social media management - phase 2 (optimize)

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SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT SERIES

PHASE 2 - OPTIMIZE

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THE EVOLUTIONARY PROCESS

1. Overview – Imagine!2. Social Management – Phase 1 (Design)3. Social Management – Phase 2 (Optimize)

– Deliverable: Operational Roadmap

4. Social Management – Phase 3 (Build)– Deliverable: Operational Management Document

5. Social Management – Phase 4 (Manage)– Deliverable: User Scenarios

6. Social Management – Phase 5 (Professional Brand-building)7. Social Management – Phase 6 (Sales)

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OPTIMIZE BUILD MANAGEDESIGN


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THE EVOLUTION OF BRANDS & SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGEMENT

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Social Brand – Highly interactive and engaged brand uses social media to… • connect with consumers &

customers by anticipating their needs (based on previous)

• drive conversation with constant questions and engaging content

• provide a long-term platform to inspire advocacy and reward loyalty

• highlight the personality of the brand thru people & relationships (vs. corporations)

• connect consumer interaction to brand KPI’s/ROI

• continuously engages in dialog with consumers – not afraid to turn the power of thought to the community

• empower the consumer to speak • share information and provide

insider access• continuously understand the

changing landscape of their market, customer and competitor

• lead rather than follow the market

Social Marketer – Data driven brand uses social media to… • create, grow and manage user

communities• support paid media investment

through content calendars• measure marketing results thru

actions (clicks, likes, follows, shares)

• respond to issues that impact brand perception (Care & PR)

• occasionally start limited engagement with closed-ended comments

Social User – Activity-driven brand uses social media to… • measure traffic and sentiment• craft social tactics around user

generated actions (channels, clicks, sentiment)

• determine success metrics thru quantitative analysis

• reactively change tactics (rare to no engagement)

Social Monitoring Tools

Social Center of Excellence

Social Command Center

Profitability/Margin

No Risk/Reward - Safe Low Risk/Reward – Utilitarian High Risk/Reward – Interactive & Intuitive

Human

Technology


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SOCIAL MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION

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Creation of a highly efficient social management platform by a) determining the long-term needs of the business, b) assessing the current assets/processes of the business and c) building a roadmap to becoming a

Social Media Center of Excellence


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Getting Started…A Few Questions


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SOCIAL MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION

How to get started?• Create of a cross-organizational working team to develop and enterprise-wide social

media strategy to optimize corporate assets, content, skills & technology investments

What happens first?• Create a roadmap to determine what the “end state” will look like organizationally,

operationally and objectives to build towards

What happens next?• Create a series of workshops with the participating groups (vendors & suppliers too) to

understand common needs, obstacles, assets and goals

What else?• Create a Steering Committee and/or Senior Leadership

Champion to help manage the process remove obstacles and present needs to the Executive Level/C-Suite

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SOCIAL MANAGEMENT OPTIMIZATION PROCESS

• Issues• Social Management Workshop• Organizational Re-alignment• Social Management Platform[s]

– Social Listening– Community Management– Marketing/Content Management– Social Care– Social Management Response Center (SMRC)…– Social Center of Excellence

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OPTIMIZATION 1.0

Organizational Alignment


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SMP Optimization – Organization [re-] alignment

• The process of leading clients through a series of audits, reviews, workshops and training to provide solutions around:– Creation of an integrated, consistent approach around social media that combines

and optimizes the use of resources, tools, budget, metrics and tactics across the Enterprise

– Development of a single set of standards and Best Practices around the Brand that provides a means to maximize it’s impact within Social Media and ROI

– Delivery of a strategic solution that allows the client to focus their resources on delivering a highly visible brand experience within Social Media a single approach and voice.

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THE CHALLENGE TO THE ENTERPRISE

• Structuring for Social Media continues to be a significant challenge for large corporations. Their current practices spans at least 5 different groups and no less than 25 employees.

• In order to provide insight into a solution, the following were reviewed:– Industry Expert insights– Internal POV documents– Cross Team Organizational Workshop

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Organizations should look at social media governance as a way to re-think traditional ownership roles in their

organization. When this type of governance is based on open discussion and mutual respect instead of turf-

protecting and power grabs, who owns what becomes less important and who KNOWS what becomes more important.Steve Radick

SM Strategist – Booz Allen


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SOLUTION: HYBRID VERSION OF CROSS-FUNCTIONAL

ORGANIZATION MODEL

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– A Social Management leader [Director Level] to provide a voice for the board/ council to Senior Leadership, coordinate and allocate resources as needed.

