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- Wikibrands,Wikicareers – - Brands, New Media and Finding Your Next
Job”November 2013Schulich School
@wikibrands@wikisportsnow
Sean Moffitt @seanmoffitt
Look in the digital mirror…
How many of you have 303 Facebook friends?
How many of you use check your smartphone 150 times per day?
How many of you would rather lose your sense of smell than technology?
How many of you update their LinkedIn profile regularly?
How many of you have been dumped via text message?
Who Am I – Sean Moffitt, The Matt Damon or the Leonard Nimoy of Digital?
My Street Cred….
What I’m Excited About Right Now!
Why Even Care About the Intersection of Brands, Business and Technology?
- THE MARKET NEEDS IT
- THERE IS A WRONG AND RIGHT WAY TO DO IT
- YOUR CAREER DEPENDS ON IT
2008 2012 2016*
Mobile Subscriptions s 4 Billion 6 Billion 9 billion
Mobile Data 0.1 Billion 1.5 Billion 12.45 Billion
Facebook users 0.1 Billion 1.0 Billion 1.5 Billion
Video (Internet) 654 PB/mth 16,880 PB/mth 45,280 PB/mth
Olympic – Tweets 0.2 Million 150 million 4,500 million- Athletes A Handful 2,000 10,500
* Estimates Sources: Ericcson, Cisco, ATOS, Twitter 1 PB = 250,000 DVDs
i. Digital Has Mainstreamed…
Super Bowl - 3X Bigger in Ads Than Last Year
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Wikibrands
TOP 10 TECHNOLOGY-AFFECTED INDUSTRIES OF THE NEAR FUTURE HIGHEST RANKED (% RESPONDED TOP 3 CHOICES)
#1 EDUCATION #2 ENTERTAINMENT #3 MEDIA #4 ECOMMERCE #5 HEALTH CARE
#6 RETAIL #7 FINANCE/BANKING
#8 TELECOMMUNICATIONS #10 NOT-FOR-PROFITS
#9 CONSUMER/HOUSEH
OLD GOODS
ii. Digital is Reinventing Industries
iii. CEO’s Biggest Challenges
iv. Marketing is healthy-ish Again
v. Marketing is Outsource-able
vi. So Much More than Facebook…
vii. A Core Part of The Job …
Social Media’s Future
Digital engagement is #1 value driver; 12 things to get digital right in business.
Managing your personal brand is very similar to managing your business brand
WIKICAREERS
The Power of a Network…
It is the dominant factor in obesity, smoking, loneliness, happiness, optimism, generosity, quality of
relationship and YOUR CAREER
Before we start…
ReciprocalEthicalHumanAwesomeHelpfulAuthenticSocial
The Hammurabi Code of Digital
Trivia – Top 30 Social Brands
The Recipe for Success?
..12 Factors
THE WIKIBRAND 12 FACTORS – FLIRT/MILCC Models
FocusLanguageIncentives
Ideas RulesTools
Measurement
Internalizing
Life Stage
Listening
Community Management
Culture
#1 Focus - Starting with the Y’s “Why”
Internal External
The Four F Words of Digital Marketing
Get Found
Get Fame
Get Fans
Get Feedback
- Search Engine Exposure/Traffic- Awareness/recognition- Visibility- Market education
- Dialogue & Conversation- Ideas and innovation- Competitive Intelligence- Reviews/ratings/ testing
- Improved Perception/PR- Grassroots credibility/affinity- Pass along/viralness - Thought leadership
- Leads/Revenues/Funding- Online community/ambassadors- Word of mouth/referral- User generated content/support
http://www.pinterest.com/seanmoffitt/brand-manifestos/
Objectives – Vision – “Change the Face of Men’s Health”
Brand – “Bring back the retro icon of the moustache to visibly support cause”
Organizational Culture –“If it’s awesome they will use it, if it’s awesome they will talk about it.”
Movember – Energizing and Focusing a Community - -
- $125MM raised in 2011- 850k participants- 10 times more social presence- 3 times more donations, healthy amount via Facebook
#2 LANGUAGE, CONTENT & OUTREACH“do I like this/is there enough of this/can I identify with this/do they know me?”
