Archive for December, 2008

New Revenue Models for Social Media (Part4)

Posted by Chris Kieff on December 10th, 2008

Enterprise Social Media Lessons Learned

This is a part of our series in Enterprise Social Media Lessons Learned.  It’s always best to start at the beginning and you’ll find that here.

Josh Resnik of Gannett talks about the new revenue models social media is presenting to Gannett that they have never had before with traditional media.  These include; syndicating blogs (Ripple6 Cloud Communities) and Social Media Analytics (Ripple6 Analytics).

And Dan Hickey relates a wonderful story about snowflakes and new a type of engagement that Meredith discovered on a website last year. 

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Today’s take away quote; “That’s a new type of engagement that we’ve never seen before!” by Dan Hickey.

QUESTION: What are some of the other forms of engagement that social media has created? Let us know in the comments below.

Next – Generating Engagement with the Audience (Part 5)

Previously:

1. Enterprise Social Media Lessons Learned (Part 1)
2. Determining What Users Want (Part 2)
3. Advice for Publishers Starting In Social Media (Part 3)

Advice for Publishers Starting In Social Media (Part 3)

Posted by Chris Kieff on December 9th, 2008

Enterprise Social Media Lessons Learned

This is a part of our series in Enterprise Social Media Lessons Learned.  It’s always best to start at the beginning and you’ll find that here.

Our panelist’s were asked “what advice would you give to another publisher who is just starting out in social media?” by a member of the audience.  Josh Resnick of Gannett and Dan Hickey of Meredith have great advice for anyone following in their footsteps.  That is, anyone planning on building a social network, including looking inside the organization as well as externally.

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Question: Where do you tell others to look for good advice on how to do social media right?  Put your links in the comments (free SEO link love).

Next- New Revenue Models for Social Media

Previously:

1. Enterprise Social Media Lessons Learned (Part 1)
2. Determining What Users Want (Part 2)

Determining What Users Want (Part 2)

Posted by Chris Kieff on December 5th, 2008

Enterprise Social Media Lessons Learned

Part of our series in Enterprise Social Media Lessons Learned.  It’s always best to start at the beginning and you’ll find that here.

Our panelists were asked what their organizations did to determine what people wanted in a social media site.    Josh Resnik of Gannett and Dan Hickey of Meredith responded with the tactics both organizations used, some of what you would expect, and some that maybe you wouldn’t. 

Note that Gannett launched www.MomsLikeMe.com in October 2008 and Meredith will be launching MixingBowl.com in the next few weeks. Both of these sites are complete social networking sites with full compliments of features and capabilities, you can visit the sites or learn more here.

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QUESTION: One of the things that many fail to do when they begin a social media project is adequately plan the monetization of the site.   How do you think future social media planners can avoid this?

Next – New Revenue Models for Social Media.

Previously:

1. Enterprise Social Media Lessons Learned (Part 1)

Enterprise Social Media Lessons Learned (Part 1)

Posted by Chris Kieff on December 4th, 2008

Over the next few weeks we are going to post a series of articles and videos covering issues in Social Media.  And rather than give you the Ripple6 position on these subjects, we’ve asked our customers to talk about their experiences- Procter & Gamble, Meredith and Gannett.

We took the information packed 45 minute video of the DPAC conference panel and made it into separate one topic vignettes.  Each will focus on a single subject and offer our readers an opportunity to comment and discuss each area further.

We begin today with:

The Changing Role of Brands and Publishers.

Susan Ross of Procter & Gamble kicks off the discussion talking about how Procter & Gamble is learning to cope with bloggers talking about other products.  Dan Hickey of Meredith (publishers of Better Homes and Gardens, More, etc.) mentions that broadcasting to consumers is dying off, and that publishers are now in the role of facilitating experiences.  And he discusses some of Meredith’s surprising plans for 2009.

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QUESTION: Do you think this shows that some big companies are starting to get the idea of social media?  (Tell us in the comments below…)

Tomorrow- Determining What Users Want.

Followed by:

Advice for Publishers Starting Out in Social Media

New Revenue Models for Social Media

Generating Engagement with the Audience

New Types of Engagement

Implementing Social Media in the Enterprise

New Brand or Old Brand

Meredith’s Mixing Bowl Social Site

How Ripple6 Creates Value for Publishers

And lots more…