Even some of today’s most sophisticated social media suites lack the ability to establish a governance chain to ensure against such errors. It’s all too easy to “push the wrong button” and turn a personal post into a nightmare scenario for a client.
Motrin recently rolled out a campaign addressing the pain caused by carrying babies. A well-intentioned but ill-informed decision, which led to a Twitter revolt, complete with it’s own hash tag, #motrinmom. Motrin’s failure to respond to consumers online led to the story moving offline to the mainstream press.
As a prank, two Domino’s employees engaged in several health department violations, re- corded their activities and posted them to YouTube. The videos quickly “went viral” and consumers all over the web were exposed to Domino’s employees doing a variety of unseemly things to their pizza.
Managing your reputation isn’t what it used to be. It’s not about winning fistfights on the playground to protect your street credibility, or a business issuing carefully-worded media releases to spin stories about their latest foibles.