Language - Threadless – Possibly the Most Human Site in the World
OUTREACH – Some of these people are not like the others
Outreach – Ford Fiesta Movement– Ambassadors who buy in
Content Quality vs. Quantity vs. Variety?
CONTENT QUALITY –Shoot it, Visualize It, Provoke It, List It, Link It, Friend It, Say It
The age of infographics…
Great Content – Kraft FoodsExtensive, Timely, Balanced, How To
CONTENT FREQUENCY – If the Customer is King, then Content is Queen
Activity per Month
Great Good Minimum
Blog Posts 30+ 12 5
Tweets 400 200 100
Facebook Posts
60 30 15
Video 8 4 1
Email 8 4 1
Mucho Burrito – Fueling Burrito Love with Content
Weekly
Seasonal
Tribal
Contextual
3. Ideas trump TechnologyGreat ideas that spread are rare and valuable
#1 Conversation Worthy Idea/Concept
#2 Great Product/Brand
#3 Customer Experience provided
#4 The Audience who Participates
#5 Culture/employees of a Company
#6 Method in which it interacts w/ its audience
#7 Incentives for referral
#8 Strong process
#9 Creative/design used
#10 Tools/technology platforms builtSource: Wikibrands Buzz Report
Nike + -Members/Customers Values/Lifestyle/Desires
OREO – Being Agile and In Touch
4. INCENTIVES & MOTIVATIONS“what’s in it for me?”
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Core BeliefBuzz and word of mouth engagement is the art of the “unexpected surprise”
Fun & enjoyment (#1)
Three Reasons Why People Join Anything
The Feel Goods – “How do I identify with, help the community?”
The Look Goods - “How do I appear to
others?”
The Get Somethings - “What is my direct,
tangible reward?”
Recognition by company (#1) Invitation to Events (#1)
Kiva – Leveraging Intrinsic, Extrinsic and Explicit Rewards
75 employees, $250 million in loans, 1 million people in Kiva Community, 20k Lending teams, 435k on Twitter, 140k on Facebook, Number of Loans per Kiva lender 7.3
5. RULES, GUIDELINES & RITUALS“what can/can’t I do here?”
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Q: On the governance of digital engagement tools with your employees, do you have:
GOVERNANCE - % EXISTENCE OF CONDITIONS IN PLACE*
EMPLOYEE GUIDELINES/RU
LES
63% 62%
40%
ABILITY TO ROUTESERVICE
QUESTIONS
DIGITAL TRAINING
PROGRAMS
29%22%
11%
DIGITAL CRISIS
MGMT. PLAN
ISSUE SCENARIO
ROLEPLAYING
CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
* - based on recruitment criteria, company staff profiled are likely in more sophisticated, mature digital organizations; results likely much lower in general company set
IBM Guidelines – Simple, Reasonable, Visual and Public
6. TOOLS & PLATFORM“how and where does it work?” A home and away game
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Q: What are the biggest priority (owned, earned, paid or shared) digital platforms for your organization, is it your....(max. 3 answers):
MOST IMPORTANT DIGITAL PLATFORMS% RESPONSE – TOP 3 PLATFORMS
#1#2 #3#4 #5#6
#7#8
#9
CORPORATEWEBSITE
CORPORATEBLOG
SOCIALNETWORK
PAGESSEARCH ENGINE
OPTIMIZATION INFLUENCER/BLOGGER
OUTREACHCORPORATE EMAIL/DATA
BASEMOBILEAPPS/
WEBSITEONLINE COMMUNITIES
OF INTERESTCUSTOMER/
PARTNERCOMMUNITIES
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Q: What is your impression of the following networks in their importance to your organization ? (23 social network/social sharing options)
TOP SOCIAL NETWORKS/PLATFORMS – “MOST ESSENTIAL”RANKED - % AGREED
#2 TWITTER #3 LINKEDIN #4 YOUTUBE
#7 HOOTSUITE/TWEETDE
CK
#8 GOOGLE + #9 INSTAGRAM
#5 WORDPRESS
#10 PINTEREST
#1 FACEBOOK
#6 MOBILE APPS
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Q.: What is your impression of the following networks in their importance to your organization ? (23 social network/social sharing options)
