social business - the business value in social networks
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Social networks are everywhere. In fact you are probably reading this message on one right now. As these systems continue to reach into the very fabric of our existence, businesses are increasingly realizing the value in social collaboration. Join Bilal Jaffery, (Worldwide Social Media & Competitive Marketing Leader, IBM ISV & Developer Relations) and Daryl Pereira (Web and Social Media Manager, IBM ISV & Developer Relations) on an exploration into how businesses are finding real value in social media. You'll see how social networks within the workplace can make us more efficient and knowledgeable, and how a social business breaks down barriers between prospects, customers and its extended ecosystem.TRANSCRIPT
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Marketing your idea
The Business Value in Social Networks
Bilal Jaffery, Worldwide Social Media & Competitive Marketing Leader, IBM (twitter: @BilalJaffery)
Daryl Pereira, developerWorks Web and Social Media Manager, IBM (twitter: @cagedether)
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By 2014, Social networking services will replace email as the primary vehicle for interpersonal communications for 20% of the business users.
- Gartner
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Enabling people to work smarter together
Unlocking innovation through broad participation
Fostering deep insightful relationships
Collaboration drives business value
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IBM social software benefits acknowledged by
% of survey respondents
87%
84%
84%
77%
74%
42%
60%
65%
65%
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Increased skills
Accessed experts quicker
Shared know ledge w ith others
Reused assets
Increased productivity
Improved personal reputation
Increased sense of belonging
Increased sales
Improved customer satisfaction
Word of Mouth, #1 Influencer in Business Purchasing Behavior
The Impact of Social Collaboration
*Source: IBM Community of Practice Business Impact Survey completed by approximately 2,300 respondents.
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Quickly find the people you need by searching across your organization using
keywords that help identify expertise, current projects and responsibilities
Use a weblog to present your idea and
get feedback from others; learn from the
expertise and experience of others
who blog
Organize your work, plan next steps, and easily tap your
expanding professional network to help execute your everyday
deliverables, faster
Activities
Create, find, join, and work with communities of
people who share a common interest,
responsibility, or area of expertise
Home
Wikis
Provide a place for groups of people to jointly create and maintain content
through contribution and collaboration.
Files Share your files with
your colleagues. Everyone can store,
share, and collaborate on files.
Save, organize and share bookmarks; discover bookmarks that have
been qualified by others with similar interests &
expertise
Blogs
Communities
Bookmarks
Profiles
Social Collaboration helps people work smarter Example: IBM Lotus Connections to find people and information
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The IDEAL Statement: The Social Organization
The whole organization is involved in social collaboration – internally and externally.
Graphic: Intersection Consulting on Flickr
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“Informal conversation is probably the oldest mechanism by which opinions on products and brands are developed, expressed, and spread.”
– John Arndt
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developerWorks: Network Engagement Strategy
Bilal Jaffery , Social Media & Competitive Marketing Leader
Your open and social organizational culture is your competitive advantage.
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Reasons to participate
Responsible engagement in innovation and
dialogue: to learn, to contribute
IBM's brand is best represented by its people
Rules of the road
Be professional – Business Conduct Guidelines, IBM Values
Speak for yourself, not IBM
Respect copyrights, laws, and other people
Add value
IBM Social Computing Guidelines
www.ibm.com/blogs/zz/en/guidelines.html
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Case studies
“The Groundswell trend is not a flash in the pan. This is an important, irreversible, completely different way for people to relate to companies and to each other.”
Groundswell Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
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Fish where the fish are
Warped cartoon series finds natural following on Facebook
Extending from traditional media into social media
Use popular social
networks to spread
the word
Add real value to the
conversation
Test different
channels to guage
interest
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Fish where the fish are
Twitter conversations around business conference growing rapidly
Year-on-year Tweet volume up over 600%
Use most appropriate
channel for the
occasion
Different people
respond to different
channels
Monitor results to
improve performance
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Be your own publisher
Hubspot webinar series improves brand recognition
Social media vendor use their own products to host wildly popular webinars
Think of the format that is
right for you
Use social media to promote
your content
Think laterally: what’s useful
for your customers?
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Be your own publisher
developerWorks blogs break down the barriers of marketing
Direct communications from employees delivers over 2m page views a year
Blogging tools are
versatile and generally
free!
Work out a regular
schedule and content
plan
Top bloggers post
weekly
Try it now: email [email protected] For a guest account
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Roll your own network
CitySourced creates network of smartphone citizens
Location-based-services used to create civic responsibility and improve Govt services
Build your own network
for custom solutions
Follow trends: eg.
Expanding mobile
market
Tap into large number
of open datasets
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Roll your own network
Online community saves $100M in support costs
User community share information (400K+ active profiles, over 1000 community groups)
Community
incorporates marketing,
support, research and
more
Experts have built
businesses on
communities
Open technologies
attract larger audience
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