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Page 1: Ragan Corp Comm Conf May 2009

People talk, We Listen

Social Media Measurement Master Class

A presentation to US Army Worldwide Public Affairs SymposiumCrystal City, VA

May , 2009 Katie Delahaye Paine

[email protected]

www.kdpaine.comkdpaine.blogs.com

Member, IPR Measurement Commissionwww.instituteforpr.org

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Why Measure?

“The main reason to measure objectives is not so much to reward or punish

individual communications manager for success or failure as it is to learn from the

research whether a program should be continued as is, revised, or dropped in favor of another approach ”

James E. Grunig, Professor Emeritus, University of Maryland “If we can put a man in orbit, why can’t we determine the effectiveness of our communications? The reason is simple and perhaps, therefore, a little old-fashioned: people, human beings with a wide range of choice. Unpredictable, cantankerous,capricious, motivated by innumerable conflicting interests, and conflicting desires.”

Ralph Delahaye Paine, Publisher, Fortune Magazine , 1960 speech to the Ad Club of St. Louis

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Communications then and now

Traditional role of Marketing & Communications

21st Century Role of PR

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12 Signs that it’s the end of the world as we know it 1. The Dept of Defense considers Twittering and other

forms of social media critical to national security2. BestBuy measures 85% lower turnover as a result of its

Blue Shirt community3. BMC Software tracks social media benefits direct to its

bottom line and EPS.4. NWF is using Twitter to spot, identify and protect wildlife 5. American Red Cross can measure improvement in

disaster management using Twitter 6. ASPCA correlates increases in on-line donations and

increased membership with its social media efforts. 7. HSUS generated $650,000 in contributions from a Flickr

photo contest 8. Wal-Mart is training and empowering its employees

closest to the customers to be the ones engaging online and provides social media tools to enable them to engage: my.walmart.com

9. Intel is using Facebook and internal Twitter tool to help employees engage with customers

10. Dell has made more money with Twitter than Twitter has 11. Comcast uses Twitter as crm tool, @comcastcares is the

new consumer affairs model12. The examples for this presentation came from people

live Tweeting at SXSW

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MSM

Online

Social

Media

Eyeball

counting

HITS

Engagement

A measurement timeline

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The measurement fork in the road

Marketing/recruitment

Reputation/relationships

To fix this Or get to this

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Goals drive metrics, metrics drive results

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Reputation/Relationships

Relationship scores

Recommend-ations

Positioning

Engagement

Goal

Metrics

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What do you need to measure?Outputs?

Did you get the coverage you wanted?

Did you produce the promised materials on time and on budget?

Outtakes?Did your target audience see the messages?

Did they believe the messages?

Outcomes?Did audience behavior change?

Did the right people show up?

Did your relationship change?

Did sales increase?

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Goals, Actions and Metrics Goal Action Output Metric Outtake

MetricOutcome Metric

Increase employment of wounded veterans

Start a Facebook page

Number of members

Percent understanding and believing messagesPercent of employers willing to consider hiring

% increase in donations % increase in employment of returning warriorsm

Improve Army Public Affairs

Start Facebook group

Number of friends/fans

Percent aware of Facebook group

Quality/quantity of advice shared

Increase recruitment

Start blogger outreach program

# of mentions in high authority blogs

% of moms supporting child’s decision to enlist

Lower cost per recruitment

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Changing reputation via metrics

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Negative coverage over time

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Correlation exists between traffic to the ASPCA web site and the organization’s overall media

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Tying activity to development/marketing goals

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Online donations

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The 7 steps to Social Media

1. Define the “R” – Define the expected results?

2. Define the “I” -- What’s the investment?

3. Understand your audiences and what motivates them

4. Define the metrics (what you want to become)

5. Determine what you are benchmarking against

6. Pick a tool and undertake research7. Analyze results and glean insight,

take action, measure again

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Step 1: Define the “R”

What return is expected?