TOP SOCIAL NETWORKS/PLATFORMS – “FASTEST MOVERS – BULLS”RANKED - % AGREED
#2 INSTAGRAM #3 MOBILE APPS #4 GOOGLE + #5 SLIDESHARE#1 PINTEREST
Mint.com –Connected and Awesome Where You Are
Home Game
Away Game
7. Measurement, Metrics and the pursuit of ROI:
There is no silver bullet to measurement
Digital Brand (vs. objective) =
Benefits – Risks----------------------
Cost
Measurement - You Need to Roll Your Own
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MEASUREMENT – TOP 10 RANKED KEY METRICS - % TRACKED IN YOUR COMPANY*
FAN/FOLLOWER
COUNTS
84% 83%
68%
TRAFFIC/CLICKS
GENERATED
BRAND CONVERSATIONS
GENERATED
60%56%
48%
BRAND ENGAGEMENT
METRICS
CONSUMER INSGHTS
GENERATED
USERCONTENT
GENERATED
* - based on recruitment criteria, company staff profiled are likely in more sophisticated, mature digital organizations; results likely much lower in general company set
POSITIVITY/QUALITY OFWORD OF MOUTH
BUSINESSIMPACT/
ROI
SALES GENERATED
CUSTOMEREXPERIENCE
RATINGS
67%61% 58%
50%
8 - Internalizing Success -Get Employees on the Bus…
Charity Water’s Employees Celebrate Their Funders on YouTube
9. Life Staging of a Connected Community
Fresh produced contentHighlight contribution
Incentives pitchedNetworked
Seeded audience
Milestone achievementUser generated contentIncentives materialized
Mass supportedExpected cycle of activity
ExpansionBroadened focus
Company culture changeSelf-governance
Tiered membership
10. LISTENING SYSTEM“what’s being said? Where are they saying it? How does that affect us? Do they know we’re listening?”
The Biggest Wikibranding Sins- Social and Digital Deafness is Tops-
Source: Agent Wildfire 2011 Buzz Report
A battery of listening tools…
Gatorade Mission Control – The NASA of Social Media Listening
11. COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT“who will lead the conversation?”
You Can Keep Anybody Happy Initially, How Do You Get Them To Stay in Love
1. Communication 2. Content Creation 3. Company/brand evangelism4. Member/Customer support 5. Ongoing Facilitation 6. Metrics Reporting 7. Event Host 8. Community Evolution/Feature Development 9. Internal Rallying Cry 10. Community Administration 11. Member Recruitment/Crowdsourcing
Top Tasks of Community Managers
Source: Agent Wildfire 2013 Community Management Survey
- Technology & tools will change over time. Innovation never stops. One thng that will never change is the need for emotional connections.
- People want to be connected to something they love. Sports teams are one of those connections. The closer the fans, teams, players, staffers get; the better.
Jon Sinden, Manager – Social Media, MLSE
https://twitter.com/communitygurus
MASS ERA DIRECT ERA INFLUENCE/WIKIBRANDS ERA
12. Culture and Leadership A Culture Change is Required
ControlHypeDecisionsFeatures
CollaborationTransparencyDialoguePurpose
#1 The Need for Authenticity and Transparency - 42%
#2 The rise of social networks - 38%#3 Increasing role of wireless/mobile - 35%#4 Customers/people waning attention spans - 25%#5 Media fragmentation - 22%#6 Change in mass marketing effectiveness - 20%
Agent Wildfire -The Buzz Report, April 2012
We want the real thing…
The CEO Topspin – The Peters and Deborahs Get It
• 82% of people trust a company more who has a CEO involved in social media
• 94% believe it leads to a better brand image
• 78% believe it leads to better communication
Source: Brandfog
ING and Marriott Leadership Leads
Are you digitally buff?
Are You Digitally Buff?
Digital Offence Content/Campaigns Social media/networks Influencer
outreach/paid media
Are You Digitally Buff?
Digital Midfield SEO/search
marketing Community
management/moderation
Mobile/Apps
Are You Digitally Buff?
Defence Metrics/Analytics Org.
