5. Modern
crises
• Erupt with unprecedented speed
• An insatiable thirst for news
• Anyone can break news
• Porous boundaries between social
& mainstream media
8. What is
?
• Not just major announcements
or milestones
• Instead: Frequent, regular updates
• Drive the 140-character news cycle
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10. Why use social media in a crisis?
• It’s where people increasingly go for
information
– Online social interaction centers around the
"emergency period" of an event
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at Boulder
• Instant updating
• Human voice
• Produce a record
• Two-way communication is more credible
11. • Media follow them
• Your critical publics
read them
• Serves as “hub” in a
hub-and-spoke model
32. Requirements for
Social Business Preparedness
• Baseline Governance and Reinforcement:
– Established and reinforced a corporate social media policy
that allows employees to participate professionally
• Enterprise-Wide Response Processes:
– Defined processes for rapid workflow and engagement
with customers in social media
• Ongoing Education Program and Best Practice Sharing:
– A culture of learning through ongoing social media
education
• Leadership from a Dedicated and Shared Central Hub:
– Organized in a scalable formation, with a cross-functional
“Center of Excellence”
33. Companies with a Baseline Process
to Educate Rank-and-File Employees
40. Even Advanced Companies
Don’t Have…
• Ability to use social feedback to fix problems
and improve products and services
• Integration of social data into existing systems
• Formal measurement strategy to drive
accountability
• Consolidated set of mature technologies
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