How Are Companies Leveraging Social Media?

by Ethan Bloch on Mar 7, 2010
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Ever wonder how big businesses are leveraging social media? Burson-Martseller recently released a report highlighting the Fortune Global 100 companies and how they were using social platforms including: Blogs, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We have complied a graphic illustrating the most interesting of their findings:

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    great info-graphic, I always find it interesting that the 3rd most popular (traffic) site (youtube) always has the least participation (accounts) of all social media accounts.

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    Roy, my guess is that its due to the intimate aspect of video. It's likely why video twitter (seesmic), etc had a hard time getting traction.

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    Interesting statistics showing the adoption of social media among larger corporations. Curious whether these are outsourced or whether they are a function of the marketing department or perhaps senior management. Low number of tweets per day…Low amount of conversation, high percentage of corporate sales tweets, low follow backs… Sounds like the corporations need a Twitter 101 class. They call it SOCIAL media for a reason.

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    Totally agree – most of them need Twitter 101 classes. Appreciate the comment.

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    Fortune 100 are getting it right. The heavy shift to Twitter over facebook may be a tactical sign wanting to meet with professional audience over just fun loving audience in Facebook. No pun intended. My concern is that many small businesses are yet to catch up with social media fever.

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    Thanks for this graphic, a visual approach is always easier when convincing reluctant corporates.

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    I am surprised that only 33% are using blogs, i would have thought that more would be using blogs than facebook etc.

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    I'm surprised activity is so light — ie number of posts or tweets per week. Could this be because it measures “just” the centralized social media activity that the “company” does — versus the activity that employees do globally which is also associated with the company? For example, the company where I work has dozens of employee bloggers who write about the company and their job/profession from their unique perspective. People can subscribe (via friendfeed) on the company's website the entire group's work (or via individual subscriptions as they choose). Using this non-centralized model, my company has over 100 blog posts voluntarily written and published externally each week by its employee subject matter experts. (And thousands of tweets.) No employee is paid to be a “corporate blogger.'

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    Awesome post! I'm sharing this with my company. Would you mind sharing how you created the diagram (i.e. what program)?

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