What were you hired to do?

If you are celebrating complete 100% success a year from now, what is different about the organization?

If your department was eliminated, what would be different?

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Step 2: Define the “I”

What is the investment? PersonnelAgency compensationSenior Staff time Opportunity cost

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Step 3: Define your audiences and how you impact them

You audience is never “anyone with a pulse” There are multiple constituencies List every stakeholder

Where do they go for information?What’s important to them?What is the benefit of having a good relationship with that stakeholder group?

Understand your role in getting the audience to do what you want it to do

Raise awarenessIncrease preferenceIncrease engagement17

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Step 4: Define your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)

Cost savingsEfficiency

Cost per message communicatedCost per new recruit acquired

Productivity: Increase in employee engagement/moraleLower turnover/recruitment costs

Engagement: Ratio of posts to comments% of repeat visitors% of 5+min visitors% of registrations

Trust:Improvement in relationship /reputation scores with customers and communities (Loyalty/Retention)

Thought leadership: Share of quotesShare of opportunities

Message penetrationPositioning on key issuesImprovement in favorable/unfavorable ratioImprovement in Optimal Content Score (OCS)

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What makes a perfect communications KPI?

Gets you where you want to go (achieves corporate goals) Is actionable by individuals as well as departmentsContinuously improves your processes Is there when you need it

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Why an Optimal Content Score?

You decide what’s important:Benchmark against peers and/or competitorsTrack activities against OCS over time Positive:

Mentions of the brandKey messagesPositioningVisibility

Negative OmittedNegative toneNo key message

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How to calculate Optimal ContentQuality score +1 0 -1

Score Score ScoreTonality Positive 3 Neutral 0 Negative -3

Positioning Contains 2 Doesn't contain 0

Positions the competition favorably or positions Sargento negatively -2

Messaging Contains 3 partially contains 0

Does not contain or miscommunicates key message (neg mess) -1

Quotes Contains 1 Does not contain -1Competitive mention

Does not mention Competition 1

Competition mentioned prominently -3

Total Score 10 0 -10

Visibility Score+1 0 -1

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Brand Photo Contains 3 Doesn't contain 0Contains competitive photo -5

Dominance Focal point 3 Not a focal point -1Visibility Headline mention 2 Top -20 % of story 0 Minor mention -2Target publication Top Tier 2 2nd tier 0 Not on target list -2

Total Score 10 0 -10

Optimal Content Score

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Emerging benchmarksEngaged = 3-13 comments per postHyper-engaged = 15-35 comments per postAfter 3 days most comments are done, 14 days maxSocial Bookmarking momentum = 1 submitted item every other dayMessage should be communicated in 2 out of 5 blogs

Past PerformanceThink 3

Peer organization in Navy/Marines/Airforce/CoastGuardThe enemy Another similar organization that you admire

Whatever keeps the C-suite up at night

Step 5: Define your benchmarks

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Overview of Key Metrics

Bookmark.

Facebook

Ext. Blogs

Inst. Blogs

YouTube

MSM

SOV 2% — 8% 9% 11% 7%

Popularity

230 bkmks

500/mo.

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links150k views

Engagement

59 cmts

1 day13

cmts2-12 cmts

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% Positive

20% 32% 54% 50% 15% 15%

% Negative

0% 0% 4% 0% 1% 2%

Strat. Mess.

40%† 18%† 42% 42%† 18% 38%

Peer 1 was the competitive leader in all but YouTube, where Peer 4 and Peer 3 led.Actions attributed to individuals were responsible for most content, except on YouTube.

† Small base size. Findings are directional only.

