1. It’s the People, Stupid
The art of social engagement
ConnectNow Sydney APril 2010
Deborah Schultz
Altimeter Group
www.deborahschultz.com
http://www.flickr.com/photos/98469445@N00/299313394/
2. A little about me
‣Grew up on the web
‣Former Web designer
‣Partial geek [alas, I don’t code]
‣“Translator” [between businesses
& geeks
‣Slash queen [Digital ethnographer/
Customer Advocate/Connector/
Tummler]
‣Passionate experimenter
‣Formal work
‣ Partner, Altimeter Group
‣ P&G Advisor, Social & Emerging
Media
13. They come to your aid when you least expect
em in weird and wonderful ways
14. Think of it as
relationship bricolage
“Bricolage is what tinkers do-
collecting odd bits of stuff they
think may be potentially useful,
then using whatever bits seem
to work in the context of some
later repair job. Simple. And yet
profound. Because the bits the
bricoleur ends up using were not
designed for the use they end
up being put to”.
Chris Locke
15. You never know which of your online contacts
can impact you when and how
17. We are organic and social We bring these behaviors with us
online
18. The Flickrverse
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gustavog/9708628/in/set-222111/
The Internet is enabling conversations among human beings that were simply not possible
in the era of mass media [thesis 6 -cluetrain manifesto]
19. anyone know a a nice
Where can I find a
quiet restaurant in NYC?
quiet restaurant in
Sydney? deb, get an LG HD
best place to get a
drink around here?
deb, it’s john thanks for
email on new features
The Social Web sent to dev team
An explosion of the
personal
woot - we launched!
John - when you
guys launching your
new API?
31. We live again in a
relationship economy
Transactions are the by-products of
healthy relationships. The global economy
is shifting from a mass media, consumer
mass-marketing model to one that is far more
emergent and decentralized. The involuntary
loyalty of "sticky" services is falling victim to
the far preferable voluntary loyalty won
through responsiveness, quality, excellent
service, reliability and trustworthiness.
-Jerry Michalski
32. The Forces at Work
‣ Live Web - 24/7
‣ Decentralized lives
‣ Democratization of tools
‣ Velocity of information
‣ Media fragmentation
‣ Empowered individuals
‣ Human Beings
http://www.flickr.com/photos/44799719@N00/330191406/
38. OK, so where’s the
manual?
Umm – there isn’t one …
http://www.flickr.com/photos/98469445@N00/299313394/
39. The participatory web requires both new design
thinking and a renewed focus on human skills
and behavior
40. New framework for a
new social web
‣ Organic vs Static
‣ Emotion vs Data
‣ Relationship vs Transaction
‣ Continuum vs Grand
Gesture
‣ Intention vs Attention
Jump in!
41. Tummler/Tummling
an entertainer or master of ceremonies, especially one who encourages audience
interaction (from Yiddish tumler, from tumlen 'make a racket'; cf. German (sich) tummeln
'go among people, cavort')
NOUN: 1. One, such as a social director or entertainer, who encourages guest or
audience participation. 2. One who incites others to action.
ETYMOLOGY: Yiddish tumler, from tumlen, to make a racket.
Learn more at tummelvision.tv
61. Some Practical Steps
‣ Think like a sociologist or
ethnographer
‣ Be an observer first
‣ Join the lives of people vs.
interrupting them
‣ Find a 'place' in the 'community'
you are designing - be a part of it
‣ Help users participate
‣ Stand for something & offer value
‣ The love you give is equal to the
love you get
‣ Think constancy not episodic
‣ Experiment: Listen. Rinse. Repeat
http://www.flickr.com/photos/gordonr/42555739/
62. Thanks
Find me on the web
Innovation/Labs/Consulting
www.altimetergroup,com
deb@altimetergroup.com
Etcetera
@debs
deborahschultz@gmail.com
www.deborahschultz.com
slideshare.net/debs
Notas del editor
post OZ ideas - add play, ethics, intention
Good morning - Normally my rule of thumb is to never start a preso with a slide about me BUT considering that this talk is all about bringing the social online - it is only fair that it is proper social etiquette to formally introducing myself.
I’ve played in a lot of corners of the web.
Currently,
How many of you are developers?
How many of you are designers?
Who did I leave out?
