This is a post written after reading this post, from FreshNetworks, related with the impact of social media in a company’s branding.
Social Media cuts both ways.
1.- Writters has to be aware of the impact of the information they publish.
Most of the regular social media users has no previous experience in marketing or regular media, obviously, so they have no real sense on how powerful published information (so these tools) can be and the harm they can make to a person or a company without even noticing it. We are seeing this in young kids at school. It is so easy to upload a unproper picture, to publish an unfair comment about somebody, destroy a company’s reputation …
Social media tools are used by everybody but not everybody know how to use them. Reacting against wrong behaviours related with their use is not just the Govs responsability. It is also ours.
2.- Companies have to take social networks as a really powerful marketing and feedback tool.
Social media are not just a new channel to make money out of. They also are a good tool for users to show your services weak points, you fealures, etc. So prepare your company (and yourself) to react to users opinions as they deserve. And also take in consideration that they have the ability now to harm you with a little cost you if you ignore them..or even if you don’t.
3.- We need to adapt the law to this new reality
Social media are a new way of communicating so countries need to adapt the law to this new reality (without cutting down our rights). And since social media know very little about boundaries, Govs should make an effort to unify as much as possible its criteria related to the the protection of our rights.
Some questions come to my mind:
- How do we convince a company that risks related with the use of social media do not cancel all the great opportunities related to them?
- Do we have to?
- What should a company ( a person or a community) do when its reputation is in danger through twitter, facebook, etc.?
- How to react when somebody’s opinion is unffair?
- And what about when you agree on somebody’s complains, you want to repair the error but the complains published in a social network has already a huge impact, so the cost of that misbehavior is insignificant compared to the harm done by the customer/blogger/user?
- What if the social media user is not even your customer and have no real idea about your service?
More and more companies are getting concerned about the impact of social media for their reputation. Many of them may become afraid to use them if they are not “more controlled”, so they will try to.
And we know well that fear is freedom’s major enemy.
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Nice written article about Social Media.
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Very Informative Article on Social Media Optimization. Thanks sharing with this informative blog.
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No, of course I'm not saying that we need Gov's control.
I'm talking about developing policies or procedures to canalice the requests and complains related with a community project done by users through social media, just like we've done in the past when they came through chat or mailing lists.
I was wondering if this new channel will need new procedures…that's all.
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are you saying that we need government control over Social networks? More LAWS telling us what we CAN NOT DO on social networks? Hello? Do you live on this planet? is this really what we need? And who cares that corporations fear of social networks? Oh poor corporations, you destroyed our planet Earth, bringing to destruction all of us, but we want you to come to social networks so you can spam us with your ADs on your products. Oh yes this is what we need!!?
Dont take it personally. Maybe you can explain me why you want this.
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