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The Great British American Tobacco Social Media Experiment
Richard Hare 19th August 2009
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Social Media
“Web 1.0 was all about connecting people. It
was an interactive space… people to
people… that was what the Web was supposed
to be all along.”
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, 2006
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/podcast/dwi/cm-int082206.txt
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“Connect, collaborate, innovate…”
Social Media at British American Tobacco:
1997: On-line Communities
2004: Blogs
2008: Social Networking
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British American Tobacco at a glance
World’s most international tobacco groupBusiness in 180 countries, over 300 brandsGlobal market share approx. 21% Market leadership in more than 50 countries
Over 56,000 employees Most recent performance (2008)
£12.1 bn revenue £ 3.7 bn profit from operations £22.0 bn tax contribution
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Fear, uncertainty, doubt
Category 2: Open Minded
13. A 10 39
B 4 * 10 43 *
C 2 * 14 * 37 *
17. A 13 33
B 2 * 13 34 *
C -8 * 13 25 *
31a. A 13 23
B 3 * 13 25 *
C -2 * 15 * 19 *
33. A 7 18
B 1 * 7 19 *
C 1 * 10 * 16 *
(N) indicates 'Disagreeing' is the Favourable Response * indicates a statistically significant difference
Legend
British American TobaccoBAT OVERALL 2006 (38719) vs. 2 BENCHMARKS
Total Favourable
A. BAT OVERALL 2006 (38719)B. BAT OVERALL 2005 (35428)
Total Unfavour-
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This company has established a climate where: People can challenge our traditional ways of doing things
Differing opinions are openly discussed in reaching decisions in my work team.
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C. ISR GLOBAL HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPANIES NORM (149193)
It is safe to say what you think in this company.
Little effort is made to get the opinions and thinking of employees in this company. (N)
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Communities: Ten Years, Five Platforms
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2004: Workshop: ChangeNet
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2005: CommunityBuilder
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Timing: 2006 World Cup Forum
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Management Trainee Community
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Use: June 2003 – July 2009
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2004: “I want to try blogging”
Tom
(Change and Communications Manager, Global Operations and I.T.)
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From SiteBuilder… (2005)
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…to BlogCentral (2006)
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Set expectations
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Simple to set up…
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…simple to post
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Going Live
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BlogCentral in 2009 (January – July)
189,611 pages viewed 52,402 visits
7605 readers 3000 readers per month 2 directors have started blogging
3126 comments 2429 posts 255 blogs
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BlogCentral: August 2006 – July 2009
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Friendster to Facebook
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2008: Connect
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A global internal directory
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Interact homepage with newsfeed
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Connect use: 2008-2009
• Monthly users up from 187 in Jan 2008 to 5831 in Jan 2009
• Q1 users up from 236 in 2008 to 10276 in 2009
• 17,000 users from a potential 26,000
• Visits more than quadrupled
• Page views quintupled
• 120 people update their Connect record every day
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Connect: November 2007- July 2009
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Wider range of pages viewed
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Questions and discussion
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