– Governance Board/Council consisting of representatives from each group to bring issues, needs, ideas, solutions and “passion” to the forefront with a singular focus on customer.

– Social Management Working Team to plan, coordinate and activate cross-team initiatives and identify issues.

8+ Member Social Management Governance Board[2 Director Level Members from each Organization}

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MOST BRANDS COMPARED TO BEST PRACTICES

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ATTRIBUTE BEST PRACTICE MOST BRANDS RATING

Strategy

Broad active support from impacted groups with concise cross functional alignment

Multiple Groups , pockets of communication and collaboration, No collective shared strategy

Low

Roles/Organization

Business & Technology Strategist often centralized with the Org owning P&L. Multiple “Community Managers” in place with strong cross functional relationships.

7 Different Organizations with no central leadership or strategy. Independent needs, metrics and strategies

Low

ExperimentationCulture

Creation of a safe place to experiment and learn quickly. A culture that is risk tolerant

Good understanding of the need across organizations that risk is required but still a strong fear based undertone

Medium

Process/Metrics

Elimination of red tape empowering rapid responses. A single system to keep teams informed and measuring common metrics

Processes in place in certain areas. Product ingests Ratings and reviews into official vendor review processes. Different metrics and tools utilized

Medium

Corporate Buy-In

High levels of Executive Buy-in and encouragement to experiment and drive into the culture

Pockets of Executive participation, Ninja Program endorsed, community and social media not consistently leveraged or understood at exec levels

Mid-High

SOURCE = “How to Organize Your Company For Social Computing” Forrester June 2009


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The Starting Point – SM Workshop

• In order to get each of the primary users/drivers of Social Management moving forward, begin by inviting representatives all the primary groups to participate in…– Online Survey (SurveyMonkey) to provide anonymous feedback on key

areas of strength and weakness with the management of their Social Management strategy

– Attend a ½ day workshop to discuss issues and come to general consensus on those issues and prioritization

– Provide feedback on general recommendations made to Senior Leadership• General Recommendations

– Create a Social Management Leadership Council– Social Management Working Teams– Social Management Leader to act as the voice of the Council

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SOCIAL MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP

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Teams presenting back their ideas and voting on the ones which are most actionable…


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TOP ISSUES & SOLUTIONS

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Detail Insights/POVChallenge ConcernsLeadership – How to get centralized leadership across cross-functional teams

Cross-Team Integration – How to coordinate early on in the process

Staffing – How to establish an approach with is flexible and expandable

1. Create a Social Management ‘Council’ which is accountable2. Create single “oversight” position within the brand to

oversee all Social Media3. Nominate “Voice” or “Champion” of Social Management

Council4. Rotate Leadership through departments as needed by

cross-functional initiatives

1. Set Social Media “Editorial Calendar” and create discussion forum/distribution list (e.g. rework weekly/monthly meetings)

2. Develop a Centralized Social Management Framework/Strategy

3. Make distribution list

4. Define Roles & Ownership

5. Think “Blended”

1. Pre-plan and agree on “Tent Pole” teams to handle specific events

2. Develop Contingency staff/Social Management SWAT Teams

3. Cross-train teams on Social Media to create a “super staff”

4. Develop Process [e.g. checklist, guidelines] for BUs when using with Social Media

5. Designate ‘Point-of-Contact’ for common requests

6. Incent employees & external advocates through recognition

1. Need for a single leader to act as decision-maker, voice of the brand Social Media and act as Champion for organization to senior leadership

2. Creation of a Governing Board or Council that provides equal access and representation for each department into SM

1. Need for a coordinated Working Team that builds, manages and executes tactically from a common set of standards, goals and action items

2. Better definition of roles and integrated processes

1. Need for “forward thinking”proactive planning and management around programs to include staffing and expertise to manage workload.

