"Five questions you can ask your community anytime
1. What would you like to see more of in this community?
2. Who are you inspired by most.
3. Where is the most interesting place you’ve used our product?
4. When did you first use our service?
5. Why do you like this page?"

— D. Kerpen in Likeable Social Media - How to Delight Your Customers, Create and Irresistible Brand, and Be Amazing on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedlin, Instagram, Pinterest, and More

"Central to the company’s turnaround, its subsequent success, was Harley’s commitment to building a brand community: a group of ardent consumers organised around the lifestyle, activities, and ethos of the brand"

— S. Fournier and L. Lee about Harley-Davidson in Getting Brand Communities Right (HBR On Strategy Marketing)

"In a digital world driven by social media, experiences will be your next differentiating edge and the efficiency driven leadership style of today will not be able to cope in creating those. To succeed you need a leadership style that celebrates creativity across your entire company, you need design thinking"

— C. Holloman in The Social Media MBA — Your Competitive Edge in Social Media Strategy Development & Delivery

How to measure your organisation social media impact?
Social media space and popularity metrics are not necessarily what you want to spend a lot of time and energy on.
Especially when the value of a follower is almost zero, if the follower does not...

How to measure your organisation social media impact?

Social media space and popularity metrics are not necessarily what you want to spend a lot of time and energy on.
Especially when the value of a follower is almost zero, if the follower does not help you meet your communication objectives.
That is why measurement, analysis, and reporting need to be always taken in their context.

Still, to be effective a social media programme must be measurable. But it should be done conforming with the objectives and targets it aims to influence.

There are four pillars of a social media measurement: monitoring, measurement, analysis, and reporting.

1) The monitoring means listening with purpose, which gives to your data value.

2) The measurement represents quantifying relevant data.

3) The analysis is the interpretation of the gathered data and the amount of insights you draw from it.
The analysis allows your social media team to see where must focus its efforts further.

4) The reporting must be efficient, timely, precise, and to the point.
It delivers not only the data but contextual actionable insights on the path to attain your objectives.

Interested in building your social media programme or creating measurement practices for your social media programme?

Based in Brussels, Page in extremis is a communication agency that makes brands conversational. We help organisations manage their communities, engage with their stakeholders and convey their messages through social media.

For more information:
www.inextremisdigital.be and www.inextremis.be

Which structure should you best implement for your social media programme?
Mainly two types of structures are competing: the centralised model versus the decentralised!
Each model has its own strengths and weaknesses.
When you develop the structure...

Which structure should you best implement for your social media programme?
Mainly two types of structures are competing: the centralised model versus the decentralised!

Each model has its own strengths and weaknesses.
When you develop the structure of your social media programme, you need to consider which type of model matches best your organisation’s needs and culture.

In a centralised model, a central entity, called “the hub”, creates the message, the content, the strategy and makes all the decisions for the entire social media programme.

Advantages:
- a complete control over the message and the content,
- a complete control over the execution of the programme,
- collaboration is easier.

Disadvantages:
- a tendency to become bureaucratic,
- it encourages a “corporate style” instead of creating human connections.

In the scenario of the decentralised model, the central hub it is joined by multiple satellites that can also create their own specific messages and content.

Advantages:
- topics are driven by direct initiative,
- the team that feeds the discussion brings deep insights,
- it brings competency in the discussed field,
- a convenient friendly tone it is used.

Disadvantages:
- the control is more difficult,
- there is a risk of ineffective scatter.

Whatever your choice may be, your social media programme must be carefully installed.
Interested by implementing a social media programme in your organisation? Email us: mailto:digital@inextremis.be

Based in Brussels, Page in extremis is a communication agency that makes brands conversational. We help organisations manage their communities, engage with their stakeholders and convey their messages through social media.

For more information:
http://www.inextremisdigital.be
http://www.inextremisdigital.eu
http://www.inextremis.be

"On the YouTube One Channel layout, you can show a trailer that will only appear (and autoplay!) to people who are not already subscribed to your channel. This is the perfect chance for you to let viewers know what your channel is all about and tell them why they should subscribe. Keep it short and to the point, eye-catching - and include a clear call to action, inviting your audience to subscribe"

— A. Macarthy in 500 Social Media Marketing Tips

"Beyond the social networks, are there particular forums or online communities that your audience frequents? Where do they get the information they need to solve a problem they have? Take the time and find out because those are the places you want to be"

— N. Smith in Successful Social Media Marketing

"One of the most effective ways to influence social media users into connecting with you on social media is to position your brand as an authority — a source that they can trust and respect, and with whom they can rely on for the information or experience they desire. One of the best ways to do this is to dig into the problems you solve and demonstrate your expertise"

— A. Macarthy in 500 Social Media Marketing tips — Essential advice & strategy for business

"Clearly, social media is working only for individuals or small groups. To make social media work for the entire company, there must be a coordinated effort from the development of the content to how the information is shared"

— D. K. Breackenridge in Social Media and Public Relations — Eight new practises for the PR Professional 

A brand’s image can be severely impacted by a multitude of online conversations resulting from a single insipid incident.
Fortunately, by the same token, a brand can be refreshed (or even rebuilt) through an effective and well-managed use of social...

A brand’s image can be severely impacted by a multitude of online conversations resulting from a single insipid incident.

Fortunately, by the same token, a brand can be refreshed (or even rebuilt) through an effective and well-managed use of social media.

Nowadays, It is almost unthinkable to have a social media program without some sort of digital Brand management role embedded into it.

The role of the digital Brand management consists of four principal functions:
- Representing an organisation online,
- Being the voice of the “community” inside the organisation,
- Mediating online debates,
- Keeping contents fresh and interesting.

Create a digital brand management practice consists of developing a communications infrastructure that can deal with the growing breadth of media channels used by both the organisation and the public to communicate with each other.

Located in Brussels, the communication agency, Page in extremis help you develop your social media as a way to protect and strenghten your brand—and set up your social media programme accordingly.

Page in extremis is a strategic communication agency. We build brands and we strengthen reputations of leading institutions, European associations and international corporations.

Source: http://www.inextremis.be

"Like branding, of which messaging is part, how you talk about your organization and programs requires dedication and consistency. Consistent messaging is the heart of System Marketing"

— B. Delaney’s in Nonprofit Marketing Handbook — A hands on guide to marketing & communications in nonprofit organizations

"As well as Knowledge Graphs and news articles, Google favours social media updates that are popular in its top search rankings. It is a good position, albeit only temporary, that you can get to by making sure all your posts are fully optimized"

— M. J. Brown in Social Media Marketing

"Remember the golden rule of providing real value to your followers and you’d do well on any social network"

— M. J. Brown in Social Media Marketing — How to build and execute your own social media strategy