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Learning Objectives
Describe six Web 2.0 tools and two major types of Web 2.0 sites.
Describe the benefits and risks of social commerce to companies.
Identify the methods used for shopping socially.
Discuss innovative ways to use social networking sites for advertising and market research.
Describe how social computing improves customer service.
Discuss different ways in which human resource managers make use of social computing.
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Chapter Outline
Web 2.0
Fundamentals of Social Computing in Business
Social Computing in Business: Shopping
Social Computing in Business: Marketing
Social Computing in Business: Customer Relationship Management
Social Computing in Business: Human Resource Management
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Opening Case
Dr. David Dao and United Airlines
Describe and evaluate United’s sequence of responses to the incident with Dr. Dao. Should United have responded differently? If so, then how?
Discuss the impacts of social media on United’s responses to the incident with Dr. Dao.
Discuss how this case illustrates the change in the balance of power between customers and organizations.
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Describe and evaluate United’s sequence of responses to the incident with Dr. Dao. Should United have responded differently? If so, then how?
Discuss the impacts of social media on United’s responses to the incident with Dr. Dao.
Discuss how this case illustrates the change in the balance of power between customers and organizations.
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IT’s About Business 9.1
Social Media and Disaster Relief
Earthquake in Mexico
Hurricane Harvey
Des Moines, Iowa Flood
Official Responses to the Use of Social media in Disaster Relief
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Discuss the reasons behind the increased use of social media in disaster relief efforts.
Discuss the disadvantages that could come from using social media in disaster relief efforts. Overall, should the use of social media in disaster relief efforts be encouraged? Why or why not?
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9.1 Web 2.0 (1 of 2)
Tagging
Folksonomies
Geotagging
Really Simple Syndication (RSS)
Blogs
Microblogging
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Tagging: a keyword or term that describes a piece of information—for example, a blog, a picture, an article, or a video clip. Tagging allows users to place information in multiple, overlapping associations rather than in rigid categories.
-- Folksonomies: user generated classifications that use tags to categorize and retrieve Web pages, photos, videos, and other Web content.
-- Geotagging: a specific form of tagging referring to tagging information on maps (example: Google Maps allows users to add pictures and information, such as restaurant or hotel ratings, to maps).
Really Simple Syndication (RSS): A Web 2.0 feature that allows you to receive the information you want (customized information), when you want it, without having to surf thousands of websites.
Blog: (short for weblog) a personal Web site, open to the public, in which the site creator expresses his or her feelings or opinions via a series of chronological events.
Microblogging: a form of blogging that allows users to write short messages (or capture an image or embedded video) and publish them (Example: Twitter).
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Figure 9.1 The Web site of National Public Radio (NPR) with RSS toolbar aggregator and search function.
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FIGURE 9.1 The Web site of National Public Radio (NPR) with RSS toolbar aggregator and search function (Courtesy of NPR. Used with permission.)
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9.1 Web 2.0 (2 of 2)
Wikis
Social Networking Web Sites
Social Graph
Social Capital
Enterprise Social Networks
Mashups
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Wiki: a Web site made up entirely of user generated content (Example: Wikipedia.com).
Social Network: a social structure composed of individuals, groups, or organizations linked by values, visions, ideas, financial exchange, friendship, kinship, conflict, or trade.
Social Networking: refers to activities performed using social software tools (e.g., blogging) or social networking features (e.g., media sharing).
-- Social Graph: the map of a single member of a social network comprised of all relevant links or connections among the greater social network.
-- Social Capital: refers to the number of connections an individual person has within and between social networks.
Social Networking Web Sites: web sites that allow participants to create their own profile page for free allowing them to post blog entries, pictures, video, music and/or share ideas.
Enterprise Social Networks: business-oriented social networks (public or private) designed to support networking and community building, social collaboration, social publishing, Social intelligence and social analytics.
Mashups: a Web site that takes different content from a number of other Web sites and mixes them together to create a new kind of content.
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Figure 9.2 Google Maps (www.googlemaps.com) is a classic example of a mashup.
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FIGURE 9.2 Google Maps (www.googlemaps.com) is a classic example of a mashup. In this case, Google Maps is pulling in information from public transportation Web sites to provide the customer with transit directions.
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IT’s About Business 9.2
Using Social Data to Make Lending Decisions
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The new credit-scoring businesses use nontraditional data the ways that traditional lending institutions assess creditworthiness? Provide specific examples to support your answer.
What are the potential disadvantages to customers if a financial institution uses social data to make a lending decision? Provide specific examples to support your answer.