• No clear, singular voice or vision

• No decision-maker• “Land grab”• No singular focus on

customer• Lack of senior

leadership visibility• One team will not

have 360 ° view

• One organization will control view, strategy and resources

• Conflicting priorities• Conflicting strategies• Lack of bandwidth• “Turf battles”

• Not enough support or expertise for specific priorities as they occur

• No one can say “no”• No proactive

planning which causes conflict in resources and priorities


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KEY CONSIDERATIONS

• Loss of Control: A common concern was that needs/resources will be re-allocated towards other more visible programs beyond their own – Team opted for a rotating leader in order to give their group an opportunity to lead

• Why Would This Work: Social Management is just as unorganized and lacking in communication as everything else

• Flexibility: How can we operate when budgets and resources are locked in 3 quarters out

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Case study:

Recommendations for a major US telecom provider


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No one thinks their brand’s Social Management Program is “Best in Class”

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Q1. Please rate your brand’s Social Management program using a 5 point scale where 1 means “Best in Class” and 5 means “Below Average”

Average

Below Average

Above Average

Best in Class


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At best, Leadership is felt to be “aware but disengaged” in this regard

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Q2 Please rate the awareness of client's Senior Management (VP+) as it relates to the following topics regarding social media.

Slightly unaware

Unaware

Aware/Disengaged

Aware/Engaged

Actively Engaged


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The expectations are low for the brand’s team collaboration

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Q3 How well does the client use their resources (e.g. people, tools, budgets, best practices) to advance their social media programs?

Almost meetsexpectations

Does not meetexpectations

Meets

Exceeds

Actively Engaged


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Session Details


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GETTING STARTED

Leadership

Staffing

Cross-team Integration

“How to get centralized leadership across cross-functional teams?”

“How to establish staffing approach which is flexible and expandable?”

“How to coordinate with each other earlier in the process?”

** This was done by generating a lot of angles on the issue and then voting on which one got most to the “heart of the matter”

Issue Top restatement

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• The room as a whole first worked on restating each issue as workable “How to” questions…


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GROUP A WORK FOR CTI

1. Establish points of contact• POC in each org to learn about & shape developments @ planning stage• Have central point-of-entry for short-turn projects so entire team can be briefed• Educate other teams on responsibilities

2. Panel/Ongoing Survey• Survey current “pain points” to track progress/contribution effects

3. Early collaboration/Communication• Mandatory schedule for regular meetings/updates• Develop a cross-party reporting structure; info-sharing on a consistent basis• Share base level problems and identify interaction points, foundations• Share ideas with POC across orgs in early planning phases

4. Centralized Framework• Establish a central strategic framework of goals for Social Media across orgs• Set out the goal to be attained by the brand SM groups• Develop an Enterprise-wide SM strategy to get agreed goals

5. Process for Shared Assets/Bank • Forums to share case studies• Take inventory of assets/content

6. Social Innovation Sharing• Regular meetings to discuss opportunities for SM innovation

7. Urgent Project planning Flexibility• Anticipate Flexible urgent needs & build contingencies

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GROUP B WORK FOR CTI

1. Clearly define/empower SM governance board• Clearly define and empower Social Management team• Streamline communication between groups• Identify early on all aspects of SM initiatives• Open opportunity for BU partners to be treated as extended team members• Create core SM team that brings initiatives & plans back to larger teams• Have a social media manager/director preside over all SM

2. Rework weekly/monthly meetings and distribution of info across teams• Cross-team social briefings from the beginning• Weekly/monthly meetings• Bring up challenges or requests in our weekly/monthly collaboration meetings• More contribution from others in weekly extended meetings• We should distribute shared calendar to expanded group/stakeholders• Establish distribution list/Consolidate social media distribution list• Reformat weekly meetings – have other groups involved• Communicate talking points – allows for faster knowledge exchange

3. Create Social Brief• Create SM brief for all teams to work from as filter for initiating work• Establish better accountability

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GROUP C WORK FOR CTI

1. Collaborate on agenda for bi-weekly call• the brand will foster open collaboration early in the strategic planning process• Essential for pre-planning for “tent-pole” events

2. Ideation and discussion of corporate rumblings• Survey current “pain points” to track progress/contribution effects

3. Think as a “blended social person”• i.e. “If I am the social VP, this is how I’d approach…”• Social Management alias of task force

4. Define roles and ownership

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GROUP A WORK FOR STAFFING

1. Contingent Staff for Short Term!!!• Establish & train contingent staff for urgent short-term needs

2. Line item for budgets/media• Estimate resource budget to address short term contingencies• Find “invested” partners (media $ for execution volunteers)

