The Social Media Playbook

  • View
    8.311

  • Download
    1

  • Category

    Business

Preview:

DESCRIPTION

This is another variation of my work around the Social Media Playbook, a step forward in my book writing process. It needs some work still to make it prettier and tell the story, but I delivered it to the Social Media Club Workshop in Austin on November 6, 2007.

Citation preview

The Social Media

PlaybookLook | Listen | Join | Lead

Somewhere along the way, markets, what we did together, became marketing, what we do to each other.! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! David Weinberger

The 4 C’s of Social Media

Context

Contacts

Communications

Collaboration

The Importance of Social Media

Social Media is tearing down the walls that keep us apart and changing the rules that have kept us from being human inside our companies.

The Abstract CorporationCreated an US vs. THEM Attitude

We even use war metaphors to make clear our intent to assault our customers

targets

campaigns

tactics

air cover

capture

The illusion of control

Have you ever played Telephone?

The illusion of control

The Myth of CRM

Have you ever tried to manage a relationship with your spouse?

Meaningful relationships are based on love and mutual respect

The illusion of control

Can you really prevent people from saying bad things about you or your company?

Not in a free society

The Ostrich CEO or the Ivory Tower

The Revolution is distributed

Change is not only coming its here

When this younger generation enters the work force, things will really be different

Change happens every day, as 10 years ago with the advent of the Web, this is the next chapter

Resistance is Futile

www.startrek.com

tangent - shared meaning

One problem with ‘media’

Power of images, words, and stories to connect or separate

The solution is conversation, the back and forth that creates understanding

3 letters

perception

intention

Conversation Replaces MarketingWe don’t do it to someone, we do it together, we build understanding

It is messy and difficult to control

This is where we learn from each other

How we learn and develop understanding

Experience Conversation

Media

In the beginning...

Fire is hot

Meat is good

Caves are shelter

Sex makes babies

Grunts

Cave Paintings=

Storytelling

In the broadcast era...

Push messages at people through tv, radio and print

Free Trials

The Product

Sales ++

Support --

In the conversation era...

The Experience

Relationships Matter

Trust

Transparency

Authenticity

Intentions

Create media to connect with your market and serve your community

Getting to Work

Look

Listen

Join

Lean

Look

Where are the communities that care about the same things we do?

Where’s the conversation?Who’s influential?What are my employees doing online?

Listen

What are they talking about today?What do they care about?What are the words they use to describe us

and the things we care about?

Gut CheckIs the way we talk about the things we do in alignment with the way others are talking about the same things?

What are the values we represent, what should they be?

What needs to be different to participate instead of to control?

Join

Who do you know that they should know?

What can you contribute?

Where should I invest my time?

How can I help?

Lead

What is your outcome and purpose? (intention)

Where are you publishing regularly?

What resources do you have to host conversations?

How can you improve?

Business is Personal•Start with the presumption of trust

•Make clear your intentions

•Give people a chance

•Provide power for people’s passions

• “Live the life, love the life” (as Jake McKee said earlier)

•Participate in your market’s conversations

•Personal Pronouns are ok!

•Social Media creates opportunities to be found and to connect

•Trust the conversation

(un)marketing•Help people buy, don’t sell

•Stop spending marketing dollars only to the point of sale, invest in getting to the point of satisfaction

• “Customer service is the new marketing” Thor Muller

• “The brands with the best story tellers win” CEO of iProspect

•Participate in the community, give without expectations of getting

•50% of all advertising doesn’t work, more often then not, the other 50% doesn’t either

•Help people save time, make money, get more done, be happy, find meaning, connect with others, and find greater satisfaction

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! David Packard

Chris Heuerhttp://www.chrisheuer.com/chris@socialmediaclub.org