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9.2 Fundamentals of Social Computing in Business
Benefits to Customers
Benefits to Businesses
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Social Commerce: the delivery of electronic commerce activities and transactions through social computing. Social commerce also
supports social interactions and user contributions, allowing customers to participate actively in the marketing and selling of products and services in online marketplaces and communities.
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Social Commerce: Benefits to Customers (1 of 3)
Better and faster vendor responses to complaints (on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube)
Customers can assist other customers (e.g., in online forums)
Customers’ expectations can be met more fully and quickly
Customers can easily search, link, chat, and buy while staying on a social network’s page
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Social Commerce: Benefits to Businesses (2 of 3)
Can test new products and ideas quickly and inexpensively
Learn a lot about their customers
Identify problems quickly and alleviate customer anger
Learn about customers’ experiences via rapid feedback
Increase sales when customers discuss products positively on social networking site
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Social Commerce: Benefits to Businesses (3 of 3)
Create more effective marketing campaigns and brand awareness
Use low-cost user-generated content, for example, in marketing campaigns
Obtain free advertising through viral marketing
Identify and reward influential brand advocates
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Collaborative Consumption
Collaborative Consumption
collaborative production, crowdfunding, peer-to-peer lending and others
Advantages: self-management, variety, flexibility, and positive environmental impact
Disadvantages: Law and regulatory adjustments, resources and pay issues, employee benefits and protection,
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Collaborative Consumption: An economic model based on sharing, swapping, trading, or renting products and services, enabling access over ownership
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9.3 Social Computing in Business: Shopping
Ratings, Reviews, and Recommendations
Group Shopping
Shopping Communities and Clubs
Social Marketplaces and Direct Sales
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Ratings, Reviews, and Recommendations: are usually available in social shopping and generally come from,
(a) Customer ratings and reviews integrated into the vendor’s Web page
(b) Expert ratings and reviews from an independent authority
(c) Sponsored reviews: paid-for reviews
(d) Conversational marketing: individuals converse via e-mail, blog, live chat, discussion groups, and tweets.
Group Shopping: Web sites such as Groupon and LivingSocial offer major discounts or special deals during a short time frame.
Shopping Communities and Clubs: host sales for their members that last just a few days and usually feature luxury brands and heavily discounted prices. These clubs tend to be exclusive and help sell luxury items without watering down the brands’ images.
Social Marketplaces and Direct Sales: act as online intermediaries that harness the power of social networks for introducing, buying, and selling products and services. A social marketplace helps members market their own creations.
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IT’s About Business 9.3
Health Care Providers Deal with Negative Reviews
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Questions
Refer to Chapter 3, and discuss the ethics of iHealthspot.
Does this case have implications for how we all should manage negative comments about ourselves on social media? Why or why not? Provide specific examples to support your answer.
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Figure 9.3 Yelp (www.yelp.com) users submit reviews of local business within a local metropolitan area. Some communities have pages that feature a Review of the Day (often referred to as the ROTD).
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FIGURE 9.3 Yelp (www.yelp.com) users submit reviews of local business within a local metropolitan area. Some communities have pages that feature a Review of the Day (often referred to as the ROTD).
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Figure 9.4 LivingSocial (www.livingsocial.com) is a popular example of a group shopping Web site.
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FIGURE 9.4 LivingSocial (www.livingsocial.com) is a popular example of a group shopping Web site.
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Figure 9.5 Etsy (www.etsy.com) is a social marketplace for all handmade or vintage items.
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FIGURE 9.5 Etsy (www.etsy.com) is a social marketplace for all handmade or vintage items.
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9.4 Social Computing in Business: Marketing
Social Advertising
Market Research
Conducting Market Research Using Social Networks
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Social Advertising: refers to the advertising formats that make use of the social context of the user viewing the ad. It is the first form of advertising to leverage forms of social influence such as peer pressure and friend recommendations and likes.
Market Research: today members of social media voluntarily provide demographics that help identify and target potential customers. Due to the open nature of social networking, merchants can easily find customers, see what they do online, and learn who their friends are.
Conversational Marketing: feedback from customers provided to companies through social computing tools (e.g., blogs, wikis, online forums, and social networking sites.
Conducting Market Research Using Social Networking: Customer sentiment expressed on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and similar sites represent an incredibly valuable source of information for companies allowing them to analyze the data, conduct better advertising campaigns, improve their product design and their service offerings.
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IT’s About Business 9.4
Sprinklr
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Questions
Why is it so important for businesses to manage the entire customer experience by concentrating on social media? Provide examples to support your answer.