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Top 5 Subjects of discussion in each channel

Rank Order

Facebook YouTube Social Bookmarking

External Blogs

Institutional Blogs

1 Campus Life

Events Courses Faculty Campus Life

2 Sports Campus Life

Projects, Non-Research

Research, Physical Sciences

Events

3 Technology Faculty Research, Physical Sciences

Institution Overall

Institution Overall

4 Product Services

Courses Events Expert Commentary

Institution Sub-Groups

5 Events Institution Overall

Faculty Events Admissions

Few subjects appear across all forms of social media, so tailor outreach accordingly

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First: find out what already existsWeb analyticsCustomer Satisfaction dataCustomer loyalty data

Second: Decide what research is needed to give you the information you need:

Message content analysisSurveys

Step 5: Conduct research (if necessary)

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Step5: Selecting a measurement tool based on your KPIs

Objective Metric Tool

Increase inquiries, web traffic, recruitment

% increase in traffic#s of clickthrus or downloads

Google Analytics, Omniture

Increase awareness/preference % of audience preferring your brand to the competition

Survey Monkey, Zoomerang,

Engage marketplace Conversation index greater than .8Rankings

Type pad, Technorati, Social Mention, ISPY

Communicate messages % of articles containing key messagesTotal opportunities to see key messagesCost per opportunity to see key messages

Media content analysis –Dashboards

% aware of or believing in key message

Survey Monkey, PollDaddy Zoomerang,Vizu

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Your tool box needs: 1. A content source:

Free sources: Google News/Google

Blogs RSS feeds Twitter Search Technorati, Ice Rocket Survey

Monkey/ZoomerangPaid sources:

Cyberalert, CustomScoop, e-Watch

Radian 6, Techrigy, Umbria, Crimson Hexagon

eNR, Meltwater

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Your tool box also needs to include: 2. A way to analyze that content

Automated vs. Manual Census vs random sampleThe 80/20 rule – Measure what matters because 20% of the content influences 80% of the decisionsDashboards aggregate data

Tools:• Hubspot Grader

• Xinureturns• Twinfluence• SPSS• Excel• Woopra• www.tealium.com

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Standard classifications of discussion

• Acknowledging receipt of information

• Advertising something• Answering a question• Asking a question• Augmenting a previous

post• Calling for action• Disclosing personal

information• Distributing media• Expressing agreement• Expressing criticism• Expressing support• Expressing surprise• Giving a heads up

• Responding to criticism• Giving a shout-out• Making a joke• Making a suggestion• Making an observation• Offering a greeting• Offering an opinion• Putting out a wanted ad• Rallying support• Recruiting people• Showing dismay• Soliciting comments• Soliciting help• Starting a poll• Validating a position

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Standard classifications of videos

AdvertisementAnimationDemonstrationEvent/PerformanceFictionFilmHome VideoInstructional VideoInterviewLecture

MontageMusic VideoNews BroadcastPromotional VideoSightseeing/TourSlideshowSpeechTelevision ShowVideo Log

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Your tool box also needs to include: 3. A way to measure

engagementThe conversation index=• Ratio of posts to

comments Relationship studiesThe engagement index

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A Proposed Engagement Index

ClickthruDonations/

ordersSignups

Time on siteRepeat visits

Forwards/links

/comments

RelationshipsTone/content of

conversationMembership

An engagement index?

Output Outtake Outcome

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Share of conversation vs share of engagement

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Admissions

Legal News

Other

Research, Agriculture

Policies

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Campus Life

Research, Social Sciences

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Michigan State

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Research, Earth Sciences

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Research, Social Sciences

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Share of Engagement by Subject - ,External Blogs

Peer 1

Michigan State

Peer 2

Peer 3

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The vast majority of discussion in external blogs is neutral.

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For all institutions, most postings were simply making an observation or distributing media.

