Social Media in a Corporate Context Manchester 2010 - Robin Grant, We Are Social

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Commuter-packed trains stranded inside a tunnel. Thousands of cars recalled over safety fears. A coal ship shedding its cargo into the sea. Sound familiar? These days, the media is awash with corporate crises that have the power to scar reputations more deeply and rapidly than ever before. Social media is creating an army of citizen journalists, each with the ability to spread opinions or hearsay at dizzying speed. It’s more important than ever to ensure you have the planning, expertise and resource to manage communications during a crisis.

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Social media tsunami

Surviving the deluge

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social media

We help brands

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Nestle

Social media attacks = #FAIL

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The trigger

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Adding fuel to the fire

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All over in 48 hours (almost)

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Impacting the share price

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Two months later

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Eurostar

Social media attacks = WIN!

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We woke up one Saturday morning

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And the tsunami hit

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And the tsunami hit

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Once we started responding

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As the week went on

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As the week went on

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Crisis comms

Some rules of thumb for social media

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Be prepared

• Get a real-time listening & responding programme set-up and running: Monitoring software Training programme Robust triage process Rules of engagement Tone of voice guidelines Workflow management

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Be prepared

• Integrate social media into overall crisis plan

• Make sure all social media channels operate in sync

• Have a conversation platform ready (e.g. blog) that can be updated instantaneously

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When the tsunami hits

• Track what people are saying

• Get an initial response live ASAP

• Use this to respond /outreach with

• Buy paid search ads & ‘Promoted Tweets’ tolink to it

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Managing the aftermath

• Collate questions• Answer them as fast

as you can as FAQs• Tell people what you

are doing to fix the situation (CEO video)

• Keep paid search ads & Promoted Tweets up to date

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Thanks

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