
35 Examples of Corporate Social Media - via Mashable
- Blendtec
- Adobe
maintains a list of interesting company related websites and conversations on the social bookmarking site Delicious.
- Best Western
sponsors a blog,“On the Go with Amy,” where the author travels the country writing about her experiences.
- Cadence
recently relaunched its website that now prominently promotes the company’s community.
- Cisco
hosts 12 blogs addressing a variety of audiences for their global business.
- Coca-Cola Conversations
is a blog written by company historian Phil Mooney that focuses on Coke collectibles
- Dell
leverages a variety of social media platforms for customer engagement, including an island in the virtual world of Second Life.
- Ford
publishes news releases with lots of multimedia content and employs a social media news release format to display them in their newsroom.
- Fujifilm
recently launched a social network to build a community of photo enthusiasts around its newest camera.
- GM
uses blogs to communicate directly with its customers around topics ranging from design to green tech.
- H&R Block
created a Facebook fan site to aggregate its social media activities, engage customers and offer tax advice/resources.
- HP
used Twitter to power a scavenger hunt at a recent conference.
- HSBC
built the HSBC Business Network to connect entrepreneurs using blogs, videos and forums.
- IBM
was the first large enterprise to embrace employee blogging and now boasts thousands of blogs related to every facet of its business.
- Intel
has also developed many social media touch points with its software communities, which includes blogs, Twitter and virtual worlds.
- Intuit
sponsors the Tax Almanac wiki, where anyone can find and contribute to this resource for tax information.
- Jeep
connects with customers via a community page with links to photos on Flickr, the company’s MySpace and Facebook pages and a list enthusiast groups.
- JetBlue
employs social media as part of its training for JetBlue University, as this video explains.
- Johnson & Johnson
uses this blog to show another side of the company, with frequent video posts and interviews.
- Lenovo
launched “Voices of the Olympics Games” to aggregate posts from the athletes competing in Beijing.
- Marriott
CEO Bill Marriott posts regular updates and stories from his travels to Marriott properties around the world to fuel the content for this entertaining blog.
- McDonalds
maintains a blog to highlight the company’s corporate social responsibility efforts.
- National Geographic
uses Google’s new virtual world, Lively, to bring people together around its new show, LA Hard Hats.
- New York Times
is beta testing a Firefox add-on that allows users to share and comment on stories through a decentralized social network.
- Nike
started a social community on Loopd to connect athletes interested in surfing, BMX bike racing and similar activities with the brand.
- SAP
sponsored a global survey of social media professionals to learn more about social media worldwide.
- Sears
partnered with MTV to create a social network around Back to School shopping.
- Southwest Airlines
employees share their stories and communicate directly with customers through the “Nuts About Southwest” blog.
- Sun
CEO Jonathan Schwartz’s blog is the example most often cited for what the CEO blog can be.
- Starbucks started MyStarbucksIdea so that customers can submit ideas for the company which are then voted on by other users, the best of which will be implemented by the company.
- Toyota
started its own virtual world to promote its products in Japan (site is in Japanese).
- Visa
launched The Visa Business Network application on Facebook to connect small business users and to help them promote their businesses to a larger community.
- Wells-Fargo
blogs target two audiences; one examines the company’s history and the other is for students interested in getting their finances in order.
- WWE
has a Facebook application, among other social networking tools and widgets, to bring fans closer to the action.
- Xerox
blogs address several of the company’s core B2B constituencies.
- Zappos
uses Twitter for employees to communicate with Zappos customers about their shared love of footwear.