Describe Sprinklr’s Experience Cloud, and explain how it relates to social media.
Recall the chapter opening case about Dr. Dao and United Airlines. Explain how Sprinklr could have helped United with its response to the event. Provide specific examples to support your answer.
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Social Advertising: refers to the advertising formats that make use of the social context of the user viewing the ad. It is the first form of advertising to leverage forms of social influence such as peer pressure and friend recommendations and likes.
Viral marketing: word-of-mouth advertising—lends itself especially well to social
networking.
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Figure 9.6 Customers share their ideas and feedback with Dell via IdeaStorm (www.ideastorm.com).
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FIGURE 9.6 Customers share their ideas and feedback with Dell via IdeaStorm (www.ideastorm.com).
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Conducting Market Research Using Social Networks
Using Facebook for Market Research
Using Twitter for Market Research
Using LinkedIn for Market Research
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Conducting Market Research Using Social Networking: Customer sentiment expressed on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and similar sites represent an incredibly valuable source of information for companies allowing them to analyze the data, conduct better advertising campaigns, improve their product design and their service offerings.
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Using Facebook for Market Research
Obtain feedback from Facebook Fans
Test-market your messages
Use Facebook for survey invitations
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• Obtain feedback from your Facebook fans (and their friends if possible) on advertising campaigns, market research, etc. It is equivalent to holding a free focus group.
• Test-market your messages. Provide two or three options, and ask fans which one they prefer and why.
• Use Facebook for survey invitations (i.e., to recruit participants). Essentially, turn Facebook into a giant panel, and ask users to participate in a survey. Facebook offers a self-service model for displaying ads, which can function as invitations to take a survey. Facebook also allows you to target your audience very specifically based on traditional demographic criteria such as age and gender.
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Using Twitter for Market Research
Visit Twitter Search
Monitor industry-specific keywords
Review TweetStats
Solicit information from customers & interact with them
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Using Twitter for Market Research: Your customers, your prospects, and industry thought leaders all use Twitter, making it a rich source of instantly updated information. Consider
the following examples:
• Visit Twitter Search (www.twitter.com/search). Enter a company’s Twitter name. Not only can you follow what the company is saying, you can also follow what everyone is saying to them.
• Take advantage of the tools that enable you to find people in the industries in which they operate. Use search.twitter.com to monitor industry-specific keywords.
• Do you want to know what topic is on most people’s minds today? If so, then review the chart on TweetStats (www.tweetstats.com).
• An increasing number of companies are utilizing Twitter to solicit information from customers and to interact with them (e.g., Dell (connecting with customers), JetBlue
(learning about customers), Teusner Wines (gathering feedback, sharing information), and Pepsi (rapid response time in dealing with complaints).
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Using LinkedIn for Market Research
Post a question
Solicit advice from a LinkedIn group
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Post a question (e.g., solicit advice) regarding the topic or issue you are interested in.
You may obtain a better result if you go to a specific LinkedIn group to solicit advice.
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9.5 Social Computing in Business: Customer Relationship Management
How Social Computing Improves Customer Service
Qantas Airlines
Safeway
Best Buy
Groupon
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Social computing has vastly altered both the expectations of customers and the capabilities of corporations in the area of customer relationship management.
Customers are now incredibly empowered as companies closely monitor negative comments and proactively involve customers to resolve problems/issues for improved customer service.
Empowered customers know how to use the wisdom and power of crowds and communities to their benefit.
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9.6 Social Computing in Business: Human Resource Management
Recruiting
Onboarding
Employee Development
Finding a Job
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Recruiting: Both recruiters and job seekers are moving to online social networks as recruiting platforms.
Onboarding: How new employees acquire the necessary knowledge, skills, and behaviors to become effective members of the organization.
Employee Development: HR professionals are using enterprise social tools such as Chatter, Yammer, and Tibbr to enable, encourage, and promote employee development through relationship building by providing a platform for employees to collaborate on sales opportunities, campaigns, projects as well as simplify workflows and capture new ideas. eLearning and eTraining are employee development tools that can be leveraged through social computing.
Finding a Job: The vast majority of entry-level positions in the United States are now listed only online. Job sites are the fastest, least expensive, and most efficient method to connect employers with potential employees. Today, job searchers use traditional job sites and social networks such as LinkedIn.
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Describe the benefits risks of social commerce to consumers and businesses.
Discuss 1) why social computing is so important in consumer relationship management; 2) how social computing improves customer service.
How can an organization best employ social computing technologies and applications to benefit its business processes?
In-Class Discussion
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