monitoring and Outreach: #KC and @visitkc
â˘âŻ Playbook for respondents
â˘âŻ Signed Tweets, Individual Voices, Real SMC Folks
â˘âŻ Hashtag lives on
â˘âŻ Partners in action
â˘âŻ Tumblr: The Voice of the Command Center: http://visitkc.tumblr.com/
â˘âŻ PR, Innovation and Photo Ops
â˘âŻ The ASG and #KC Experience, Curated: VisitKC Social Hub
â˘âŻ Street Team
â˘âŻ Command Center âjournalistsâ
â˘âŻ Prize Patrol
â˘âŻ Friends of the Command Center
â˘âŻ Food, coffee, prizes
7. Monitoring & Response: How it Worked
Listening
 by
 Keyword
 Groups
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Command
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Direct
 Men<ons
 KC
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 Tourism
 KC
 +
 ASG
 Center
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Manager
 Curator
 Manager
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â˘âŻ Social
 Hub
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â˘âŻ @visitkc
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Agents
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9. The Dazzle: Displaying the Story
â˘âŻ Spiral
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 â˘âŻ Radian6
 Engagement
 Stats
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â˘âŻ Visible
 Tweets
 â˘âŻ SocialBro
 Reach
 Analysis
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â˘âŻ VisitKC
 Social
 Hub
 â˘âŻ Google
 TraďŹc
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â˘âŻ TrendsMap
 â˘âŻ Baseball
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â˘âŻ Custom
 uMapper
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11. Visitors and Interest
â˘âŻ Mayor
 Sly
 James
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â˘âŻ City
 Manager
 Troy
 Schulte
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â˘âŻ H&R
 Block
 CMO
 Robert
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Turtledove
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â˘âŻ H&R
 Block
 CTO
 Rich
 Agar
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â˘âŻ KCATA
 Director
 Mark
 HuďŹer
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â˘âŻ Missouri
 Tourism
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â˘âŻ Biking4Baseball
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â˘âŻ KC
 Star
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â˘âŻ KCUR
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â˘âŻ All
 KC
 TV
 aďŹliates
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â˘âŻ KC
 CVA
 President
 &
 CEO
 Rick
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Hughes
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13. The Results
One social post at a time:
o⯠72,139 processed through KCSMCC workflow
o⯠32,174 reviewed, tagged, curated
o⯠2,132 personalized responses
o⯠>8 million impressions of #KC or @visitkc
o⯠70% positive sentiment
âKansas City fans
have every reason
to be proud.â
â Associated Press writer
Dave Skretta
14. The VisitKC Effect
â˘âŻ Command Center leveraged VisitKC branding
â˘âŻ #KC hash tag lives on as part of the renewed VisitKC brand
15. Lessons Learned
â˘âŻ Responding from one account = Twitter rate limit during peak times
â˘âŻ Design for scale
â˘âŻ Arrange volunteers by demand
â˘âŻ Segment your listening streams
â˘âŻ Be agile
â˘âŻ Constantly analyze and hone listening
â˘âŻ Break out noise for separate analysis
â˘âŻ Shut down the trolls
â˘âŻ Street teams are great for content
â˘âŻ Your friends give you a content boost
â˘âŻ People donât look up
â˘âŻ #KC is big with Indonesian emo kids