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Presentation to MNIFT 11/17/2009by Donald J. SmithTRANSCRIPT
ACTIVATING CONNECTED INNOVATION VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
MNIFT Presentation 11/17/2009Don Smith, General Mills Twitter: @djsmith4
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Overview
What is Social Media?
Social Media Framework – Groundswell
General Mills leverages Social Media with
consumers
General Mills leverages Social Media to
support Innovation
Thought starters
WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ILQrUrEWe8
Even Wikipedia has trouble defining it
Social media are media designed to be disseminated through social interaction, created using highly accessible and scalable publishing techniques. Social media supports the human need for social interaction, using Internet- and web-based technologies to transform broadcast media monologues (one to many) into social media dialogues (many to many). It supports the democratization of knowledge and information, transforming people from content consumers into content producers. Businesses also refer to social media as user-generated content (UGC) or consumer-generated media (CGM).
Social media is a new communication model
An increase in consumer adoption from 2007-2008
It’s where your consumers are
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3 out of 4 people use social technologyForrester, The Growth of Social Technology Adoption, 2008
2/3 of the global internet population visit social networksNielsen, Global Faces and Networked Places, 2009
Time spent on social networks is growing at 3x the overall internet rate, accounting for 10% of all internet timeNielsen, Global Faces and Networked Places, 2009
Visiting social sites is now the 4th most popular online activity, ahead of personal emailNielsen, Global Faces and Networked Places, 2009
Why listen online?
Business Context: Consumers are online speaking their minds and influencing others.
Online is where our consumers
are.
Expressing what is on their minds.
Influencing the messaging around
our products.
SOCIAL MEDIA FRAMEWORKGROUNDSWELL
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A Simple Four-Step Approach
PeopleAssess your people’s social technology abilities
ObjectivesDecide what you want to accomplish
StrategyPlan for how relationship with customers will change
TechnologyDecide what social technologies to use
Groundswell Strategies
Talking – Using social media to talk about subjects that matter to the brand or deliver the brand message
Listening – Using social media to monitor consumer discussions; Get closer to your consumers
Energizing – Activating the community to take action: share, talk, review, etc.
Support – Using social media to support and service consumers; Help them accomplish goals or solve problems
Embracing – Actively collaborating with consumers using social media
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ListeningUsing social media to monitor consumer discussions; Get closer to your consumers
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TalkingUsing social media to talk about subjects that matter to the brand or deliver the brand message
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EnergizingActivating the community to take action: share, talk, review, etc.
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SupportingUsing social media to support and service consumers; Help them accomplish goals or solve problems
EmbracingActively collaborating with consumers using social media
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A Social Brand in Action
Whole Foods example: Talking
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List of different voices (local stores) on Twitter
• Multiple voices, organized and localized
• Supplements master brand• Promotes community on a more
personal level
Whole Foods example: Listening
Prominent positioning of social media destinations to talk directly to the brand
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Whole Foods example: Listening in action
Using social media to monitor social discussionsGain consumer insightsGather new ideasGet alerts faster than traditional channelsIdentify trending needs as they are happening
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Whole Foods example: Energizing
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Multiple promotions on customer-focused topics (“Your Health: Boost your Omega 3’s”) that coordinate to sales on foods high in Omega 3’s.
Facebook Whole Foods’ blog
Home page promo
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Whole Foods example: Supporting
Using social media to support consumers and help fix issues• Identify problems with products•Responding to one = a response to many
Whole Foods example: Embracing
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Finding common passions with their consumers and collaborating with them through social media.
Facebook pages
Whole Foods’ “Values” page on corp. siteCo-branded (with Whole Foods) foundation page
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HOW DOES GENERAL MILLS LEVERAGE SOCIAL MEDIA?
Listening and Responding
Finding 1: Large, but brief, spike in online buzz on day of recall.Talk predominantly negative. Recall updates generate lesser spikes in talk.
Number of Posts
Net Sentiment
6/15
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6/17
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6/21
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Nestlé Toll House: Total Activity vs Net Sentiment
Activity Net Sentiment
Recall date
Government announces new safety standards to reduce salmonella and E. coli outbreaks.
Nestlé cookie dough sample tests positive for E. coli.
Recall talk – lawsuits filed, retailers pulling product off shelf, FDA stumped about source.
FDA announces that E. coli found in cookie dough does not match strain linked to 30-state outbreak.
Implication: Listening enables us to assess and respond to adverse situations quickly and effectively.
No recall-related themes surfaced for Pillsbury.The four most popular topics remained consistent overtime.
PillsburyThemes
Nestlé Toll House
Themes
Recipes
Coupons
Doughboy
ContestGiveaways
E Coli
Food Illness
Cookie dough
Communities
LEVERAGING SOCIAL MEDIA FOR INNOVATION
The Case for Connections
MIT research shows that… “40% of creative teams productivity is
directly explained by the amount of communication they have with others to discover, gather, and internalize information.”
“Employees with the most extensive digital networks are 7% more productive than their colleagues.”
“Employees with the most cohesive face-to-face networks are 30% more productive.”
Pentland, A. 2009. How Social Networks Network Best. Harvard Business Review, Feb, p 37. Aral, Brynjolfsson & Van Alstyne. 2007. Productivity Effects of Information Diffusion in Networks.
Figure 1. Four Types of Social Network Relationships
THOUGHT STARTERS
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Connecting
Consuming
Creating
SharingCollaborati
ng
5key consumer
behaviors in social media
Get Inside your consumer’s head
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Thought Starters:
What values, beliefs and interestsdo you share with the people whobuy your products and/or services?
Where are those people alreadyspending time that you couldconnect with them through thosethings?
How can you connect people toother people and things that willhelp them accomplish their goals?
Connecting
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Creating
Thought Starters:
What can you create that people will benefit from?
What can you give to people that will help them create more interesting content to spread?
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Collaborating
Thought Starters:
How can you collaborate with people in a meaningful way?
How can you help people collaborate with each other more easily?
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Sharing
Thought Starters:
What can you share that will make the community better?
How can you help others sharethings more easily?
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Thought Starters:
What can you teach people that will help them achieve their goals?
What can you learn from people that will help you be a better marketer or help you make better products?
How can you reward people forconsuming and sharing yourcontent?
Consuming
Connect with me:
Twitter: @djsmith4LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/donaldjsmithmplsEmail: [email protected]
Credits:
Video - Did You Know Series
Thanks to MNIFT!