Social media honeycomb slideshare

Ian McCarthy
Ian McCarthyProfessor à Simon Fraser University and Luiss (Center in Leadership, Innovation and Organisation)
Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of Social Media Kietzmann, J.H. ,  Hermkens, K. ,  McCarthy, I.P. ,  Silvestre, B.S. , 2011. Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media. Business Horizons 54, 241-251. Access the full paper  here ! NB: If you download the PowerPoint file from SlideShare, you will have access to more content in the notes section!
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The Honeycomb of Social Media Kietzmann, J.H., Hermkens, K., McCarthy, I.P., Silvestre, B.S., 2011. Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media. Business Horizons 54, 241-251. SECTION 1
Identity  Building Block of Social Media ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 1
Conversations  Building Block of Social Media ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 1
Sharing  Building Block of Social Media ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 1
Presence  Building Block of Social Media ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 1
Relationships  Building Block of Social Media ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 1
Reputation  Building Block of Social Media ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 1
Groups  Building Block of Social Media ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 1
Combining  Building Blocks ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 1
Combination  of   Building Blocks SECTION 1
Implications  of Social Media activities ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 2
1.  Cognize  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 2
2.  Congruity  ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 2
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4.  Chase ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],SECTION 2
Final Thoughts ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]
Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of Social Media ,[object Object],[object Object]
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Social media honeycomb slideshare

  • 1. Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of Social Media Kietzmann, J.H. , Hermkens, K. , McCarthy, I.P. , Silvestre, B.S. , 2011. Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media. Business Horizons 54, 241-251. Access the full paper here ! NB: If you download the PowerPoint file from SlideShare, you will have access to more content in the notes section!
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  • 5. The Honeycomb of Social Media Kietzmann, J.H., Hermkens, K., McCarthy, I.P., Silvestre, B.S., 2011. Social media? Get serious! Understanding the functional building blocks of social media. Business Horizons 54, 241-251. SECTION 1
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Notes de l'éditeur

