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PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS
TO THE MEASUREMENT CONUNDRUMShonali Burke, ABC (@shonali)
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Let’s Take Your Temperature…
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What Are You Trying To Do?
Why Is It Important?
Credit: “Social Media Metrics,” Jim Sterne (@jimsterne)
Case Study: Austin CVB & BMESOct. 5 – 12, 2010
Could Social Media…
• Grow the org’s reach?• Engage attendees?• Inform them?
Courtesy: Sparkloft & BMES
What Did They Do?• Facebook
– Developed and implemented a custom Facebook conference tab– Curated relevant destination content– Created two photo albums: Austin (pre-meeting) and BMES (updated daily)
• Twitter– Generated three Twitter lists: Exhibitors, Austin hotels, Austin nightlife– Customized organization’s profile: @BMESociety– Took and uploaded Twitpics on site
• Flickr– Developed BMES group & photostream– Uploaded photos in real time (multiple times each day)
• YouTube– Filmed and posted exhibit floor poster reports– Produced post-conference video highlighting the social media integration achieved
for BMES in Austin
Courtesy: Sparkloft
What Happened?
• Tweets on @BMESociety stream: 25/101 (before/after)• @BMESociety followers: 18/104 (before/after)• Tweets containing #BMES2010 reached 45,282 Twitter
accounts (# of times tweeted x # of followers)• BMES “likes” on Facebook increased by 218%• BMES Facebook page viewed 1,085 times during the
conference• 33 photos uploaded to BMES Flickr account; viewed 102
times• 12 videos uploaded to BMES’ YouTube channel and
embedded in various outlets; viewed 1,400 timesCourtesy: Sparkloft
What Was Missing?
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… but it was a good place to start!
The Case of The OKC Jeweler
© Daniel Gordon, used with permission
@dangordon@samuelgordons
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Courtesy: Scott Henderson & MediaSauce
Courtesy: Scott Henderson & Media Sauce
Results• 2,600 members of Facebook
Cause• > 19k site visitors• 4,800 pledges (380% > goal)• 1st 1k pledges in 28 hours• $28k for Share Our Strength
(@95% 1st-time donors)• 560k servings of food to
food banks in 4 cities
Courtesy: Scott Henderson & Media Sauce
Let’s Say…
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What Are You Trying To Do?
Why Is It Important?
#1: Listen
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#2: Analyze
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#3: Evaluate
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Did Anything Happen?
Courtesy: KD Paine & Partners
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Strategy & MeasurementGo hand-in-hand
Ask Yourself…
“You Can’t Cure Suck”(h/t Pierre-LoÏc Assayag, Traackr)
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The Six KeysTo The Measurement World
Who What
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How
A Few Resources• iabc.com• prsa.org• instituteforpr.org• kdpaine.blogs.com• metrica.net/measurementmatters• communicationammo.com• metricsman.wordpress.com• Overtonecomm.blogspot.com• toprankblog.com• chuckhemann.com• Bi-weekly #measurePR Twitter chat (every other Tues;
12-1 pm ET)• WaxingUnLyrical.com: measurement/measurePR
categories• twitter.com/shonali/measurement
Questions?
Thank you!
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