can social make utilities sexy again?

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The demands on Utility companies today are increasing substantially. Ageing workforces, recruitment and retention issues are at the forefront of these demands and compounding that, Utilities are increasingly looked on as being boring. On the other hand, start-ups in the social technology space are seen as innovative, customer focussed and fun organisations. Can the lessons and technologies from these companies be used by Utilities? Smart social strategies can radically change an organisation’s image - do you want to make your Utility sexy once more? How social can help Utilities overcome image related issues How social mediums can alleviate some of the aging workforce, recruitment and retention difficulties Engaging customers to reduce their energy requirements and building increased awareness of their usage Your organisation can use social software to communicate better with customers Social technologies can help utilities get their mojo back

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Tom  Ra'ery,  Principal  Analyst  RedMonk

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Can Social make utilities sexy again?

Big ask, I knowChris ChenI think they can be

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Tom Raftery

Bullet points - sorry!More Bullet points on this slide than on the rest of the entire deck!Prob won’t have time for q’s at end - will hang around but here are my contact details in case you can’t stay

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SlideShare

http://www.slideshare.net/TomRaftery/

This is SlideShare - where you can view or d/l this deck

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Show of hands

Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/warmestregards/2789694551/

How many of you:Read blogs?Watch online video?Have a FaceBook a/c?Have a LinkedIn a/c?Have a Twitter a/c?

Consider FaceBook/YouTube/Twitter a waste of time?

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Social Media

Some of the social media sites

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Social Media

Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/7933170@N03/1098813767/

Social media fundamentally changed the web - now a two-way medium

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What I had for breakfast?

Photo - http://www.flickr.com/photos/zanehollingsworth/3435030263/

People often belittle Social Media saying - it is full of ppl saying what they had for breakfastHow many ppl empathise?

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What I had for breakfast?

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpMZbT1tx2o

This video is 1.5 yrs old - the numbers in it are well out of date - most significantly higher now

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Utilities, Social Media, & APJ

Had a look around this region & found some great examples of SM use by utilitiesquick selection...

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APJ Utilities Social Media

https://twitter.com/powerwatercorp

Australian utility - provides electricity, water and sewerage services to the Northern Territory of AustraliaFaced issues with perception - were butt of many jokes - even in parliament Rolled out social media, now 180 turnaround in reputation

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APJ Utilities Social Media

http://www.powerwater.com.au

Pull tweets onto home pageAlso have Flickr & Youtube accounts

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https://www.facebook.com/PUBsg

APJ Utilities Social Media

Water utility3412 likesZero interaction though

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https://twitter.com/OfficialTEPCO

APJ Utilities Social Media

> 262k followers 1 of 3 accountsNo interaction - all broadcastBut tells ppl of availability of electricity so big followership

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https://twitter.com/iamkepco

APJ Utilities Social Media

Kepco - Korean utilityTwitter & Facebook pagesseems to have interaction but hard to tell given my lack of Korean (and GTranslate is no help!)

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https://twitter.com/iamkepco/status/266090034871013376

APJ Utilities Social Media

They do converse though, unlike many others

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https://twitter.com/PowershopPromos

APJ Utilities Social Media

One of their two Twitter accounts1305 followers - electrical promotions for customers

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https://twitter.com/ausgrid

APJ Utilities Social Media

2550 followers - but better yet is their video... !

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APJ Utilities Social Media

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXogX1WBcZA

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Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXogX1WBcZA

APJ Utilities Social Media

Has had nearly 20,000 views!

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Challenges utilities are facing...

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Brand and image

Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/smoy/3963201475/

Brand and reputation issues - utilities not trusted

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Brand and image

Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/photofarmer/3303387519/

Utilities perceived as boring - doesn’t help recruitment/retention

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Recruitment

Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/legofenris/4003590489/

Brand and aging workforce issues have follow-on consequences for recruitment/retention

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Exacerbated by

Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/gagilas/3501432476/

Recruitment issues all the more urgent because In the U.S. energy sector, more than a third of the workforce already is over 50 years old - http://hbr.org/2008/02/managing-demographic-risk/ar/1

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: In the US approx 30-40% of the work force in the electric utility sector will retire in the next 10 years

And aging infrastructure

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Increasing demands

Images http://www.paulchefurka.ca/EnergyGap.html

Increasing demand for energy at a time of dwindling supply

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Increasing demands

Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeremybrooks/2473047860/

Also other demands - - Customer service - Reduced environmental impact - More granular energy consumption information

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So how can social media help?