3. Up Skilling/Training 101• Grow overall awareness of importance of SM among employees• Feed the brand SM outputs to all employees (i.e. Twitter sign-up for all)• Apply Ninja approach where bodies are needed• Training/train all employees in SM 101

4. Central point for “alarms” authority• Establish a central POC to “sound the alarm” and communicate urgent needs

5. Establish discipline timelines• Being respectful of other’s needs/time• Learning about other team’s responsibilities & existing bandwidth

6. Social KPI’s and Corp Goals• Set out how each group will deliver on core strategy within their discipline• Champion the needs for increased staff to leadership that translates to corporate goals

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GROUP B WORK FOR STAFFING

1. Develop a process to better utilize resources at the BU/Agency requesters (people outside core team)

• Utilize agency partners more effectively• Recruit and use marketing partners outside core teams to take on work• Create process/workflow to quickly ramp-up ninja participation for campaigns or

reactive issues• Recruiting passionate people as shared resource• Use BU as extended team member for particular initiative

2. Create and utilize extended partnership to identify common goals and stakeholders

• Leadership buy-in to sharing resources

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GROUP C WORK FOR STAFFING

1. “Tent-pole” social media team• Agreement over tent pole events• Having Social Management committee/task force encompassing all groups• Cross-functional team comes together to be ‘nimble’ and responsive to events in the market• Team members will be assigned based on what events are• Assign key personnel to manage tent pole initiatives• the brand will foster open collaboration early in the strategic planning process• Essential for pre-planning for “tent-pole” events

2. Long term planning process• Consolidate staffing across teams (as it pertains to SM)• Allow teams to have dedicated ‘social media’ people• Have role of each SM person spelled out so there is no misunderstanding of needs• Create steering committee & editorial calendar

3. Short term rapid response• Use SM engagement tools to target and respond to external posts• Recruit brand Advocates from customer base to engage in SM efforts

4. Employee/BU involvement• Make SM participation easy for employees (i.e. not too restrictive)• Assign team members to manage relationship with key internal partners• Invite BU participation• Create agency pool of personnel solely for execution against segments outside tech

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GROUP A WORK FOR LEADERSHIP

1. Council• Leadership panel• Accountable social media council• Establish cross-functional leadership team to coordinate and advise best practices in SM

2. Central Person• Consider an individual leader versus a “Council” to lead• Establish a VP of Social Management with cross-org authority

3. Council + Central Person• Coordinate teams to report successes and educate exec leaders

4. Champion• Establish sponsor from Dan’s lead team to champion SM effort (in addition to council or VP)• Hire person responsible for sharing knowledge/programs across groups

5. Central “Knowledge Center”6. Best Practice – Ninja Training

• Hire for new role• Train within BU’s (e.g. guiding principles for navigating SM)• Train executive leaders on what SM ecosystem looks like and how the brand is perceived

7. New Social Organization Focus! Re-Org!• Have a central, dedicated organization responsible for meeting the goal of having a ‘best-in-class’ SM

program• Make being ‘best-in-class’ a concrete goal which compensation is based

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GROUP B WORK FOR LEADERSHIP

1. Empowered governance board• Define what is needed from leadership

• Establish formal governance board and set leader of board

• Assign VP to lead and empower board

2. Need a SM champion as part of, voice of and sponsor of that board (CEO/Board)

• Consider an individual leader versus a “Council” to lead

• Establish a VP of Social Management w cross-org authority

3. Define a Single SM strategy

4. Define Criteria for Leadership

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GROUP C WORK FOR LEADERSHIP

1. Create new position to oversee all SM• Get a “social media director”

• Create management-level position to oversee SM efforts

• Appoint VP of SM with responsibility for reporting to Sr. Leadership (has final call)

• Appoint one nominated executive to lead & champion social-cross-functional teams

2. Create steering committee with clear areas of ownership + accountability• Define “ownership” areas among teams that have “final call” with input from steering

committee

• Teams nominate key point person

• Key constituents will create committee to discuss issues

• Leadership from all areas jointly decide strategy & projects

• Made of “Certified Decision Makers”

