A Strategy for Managing Social Media Proliferation

Research Report: A Strategy for Managing Social Media Proliferation

Author: Jeremiah Owyang

Publication Date: January 5, 2012

Overview

Get account control now –or risk a career of continual social media sanitation. To match the growing consumer adoption of social media, many companies have launched social media efforts with little planning. As social media spreads beyond corporate communications and marketing, business groups are deploying social media without a standardized process. In fact, enterprise class corporations (those with over 1,000 employees) have an average of 178 social media accounts and this number will only grow if left unchecked. Companies that don’t control these accounts are at risk of having abandoned accounts, lack of consistent experience, or untrained employees creating a crisis.

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Jeremiah Owyang. “Buyers Guide: A Strategy for Managing Social Media Proliferation“. The Altimeter Blog. January 6, 2012.

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