The communications evolution

The communications evolutionDoug Lacombe, MBA

President, Communicatto Inc.

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Media’s evolving, is your media mix?

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The new media mix

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Hub and spoke publishing, own your platform

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Are you visible to search?

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© 2012 communicatto, a social media agency

© 2012 communicatto, a social media agency

© 2012 communicatto, a social media agency

© 2012 communicatto, a social media agency

education

observation

broadcast

participation

relationships

collaboration

social media experience

1-way → 2-way

take value → add value

Social media adoption curve

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Taking flight

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• Pre-flight

• Flight crew

• Flight plan

• Watching your instruments

• Maintain contact with air traffic control

• Land

• Debrief

• Refuel

• Do it again

Planning your flight

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• Brand – protect it NOW

• Understand – educate executives, develop skills, comfort

• Monitoring – can’t fly without radar

• Policy – who can tweet what, where and why

Pre-flight checklist - BUMP

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• People

• Access

• Secrets

• Tone

• Real job

• Identity

• Consequences

• Existing policy

Flight rules

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• Situation

• Objectives

• Audience

• Personas

• Strategy

• Tactics

• Actions

• Controls

• Crisis

• Resources

Flight plan

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SmartInsights.com

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• Distinguish between severity levels

– Issues

– Incidents

– Crises

Crisis

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Severity matters

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1. No silence, no delay

2. You have something to say even when you don’t

– Holding statements

3. Make your website the authoritative source, but respond on the channels where

people are talking about your crisis

4. Spend time responding to those who “deserve” it

5. Be seen to be responsive

6. You set the pace (updates every 10 mins or as appropriate)

7. Refer and link to other channels (i.e. news releases) – best if embedded into your

website, but use wire, YouTube if you can’t

8. Provide a call to action if/when appropriate

9. Share info from other authoritative sources if/when appropriate (police, EMS,

regulator, government)

10. Tell them when it’s over – over and over

Ten social media pro tips during a crisis

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• Reader-centric, not usual corporate blather

• Reader asks WIIFM?

• Avoid barriers to communication like industry jargon, long

boring treatises/lectures

• Write like a journalist, inverted pyramid

• Human interest angles always best

Content is king, still

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• Lists

• Hashtags

• Monitor conversation threads

• Blog search

• Social media dashboards (Sprout Social, HootSuite)

• Monitoring tools (Heartbeat, Radian6 etc.)

• Influencer discovery software:

– GroupHigh

– Webfluenz

– Traackr

– InNetwork (h/t to Danny Brown)

• Your own (social) CRM

Finding and tracking influencers

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• Internal:

– Awareness, skills, knowledge, comfort

– Executive support/sponsorship

– Resources

– Content production/corporate “newsroom”

– Review and proofing cycles, legal, Investor Relations

– Proving ROI

• External

– Anyone caring

– Snark, cynicism and attacks

Challenges

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Takeoff!

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• Prepare with BUMP pre-flight checklist

• Plan with SOAP STACCR strategy framework

• Resource the activity

• Experiment with content

• Measure KPIs

• Fail fast but with controls

• Hunt for your peeps

• Be human, don’t be boring

• Prepare and drill for crisis

• Constantly re-evaluate

Summary

Questions?

Doug Lacombe, President

@dblacombe [email protected]