{"id":1903,"date":"2010-06-11T14:01:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T14:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1903"},"modified":"2013-04-23T23:08:47","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T22:08:47","slug":"why-ceos-dont-blogtweet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/06\/why-ceos-dont-blogtweet.htm","title":{"rendered":"Why CEOs don&#8217;t blog\/tweet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/markwilsonit\/status\/15842641790\">I tweeted<\/a> about a Harvard Business Review article\u00a0published by Bloomberg that asks <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/harvardbusiness?sid=H3be5d371e200661cd3b451d68f56d135\">&#8220;Is the typical CIO a &#8216;Gear Guy?'&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0and it\u00a0reminded me to post something about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shimmin.biz\/\">Rob Shimmin<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0talk on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/KerryatDell\/rob-shimmin-why-cios-dont-tweet\">&#8220;Why CEOs don&#8217;t tweet&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0at last month&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2010\/05\/highlights-from-the-second-dell-b2b-social-media-huddle-dellb2b.htm\">Dell B2B Social Media Huddle (#dellb2b)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was a fascinating talk and I hope Rob won&#8217;t mind me sharing the key points in this post.<\/p>\n<h3>Setting the scene<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Very few CEOs blog or tweet (and even fewer in the B2B world).<\/li>\n<li>All CEOs are good communicators but their skills may vary according to where\/how they are communicating (face to face, auditorium, etc.)\u00a0 Your CEO may be nervous in front of some audiences &#8211; so look at them and see where they fit.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Should a CEO communicate using social media?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Maybe not? Some CEOs have unbelievable restrictions on what they can say and their message may be scrubbed clean until the point where the content is not that useful.\u00a0 One example is Jonathan Schwartz (former CEO of Sun Microsystems), whose current blog is titled <a href=\"http:\/\/jonathanischwartz.wordpress.com\/\">&#8220;What I couldn&#8217;t say&#8230;&#8221;<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The primary reason that CEOs don&#8217;t blog or tweet is time.\u00a0Use of social media\u00a0needs to be transparent and, if a blog is ghost written, then it&#8217;s important to say so.\u00a0 Rob spoke of how some CEOs sits down with the guys who write their posts at 8am each\u00a0day and tell them what they are thinking.\u00a0 Others want to write for themselves but it&#8217;s difficult to switch someone from &#8220;command and control&#8221; mode to\u00a0&#8220;talking through a keyboard&#8221; (unfiltered).<\/li>\n<li>Permanence is another consideration (<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.loc.gov\/loc\/2010\/04\/how-tweet-it-is-library-acquires-entire-twitter-archive\/\">the United States Library of Congress is cataloging all tweets<\/a>) &#8211; 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look at the reach of various social networking platforms &#8211; although it&#8217;s important to consider richness, not just reach).<\/li>\n<li>Powerful channel (recognising that social media can play in important role in communicating with both customers and employees).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Using social media for B2B crisis management<\/h3>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Seeing a CEO grapple with social media can be a bit like seeing your Dad dance at your wedding with baseball camp on backwards!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[source unknown]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>A crisis isn&#8217;t the time to launch a social media presence &#8211; the CEO&#8217;s message can be passed out through existing channels and other (often younger) more, technologically-savvy people in the organisation can get the CEO to comment through their blogs.<\/li>\n<li>In a crisis, suddenly everything is watched and old, previously uninteresting content becomes interesting (so, because of permanence, it&#8217;s important to future-proof the message).<\/li>\n<li>Some CEOs will take well to social media, whilst others are not so comfortable &#8211; it&#8217;s important to play to your CEO&#8217;s strong points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Social Media is on the B2B RADAR<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Social media can have a negative effect too &#8211; in the recent British Airways strike negotiations, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/uk\/article7134900.ece\">a senior Union leader provoked controversy by tweeting from the negotiation table<\/a> (and then compounded the issue by <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/dereksimpsonjgs\/status\/14635346168\">tweeting as he enjoyed himself at a football match<\/a>, whilst passengers were grounded by strikes).<\/li>\n<li>CEOs make mistakes like the rest of us but, if they have a good setup around them, they can survive; however CEOs are less likely to survive contention (particularly if old content\u00a0is surfaced\u00a0later) than &#8220;Jake from marketing aged 24&#8221; is when he tweets about suffering from a hangover.<\/li>\n<li>CEO use of social media should be about: earning trust; having an industry voice (building communities); monitoring issues (getting ready to react to consumer&#8217;s needs and concerns); talking to employees (listening too); driving innovation (encouraging idea sharing); and recruiting talent (leveraging connections).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>The top 10 challenges for Heads of Digital Communications (HDCs)<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Lack of understanding<\/li>\n<li>Loss of control<\/li>\n<li>Demographic apartheid<\/li>\n<li>Fragmentation of media<\/li>\n<li>Speed of change and response<\/li>\n<li>Rules of engagement<\/li>\n<li>Privacy and corporate security<\/li>\n<li>Finding good people<\/li>\n<li>Lack of effective metrics<\/li>\n<li>Ownership of digital<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>(From Watson Helsby Executive Search&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watsonhelsby.co.uk\/reports\/digital-communications-and-social-media.htm\">&#8220;Digital Communications and Social Media: the challenges facing the PR industry&#8221;<\/a>) &#8211; more quotes include:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.watsonhelsby.co.uk\/reports\/digital-communications-and-social-media.htm\"><p>&#8220;Under 30&#8217;s are the digital natives &#8211; but they lack the all-round communications skills, gravitas and credibility.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.watsonhelsby.co.uk\/reports\/digital-communications-and-social-media.htm\"><p>&#8220;Digital communications is a destabilising force in a bureaucratic environment.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.watsonhelsby.co.uk\/reports\/digital-communications-and-social-media.htm\"><p>&#8220;38% of HDCs were in favour of a total ban on social media in the office.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h3>Cornerstones for CEO communications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Consider all audiences &#8211; you can no longer speak to just one.<\/li>\n<li>Think before you speak &#8211; consider the &#8220;New York Times Test&#8221; (never write down anything you would be uncomfortable seeing\u00a0in tomorrow&#8217;s New York Times).<\/li>\n<li>Consider content rather than tone &#8211; strip away any negative tones and focus on the issue.<\/li>\n<li>Scope &#8211; decide early what&#8217;s in and out.<\/li>\n<li>Know your influencers &#8211; who must be reached in a crisis.<\/li>\n<li>Be honest, open and transparent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Credits<\/h3>\n<p>This post is based almost entirely on the presentation that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shimmin.biz\/\">Rob Shimmin<\/a>\u00a0(<a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/robshimmin\">@robshimmin<\/a>) gave at the Dell B2B Social Media Huddle &#8211;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/KerryatDell\/rob-shimmin-why-cios-dont-tweet\">the original deck is on Slideshare<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, I notice that, when Rob&#8217;s slides were uploaded to Slideshare, the title was changed to &#8220;Why CIOs don&#8217;t tweet&#8221; &#8211; that would be an entirely different discussion&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I tweeted about a Harvard Business Review article\u00a0published by Bloomberg that asks &#8220;Is the typical CIO a &#8216;Gear Guy?&#8217;&#8221;\u00a0and it\u00a0reminded me to post something about Rob Shimmin&#8216;s\u00a0talk on &#8220;Why CEOs don&#8217;t tweet&#8221;\u00a0at last month&#8217;s Dell B2B Social Media Huddle (#dellb2b). 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