This talk is about designing for social - in order to do this we need to take a look at who we are and and how technology and the web has impacted our connectedness. I often give this talk to business folks and I realize many of you live this world of connectedness like i do - but i think it is important to take a step back - like matt did yesterday - and get some perspective
we are inherently social animals - if not we would probably not all be here today...we could sit at home and sign up for a webinar
we socialized and did business with those who existed in the same physical space as we did - we knew them - we had small tribes - of family and neighbors
Matt spoke yesterday of Levittown - and the sense of anomie and break down of social fabric thanks to the development of suburbia and the loss of the physical commons - or town square.
We are living through a fork in the web - where there is now a separation of the information web from the relationship web, one data driven, one social - in this social web - with a nod to the great Marshall McLuhan the medium in the relationship
Ambient intimacy – love this meme - lisa reichelts
It is borrowed from the French word bricolage, from the verb bricoler... the core meaning in French being, ..."fiddle, tinker" and, by extension, "make creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are to hand (regardless of their original purpose)".
Bricolage as a design approach – in the sense of building by trial and error – is often contrasted to engineering: theory-based construction.
A person who engages in bricolage is a bricoleur: someone who invents his or her own strategies for using existing materials in a creative, resourceful, and original way.
“Bricolage is what tinkers do-collecting odd bits of stuff they think may be potentially useful, then using whatever bits seem to work in the context of some later repair job. Simple. And yet profound. Because the bits the bricoleur ends up using were not designed for the use they end up being put to.
- Chris Locke
Thesis 9 These networked conversations are enabling powerful new forms of social organization and knowledge exchange to emerge.
Thesis 10 As a result, markets are getting smarter, more informed, more organized. Participation in a networked market changes people fundamentally.
And I would even argue many sites pretend to be about social but are often very static - heck we still call them web “pages”
We have this! Flickr is not about photos it is about relationships and events and memory
Now along comes the social web to really make things interesting. Social Media is a 24/7 stream of subtle personal small online gestures. It is an explosion of a constant continuum of the personal. You know the power and value of this connectedness. I can get online and reach out across this ‘flat universe” and connect and find and relate and listen and play and share with a click – when and how I choose. We weave between and around the networks in our lives. The bits and bytes are now very personal.
Not about a viral video...or a blog....or a facebook app...or social media....or community
It is about your business your product and your customers How, when and where they are receptive to you
[and it better work, be easy to understand and add value to my life]
This is an old slide- but I kinda like it for the nostaliga
Q: OK - anyone know who said this? A: David Weinberger
“somewhere along the way, markets, what we do together, became marketing, what we do to other people.”
Exactly. Just because markets are conversations doesn’t mean that marketing is.
Marketing has to change. It has to recognize that market conversations are now the best source of information about companies and their products and services. It has to recognize that those conversations are not themselves marketing — you and me talking about whether we like our new digital cameras is not you and me marketing to each another. Neither is our conversation a “marketing opportunity.” But the temptation to see it as such is well nigh impossible for most marketers to resist.
Fortunately, the people leading the thinking about this generally do honor the conversation as the thing that must be preserved. How the meme gets taken up, however, should worry us. We need to help marketers resist their deeply bred urges. We need to make preserving the integrity of the conversation as central a marketing tenet as is not lying about product specs or prices.
What’s really changed about relationship – is that over the last two years we have a culture of sharing that we were not able to easily do before – you as a brand need to be more open, sharing, out there and be comfortable with that and most brands are not
It is the grease that keeps the internet running
The world we live in today is a blend of the grand and the personal; The episodic and the continuum; The atom and the bits; The binary and the blurry; How these two “modes” work together.
If we are now hyperconnected on the LiveWeb. We operate in a new relationship economy. Grand gestures represent an old model, the metaphor would be “ignore me ignore me ignore me - flowers on Valentine’s Day, ignore me, ignore me, ignore me - Superbowl Ad.
We have to design our online experiences to reflect the social relationship driven nature of this new economy. Death to Grand Gestures.
The implication of the death of the grand gesture for business is that this alters the way we connect with customers and market, now we need to communicate everywhere all the time, it's not the 2 product launches per year model anymore, or silence and then big launch – it’s a continuum punctuated with episodic
If we are now hyper-connected on the LiveWeb and operate in this renewed relationship economy - this means an end to the importance of Grand Gestures. Grand Genstures represent an old model, the metaphor would be “ignore me ignore me ignore me - flowers on Valentine’s Day, ignore me, ignore me, ignore me - Superbowl Ad. We have to design our online experiences to reflect the social relationship driven nature of this new economy.
The world we live in today is a blend of the grand and the personal; The episodic and the continuum; The atom and the bits; The binary and the blurry; How these two “modes” work together.
