PRESENTED BY: Todd Blecher, Communications/Social Media Director at Boeing
RECORDED AT: WordofMouth.org’s Crash Course conference in Austin, TX on May 10, 2012
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Below is live coverage from the presentation:
— “Why is Boeing using social media”?
— We are using it to raise brand awareness.
— “Text from Hillary” is based on a photo taken on a Boeing C-17.
— The founders road the wave of popularity to great success.
— Bruce Springsteen has E Street nation as a crowd engagement network.
— Bruce loves his audience. When performs he crowd surfs and chugs beers with fans.
— When you trust your fans that creates great word of mouth.
— Treat community members as partners.
— PR and marketing need to work together.
— One of the 787 test flights was flown in a pattern of the numbers 787 and the Boeing logo.
— This was not announced, but discovered on FlightAware.
— It got over 10,000 recommends online five days later, and got in the New York Times.
Q&A:
Q: Does Boeing do any outreach in the community or with education groups?
A: We do, but we need to do it more. We participate in STEM, but we haven’t a good job giving them access to more of our engineers.
Q: How do you determine what content is interesting to your audience?
A: They tell us. They like to see a lot of planes and pictures. One of the most successful post was a picture of a security dog in a seat on the 787. Earth day posts and working in developing countries are items we want to get out, but they get very little attention.
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