06-07-2009-MK510-V1 IILM Graduate School of Management Module Manual: Social Media in Business Academic Y ear: PGDM/2010-12 Industry sector Job Opportunity As more and more companies are venturing into Social media,the discipline will be widely required across industry sectors. Additionally, there are companies w hich offer consulting in this area will require trained manpower Some organizations have identified Social media marketing as an independent role where as most of them keep this as a part of their Marketing function.
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5.1-Session I - An introduction to Social Media Marketing
What is Social media and how it came into being since past few years. The session will also
discuss the importance of participating in this form of media to further business. It
reveals the unique characteristics of social media that differentiate it from the
traditional marketing channels.
Learning outcome:
Students will get an insight into the influence that social media has on businesses, with or
without the knowledge of the companies and how there is an increasing need for them to
be a part of the conversation
Reference Reading from text book : Chapter 1
Desired Readings:
“Love of social media by CEO of Best Buy.
5.2-Session 2 - Trends in Social Media
This session will highlight major trends pertaining to consumer internetbehaviour,motivation and attitudes.It will take through the data around various countries
around the world. Various examples will substantiate this throughout the session.
Learning outcome:
Students will get a glimpse of how social media has evolved over a period of time and
what place it has assumed in business
Essential Reading: Global State of Social media in 2011 by Global Webindex ( Powerpoint)
5.3-Session 3 - Case discussion “Sony ad JK wedding Dance”
The case brings into the focus the fact that user generated content can cause viral
propagation. In a participatory digital media, the ideas and content start off at one
location and form and quickly migrates to others, a process enabled by social and
technological networks. As this migration occurs,network effects take hold, enabling
exponential sometimes explosive growth.
The company has least control sometimes on the communication that is propagated about
Students will be hands on with working on Blogs and using RSS for promoting the visibility
of content/web pages etc.
Essential Reading: Blogging and RSS by Darrel Branson ( powerpoint)
5.7-Session 7 Case study : Group Presentation ( UnMe Jeans- Branding in Web 2.0)
The case allows students to grapple with the strategic and tactical decisions that
accompany marketing communications strategy and to combine information on consumer
behavior with an understanding of brand objectives to assess and evaluate social media
options.The case explores as to how the brand manager of UnMe Jeans is caught betweenthe traditional and the new marketing channels for brand promotion.It describes as to
how she evaluates the various options on web 2.0 to identify the most suitable platform to
achieve branding and advertising objective.
Learning Outcome:
The case encourage students to think strategically about promotional planning and to
address both shortcomings and opportunities offered by traditional media outlets (
TV,Print,Radio)and new Social Media outlets( Social networking sites,video sharing sights)
Essential Reading : Case study “UnMe Jeans- Branding in Web 2.0”
5.8-Session 8 -Understanding the customer profiles associated with each SM
platform
This session will discuss the need for understanding the profile of the prospective
audience/customers. It will categorize them into 6 major types. This will also introduce
the students to the tools that determine the demographic profile of the audience and the
various social media platforms on which they are active. The lecture will discuss the
relevance of knowing the rules and norms followed by various social media communities
Learning outcome:
Students will understand the importance of conducting a thorough research of the
customer profiles for a focussed targetting of their brand, and the relevance of
understanding the norms of various social media platforms in order to formulate the most
This session will discuss the significance of conversations and the need for monitoring
them. The session will also explore the pros and cons of measuring the return on
investment ( ROI) on social media?
Learning outcome:
Students will understand the Complexity of determining the Return on investment( ROI) on
the company's SM strategy.
Reference Reading from text book : Chapter 4
Desired Reading:Can you Measure ROI on Social media strategy( An MIT Article by HBR)
5.10-Session10
Measuring & Monitoring the efficacy of SM Strategy
This session will discuss how to monitor and measure the conversations happening on
Social media.It will also discuss the limitations of the tools that measure the sentiments or
the buzz. It will suggest the ways to know whether the chosen strategy is working by
assessing the results of measurements against the chosen goals.Given the multiple platforms and the changing technologies Social media strategy needs to
be adaptable and the social media strategy has to be flexible enough to take a quick call
on changing the focus to an alternate social media platform.
Learning outcome:
Students will learn to measure the success of social media strategy against the defined
goals in order to choose the right course.
Reference Reading from text book :Chapter 4 & 14.
5.11-Session11-Buzz Monitoring & Audience Research
The session will further probe into measuring & monitoring the quality of conversation by
discussing Buzz monitoring and Audience research. This will also introduce to the
available online tools to measure buzz and sentiments.
Learning outcome:
Students will understanding the relevance of monitoring the qualitative and quantitative
User generated content created a huge following on social media for Coke and Mentos.This
was a challenge for the executives at coke as they had to draw a line between how much
they could open up the brand to the consumers while protecting the world's most famous
brands.The case discusses how the situation was handled and at the same time a positive
impact brought on the bottom line.
Learning Outcome:
To Illustrate the changing market landscape as social media evolves as a mass and
mainstream marketing platform and how to handle it effectively so as to leave a positiveimpact on the brand
Essential Reading :Case: Coca Cola on Face book”
5.16-Session 16-Engaging the customers
This session will highlight how honesty and trust can be a useful tool for engaging
customers. Consistency in branding by way of a congruence across marketing,PR and
advertising also lends credibility to the brand and furthers the objective of engagingcustomers in positive conversations. Therefore aligning offline marketing strategies with
Social media are of critical importance.
Learning outcome:
Students will learn some of the tools for engaging the customers in social media
conversations and the importance of the congruence of offline and online marketing
strategy into a unified goal.
Reading for reference :Chapter 19,23,24&38
5.17-Session 17-Control on Brand image in the absence of control over Social Media
The session focuses on the fact that companies have least control on the message
conveyed about them through the social media. The key lies in adopting a certain
technique in order to be able to deal with it in a way so that the conversation turns to the
companies advantage
Learning outcome:
Students will understand that unlike traditional marketing social media marketing is
controlled by the customers and other stakeholders, and they learn the ways to deal with
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