social media strategy and intel for local government Tuesday, September 15, 2009 INNOVATION INSIGHT www.innovationinsight.com 1 News Inclusion Friendship Connections Support Necessity Opportunity Status Video Community Audio Text Profit Curiosity Speed Fun Bandwagon Private Networks The Motivation Web Images The The Message Environment Blogs Forums The Enablers tactical elements of social media Mobile Viral Email HTML Low Barriers Reciprocity Bookmarking Links Search Tuesday, September 15, 2009 SSI Smartphones 2 tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat sun tzu Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3 Conversing, Leveraging Market, World Community Listening (Intel) Broadcasting (Advertising) Organization Personal elements of social media strategy Tuesday, September 15, 2009 4 Market, World Community Organization personal communications objectives: •build a personal brand •build network value •staying informed •establish reputation •fundraising •campaiging Personal Tuesday, September 15, 2009 5 Market, World Community Organization Personal Tuesday, September 15, 2009 internal communications objectives: •document knowledge •generate ideas •improve retention •reduce costs •identify leaders •communicate quickly •strengthen culture •coordinate action 6 Market, World Community Organization Personal Tuesday, September 15, 2009 community communications objectives: •focus issue activity •reduce support costs •generate ideas •energize enthusiasts •cheap, fast research •public engagement •disseminate information •interagency collaboration 7 Market, World Community Organization general public communications objectives: •increase visibility •public opinion intel •competing region intel •brand / agency intel •issue tracking •regional benchmarking •crisis mitigation Personal Tuesday, September 15, 2009 8 implementation: grow from your comfort zone slowly Market, World Community Organization Personal I can get my feet wet we can keep it all private we could always pull the plug OMG what if they say something bad? ... but start listening at all levels now Tuesday, September 15, 2009 9 implementation: strength at one level can be leveraged to the next level Market, World Community Organization Personal leaders ignite employee participation Tuesday, September 15, 2009 employees seed and contextualize messages to outside world issue evangelists multiply and echo the message everywhere 10 implementation: Florida Sunshine Law rules may have special implications for social media • don’t assume that network is private • be careful about crossing the line between personal and official • you might have to keep records • do you have a strong social media policy? Tuesday, September 15, 2009 11 implementation: each tool has its own strengths and weaknesses twitter facebook blogs Tuesday, September 15, 2009 fast followers, faster news shallow friends, noisy deep connections, viral private, slow building great control, unlimited content slow building, commitment 12 Utah.gov City of Pittsburgh complaint dept. San Francisco Ecofinder Barack Obama tactics: smartphone apps Tuesday, September 15, 2009 13 accessible live high participno ation unlimited demonstrsize ations web sms telephone inexpensive tactics: electronic town halls Tuesday, September 15, 2009 14 widespread inexpensive polls alerts instant targeted recruitment tactics: sms / mobile text Tuesday, September 15, 2009 15 Organization InFlow analysis of internal company emails Best Buy’s Blue Shirt Nation intel: internal wikis and networks Tuesday, September 15, 2009 IBM’s Wiki Central 16 City of Berkeley Community Southern Maryland Orange County, CA intel: local government wikis Tuesday, September 15, 2009 17 Community TweetDeck UserVoice forum Dell IdeaStorm intel: community idea forums Tuesday, September 15, 2009 18 Market, World intel: targeted news pipes, feeds and alerts yahoo pipes Tuesday, September 15, 2009 19 Market, World biz360 radian6 intel: analytics dashboards blogPulse Tuesday, September 15, 2009 20 Market, World techrigy SM2 / General Motors Innovation Insight THOTH / McCain vs. Obama intel: conversation mining Tuesday, September 15, 2009 21 ask yourself before you begin: what is your objective? If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time zig ziglar Tuesday, September 15, 2009 22 guy hagen twitter @guyhagen email gh@innovationinsight.com web innovationinsight.com Tuesday, September 15, 2009 23