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Acknowledging receipt of information

Advertising Something

Answering a question

Asking a question

Augmenting a previous post

Calling for action

Disclosing personal information

Distributing media

Expressing criticism

Expressing support

Expressing surprise

Giving a heads-up

Giving a shout-out

Making a suggestion

Making an observation

Offering an opinion

Playing a game

Rallying support

Recruiting people

Showing dismay

Share of Conversation Types

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Acknowledging receipt of information

Advertising Something

Answering a question

Asking a question

Augmenting a previous post

Calling for action

Disclosing personal information

Distributing media

Expressing criticism

Expressing support

Expressing surprise

Giving a heads-up

Giving a shout-out

Making a suggestion

Making an observation

Offering an opinion

Playing a game

Rallying support

Recruiting people

Showing dismay

Share of Engagement by Conversation Type - Institutional Blogs

Arizona State

Michigan State

Penn State

Purdue University

University of Michigan

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The numbers your web analytics guru should give you every month*1. % increase or decrease in unique visits 2. How many sessions on our blog or web site 

represent more than 5 page views 3. In the past  month,  what % of all sessions

represent more than 5 page views 4. % of sessions that are greater than 5 minutes

in duration 5. % of visitors that come back for more than 5

sessions 6. % of sessions that arrive at your site from a

Google search, or a direct link from your web site or other site that is related to your brand

7. % of visitors that become a subscriber 8. % of visitors that download something from

the site 9. % of visitors that provide an email address* Courtesy of Eric Peterson36

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Aspects of relationships

Control mutualityTrustSatisfactionCommitmentExchange relationshipCommunal relationship

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Components of a Relationship IndexControl mutuality

In dealing with people like me, this organization has a tendency to throw its weight around. (Reversed)This organization really listens to what people like me have to say.

TrustThis organization can be relied on to keep its promises.This organization has the ability to accomplish what it says it will do.

SatisfactionGenerally speaking, I am pleased with the relationship this organization has established with people like me.Most people enjoy dealing with this organization.

CommitmentThere is a long-lasting bond between this organization and people like me.Compared to other organizations, I value my relationship with this organization more

Exchange relationshipEven though people like me have had a relationship with this organization for a long time; it still expects something in return whenever it offers us a favor.This organization will compromise with people like me when it knows that it will gain something.This organization takes care of people who are likely to reward the organization.

Communal relationshipThis organization is very concerned about the welfare of people like me.I I think that this organization succeeds by stepping on other people. (Reversed)

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How to implement relationship metrics

Step 1: Conduct a benchmark relationship studyStep 2: Implement PR programStep 3: Conduct a follow up relationship studyStep 4: Look at what’s changed

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Your tool box needs to include:

4. A way to quantify it all

HITS= How Idiots Track SuccessEyeballs – CompeteGoogle AnalyticsPanelsSurveys

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Research without insight is just trivia

What works, what doesn’t?What needs to be done? What are you communicating?What tools work best?

Step 7: Analysis

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Data mining the numbers you have

Look for failures firstCheck to see what the competition is doing Then look for exceptional successCompare to last month, last quarter, last yearFigure out what worked and what didn’t work

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Best Practices:

Correlations to bottom-line impact

DonationsMembershipsSign-upsLeads

Using SMM for planning

Define the time frame, market/topic you want to studyUse Google News, Technorati or Radian6 to identify the conversations around the topic Analyze the conversations for type, tone and positioningLook at share of positioning, tone or conversation

Benchmarking against your peers

Looking at what the best doSetting goals accordinglyUse data to persuade recalcitrant spokespeople

Social Media in CrisisListen instantly to a wide range of influencersIdentify weaknesses in communications, customer service, or in the product

Improve your reputation

Listen first, then respondStop doing stupid things

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Using SMM in a Crisis

Social Media in Crisis

Listen instantly to a wide range of influencersIdentify weaknesses in communications, customer service, or in the product

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Case Study: Engagement vs mentions

Users were positively engaged with advertisements

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Share of Engagement by Tone for March 2009

Negative Neutral Positive

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March 2009 Share of Tone by Company

Negative Neutral Positive

Client Competitor 1 Competitor 2

Client Competitor 1 Competitor 2

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By percentage, individuals were more engaged with Client subjects than competitors

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Georgia-Pacific Kimberly-Clark Weyerhaeuser

(Engagement is the average number of comments per post made to a blog)

Client Competitor 1 Competitor 2

Client Competitor 1 Competitor 2

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Discussion of virgin vs. recycled fiber in tissue

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Georgia-Pacific

Kimberly-Clark

Weyerhaeuser

Beyond the layoffs, blogs also discussed WY’s decision to close the popular bonsai tree display at its corporate HQ, formerly open to the public.

