BlogWell Dallas Social Media Case Study: AT&T, presented by Lee Diaz
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The document outlines AT&T's 'Social Circle' initiative, aimed at engaging employees as social advocates since late 2009, which has evolved into a community of approximately 1,500 management employees who actively share company content through personal social media accounts. It highlights the importance of leveraging employees' networks to enhance brand visibility and trust through authentic communication, while providing strategies for training, content sharing, and recognition of employee contributions. The results showcase significant engagement metrics, emphasizing the effectiveness of employee advocacy in promoting company reputation and products.
BlogWell Dallas Social Media Case Study: AT&T, presented by Lee Diaz
- 1. SocialMedia.org Video Case Studies SocialMedia.org This video is from Case Studies BlogWell San Francisco June 20, 2011 socialmedia.org/blogwell This presentation is from BlogWell Lee Diaz socialmedia.org/blogwell The AT&T social circle: Activating employees as social advocates Dallas February 19, 2014
- 2. The AT&T Social Circle Activating Employees as Social Advocates February 19, 2014 1 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 3. The AT&T Social Circle • • • • • 2 Emerging Communications employee engagement initiative Piloted in late 2009 Now a community of ~1,500 exempt management employees Group of employees with varying levels of social savvy active on Twitter or LinkedIn Voluntarily post from personal Twitter and LinkedIn accounts % 77 • • • • Help share and reshare AT&T news, information, announcements, and more About reputation, not marketing or customer care Personalized, freestyle tweets Members are lightly monitored and measured of consumers are more likely to buy a product when they hear about it from someone they trust — Nielsen 2013 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 4. Your Employees Are in Social 3 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 5. Why See Employees as Potential Advocates? % 92 % 8 of consumers worldwide trust recommendations from friends and family more than any form of advertising — Nielsen 2013 % 77 4 average overlap between employees’ Twitter followers and brand’s Twitter followers — DELL study 2012 of consumers are more likely to buy a product when they hear about it from someone they trust — Nielsen 2013 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 6. Activating Employee Voices & Encourage New Voices To Start 5 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 7. Employees Are an Amazing Resource • • • • • 6 Tap into the existing knowledge, networks, and enthusiasm of our most “social” employees Recruit and mobilize a small and effective group to give real, human voices to the company Broaden channels to promote company products and services, announcements, and disaster/emergency messages Increase favorable brand association with consumers and key influencers through credible, real-employee dialogue that we can’t always initiate from “official” channels Highlight and showcase the diverse and interesting viewpoints of our employees © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 8. Informing Employees How to Expand Personal Reach Finding relevant content and building a following can be important to garnering ongoing activity. • Search for people you already know • Finding lists of top profiles in key areas of interest • Getting involved in current discussions and trending hashtags • Being a consistent participant and contributor • Creating a reason to be following • Linking profiles across multiple social channels 7 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 9. Employees Have Varying Levels of Experience How will you approach employees with different experience and comfort levels? • Fit this into your current social media training strategy • Add training modules • Determine which audiences are a priority • Create leadership-specific training and engagement opportunities • Provide access to tips and tools • Quick hits and one-pagers • Ask your current membership or interest group what would be helpful 8 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 10. Establish Membership Requirements Who should be able to join your social advocacy program? • Specific employees or management levels • Existing activity on certain platforms ~90 days • Willingness to actively share content about your company • Identification as an employee in your company (FTC requirements) • Compliance with internal standards 9 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 11. Facilitating Real-time Advocacy The Advocate Hub Our Employee Advocates 10 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 12. Leveraging a Vendor Solution: The Hub Evolving how we provided AT&T Social Circle members with content • Previously focused on email outreach • The Hub provides a central location to access and share content • Members can select social networks they want to link to the Hub • Sharing is facilitated through the platform to the preferred network • Tracking and analytics built-in • Results and top-sharers for gamification, kudos and prizes 11 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 13. The Member Experience: Sharing Content The user can access the Hub online or through their mobile device • Browse the content that is currently available for sharing • Select the preferred social channel • Preview the content related to the post and access the link being shared • Edit any of the content so it is personal and relevant for your following • Key hashtag (#ATTemployee) is already included in the content • Post when ready 12 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 14. Developing Community: The AT&T Social Circle on tSpace Leverage a tSpace Community to encourage member collaboration • Key tips and resources • Highlight new content that members have requested • Use internal shout-outs with status updates (@ mentions and # for trending topics) • Develop forum topics for key questions, opportunities and member self-help • Post forums for larger releases • Membership listing allows internal networking with other active employees • Polls to ask quick questions 13 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 15. Spotlight & Award Excellence Develop ways to recognize your members throughout the year for activity and for just being awesome. • Contests to boost activity or promote specific actions (10 Days) • Award badges based on activity or expertise • Highlight very active members in communications (Member of the Week) • Give away branded apparel or certificates • Share experiences or guest speakers • Surprise and delight 14 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 16. Develop the Right Policies and Garner Support Determine all of the other touch points that will support growth • Explore possible additions to social media standards or policies • Stakeholder support from departments that might external impact social engagement: HR, Labor, Legal • Reach leaders already in social to increase backing for outreach • Find organizations and programs with participants that are fit your key target audience • Set a less-corporate tone to all communications 15 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 17. Elevate the Conversations Around Your Social Brand Everything that an employee shares online may impact their social brand • Create a dialogue around the impact of social and the influence employees have • Share examples from Internal & External • Drive awareness around the importance of profile building • Content that should and shouldn’t be shared • Disclosures within the profile • How to address escalations or network referrals and concerns 16 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 18. The Results Since the launch of our Hub in Dec. 2012 Members Followers per Influencer 231 Influencer Activities 20,235 Audience Engagements 409,589 Engagements per Action 20.2 Program EMV to Date 17 1,533 $1,023,867 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 19. Questions? @LeeDiaz24 [email protected] 18 © 2014 AT&T Intellectual Property. All rights reserved. AT&T and the AT&T logo are trademarks of AT&T Intellectual Property.
- 20. SocialMedia.org This video is from Case Studies BlogWell San Francisco June 20, 2011 Learn more about past and upcoming BlogWells socialmedia.org/blogwell This presentation is from BlogWell Dallas February 19, 2014 socialmedia.org/blogwell socialmedia.org/blogwell