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Reactive Strategies For digital content plans

Issues Management in a Web 2.0 World: The art of social media war

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Reactive StrategiesFor digital content plans

Planning & strategiesA bit of a review

Strategies

Proactive

Social content strategy

Social Marketing

Reactive

News-jacking & opportunity-surfing

Issues management

The Art of Social Media War

And therefore those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle and are not brought there by him.

The Social NewsroomBring them back to your place

The morals?

Be able to publish your own news.

Break your own news.

HARO.

Your primary audience comes first.

The Art of Social Media War

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.

News-jackingInjecting your message into breaking news to generate media coverage

How to news-jack

Monitor for topics

Research breaking stories quickly but carefully

Write your post

Publish & share it

Opportunity-SurfingBeing ready to cover breaking news in your organization

The Art of Social Media War

The general who wins the battle makes many [plans] ... before the battle is fought. The general who loses makes but few [plans] beforehand.

Issues ManagementThings will go wrong.

Definitions & Categories

Issue vs. “Crisis”

Types of Issues

Misinformation

someone else is wrong

Mistake

you’re wrong

Organizational Crisis

impending or actual harm to people, property, public

Where they occur

Pages you control

Pages someone else controls

Your “arsenal”

Planning

Positive interactions

Monitoring

Your accounts & website(s)

Planning

Policies

Procedures

Messages & content

Positive Interactions

A good reputation is not something you earn when you need it

You need proactive strategies

Monitoring

Have systems & procedures in place

Interaction Assessment Flowchart

Your accounts & websites

Keep the response local unless:

someone else jumps channels

Twitter

The Art of Social Media War

Let your plans be dark and impenetrable as night, and when you move, fall like a thunderbolt.

Risk Assessment

Analysing what could go wrong and how much damage it could do

Message Decks

Background

Q&As or key messages

Social messaging

Web & blog content

Your Team

Lawyer

Media relations

Security

Privacy person

Upper management

HR

Dark sites & Pages

Pre-made sites or pages for crisis situations

Kept un-published until needed

Issues MessagingWhat to say when you’d like to say @#$!

The Art of Social Media War

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.

4T2P

4T2P

Transparency

Tone

Timing

Third-Party

Profile

Privacy

Netiquette for errors

Netiquette

Be transparent

Apologize for errors

Explain deletions

Be transparent

Indicate edits that change the meaning with:

“Update” & [UPDATED]

“Correction”

[EDIT]

Apologize for errors

Friendly, self-deprecating tone

Actually apologize

Say what you’ll change

Explain deletions

Deleting is generally bad

If you must delete say why

Comment policy violation

“Twuck-up”

The Art of Social Media War

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal them.

Back Channels

Use them

Investigate your players

Contact offline

Be public with responses

Why?

The Art of Social Media War

He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot will be victorious.

Trolls

Identifying a troll

Methodology

Tone

Prior behaviour

Actions of others

Dealing with trolls

Try to be nice.

If trolling persists

Ignore the troll

Restate your position

Give the troll an offline out

Deliberately misinterpret*

Delete comments†

Ban the troll§