Liz Brown Bullock, Director of Social Media & Community, Dell, shares the journey for Dell launching their social media training program, SMaC University, plus ten lessons learned from Dell’s training program. Presentation presented at Dreamforce 2012.
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critical for both
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engagement
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4. Five year journey of embedding social to be a better business
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8. Certification requirements:
Course levels:
• 101: Principles
• 201: Dell’s Strategy
• 301: Dell’s Brand Guidelines
• 4XX: Platform Specific – Strategy &
Best Practices
To date: 6,500 employees trained and
certified to engage on behalf of Dell
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9. Dell SMaC University Learning’s:
# 1: Ground training in strategy and vision for team’s role in social media
# 2: Make certification a requirement
# 3: Goal to have employees activated
# 4: Determine the required information that employees MUST KNOW in order to be activated
# 5: Mixed teaching style with lecture, dialogue, exercises and scenarios
# 6: Drive excitement: hire a prior comedian as your trainer
# 7: Launch with in-person to “be the social face” & address questions
# 8: Evolve your training curriculum to include real time mistakes
# 9:Myriad of tools to continue the conversation: SMaC U Chatter group, Videos, Adobe
Connect, Inside Out Speaker Series (Chris Brogan, Jason Falls, Charlene Li)
# 10: Launch Training Ambassadors for global scale and regional relevance
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10. Customer
connected
employees are
your
companies
rock stars…
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11. Thank You
Q&A
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Notas del editor
August 2006Blog Outreach Expands Beyond Tech SupportEngagement with anyone who commented about the company. Business model and other issues considered.August 2006Blog Outreach Expands Beyond Tech SupportEngagement with anyone who commented about the company. Business model and other issues considered.June 2007Dell joins TwitterWhy don’t we reach out and help bloggers with tech support issues?February 2008Twitter ExpandedStart experimenting with Twitter for business– another venue to help customers, but also thanking Dell customers. Outreach leads to some Twitters asking for help on purchases.May 2008Dell Outlet Achieves $0.5M in Sales via TwitterCommunity team active on TwitterJune 2009 $2M+ Sales via TwitterDell outlet on Twitter surpasses $2 million in sales with another $1 million dollars in sales at dell.com 2009Dell TechCenterA Collaborative Community for Datacenter pros grows by 400%December 2009Huffington Post BlogDell’s VP of Social Media and Community, Manish Mehta, begins blogging at Huffington PostJune 2009Global Twitter Revenues of $6.5 M Community across the social web =3.5 million direct customer connections
Most employees are already using social media sites personally and are happy to help support their company. However you need to provide guardrails for engagement. Leverage a social media policy or principles to identify which actions are okay or not okay for employees to engage in and provide ongoing training. I’ve trained over XXXX team members are Dell and even the most tech savy users can learn something new. For instance, the Federal Trade Commission requires any employee talking about their company’s product or service to disclose that they work for that company even in their personal posts. We encourage our team members to include #Iwork4Dell in their posts as an easy way to disclose.