3. Rotating inter-departmental leadership• Leader rotates between departments as needed by cross-functional initiatives

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TOP SOLUTIONS FOR LEADERSHIP

“How to get centralized leadership across cross-functional teams?”• Create a Social Management ‘Council’ which is accountable• Rotate Leadership through departments as needed by cross-functional initiatives • Create single “oversight” position within the brand to oversee all Social Media• Nominate “Voice” or “Champion” of Social Management Council

Top voted ideas

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TOP SOLUTIONS FOR CROSS-TEAM INTEGRATION

“How to coordinate early on in the process?”• Set Social Media “Editorial Calendar” and create discussion forum/distribution

list (e.g. rework weekly/monthly meetings)• Develop a Centralized Social Management Framework/Strategy• Make distribution list• Think “blended”• Define Roles & Ownership

Top voted ideas

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TOP SOLUTIONS FOR STAFFING

“How to establish an approach with is flexible and expandable?”

• Pre-plan and agree on “Tent Pole” teams to handle specific events • Develop Contingency staff/Social Management SWAT Teams

– Cross-train teams on Social Media to create a “super staff”

• Develop Process [e.g. checklist, guidelines] for BUs when using with Social Media

• Designate ‘Point-of-Contact’ for common requests• Incent employees & external advocates through recognition

Top voted ideas

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CLIENT SELECTED RECOMMENDATION

– A Social Management leader [Director Level] to provide a voice for the board/ council to Senior Leadership, coordinate and allocate resources as needed.

– Governance Board/Council consisting of representatives from each group to bring issues,

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– needs, ideas, solutions and “passion” to the forefront with a singular focus on customer.

– Social Management Working Team to plan, coordinate and activate cross-team

initiatives and identify issues.


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ROLE: THE SOCIAL MANAGEMENT DIRECTOR

• Primary Function: Provide Leadership and a Voice for the Governance Board and SM Working Team to create a Best-in-Class Social Media Program.

• Action: Provides a centralized strategic view of Social Media that can be translated at the organizational level. – Oversees the Governance Board and provides final “vote” [Decision-maker]– Brand Social Management Champion & Voice to Senior Leadership– Overall Brand Social Management Strategy and Vision– Create and manage the brand Social Management Guidebook to encompass an

overall external and internal Social Management strategy– A social media roadmap [calendar] to include all events, requirements, resource

needs etc. to coordinate across all organizations– A core set of KPI’s and measurements to manage the organization to negotiate

resources [staffing, budget] in advance as needed– Prioritized workload across all organizations– Capture and share Best Practices to continuously feed back into planning

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ROLE: THE GOVERNANCE BOARD

• Primary Function: To remove obstacles from the SM Working Team delivery of the Social Management program by providing resources and support when requested.

• Action: Meets and discusses overall brand integrated strategy across all organizations to represent and leverage the diverse knowledge, experience, resources, expertise and relationships to manage reactive issues but plan proactively.

– Brand Social Management Champion & Voice to Senior Leadership– Overall brand Social Management Strategy and Vision– Create and manage the brand Social Management Guidebook to encompass an overall

external and internal Social Management strategy– A social media roadmap [calendar] to include all events, requirements, resource needs

etc. to coordinate across all organizations– A core set of KPI’s and measurements to manage the organization to negotiate

resources [staffing, budget] in advance as needed– Prioritized workload across all organizations– Capture and share Best Practices to continuously feed back into planning– Determines organizational Benchmark Objectives and monthly Management by

Objectives [MBO’s].

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ROLE: SOCIAL MANAGEMENT WORKING TEAM

• Primary Function: To identify and provide clarity/prioritization around obstacles and requirements to drive the Social Management program.

• Action: Focuses on weekly/monthly/quarterly management of overall marketing planning, activities, events, messaging, trends, issues and campaigns. as well as identification and clarity – Create a running monthly quarterly plan of all activities to determine and prioritize

workload, resource needs, upcoming issues to report to Governance Board.

– Articulate issues, requirements and timelines to Governance Board for assistance and resolution.

– Reports on current outputs and adherence to KPI’s.

– Shares resources, tools as appropriate

– Provides assistance and SME resources as appropriate

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BENEFITS

• Team Approach to social media coordination across all organizations and function with centralized leadership and decision-making

• Ability to capitalize on core strengths, passion and creativity of each group vs. one group/one viewpoint.