Time horizons accelerated - expectation is that when something goes wrong you are there
IN my mind all the media planners and buyers will be turned outword and not jsut given “dashboards on which to passively monitor behavior - but a cockpit where they can respond and reflect and create in ever move customized and personal ways - see trends and patterns in the marketplace and build to them
where the social - of the way past - now infuses itself into the web.
“somewhere along the way, markets, what we do together, became marketing, what we do to other people.”
Exactly. Just because markets are conversations doesn’t mean that marketing is.
Marketing has to change. It has to recognize that market conversations are now the best source of information about companies and their products and services. It has to recognize that those conversations are not themselves marketing — you and me talking about whether we like our new digital cameras is not you and me marketing to each another. Neither is our conversation a “marketing opportunity.” But the temptation to see it as such is well nigh impossible for most marketers to resist.
Fortunately, the people leading the thinking about this generally do honor the conversation as the thing that must be preserved. How the meme gets taken up, however, should worry us. We need to help marketers resist their deeply bred urges. We need to make preserving the integrity of the conversation as central a marketing tenet as is not lying about product specs or prices.
Photo: Hinke
http://www.flickr.com/photos/amagill/180202581/
When communications are too wide and generic, they will be filtered. They will not reach people.
Relevancy is decreasing - Mass Media - People are less receptive, narrowing filters
TV is no longer the tribal fire, prime time ratings have been declining consistently.
As if it wasn’t hard enough, ad blocking (through time-shifting) devices add to the challenge.
robert terrell
From the customer’s POV - we are not elusuve we are annoyed.
“consumers are increasingly more elusive/sophisticated” say marketers.
This says more about marketers than about consumers, it’s like saying a girl who doesn’t call you back is elusive. Face it pal, she’s not interested.
As with our “offline” relationships - every situation is a bit different. The assumptions we have all worked under are not going to really work - heck we are still calling domains web pages - are they pages? We are using old metaphors for new stuff
The good news is that with the right learning and experimenting mindset we have some basic frameworks to keep in mind.
This is early days - the social web is an adolescent. As we move more and more from the data driven web to the social & participatory driven web - the softer social skills of the connector are in demand & needed.
If we now have access to content and contacts - what kind of filters, frameworks and skills do we need to connect these dots and be truly useful?
ORGANICwe still refer to them as pages - but isnt the web more an ecosystem of immersive experiences (MMORPGS, Virtual Worlds), communication technologies (wireless, presence), content (audio, video, text, images), social networks, sharing and syndication. Its a weave of technologies and platforms that go far beyond just having a website. Its a patchwork quilt that combines the stories and channels to create experiences for the user.
EMOTION - we all know that irony is really lost on the web - how can we infuse emotion into our experiences
RELATIONSHIP - relationships take time - they have legs - i think of google as the long tale of reputation
CONTINUUM -
Markets consist of human beings, not demographic sectors.
So - here is a little sample demonstration - hopefully it will
I will stay in touch
Also notice that flickr tells me I have learned something new
You have all this great data - USE IT
this entire page is filled with data that is interesting and about me
make the ephemeral relevant again
Can you imagine that 40,000 'youtube' clips are generated everyday! That the top 5 fastest growing brands in 2006 all have user generated sites! How well do we understand this 'new world' where the audiences own the space and where they are taking control?
1. Join the Lives of consumers vs. interrupting them:
In the Nike Chain, the brand moves from being a speaker to being a facilitator of the message of the global movement for beautiful football.
2. It's all about finding a 'place' in the 'community':
Nike Chain has submissions from all over the world from all age/sex groups. What they share in common is being a 'community' of football lovers who want to create against ugly football by proudly 'showing' their moves and 'playing beautifully'. What Nike ensures is 'consumers become the voice'.
3. Help consumers to create content within your equity and campaign:
Nike's equity is to bring inspiration and innovation to every athlete in the world - you are an athlete if you have a body!' Their goal is i. to create performance opportunities for everyone who would benefit and ii. to offer empowering messages for everyone who would listen. The Chain idea perfectly stems from these equities and brings them to life. It sets the platform for everyday athletes to perform. It empowers them by recognizing the 'beautiful football' they play and shares it with others. Having the names and nationalities of the players while they are making their moves reward the players.
4. Finally don’t be afraid to lose/share control:
They make fakes of it ('when the chain goes wrong!), they post their own moves in youtube, they play around with the idea/execution, they talk about it, and they criticize it and all its 'mutations'.