{"id":466,"date":"2010-04-20T17:31:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/?p=466"},"modified":"2010-04-20T17:31:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T17:31:57","slug":"how-ford-uses-social-media-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/how-ford-uses-social-media-video\/","title":{"rendered":"How Ford Uses Social Media [VIDEO]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of giving away too much of what we do (not really &#8211; everything we do in social media is in the public, so you just need to pay attention or search around to find out), I&#8217;d like to share with you a little bit about Ford Motor Company&#8217;s approach to social media.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a great video that WebPro News did when we were at Blog World Expo last October. It captures a lot of what Ford is doing in the space.<\/p>\n<p><embed src='http:\/\/videos.webpronews.com\/video\/jwplayer\/player.swf' height='282' width='475' allowscriptaccess='always' allowfullscreen='true' flashvars='&#038;bandwidth=3052&#038;dock=false&#038;file=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fplaylist.php%3Fmovie_name%3Dbw09_smonty&#038;linktarget=_self&#038;plugins=yourlytics-1%2Cviral-2&#038;repeat=false&#038;screencolor=0x000000&#038;viral.onpause=true&#038;yourlytics.callback=http%3A%2F%2Fvideos.webpronews.com%2Fvideo%2Fanalytics.php&#038;yourlytics.height=258&#038;yourlytics.visible=true&#038;yourlytics.width=475&#038;yourlytics.x=0&#038;yourlytics.y=0'\/><\/p>\n<p>I keep a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profilactic.com\/clippings\/scottmonty?action=filter&#038;filterTagId=6353\">clipsheet of coverage of our social media efforts<\/a> (using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profilactic.com\/\">Profilactic<\/a>), which is helpful when speaking to reporters or digital media and they&#8217;re looking for examples of how our work has resonated. I simply refer them to our links and they can sort through the filters to find what they&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n<p>On his blog, Jeff Bullas gave away <a href=\"http:\/\/jeffbullas.com\/2010\/02\/18\/the-7-secrets-to-fords-social-media-marketing-success\/\">The 7 Secrets to Ford&#8217;s Social Media Marketing Success<\/a> last month. There are some great takeaways there for any company that&#8217;s interested in social media and some that are specific to Ford and our efforts. And Slate.com&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thebigmoney.com\/blogs\/c-tweet\/2010\/01\/19\/fords-social-fiesta\">The Big Money<\/a> covered the success we&#8217;ve seen from the first wave of the Fiesta Movement.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re working on a lot more &#8211; notably <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiestamovement2.com\/\">Chapter 2 of the Fiesta Movement<\/a>, in which there are 20 teams of two in 16 cities across the country, creating mini marketing campaigns through social media as well as offline events and media. And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediapost.com\/?fa=Articles.showArticle&#038;art_aid=120380&#038;nid=109781\">our social media strategy is global<\/a>, reflecting the growing interest from many areas around the company and around the world.<\/p>\n<p>And we maintain profiles on a number of social networks, including profiles on Twitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ford\">@Ford<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fordcustservice\">@FordCustService<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fordfiesta\">@FordFiesta<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fordautoshows\">@FordAutoShows<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fordlatino\">@FordLatino<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fordeu\">@FordEU<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/fordapa\">@FordAPA<\/a> and more. In addition, we&#8217;ve got some employees on Twitter. You can find the full list at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottMonty\/ford\">http:\/\/twitter.com\/ScottMonty\/ford<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We also have a number of Facebook pages, the most prominent of which are <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/ford\">Ford<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/fordmustang\">Mustang<\/a>. All of our pages are favorited on the Ford page, so you can pick which ones you&#8217;d like to become a fan of.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scottmonty.com\/uploaded_images\/forddotcom-FindFord-747457.png\" alt=\"ford\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In addition, we&#8217;re active on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/fordmotorcompany\">Flickr<\/a> for photo sharing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/ford\">YouTube<\/a> for videos, <a href=\"http:\/\/plancast.com\/ford\">Plancast<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/upcoming.yahoo.com\/user\/692359\/\">Upcoming<\/a> for events, <a href=\"http:\/\/delicious.com\/FoMoCo\">Delicious<\/a> for public bookmarking, and <a href=\"http:\/\/scribd.com\/FordMotorCompany\">Scribd<\/a> for document sharing (where we&#8217;re the #5 most followed profile). And if you&#8217;re ever in doubt where to find us, you can see our profiles on the front of <a href=\"http:\/\/ford.com\/\">Ford.com<\/a> or on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefordstory.com\/follow-the-story\/\">The Ford Story<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of stuff going on right now that&#8217;s keeping us really busy. Just thought you&#8217;d like a window into what some of it is and why we&#8217;re doing it.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Monty<\/p>\n<p>Disclosure: <a href=\"http:\/\/cmp.ly\/4\">http:\/\/cmp.ly\/4<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of giving away too much of what we do (not really &#8211; everything we do in social media is in the public, so you just need to pay attention or search around to find out), I&#8217;d like to share with you a little bit about Ford Motor Company&#8217;s approach to social media. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/how-ford-uses-social-media-video\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[137,294],"tags":[296,297,298,63,299,30,295,255],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-scottmonty","tag-approach","tag-digital-media","tag-fiesta","tag-ford","tag-mustang","tag-social-media","tag-uses","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":492,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesocialcmo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}