Integration/Culture
User experience/design
CRM/eCommerce Hosting/platform
software
18 Pieces of Career Advice
I. THE RESUME
“What would you consider to be the number one asset on a resume for new
hires out of school? “#1 Industry Related Work Experience 41%
#2 Track record of Accomplishments 35%
#3 Variety of interests/passions 7%
Special Sauce:Thoughtfulness, good reasons for applyingDemonstrated passion for my businessWell-researched pitch
II. GETTING IN THE DOOR…
How do the majority of new hires get made at your company? Please choose the 3 top options:
#1 Referrals#2 Internship/Coop Programs#3 Online job recruitment sites#4 Serendipity – right person, right time#5 Social/digital media awareness#6 Volunteer/collaborative involvement
Who do ya know? Get off your butt and head to events and network like crazy.
No event, pick up the phone. No phone, send an email, No email, send carrier pigeon. You get the idea… use all means enccesary to meet people and grow your network.
If you think networking is sending an email to someone you’ve never met then you are mistaken.
III. BECOMING DIGITALLY A SOMEBODY…
What social spaces should new hires be engaged in to attract positive online
attention? (max. 3 choices)
• LinkedIn 90%
• Personal Blog 69%
• Twitter 65%
* Negative stuff on Facebook
IV. THE INTERVIEW…FOR SOME DREADED
What is your biggest pet peeve with interviewing new hire job applicants?
#1 Being Unprepared
#2 Candidate Arrogance
#3 Dissing Old Employers/Managers
#4 Not Answering Questions
#5 Not Asking Questions
What question do new hire candidates "trip up" on most frequently?
#1 Why did you apply for our company?
#2 What is your biggest opportunity/weakness?
#3 What skills do you have that would make you valuable for this job?
#4 Are there any questions you have about role/company?
Please list the top 3 traits of interviewees who are consistently hired.
• Inquisitive/eclectic experience• Business savvy• Outgoing/motivated• Effort and courage to stand out from the pack• Innovative• Concise/concrete examples of skills• Thank you note/personable
IV. THE EVALUATION
What are the top skills you are looking for in new hires out of school? Please select your top 3.
#1 Communication skills
#2 Enthusiasm/perseverance
#3 Interpersonal skills
#4 Fit with company culture/values
#5 Creativity/Innovation
#1 Reinvent the Resume (Resume 2.0)
#2 Volunteer for something good
#3 Be vigilant on follow up
#4 Attend/volunteer events
Career/Interviewing Advice
Make Your Content
Sing
#5 Network like crazy
#6 Get social network deep - Twitter/LinkedIn/Facebook/Instagram/Tumblr or Pinterest /YouTube, Vines
#7 Be on Facebook, don’t be too drunk on Facebook
#8 Show your passion, for something
Career/Interviewing Advice
#9 Meet one new senior person every month
#10 Take a design/web course – Adobe, Wordpress, HTML/PHP, video editing, Codeacademy, Lynda
#11 Negotiate for exposure with execs, but don’t be a pest
#12 Be different
#13 If failing, let it hang out, show your passion
Career/Interviewing Advice
#14 Stay Up to Speed• the New Web – Techcrunch, Mashable,360 Digital
Influence, Groundswell, Web Strategist• the New PR – Brian Solis, Inside PR• the New Collaboration – Wikinomics, Jeff Howe• Blogging – Problogger• the New Marketing – Seth Godin, Rohit Bhargava.
Murketing• Trends – Buzzfeed, Springwise, Trendwatching, PSFK• Alt-Marketing – Buzz Canuck, WOMMA, Church of the
Customer• Community – Forum One, Francois Gossieaux,
Wikibrands
Career/Interviewing Advice
http://wiki-brands.com/webroll/
#15 Do your Google homework
#16 Be comfortable with Google Analytics, Technorati, Alexa/Compete, Postrank/Radian, SEO, Tweetdeck/Hootsuite, Social Media release, RSS
#17 Don’t take a first job beneath you
Career/Interviewing Advice
#18 Five Core Messages
“Be Strategic”
“Get Digitally Buff”
“Stay Up to Speed”
“Get Networked”
“Be Passionate/Do Something”
EmailLinkedIn:Twitter:
Stay Connected…sean@wiki-brands.comca.linkedin.com/in/moffittsean@seanmoffitt @wikibrands