1) Enterprise social media is gaining traction in Finland, with 40% of Finnish companies having a social media strategy. Facebook is the most popular platform, used by 60% of companies.
2) A case study of Finnair found that their social media initiatives like the "Quality Hunters" program and "Finnair Runway" blog had mixed results, engaging customers but generating few new ideas.
3) There is interest in both official, sanctioned social media use by companies but also viral content not approved by companies that can generate backlash, as seen with a Greenpeace parody site about an oil company.
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Social media in enterprise amcis 09082012
1. Social media in Europe
Or rather in Finnish context
Matti Rossi, Aalto School of Business
2. Enterprise social media
Starting to gain traction
Digital media companies are willing and able
More traditional companies less so
Huge interest in formal social media tools
Yammer, SalesForce Chatter
Facebook, Twitter etc. often sanctioned
E.g. our school policy does not allow me to keep an FB page for
our masters program
4. Some research statistics
40 % of Finnish companies have a social media strategy
Facebook by far the most popular social media, 60 % of
companies using social media use FB
YouTube second by 50 %, Twitter 30 % and blogging about
20%
Most companies in a testing phase
Source: Finnish advertisers union
http://www.mainostajat.fi/mliitto/index.asp
5. Example: Finnair
Small, regional airliner reinventing
itself
Finnair Runway Blog: Contributions from Finnair
employees and invited outsiders
Little customer discussion
Departure 2093 Campaign: Five Visions for Future Air
Traffic
Purpose: to convey Finnair values of quality, freshness, and
quality
Facebook for Service Delivery During Crises
Very useful during the Icelandic ash crisis
Ref: Company Tactics for Customer Socialization with Social Media Technologies:
Finnair's Rethink Quality and Quality Hunters Initiatives
Jarvenpaa, S.L.; Tuunainen, V.K., HICSS
2012, http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/HICSS.2012.166
6. Quality
Hunters
Purpose: use socialization agents to signal what
quality is in air travel and engage customers in
discussions
Outcomes:
5300 applicants from 90 countries, much local PR
Over half a million blog visitors during two months
Many active participants were repeat (and from Finland)
Very few actual ideas for new product development
7. Viral vs. official
Many companies have official policies etc. for social media
Most interesting things happening recently have been viral
and usually not sanctioned by companies
Nestespoil.com is a Greenpeace site that mocks Neste Oil, a
Finnish oil refiner
Neste tried to use Wipo to claim the web site
Huge backlash in social media
See:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120622/08055119434/greenpeac
e-parody-site-censored-using-copyright-infringement-claim.shtml
9. And then something completely different
More than 1000 Angry birds cake videos in YouTube
21 million FB fans
Editor's Notes
#7: Christina Lund Sorensen (Denmark), Ella Marshall (United Kingdom), Warren Singh-Bartlett (Lebanon)and Wolfgang Wagner (Germany)