Social Media in a Corporate Context Manchester 2010 - Kathleen Goh, DHL and Sheila Parry,...

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With so little direct contact and so many channels vying for attention, how can companies reach out to dispersed employees and keep them engaged? To celebrate its 40th anniversary, DHL launched a global employee photo competition, an inexpensive, accessible solution to engage some 500,000 employees stretched over 220 countries.

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Every picture tells a storyAn employee commemoration of DHL’s 40th anniversary

Kathleen Goh, DHL Global Communications Communicate Social Media in a Corporate ContextManchester, 19th October 2010

Local country participation

Regional voting round

Open commentary

Customer testimonials

Was it Photoshopped?

This one was

Would you marry this man?

Three-horse town

And the winners were …

Setting the pace

Credit: Stefan Hausmann, DHL Freight Germany/Copyright DPDHL

Smiling in the snow

Credit: Alexander Bittner, DHL Leipzig Hub/Copyright DPDHL

Frozen in time

Credit: Chris Gillet, DHL Express USA/Copyright DPDHL

DHL Superhero!

Credit: Adam Pillidge, DHL Express Canada/Copyright DPDHL

Horses for courses

Credit: Ignacio de Wit, DHL Global Forwarding Guatemala/Copyright DPDHL

Planes, trains and automobiles

Credit: Lars Lehmann, DHL Freight Germany/Copyright DPDHL

Future investment

Supplied by: Jessie Khoh Mei Ling, DHL Express Malaysia/Copyright DPDHL

Banking on success

Credit: Richard Stack, DHL Express USA/Copyright DPDHL

Ain’t no mountain high enough

Credit: Lander Fernandez, DHL Express Spain/Copyright DPDHL

The results

In just 60 days:

2 million page views

5.8 million hits

18,000 users

3,098 photos published

141,701 votes and rating actions

3,488 comments

112 countries submitted photos

Kathleen Goh, DHL Global Communications kathleen.goh@dhl.com

Cara Jenkins, Senior Account Manager, theblueballroom cjenkins@theblueballroom.com

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