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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

A slice of pizza, a chic sweater and a lot of transparency

Nicely nestled amidst a gathering of first time GGD attendees at Café Brodino’s, it was clear that Michelle Blanc’s topic of online transparency was timely. In fact, it sparked many secondary discussions related to the often-unclear concept of online transparency.

Michelle fielded questions such as: How far should you go? How much is enough or worse yet, not enough?

It’s obvious that the need for corporate transparency on the web is not a luxury and that reputation management is becoming an industry onto itself.

Michelle cited and distinguished between first-rate transparency efforts and of course, included the glaringly bad ones.

Here are some highlights from her presentation (thanks Michelle for your hard copy!):

Les internautes coincent les entreprises plus que jamais
  • les entreprises ne peuvent plus sous-estimer les internautes et leurs pouvoir de reconnaître la vérité
Le manque de transparence - c'est grave !
  • le cas de Dow Chemical qu'il ont "ajuster" des informations sur le déversement d'hydrocarbures Exxon Valdez sur le site Wikipedia
  • l'art du secrét est disparu pour toujours
  • le cauchmare de Dell concernant leur service à la clientele
La transparence et génération Y - ils savent qu'est ce qu'ils veulent !
  • 39 % des 18-24 ans américains considéront quitter leur emplois si l'entreprise bloque accès à Facebook et un autre 21 % seront dégoutés d'une telle pratique
La transparence communautaire - un résultat positif
  • 1993 - CISCO afficha tous les défauts (bugs) connus des ses logiciels et pièces d'équipments
  • 1995-2000 - les ventes de CISCO ont augmenté de 600 % mais les effectifs de support client n'ont que doublé
L'évolution du Marketing
  • version 1.0 - le branding et la création des premiers sites sur l'intérnet
  • version 1.5 - la segmentation et la personalization
  • version 2.0 - les conversations et les communautés
Confiance des consommateurs se trouve entre les amis et la famille
  • le "Word of Mouth" est maintenant un élément important au branding
Deux types de transparences
Les avantages de la transparence
Michelle also discussed the true definition of passion.

Passion:
  • Drives personal brand
  • Is rarely aligned with what is popular
  • Is hard to fake
  • Includes mistakes and failure
  • Means helping others recognize it
  • Requires work and thought
  • Is not a "me too" game
Passion is often linked to being true-to-yourself but an even larger piece of that is bringing something to the table. Michelle indicated that anyone can agree with a point of view but having the courage to oppose with substantiation is more valuable and is a further catalyst for growth.

Finally, Michelle spoke briefly about her pride and joy "Pourquoi bloguer dans un contexte d’affaires". Several key players in Web 2.0 such as, Tristan Péloquin, Marie-Chantale Turgeon, Claude Malaison, Mario Asselin, Sylvain Carle, Philippe Martin, Marc Snyder and Martin Ouellette contributed to the book which is available for purchase at: http://pourquoibloguer.com/

Thanks again to Michelle for a wonderful and informative presentation.

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