For Marketing Leadership Professionals (Length: 11 pages)

March 4, 2008

How To Choose The Right Social Technologies

Choose Based On Objectives And Include Success Metrics

by Josh Bernoff

with Christine Spivey Overby, Jaap Favier, Scott Wright

Executive Summary (This is a document excerpt)

Building a social technology strategy? Pick your objective first, then choose the appropriate technology to accomplish your goals. In this document we describe which technologies work best for listening, talking, energizing, supporting, and embracing objectives. But regardless of what you pick, you won't succeed unless you include success metrics. As organizations build more social applications, marketing leaders will find themselves in a central role, sharing knowledge and coordinating activities.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTES & RESOURCES

itemPicking Technologies By Objective

itemListening Tools: Research Communities And Brand Monitoring

itemTalking Tools: Blogs, Communities, Social Networks, And Video

itemEnergizing Tools: Ratings And Reviews, Ambassador Programs, And Widgets

itemSupporting Tools: Forums And Wikis

itemEmbracing Tools: Idea Communities And Suggestion Boxes

Recommendations

itemMarketers Should Help Social Applications Spread Through Companies

WHAT IT MEANS

itemIs Your Company Ready To Put Customers At The Center?

Many of the vendor and user companies in this document were interviewed while researching the book Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies.

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Analyst: Josh Bernoff
Technology: Brand Management, Brand Tactics, Customer Experience, Interactive Marketing, Marketing & Advertising, Marketing Measurement, Social Computing & Web 2.0
Geography: Asia Pacific, Europe, North America

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