Adoption of Social Media by Fortune 500+
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Social Media in Corporate
AmericaKaye D. Sweetser, PhD, APR
Beth Avery Johnson, PhDRuthann Weaver Lariscy,
PhD
Social Media
Diffusion
MethodFunded by
PRSA Foundation Grant
Spending 4% Budget
2 hours daily
Tools Adopted by Corporate PR
Watch, Listen, Talk
Use
Perception
Tool adoption
Correlation between number of tools adopted with: relationship building (r = . 47) place stories (r = . 40) determining public opinion (r = . 36) track competition (r = . 36) entertainment (r = . 36) focus attention on an issue (r = . 35) counter negative story (r = . 32) surveillance (r = . 30) research (r = . 27) collect/present objective info (r = . 25) represent public as watchdog (r = . 21)
No correlation between daily time & number of tools
Keys to CorporateAdoption
Facilitating conditions & performance expectancy important
Using external
agencies •Has no impact on adoption
year• Averages more tools
adopted• Leads to greater
performance expectancy
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Practitioner adoption & use
Integration experiments
Online PR
Campaign adoption
Citizen-produced content
Online Political PR
Survey
Content Analysis
Experimental Design
Method
Kaye D. Sweetser, PhD, APR
sweetser@uga.edu
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