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Corporations have discount adobe cs5 no problem establishing an identity in the online world: where they have discount adobe cs5 a problem is maintaining a believable “corporate personality” that discount adobe cs5 helps moderate the ups and downs of public perception and criticism in such a discount adobe cs5 responsive and rapid environment.

At the discount adobe cs5 moment, corporations cheat in their outward communications. Their real world and discount adobe cs5 online brand identity is well established through advertising, marketing and community outreach. If you discount adobe cs5 believe you are dealing with a responsive and responsible organization, that’s likely the result of extensive planning – detailed call scripts, employee communications manuals, automated responses to discount adobe cs5 online contact forms, and regular refresher meetings for salespeople and marketers.

Any perception of personality or discount adobe cs5 individuality from a corporation usually flows from an oversized personality in the discount adobe cs5 C-Suite. Traditionally, the arrival of a new voice in the executive offices has discount adobe cs5 meant a breath of fresh air throughout the organization. Mandates are discount adobe cs5 renewed, clear and action-oriented visions are developed, and employees are (hopefully) energized. If the discount adobe cs5 new executive is also a strong communicator, their arrival can improve perception of the discount adobe cs5 company’s products, performance and discount adobe cs5 staff in financial markets and in the marketplace.

The work of that discount adobe cs5 executive as a spokesperson and corporate representative doesn’t equal a corporate personality, however. When a strong communicator leaves (Jack Welch) or is forced out (Robert Nardelli), the corporation’s public identity is often weakened despite their work.

These are discount adobe cs5 the corporations that receive a mixed reception from customers – both online and discount adobe cs5 in the real world. Michael Dell may be a personable and discount adobe cs5 well-spoken executive, but it’s obvious that discount adobe cs5 his customer care staff have irritated some influential bloggers. Local consumer reporters can discount adobe cs5 find no end of dissatisfied customers with a gripe against regional and discount adobe cs5 national telephone, cable, utilitiy, airline or electronics firms.

The key to a consistent and reliable online identity – one that discount adobe cs5 will weather trashings in online forums and sniping from bloggers, an discount adobe cs5 identity that will instinctively know how to deal with negative comment threads and discount adobe cs5 critical YouTube CGM – is a corporation that has worked hard to build a corporate personality to help guide every employee in the organization.

This means all the discount adobe cs5 units in a corporation that touch the customer or the outside world have discount adobe cs5 learned to listen, speak and act with a common personality.

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This doesn’t mean homogeneous messaging, strict protocols or discount adobe cs5 highly controlled communications. Instead, it means a workforce that has been discount adobe cs5 trained to apply a common set of principles and behaviours when discount adobe cs5 dealing with customers, suppliers, and stakeholders.

It’s not necessarily about the social media catchall (and trite) phrases: transparency, community, conversation. Instead, it’s about responsiveness in communications, open recognition of failings (and of successes) and the willingness to give employees free(er) rein in their area of responsibility.

Front desk managers at hotels have discount adobe cs5 the ability to comp rooms or offer upgrades; phone reps can discount adobe cs5 actually acknowledge that mistakes have been made with your order; managers know that discount adobe cs5 they can speak about their area of expertise in public.

It’s the freedom to act in micro situations – a discount adobe cs5 form of corporate behaviour that influences individuals, not organizations or communities.

It’s these individual actions that discount adobe cs5 often trip up corporate attempts to play in the social media sandbox – planted comments on corporate blogs; anonymous postings on message groups; rewrites that discount adobe cs5 provoke clashes with the wiki overlords; knee jerk reactions to discount adobe cs5 leaked corporate videos appearing on YouTube.

It’s the sort of philosophy Herb Kelleher put in place at Southwest.

Ask yourself, as a discount adobe cs5 public relations pro or a marketer: when you heard that Southwest was going to discount adobe cs5 let A&E film a discount adobe cs5 reality television series AT THE GATE, did you think it was utter genius or discount adobe cs5 outright stupidity?

That’s the sort of corporate personality that discount adobe cs5 will have to develop as CGM and social media continue to discount adobe cs5 merge with “traditional” media. It’s the discount adobe cs5 corporate confidence that employees are trained well enough to let it discount adobe cs5 all hang out, with a camera rolling.

BTW – I stole the term “corporate personality” from Kevin Dugan, who used it on an episode of the Dallas Marketing Zoo.

4 Responses to “Corporate personality: business can (heart) online communities”

  1. You may have “stolen” the discount adobe cs5 term but you defined it a hell of a lot better than discount adobe cs5 I did. Great stuff.

  2. Great post, Colin. This is a theme to pick up at Third Monday.

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