Here’s a presentation from Stephanie Moritz, ConAgra Foods’ Director of Public Relations. Moritz explains how ConAgra is embracing social media as a strategic opportunity to stir passion among its audience.

Her case study explains how the company is integrating social media across many aspects of their business, how they educated senior management through “digital immersion”, and how ConAgra uses five core elements to define their social approach. She gives an excellent overview of why and when a brand should use social media and how ConAgra successfully engaged consumers of its Healthy Choice products.

Takeaways:

  • Social media is more than your marketing department. ConAgra approaches social media enterprise-wide, realizing opportunities not just in marketing, but also in HR, legal, and career development.
  • Teach executives about social media by offering them hands-on experience. Moritz’s team invited senior management to participate in “digital immersion” sessions to really experience social media.
  • Avoid the shiny objects. Moritz recommends ignoring the latest tools and networks and really focusing on your brand’s goals.

You see her live presentation and follow along with the accompanying slides below:


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Facebook is bearing down on its rivals, threatening to become U.S. Internet users’ home on the Web.

Time spent on Facebook soared to 27.6 billion minutes in December, up from 17.8 billion minutes in October, according to data from comScore. (In December 2008, it was just 9.3 billion minutes.)

Google, where users spent 36 billion minutes in December, managed consistent slow growth in the second half of the year. Meanwhile, online rivals like Yahoo, Microsoft, and MySpace are all down.

It’s especially ugly for Yahoo.

  • Yahoo which fancies itself as your home on the Internet, has seen time spent on the site slowly decline, despite its big ad campaign.
  • Its uniques are flat, while Facebook’s are growing.
  • And, it’s not shown in this chart, but comScore says Facebook had more pages viewed in December than Yahoo for the first time ever — 44.9 billion for Facebook versus 38.8 billion for Yahoo.

Carol Bartz knows Facebook is coming. On Yahoo’s earnings call she said, “we are actually happy with the engagement we are seeing with us. We just can’t keep up with that [Facebook's] kind of engagement.”

chart of the day minutes spent on leading websites per month 2009 data Facebook Catching Up to Google and Yahoo as Your Home on the Web [Chart]

(Via Silicon Alley Insider, Jay Yarow & Kamelia Angelova)


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Social Media Case Study: Turner Broadcasting System

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What’s New and Interesting in Social Media

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Here are some viewpoints to start off your week:
6 Corporate Pioneers in the Social Media Space
Revolutions in social media continue to stir evolutions in corporate customer engagement. As with any change in business processes, there are those who become champions of the newest strategies and tactics while others suffer missteps trying to adjust to new [...]

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4 Social Media Trends for Business in 2010

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StumbleUpon, Twitter, FriendFeed, Facebook, Digg, Xing… The list keeps growing as social media becomes intertwined in the daily lives of brands and consumers. We’re in the midst of a fundamental shift in communication. But the social Web is an evolving platform — some tools return terrific results, while others don’t work quite as well as [...]

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