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Brand Management

Photo http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Deepwater_Horizon_offshore_drilling_unit_on_fire_2010.jpg

Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, 2010 - 11 men killed, 17 injured. Over next 3 months - spilled about 4.9 million barrel & still leaking today 2.5 yrs later

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Brand Management

https://twitter.com/BPGlobalPR/status/15504031663

2191 RTs!

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Brand Management

https://twitter.com/bpglobalpr

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Brand Management

https://twitter.com/BP_America

Current BP account - still not learned lesson - all broadcast

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OTOH

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Brand Management

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

Old Spice

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Brand Management

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

This ad alone has had 43m views

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Brand Management

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owGykVbfgUE

185 videos in 24 hoursResponded in realtime to questions posed to #OldSpiceOld spice sales up 100% in month that followed Still up 50% a year later (with help from coupons) http://adage.com/article/viral-video-charts/spice-killing-youtube-sales/229080/

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Customer Service

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Customer Service

https://twitter.com/esbarr_

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Customer Service

https://twitter.com/esbarr_/status/261075213196865536

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Customer Service

https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/261118254657966080

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Customer Service

https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch

Seems to be genuinely Murdoch tweeting

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Customer Service

https://twitter.com/esbarr_/status/261126984225153024

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Customer Service

https://twitter.com/rupertmurdoch/status/261178665386270720

Obviously this doesn’t scale but...

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Customer Service

http://www.bge.com/

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Customer Service

https://twitter.com/mybge

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Customer Service

https://twitter.com/MyBGE/status/264406364514828290

Gives ppl ETR’s via TwitterNot new, was doing this last yr in response to Irene as well

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Customer Service

https://www.facebook.com/myBGE

>10,600 likes - also v interactive

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Customer Service

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mybge/8159451822/

Over 300 photos tagged “Hurricane Sandy”

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Customer Service

http://www.youtube.com/BALTIMOREGASELECTRIC

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Customer Service

http://www.linkedin.com/company/5115?trk=null

Pull their SM resources together nicely here

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Customer Service

http://www.zdnet.com/twitter-vs-icelandic-ash-cloud-how-one-airline-transformed-its-use-of-social-media-3040154420/

Call centres swamped120 people in shifts for 7 days on FB & TwitterNow has 23 strong social media dept“customer service agents in the social media dept are 75% more productive than those in call centres”

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Customer Service

http://www.zdnet.com/twitter-vs-icelandic-ash-cloud-how-one-airline-transformed-its-use-of-social-media-3040154420/

For the 27 airlines in the Star Alliance, nearly one-third of customer feedback now comes from social media.

Jaan Albrecht, CEO of Star Alliance Services

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Customer Service

https://twitter.com/Iberia_en/status/262979795405647872

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Customer Service

http://scn.sap.com/welcome

Early 2000’s SAP had 170,000 customers - support needs, esp for new products were becoming unmanageable

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Customer Service

To make it work... would be 90% us and 10% them at first. But we knew if we did that, it would eventually be 10% us and 90% them.

Mark Finnern, Chief Community Evangelist, SAP SCN

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Customer Service

http://scn.sap.com/welcome

More than 100,000 joined in first 2 yrsNow over 2.5m usersSAP: SCN improves customer retention, creates efficiency and drives top line growth and revenue

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Inside the firewall

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Retention

Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephanridgway/4110712532/

David Legge - Fortis BC - guy walking out of interview

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Retention

Twitter as news/info gathering medium

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Retention

http://www.flickr.com/photos/traftery/5467650475/

For millennial’s - blocking SM is like putting a rotary dial phone on their desk with a lock on the dial

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Retention

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/07/26/social-media-for-the-innovative-cio/

Twitter is a primary source to gather information about changes in my industry. It helps the organization stay current with the latest trends and thinking.

