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@NatashaNDavies [email protected]
Influencer Relations on the Social Web
taught by Natasha Netschay Davies
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Today’s Agenda
• What are Social Media Relations?
• What is a social influencer?
• Today’s top social networks
• Finding & identifying influencers
• Monitoring the Social Web
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What are Social Media Relations?
Make a connection with:
• Stakeholders: Media, analysts, investors, industry
• Influencers: Tweeters, bloggers, social groups, brands, associations, competitors
How?
... by participating in a conversation
…with a tweet, a post on a wall, a comment on a blog, a comment in a group
…emailing a blog author
…appropriate messaging for each type of social network
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What are Social Media Relations?
• More than one-way, more than 2 people
• Web 2.0
• Participatory Sites
• Social Networking
• Collaborate
• USG = User Generated Content
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Social Media Characteristics
Different technologies have created different Web 2.0 sites. They are:
•Usually unofficial
•Volunteer-run
•More honest, less credible?
•New rules demand transparency
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Fear of social media
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Evolution of Social Media
Blogs Wiki technologies ex: wikipedia.org
Social Networks: YouTube, Facebook,
Flickr Social Share News: Digg,
Delicious, StumbleUpon Microblog: Twitter, StockTwits
Social Web Social Commerce
Social Relationship Management
“SRM”
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Use of social media
• 79% of Fortune 100 are present and listening, using at least of one of main social platforms to communicate with their customers.
• 72% of social media users say that after an online search, they communicate with others about a product or service with face-to-face communication
• more than 4 out of 5 people are activein creating, participating or reading some form of social content
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Current numbers
• 500 million Facebook users
• 145 million Twitter users Tweet & ReTweet
• 3 million people are checking-in on FourSquare
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Social Media relations involves:• Community development
• Modify messaging to suit medium: tweet, wall post, group thread, comments, images, videos
• Find and participate in conversations
• Redirect to more resources
• Develop campaigns
• Inform/Announcement (link to news release)
• Highlights from news release – quote, fact, results % (link to news release)
• Share industry insight…on a new product, on a challenge
• Provide industry resources to current issues/challenges (link to whitepaper)
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Today’s top social networks & trends
• Guest blogging/posting - blog outreach programs
• Twitter – listening, conversing, redirecting, pitching, news bites
• Facebook – Company Page, Group Page, Events, Panels
• YouTube – channels, comments
• Reputation management
• Monitoring misinformation
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Social Media Networking
• Blogger Relations
• Influencer Relations
• Social Web Relations
• Social Media Relations
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What is an online influencer?• Are using a social platform that has reached “critical
mass” (ex: Twitter)
• Has a following (subscribers, followers, likes, friends, faves, check ins)
• Has engagement on their profile (comments, conversations, mentions)
• Can be an individual, group, brand, company, cause
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Types of influencers
• Bloggers
• Tweeter Feeds
• Social Networks: Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Ning, Bebo, MySpace
• How do you find them?How do you know if they are influential?How do you “rate” them?
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Developing an Influencer Outreach Plan
1. Research influencers (bloggers, Twitter feeds, Facebook)
2. Develop messages for each type of influencer
3. Adapt media materials to suit the social platform
4. Outreach
5. Monitor, Listen, Follow up
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Blogs
A type of web site that publishes a variety ofcontent including:
• News / Journalism
• Analysis
• Personal Diary (amateurish, popular with teens)
• Personal commentary / thoughts / opinions /insight
• Links to other media
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Blogs: Distinguishing features
• Casual personal writing style/voice; chatty, brief, to the point
• Run by one person; or a group sharing a similar view
• Includes links to other blogs/articles/sites
• Most recent entry always top of page
• Interactive (comments, instant feeds, trackbacks, categories, archives, search)
• Niche audiences
• How are they different from official news sites?
• Unedited, not fact checked
• Unaccountable, credible?