Client

Competitor 1

Competitor 2

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Household product discussion jumped from discussion of a Greenpeace report on toilet tissue

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Away from Home Products

Building Products

Company Activities

Environmental Issues/Sustainability/Global WarmingHousehold Products

Legal Issues

Management/Employees/Unions

Office Products

Packaging (Color Box)

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Union activity and environmental concerns drove negative discussion

Four mill closings and other layoffs drove WY’s negative discussion.

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Weyerhaeuser

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Case Study: Establishing benchmarks at Georgia Tech

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Quantity and quality of discussion of Georgia Tech and four peer institutions across relevant user-generated media (UGM) channels in order to:

• Establish performance benchmarks• Observe user habits to inform UGM

strategies• Understand the influence of traditional

media on UGM channels• Provide support for funding of UGM

programs

Case Study: Georgia Tech

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Influence of traditional media

• On average, bloggers included as many as six links to external content in a post, the number three source being traditional news media sites.

• Links to its newsroom accounted for 26% of links• On Facebook, traditional news media sites were

the source of 25% of popular items posted to profiles.

• One third of content on social news sites was from traditional media sources.

• Twice as many hard news stories were posted to social news sites as features.BBC

Boston Globe CNET CNN

EurekAlert! Google News Los Angeles Times The New York Times

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette San Francisco Chronicle Washington Post

Selected Traditional Media Outlets Among Popular Sources of Content

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Where people get the content they share on FacebookSources of content

Genre of content

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Understanding brand ownership of online video content

N=2,555,691

Peer Organizations

4.33%

Your Organization0.18% Other

Organizations8.65%

Individual Users86.84%

Use ownership to signal brand participation

Provide alerts for possible brand management issues

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YouTube Recommendations

Use YouTube as a vehicle for strategic message communicationTailor materials related to high profile competitions Prepare media infrastructure for increased emphasis on online videoEncourage faculty members to be subjects of videos

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Focus on Social Bookmarking

In the event of a crisis, expect seeding from local papersThursday & Friday saw the greatest number of seeds. Few strategic messages appeared in social bookmarking sites

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External Blog Recommendations

Consider external blogs an opportunity for third-party endorsementsTreat influential external bloggers as you would industry analysts or key reportersFocus efforts on blogs written by more than one person, particularly in engineering and special focus areas Avoid local mainstream media blogsFocus on top-tier media outlets as key sources of content for bloggersInclude blogger-friendly features in the FT online newsroom – particularly video In a crisis, expect bloggers to collect background from personal web pages, user profiles and/or project sites

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Focus on Institutional Blogs

Departments generated the most number of blog postings/ inbound links among peer institutions Most blogs are written by individualsThe location of links played the largest role in driving commentsTechnology drove the largest number of posts, but personal life drove commentsMost posts consisted of making an observation, most comments asked questionsPhotographs were most frequently used multimedia contentInstitutional bloggers were significantly more likely to be positive toward their home institutions than mainstream journalistsCurrently enrolled students wrote one in five comments

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Recommendations for Institutional Blogs

Guide message communications don’t dictateTailor institutional blogs to the audiences looking for more in-depth informationEncourage bloggers to be opinionatedMix in personal subjects Leave frequency of posting up to the discretionof the bloggerRemove abandoned blogs Unify blogs with easy-to-find thematic lists of bloggersMake it easy to share content from your institutional blogs – ie. lots of music and visuals

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Thank You!

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