Casey Coleman, CIO of the U.S. General Services Administration

Don’t take my word for it

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Collaboration

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Collaboration

Photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/dabhaid/314923760/

Social media can be powerful way to share info within orgsAnd stop co losing info when ppl leave

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Collaboration

IBM internal blogsTag clouds - recommendations, similar blogsIBM has 20k internal blogs - running blog program 9 yrs

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Collaboration

IBM internal blogs - going strong for years now - internal social network - knowledge sharing - self-promotion tool

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Collaboration

https://www.chatter.com

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Collaboration

http://www.huddle.com

Cloud-based SharePoint alternative

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Collaboration

http://www.successfactors.com/business-execution-software/jam/jamoverview/

SAP’s new Jam offering

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Collaboration

http://www.successfactors.com/business-execution-software/jam/jamoverview/

Onboardingability to join groups

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Collaboration

http://www.successfactors.com/business-execution-software/jam/jamoverview/

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Collaboration

http://www.successfactors.com/business-execution-software/jam/jamoverview/

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Collaboration

https://docs.google.com/

2 ppl working on a spreadsheet remotelyIn a browserAnd chatting

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Big Data & Analytics

No enterprise talk is complete without discussing big data & analytics!

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Big data!

http://www.iabuk.net/news/iab-engage-2012-morning-session-review

Twitter - half a billion tweets per day

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Big Data!

http://gigaom.com/data/facebook-is-collecting-your-data-500-terabytes-a-day/

2.5 billion content items per day!More interesting stats on the page - was getting too bulletpointy,

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Analytics

http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2012/07/26/social-media-for-the-innovative-cio/

There's no such thing as information overload - only filter failure.

Clay Shirky, Prof NYU, Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society

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Analytics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InrOvEE2v38

Gatorade’s Social Media command centre - Mission Control

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Analytics

http://readwrite.com/2011/07/21/how-dell-really-listens-to-its

70 employees monitoring and dealing with social media

11 languages

25,000 social media events for the company each day

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Analytics

http://www.informationweek.com/government/information-management/inside-red-cross-social-media-command-ce/232602698

Dell contributed funding and tech for this

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Analytics

http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/2012/jan/12/haiti-twitter-tracked-cholera-outbreak

Twitter is faster than, and as accurate as, the official records at detecting the start and early progress of the epidemic

American Journal of Tropical Medicine

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Analytics

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-social-media-auto-vehicle-defects.html

researchers at Virginia Tech developed system that provides auto manufacturers an efficient way to discover and classify vehicle defects

can be used to discover vehicle defects from social media posts across multiple car brands

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Analytics

GE - Grid IQ Insight

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Analytics

GE - Grid IQ Insight

If someone posts a pic - then utility knows exactly what equipment to send in truck roll

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Analytics

GE - Grid IQ Insight

If someone posts a pic - then utility knows exactly what equipment to send in truck roll

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Energy Management

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Energy Management

http://www.oracle.com/us/industries/utilities/turning-information-power-195649.pdf

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Energy Management

http://www.meregio.de/en/index.php?page=index

Minimum Emission Region - MeRegio - Baden-Württemberg

Research project involving SAP Research & 5 partners

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Energy Management

http://www.flickr.com/photos/collinanderson/2696845391/

MTKD metric - mean time to kitchen drawer

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Energy Management

SAP Smart Meter Analytics

SAP Smart Meter Analytics

Centrica demo at Sapphire - largest SAP customer ! - 18m residential customers! - 1m businessGoing from 75 million meter reads per annum to 120 billion meter reads a year

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Energy Management

SAP Smart Meter Analytics

Posts to your Facebook wall

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Energy Management

http://foursquare.com

Gamification - behaviour change

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Energy Management

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Energy Management

What-if Energy apps had:

•Ability to share to Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc

•Leaderboards?

•Achievement badges?

•Targets and scores?

With increased information and ‘fun factor’ - people become more engaged -> the MTKD is prolonged

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Conclusion

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Conclusion

SocialOverlay social on issues like these...

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Conclusion

and your org can be the sexy utility on the block.

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As well as business advantages, social can make utilities sexy once more!

Conclusion

Thanks!Contact information:

Tom RafteryPrincipal Analyst, Energy & Sustainability, RedMonk

Tom@redmonk.com, GreenMonk.net,

Twitter.com/tomraftery+34 677 695 468

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