  1. All sections are excerpts from the full paper, which can be found at http://beedie.sfu.ca/files/PDF/research/McCarthy_Papers/2011_Social_Media_BH.pdf and http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0007681311000061
  2. Section 1: introduces the complexity of Social media, raises the need for comprehensive tools that help managers make sense of it, presents the Honeycomb for Social Media and describes seven building blocks of Social Media illustrates the fundamental implications that each block presents to firms as they seek to fathom the engagement needs of their social media explains how the framework can be used to compare and contrast the functionalities and implications of different social media activities. Section 2: offers guidelines for how firms should develop strategies for monitoring, understanding, and responding to different social media activities.
  3. Section 2: describes seven building blocks of Social Media and illustrates the fundamental implications that each block presents to firms as they seek to fathom the engagement needs of their social media The honeycomb framework presents seven functional building blocks: identity, conversations, sharing, presence, relationships, reputation, and groups. Each block allows us to unpack and examine (1) a specific facet of social media user experience, and (2) its implications for firms. These building blocks are neither mutually exclusive, nor do they all have to be present in a social media activity. They are constructs that allow us to make sense of how different levels of social media functionality can be configured.
  4. Users have also developed identity strategies (e.g., real identity versus virtual identities), while others focus on self-promotion (e.g., Facebook) or self-branding (e.g., LinkedIn). E.g., Professional photographers, for example, pay a premium to share their photographs on Flickr to develop their professional brand, and start conversations within their community.
  5. These conversations happen for all sorts of reasons. People tweet, blog, et cetera to meet new like-minded people, to find true love, to build their self-esteem, or to be on the cutting edge of new ideas or trending topics. Yet others see social media as a way of making their message heard and positively impacting humanitarian causes, environmental problems, economic issues, or political debates. Example for implication #2: For example, Unilever gave its community something to talk about upon launching the Dove Campaign for Real Beauty in 2004. People not only conversed on Dove’s own blog or discussion board, but also talked very positively about the campaign across many social media platforms. To spark more conversation, one billboard in the series asked viewers to vote on whether a woman displayed was ‘fat’ or ‘ fab, ’ with the results posted in real-time on the board.
  6. Sharing alone is a way of interacting in social media, but whether sharing leads users to want to converse or even build relationships with each other depends on the functional objective of the social media platform. Example for implication #1: The type of sharing that can be built into a social media platform very much depend on the aims of the platform. For example, YouTube started as a platform to allow individuals to upload and share homemade videos; the first of these showed one of the founders enjoying a day at the San Diego Zoo. This case illustrates that even though the object medium is video, You- Tube was established primarily to enable users to share personal objects–—experiences and observations–—with the world. Examples for implication #2: As You-Tube grew, users increasingly uploaded video not created by them. This led to criticism and lawsuits against YouTube for failing to ensure that uploaded material complied with copyright laws. YouTube has also been denounced for hosting videos that contain offensive content. As a result, YouTube developed controls and allocated resources to filter and then screen the content that it helps share. This includes requiring users who want to upload video, to register and agree to terms of use; providing a content management system that allows content owners (e.g., movie studios) to identify and manage their content on YouTube; asking users to flag inappropriate content; and employing an army of people who screen and remove content that is in violation of the terms of use.
  7. For instance, actor Ashton Kutcher and his actress wife Demi Moore are both active on Foursquare, and when they ‘check in’ at a particular location, fans and traditional media can view this information and know where to go for celebrity gawking.
  8. In some cases, these relationships are fairly formal, regulated, and structured. LinkedIn, for instance, allows users to see how they are linked to others and how many degrees of separation they are from a ‘target’ member–—possibly an employer they would like to meet. Member profiles also need to be validated by others to be complete. With a focus on relationship building, LinkedIn has a referral system so that these users can be introduced, through a chain of friends-of-friends, to the person they intended to meet so that they can be closer to the people they would like to meet. Bigger networks increase the opportunity for relationship building. In other cases, social media platforms are centered on existing relationship maintenance, not expansion. Social software like AOL Instant Messenger (AIM) and Skype allow people to talk to ‘buddies’ or ‘contacts’ they already know.
  9. Reputation can have different meanings on social media platforms. In most cases, reputation is a matter of trust, but since information technologies are not yet good at determining such highly qualitative criteria, social media sites rely on ‘mechanical Turks’: tools that automatically aggregate user-generated information to determine trustworthiness. For instance, Jeremiah Owyang’s 70,000 and Guy Kawasaki’s 292,000 followers on Twitter attest their reputations as social media maven and emerging technology expert, respectively. Another example is LinkedIn, which builds the reputation of one individual based on endorsements from others. However in social media, reputation refers not only to people but also their content, which is often evaluated using content voting systems. On YouTube, the reputation of videos might be based on ‘view counts’ or ‘ratings,’ while on Face- book this could be ‘likes,’ and so forth. Via the StumbleUpon platform, for example, one can only see content that has already been filtered by users who share a common interest. The more Stumble- Upon knows about a user, the better it can match up preferences of like-minded individuals who have given the particular website a ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ verdict. The number of followers on Twitter has limited value in that it only indicates how popular a person is, not how many people actually read the posts. Since people can follow as many others as they like, they also do not have a reason to ‘ unfollow ’ anyone. An evaluation tool could either be based on objective data (e.g., number of views or followers) or collective intelligence of the crowd (e.g., rating system). For example, social media service sites such as Social Mention search and compile user-generated content from over 80 social media sites. It enables firms and individuals to monitor how many times they and others are mentioned, using a number of metrics including:
  10. Two major types of groups exist. First, individuals can sort through their contacts and place their buddies, friends, followers, or fans into different self-created groups (e.g., Twitter has lists). Second, groups online can be analogous to clubs in the offline world: open to anyone, closed (approval required), or secret (by invitation only). Facebook and Flickr have groups, for instance, with administrators who manage the group, approve applicants, and invite others to join. The indirect implications of groups are complicated. Groups in social media are more than just a listing of users. There is a focus on different per- missions for different group membership activity and content. Given the enormous traffic on social media and the amount of noise it generates daily, the need for filtering is paramount. To connect to some of the earlier honeycomb blocks, groups can vary in how they allow individuals to share specific details with some contacts, but not others. Differ- ent parts of an identity could be set up for each block. In terms of presence, a user could choose to be available to some (e.g., those in the friends group) on the weekend, but not others (e.g., col- leagues). But what happens when life is multiplex and one friend is also a colleague? Permissions management is inherently difficult, and the more flexibility that is embedded in the system, the more difficult it is to manage for the users. For this reason, many social media platforms have chosen to offer a few categories of groups and a few combinations of permissions. Of course, these choices are highly contextual, and a firm would benefit from studying exactly what kinds of groups their community would support, and how these should affect their engagement with other honey- comb pieces.
  11. These building blocks are neither mutually exclusive, nor do they all have to be present in a social media activity. They are constructs that allow us to make sense of how different levels of social media functionality can be configured.
  12. These building blocks are neither mutually exclusive, nor do they all have to be present in a social media activity. They are constructs that allow us to make sense of how different levels of social media functionality can be configured. In this Figure, we illustrate the example of LinkedIn (in the full paper we also display Foursquare, YouTube, and Facebook). The darker the color of a block, the greater this social media functionality is within the site.
  13. Section 2: offers guidelines for how firms should develop strategies for monitoring, understanding, and responding to different social media activities.
  14. Listorious, for instance, provides details of key experts on topics on Twitter.
  15. What are the metrics for evaluating the success of the social media platform? Important success measures might focus on the velocity of a conversation. The mantra ‘customer service is the new marketing’ emphasizes that the firm is no longer in control of the conversation, and that any social media strategy should also focus on increasing customer happiness (e.g., how well cus- tomer issues are resolved) and customer input (e.g., suggestions for improving a product or service). Unless users are made aware of the existence of a social media forum, they are unlikely to discover it by chance. The ‘find us, friend us, and follow us’ slogan on milk containers is a suitable example for how ‘bought’ media (e.g., advertising) and ‘owned’ media (e.g., the brand or the product itself) can be integrated with social media (the ‘earned’ media) to seed and drive conversations, sharing, relationships, and so forth. Other choices in the planning stage require another look at the honeycomb to learn what key activities–—conversations, for instance–—will help the firm gain trust with a key influencer and within the community.
  16. In any event, to effectively follow and use social media can be a challenge, and it is likely that many firms initially won’t have the talent or capabilities to succeed. So, when firms hire consultants who act on their behalf, they are well advised to conduct due diligence to ensure that opportunities are maximized and risks are minimized–—not the other way around. Having the right controls in place is especially important, as individuals who communicate with customers must be given enough discretion and authority to develop relationships by solving customer issues, not just sympathizing with the customer as often seems to be the case with traditional customer service.
  17. Fortunately, social media analytics tools like Tweet- Deck, Social Mention, and Google Alerts exist to make this process more manageable. It is important, though, to note that positive social media exposure often results more from inbound than outbound conversations, and real-time is much better than post-hoc. For instance, when a customer tweeted his disappointment that a chain restaurant had run out of corn tortillas, a full time social media employee alerted the branch manager in less than 2 minutes and the issue was resolved even before the customer left the restaurant (Armano, 2009). But even when it seems too late, an appropriate social media response may turn the tide. Imagine if United Airlines had released an apologetic United Loves Guitars video on YouTube, possibly starring Eric Clapton, Slash, Jimmy Page, or B.B. King!