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Corporate Blog
• Industry news: what’s the competition doing? Talk about it, honestly; link to it.
• Express opinions and write editorials – cause controversy or something to chat about
• Include tips and tricks about your products
• Use social news about your company as it “humanizes” your company
• Don’t reprint press releases – summarize them, offer more details
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Exercise: Blogger Relations
Finding influential bloggers
Pitching bloggers
Treat bloggers like the press: pitch to them in a lighter way
Target industry blogs and consumer opinion blogs
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Blogger Relations:TELUS Case Study
• Introduced self and client
• Highlighted why blogger should be interested/how pitch is relevant to the blog: “As your blog covers smart grid news, you may be interested in some findings from IDC’s white paper on the subject.”
• Provided supporting details: stats from report, links to more info
• Offered interview opp w/TELUS Intl VP, list topics he can speak to
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Blogger Relations:TELUS Case Study
Results:
17 stories on leading industry blogs and websites
25 tweets on these articles, with URLs
linking back to the stories
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Twitter, tweets, tweeple
Twitter is a form of microblogging. You have only 140 characters per “tweet.”
Why use Twitter?
• Pitch to journalists/govt/funders/customers
• Follow your community (research)
• Share your news
• Snap commentary (communicate/participate)
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Does media prefer Twitter?
“I’ve stopped accepting email pitches. Please follow me on Twitter and pitch in 140 characters or less.”
Dennis Howlett, media, technology analyst, blogger
• How many journalists feel this way?
• How many bloggers?
• Ask your media list how they prefer to receive pitches
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Tweeting: when, why, how
• Your tweetstream is your organization’s live newsline:
• Give the inside scoop
• Immediate reaction to industry news
• Build interest, suspense to upcoming announcement
• What is your team is up to? Where are you?
• Live-tweeting = conference coverage (hashtags); sharing of ideas
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Exercise: Twitter Relations
• Set up account twitter.com
• Find people
• Search.twitter.com
• Follow each other
• Follow me @NatashaNDavies
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Twitter 101: Broadcast and announce
Tweets werefocused onraisingawarenessof the DaffodilDay event
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Twitter 301:Response to spontaneous tweets
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Twitter: Broadcast and announceAirport Type: Airport competing with neighbouring airports
Stakeholder: Travellers
Objective: Provide info to travellers
Tactic: Broadcast and announce
Content: Weather conditions, delays
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Facebook Uses
• Company Page
• Advisory councils
• Blog, study, research pages
• Petitions
• Mascots Pages
• Group
• Fundraising, recruiting
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Finding Influencers on Facebook
• Search by clubs, groups, organizations, associations, governments, generations, interests.
• Invite them to your Page/Group/Event by sending them an email, posting on their wall, or FB invite.
• Befriend industry orgs, industry experts, bloggers, tweeters etc. via your Facebook profile(s ).
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Community Development: CCS
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How is a SMNR different than a news release:
• Update or reminder memo
• Get right to the point
• Write in simple, straightforward sentences
• 200 words should be the maximum (summary/abstract)
• Don't try to cram in too much information; LINK to it!
• Headline / Subject Line MUST have gist of story
• To the point – keep header under 60 characters
• Links to related stories, or further background information; other media stories
• Links to multimedia (audio, video, buttons to access in languages)
• Add subheads
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SMNR Template
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Monitoring
• Monitor conversations/news that provide opportunity to participate or respond
• On mainstream news (comment on news stories)
• In Twitter strings, on trending topics
• On Facebook Walls
• In social groups/channels
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Outreach results
• A tweet, blog mention, submitted link = easier to attain than coverage in traditional media
• More viral and immortal compared to print media
• A news release may or may not get traditional media coverage
• A fact, a quote, or a digital connection can live longer, remain searchable/archiveable
• ROI: Builds YOUR influence overtime
• @mentions
• Retweets
• Comment approval
• Comments on comments
• Wall discussions
• Monitor competition tweets/ FB posts