The case study above was presented at SocialMedia.org's Member Meeting 41 in New York on October 26, 2016.
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In her SocialMedia.org Member Meeting case study presentation, Johnson & Johnson's Workforce Engagement and Advocacy Leader, Devon Eyer, talks about how they designed and launched a channel and content strategy to change the way they engage with employees.
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Below is live coverage of this session:
— We wanted to get started in employee advocacy with a modern platform to make sure it was easy for employees and compliant. We wanted our employees to become social followers and to get something out of it as well.
— We chose LinkedIn Elevate:
Branded and backed by the largest professional social network
Sharing capability to multiple platforms
Robust analytics on the back end for us
Support for compliance enhancements
— We launched to 100 early adopters, which helps us:
Establish a content strategy and processes
Gather user feedback
Create campaign materials
Socialize with internal stakeholders
Enroll key executives
Measure progress and take note of successes
— What we wanted to try:
Partner with LinkedIn to host on site registration events
Create internal direct marketing campaigns
Target new users with sponsored posts on LinkedIn. Dark posts created leaderboards and seed competition — it works especially well with giving visibility to our executives.
Experiment with content topics, sources, and formats
Enroll and encourage key stakeholders and target those who we thought would make a difference
Track registrations and active participants
Assess reach and engagement to evaluate program health
Assess business outcomes to evaluate program impact
— Results: 830 users in about a year and half with a 300-percent share rate, 4.7 million impressions, 1.5 percent engagement rate, and 230 influenced hires
— A couple of key takeaways:
Find a way to make sharing easy for employees and compliant for your company
Enroll employees by clearly showing the personal value for them
Solicit and nurture executive participation
Measure what matters
Q&A:
Q: Why did you choose LinkedIn, and what drove your decision?
A: We chose LinkedIn because of the branding to test it as a pilot. Also, driving the talent agenda was another reason
Q: I was wondering about the curators.
A: Right now they are members from our team. Anyone who is a user can submit a post but mostly it was a person from our team.
Q: Have you started to articulate your 2017 goals to build on 2016 a little bit?
A: Yes, we have. Our goal is to try to impact the talent pool.
Q: Was there any concern about competitors?
A: No, I did not hear that concern from anyone. But, I did hear some compliments.
Q: Did you encounter anyone who was not active on social media?
A: We did find some folks. It goes by compliance — by whatever makes the company more comfortable and makes our employees more active.
Q: I’m curious about the platform testing. Are you looking to replace the platform?
A: Right now we’re going to keep both. But we are going to be testing.
Q: How are you going to expand in terms of resourcing?
A: Right now, we have a freelance person that’s doing the content creation and the resourcing.
Q: So you said 830 employees, right now. How has it been rolled out? Do you have sense of a goal milestone for that?
A: We’re limited by the number of licenses. So not beyond that. But we’re on track right now. We started with creative engagement from TEDx incubator type of stuff.