• Integrated strategy allows the team to project 360° view of marketplace and combine resources

• Optimized process that provides ability to utilize resources more efficiently and increase speed-to-market

• Shift from reactive to proactive management

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HOW IT WORKS…

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• Meets Weekly to discuss calendar and identify needs & resources

• Meets Bi-Weekly to resolve issues, implement strategy and discuss metrics

• Manages overall brand Social Management vision and strategy. Convenes and oversees Social Management Governance Board Bi-Weekly and reports progress to Senior Leadership on a Monthly bases or as appropriate.


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OPTIMIZATION 1.1

Process


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SMP Optimization – Process

• Identification of how the client works within and across departments:– How is social used?– How does the brand engage?– Is there a singular “brand voice” and who owns that voice?– Who is listening and raising alerts when issues occur?– What processes are followed when alerts are raised?– Who has ownership?– How are things prioritized and escalated?– Where does the content come from and who’s budget is responsible for creating it?– What metrics are being used to measure how things are done?

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Process: Matrix Management

• A starting point to optimizing SMP processes is to categorize within three critical areas– Existing processes that are required in-place– Existing processes that need to be changed or removed– Gaps that need to be fixed

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OPTIMIZATION 1.2

Resources


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SMP Optimization – Resources

• Identification of how the client works within and across departments:– People:

• What are the specific job titles? • What are their skill sets?• Are they dedicated?• Who do they report to?

– Content• Who owns it?• Who creates it?• Who funds new content development?

– Communities (Branded Channels & Influencers)• Do they exist now and who manages them?• Who owns the budget?• Is there Media investment?

– Metrics & Reporting• Are there metrics & reports in-place that drive back to performance, objectives & brand KPI’s• Who owns and produces them? Frequency• Are they compartmentalized or across the Enterprise? (Can and should they be?)

– Training• What exists today?• Is it specific to the performance of the brand within SM?

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Resource: Matrix Management

• A starting point to optimizing SMP resources is to categorize within three critical areas– Existing resources that are required in-place– Existing resources that need to be changed or removed– Gaps that need to be fixed

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OPTIMIZATION 1.3

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SMP Optimization – Content

• Identification of what types of content exists today and how is it produced and published within & across departments as well as to their customers:– Branded Content (Owned)– Content Creation (Paid) – Who creates it?– UGC – Is it used and how is it generated– Content Types – Text, Video, Photo, Audio?– Digital – How does the brands online assets perform?– Mobile – Does the brand have a “solomo” strategy? Does it generate the right engagement?

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Content: Matrix Management

• A starting point to optimizing SMP processes is to audit and categorize within three critical areas– Existing content that is high-value– Existing content that needs to be changed or removed from the process– Gaps that need to be addressed in terms of creating new content

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OPTIMIZATION 1.4

Technology


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SMP Optimization – Technology

• Identification of what types of tools & technologies exist today and how are they used within & across departments as well as their customers:– Listening/Monitoring– Engagement– Content Management– Channel Management– Data & Insights– Reporting

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Technology: Matrix Management

• A starting point to optimizing SMP technology is to perform and extensive audit of what the brand has invested in/is using currently and then categorize within four critical areas– Existing tools/technologies that are required in-place (contract or internally developed)– Existing tools/technologies that need to be changed or removed– Gaps that need to be fixed– Requirements that must be integrated into the overall Platform to provide across the Enterprise

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NEXT STEPS…


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WHAT’S NEXT?

• Construct a plan to that looks at the results of the optimization process to consolidate the brands’ assets, resources, processes, budget & technology/tools

• Identify which assets can be re-used and what development or investment needs to occur to make the SMP work effectively

• Phase 3 – Begin laying out the basic component of the SMP that incorporates all of the information determined above that will result in highly-efficient, valued SMP.

• Build with a plan that is [short-term] scalable and [long-term] evolutionary to meet the changing needs of the brand “proactively.”

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Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat – General Sun Tzu

azurite blue inc. - we are a consulting firm that has the

experience and ability to help clients articulate their needs

with regards to “all things social,” and create an operational

roadmap to get there!

More importantly, we help design strategies that are based upon executable

tactics and tactics that support achievable strategies!

Contact: Jim Clark – 908-305-8475

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