turning listening into an organizational advantage
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During Explore Social Media in Minneapolis, Chuck Hemann, Director of Analytics, discussed how organizations can turn listening to social media conversations into a competitive advantage.TRANSCRIPT
WCG Staff Meeting
December 13, 2011
Contents are proprietary and confidential.
Developing a Best Practices Approach to Social Media
Measurement Chuck Hemann| VP, Digital Analytics
EDELMAN DIGITAL | @chuckhemann ON TWITTER
Turning Listening into an Organizational Advantage
Chuck Hemann | Director, Analytics WCG | @chuckhemann ON TWITTER
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Here’s last quarter’s media analysis and last year’s brand tracking data. Can we schedule a meeting to review the 75-slide deck? • Too many research professionals
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Wow, did you see the opinion shift on today’s dashboard? That story’s really working. Let’s amp it up with some new content tomorrow. • The opportunity in front of us
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Marketers are currently swimming in data
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People and brands send more than 340m tweets per day
People on Facebook share more than 684,000 bits of content per day
People upload 72 hours of new video to YouTube every minute
Google receives over 2 million search queries a minute
• Open, unfiltered channels
• Real-time market-driven conversations
• Engaged customer and partner communities
• Early warning system for competitive intelligence • Lots of noise to filter, but plenty of valuable signal
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Social Channels = New Frontier for Research
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Where do we get started?
Making social data work outside of PR/marketing
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• Concept of building a dashboard to listen for conversations outside of PR/marketing applications is easy
• Discover the data
• Analyze the data
• Segment
• Develop insights
• Execute based on those insights
• Requires central source for
listening with organization
1. Use the “right” tool(box) for the job.
2. Develop a social intelligence supply chain.
3. Institutionalize standard metrics and models.
4. Determine the right reporting cadence.
5. Verify software tools with analyst hand coding.
6. Plan protocols for real time crises.
7. Build a team who understands the business.
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Key elements of success…
• Don’t ask: “What tool should I use?”
• Instead ask: “What toolbox do I need?”
So, what’s in the toolbox? • Social media aggregator (Radian6, Sysomos, etc.) • Owned media insights (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) • Engagement tools (Tweetdeck, Hootsuite, Jive, etc.) • Web and search analytics (Google, Omniture, etc.)
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Think “toolbox,” not tool
Channel Capture
Twitter firehose access
Full-text versus content snippets
Mention categorization/tagging
Spam prevention
Reliable capture through API
Workflow functionality
Consistent user interface
Historical data
Nine elements to evaluate a social media listening tool
Social Conversation
Tool
Text Data
Non-Text Data
Reporting
Internal Engagement
Team
Dashboards
Recurring
Event-based
Specialized Research
Measurement
Executive
Business
Analyst
Feedback Loop /
Optimization
Developing your social intelligence supply chain
@CHUCKHEMANN ON TWITTER
• What are people saying about your brand
• Where people are talking about your brand
• When people are talking about your brand
• Who is talking about your brand
• Why people are talking about your brand
Framing your reporting approach around the Five W’s
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Daily: Media flow, news synopses, topline opinions
Weekly: KPI tracking, red flags, tactical decisions,
editorial planning, traffic/sales impact
Monthly: KPI trends and insights, strategy evaluation,
program optimization, problem resolution
Hourly: Competitive alerts and crisis management
Quarterly: KPI executive reviews, strategy shifts,
problem escalation, cross-discipline impact
Annually: Business and comms planning, long-range strategy, KPI assessment and goal setting
Timely Intelligence à Timely Decisions
In-House Business Analyst
In-House Business Reporting
Business/Brand #2
Social COE Stakeholders
Agency Partner(s) & External Analysts
In-House Business Analyst
In-House Business Reporting
Business/Brand #1
Social COE Stakeholders
Agency Partner(s) & External Analysts
In-House Business Analyst
In-House Business Reporting
Business/Brand #3
Social COE Stakeholders
Agency Partner(s) & External Analysts
In-House Business Analyst
In-House Business Reporting
Business/Brand #4
Social COE Stakeholders
Agency Partner(s) & External Analysts
Plan the human resources, not just technology
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• Take advantage of existing training programs
• Start with a core team of people within the company
• Spread training program to other parts of the organization gradually
• Hands-on training as much as possible
• Create incentives/requirements to complete training programs
Putting together an effective training program
Full Awareness / Understand Timing / Linkage
Modern Day Issue Management
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-180 +180 Prepare for Media Call
Optimize Search
Profile Pro / Con
Influencers Know SOC
Volume Know
(-) Words
Identify Issues (>90% are Known)
Right Influencers
Right Words
Right Content
Correct History
ISSUE HITS
Content Syndication
Network
Right 3rd
Parties
Right Story
Brief / Get to Know the Influencers
Place Right
Content
Tag the Right Words
Macro Industry Issues
Create an early warning
system.
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Monitor even after issue burns out.
SEARCH LEADS TO RIGHT CONTENT
REPORTERS INFLUENCED BY SEARCH + COMPANY
Modern day issues management
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Developing your response protocol
1. Supplement social listening tools with additional data sources
2. Use combination of human-coding and NLP to gather relevant conversations
3. Filter spam using the best tools, keyword filters and human analysis
1. Use statistical analysis and modeling to make sense of very large conversations
2. Integrate metrics from different data sources to make connections between brand activities, social media conversations, and business goals
3. Analysts and data scientists review results with engagement specialists and thought partners to deliver recommendations
Data Capture / Management Data Analysis / Reporting
Making sure the robots don’t take over the world
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… The answer to this question is, as usual, MAYBE
Do you need the physical command center space?
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Or you can utilize a web-based application that is scalable
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Chuck Hemann Director, Analytics
Explore Minneapolis August 16, 2012