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September 23, 2010
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Cheap, Fast, and
Out of Control
Social Media, Memes, and the Joys of Giving Up Control of Brands
September 23, 2010
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August 15, 1971
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The 7 Trends Changing Everything
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6. 5 The consumer is in control
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Atoms to Bits
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8. 7 Real-time to My time
“Mommy, why can’t I pause the TV?”
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The end of centralization
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The future is always on
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The end of the desktop
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Welcom
e
to the
global
convers
ation
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13. Prospect
Broadcast
Media
Telemarketing
Mobile
Web
Social Media
Email
Direct
Print
Mail
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What is “social media”
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Marshal McLuhan
“The medium is the message.”
Media: a technology that affects society not
by its content but by its characteristics.
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no “content”...
...but has social effect
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“media”
Sender information or data Receiver
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“mass media”
Receiver
or data
tion
rma
info
Sender information or data Receiver
info
rma
tion
or d
ata
Receiver
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social: the interaction of humans with other humans
media: technology used to store and deliver information or data
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social media
Participant
or data
n
rm atio
info
Participant information or data Participant
infor
mati
on o
r dat
a
Participant
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Social Media:
technologies that facilitate
interactions between humans
using information or data.
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26. 24 A (somewhat incomplete) Timeline of Social Media
not to scale
USENET
1979 listserv Napster flickr
1986 1999 2004
pneumatic post
1865
SecondLife
2003
postal service
Persia, 550BC
The Palace
radio ARPANET Wikipedia
1994 twitter
1891 1969 2001
The WELL Facebook 2006
1985 Friendster 2003
2002
@ MySpace YouTube
email
Third Voice 2003 2005
1966 BBS IRC 1999
1978 1988
telephone
del.icio.us
~1890
2003
telegraph
France, 1792 MUD1
Blogger
1978
1999
CompuServe MoveOn
1969 1998 digg
epinions 2004
1999
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Social Media & Communication
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source: http://belanger.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/the-ebb-and-flow-of-social-networking/
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source: Annenberg School Digital Futures Report 2007
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The point:
๏ They’re connected all the time
๏ They like to talk
๏ News spreads faster than ever
๏ They consume and create
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The point:
๏ They’re connected all the time
๏ They like to talk
๏ News spreads faster than ever
๏ They consume and create
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Multi-channel communicators
Source: Paul Adams http://www.slideshare.net/padday
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HOWEVER...
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Ages of Mobile Social Media Users
13-17 : 7%
18-24 : 16%
25-34 : 34%
35-54 : 36%
55-64 : 5%
65+ : 2%
source: Nielsen, December 2009
Facebook: It’s not “the kids”
•400 Million Active Users
•50% over 35
•26.8 under 24
•Older users stay longer
source: New York Times, March 2010
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How memes get made
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Memes
๏ units of cultural information
๏ cultural evolution or cultural diffusion
ins
wk e
๏ subject to natural selection Da en
ard sh G
R ich elfi
๏ variation Th e S 1976
๏ competition
๏ mutation
๏ it’s not survival of the fittest, it’s survival of fastest (those best able
to spread)
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Viral Transmission
Virus
Virus Host Virus
Virus
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TB Transmission
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High School Dating
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Graph of The Internet
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“The Tipping Point”
๏ “Hubs” Malcolm Gladwell
๏ “Superconnectors”
๏ “Influentials”
๏ Viral media based on the theory that a few important people in a
network can accelerate transmission and acceptance of an idea.
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One-to-one
Duncan Watts
๏ Memes take hold because culture is ready
๏ Six degrees of separation true, but connectors not important
๏ People influence others around them
๏ Anybody is just as likely to launch a trend as anyone else
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Source: Paul Adams http://www.slideshare.net/padday
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Source: Paul Adams http://www.slideshare.net/padday
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vs.
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vs.
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Out of control
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Out of control
๏ You can’t control this. Period. Get over it.
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Out of control
๏ You can’t control this. Period. Get over it.
๏ It’s about what you say about yourself and what they say about you.
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Out of control
๏ You can’t control this. Period. Get over it.
๏ It’s about what you say about yourself and what they say about you.
๏ Cognitive Dissonance is bad...unless you’re doing it on purpose.
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Out of control
๏ You can’t control this. Period. Get over it.
๏ It’s about what you say about yourself and what they say about you.
๏ Cognitive Dissonance is bad...unless you’re doing it on purpose.
๏ The good news/bad news: more media = less attention
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Out of control
๏ You can’t control this. Period. Get over it.
๏ It’s about what you say about yourself and what they say about you.
๏ Cognitive Dissonance is bad...unless you’re doing it on purpose.
๏ The good news/bad news: more media = less attention
๏ Stop thinking linearly: think “play” (or, if you have to talk to your
boss, call it “testing” or “experimenting”)
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58. 49 8,750,033 views
Doing it right
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Doing it wrong...
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...then again...
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(but recent research indicates only 15% of
“viral” media passed on)
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62. 53 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1732296/guidelines-creating-great-social-media-content
Rules for Great Social Media
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63. 53 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1732296/guidelines-creating-great-social-media-content
Rules for Great Social Media
๏ Surprise
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Rules for Great Social Media
๏ Surprise
๏ Sex
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65. 53 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1732296/guidelines-creating-great-social-media-content
Rules for Great Social Media
๏ Surprise
๏ Sex
๏ Destruction
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66. 53 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1732296/guidelines-creating-great-social-media-content
Rules for Great Social Media
๏ Surprise
๏ Sex
๏ Destruction
๏ Music
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67. 53 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1732296/guidelines-creating-great-social-media-content
Rules for Great Social Media
๏ Surprise
๏ Sex
๏ Destruction
๏ Music
๏ Wonder
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68. 53 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1732296/guidelines-creating-great-social-media-content
Rules for Great Social Media
๏ Surprise
๏ Sex
๏ Destruction
๏ Music
๏ Wonder
๏ Connection
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69. 53 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1732296/guidelines-creating-great-social-media-content
Rules for Great Social Media
๏ Surprise
๏ Sex
๏ Destruction
๏ Music
๏ Wonder
๏ Connection
๏ Irony
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70. 53 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1732296/guidelines-creating-great-social-media-content
Rules for Great Social Media
๏ Surprise
๏ Sex
๏ Destruction
๏ Music
๏ Wonder
๏ Connection
๏ Irony
๏ “Secrets”
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71. 53 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1732296/guidelines-creating-great-social-media-content
Rules for Great Social Media
๏ Surprise
๏ Sex
๏ Destruction
๏ Music
๏ Wonder
๏ Connection
๏ Irony
๏ “Secrets”
๏ Spectacle
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72. 53 http://www.clickz.com/clickz/column/1732296/guidelines-creating-great-social-media-content
Rules for Great Social Media
๏ Surprise
๏ Sex
๏ Destruction
๏ Music
๏ Wonder
๏ Connection
๏ Irony
๏ “Secrets”
๏ Spectacle
๏ Kindness
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Carton’s Law:
What Works Best Online is What Can Only Work Online
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Carton’s Law 2:
Technology Changes Quickly, People Change Slowly
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Source: Paul Adams http://www.slideshare.net/padday
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Carton’s Law 3:
Brands are collaborations
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Carton’s Law 4:
People Don’t Interact With “Technology”,
People Interact With People
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Dealing With It
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Managing the Conversation
๏ Plan
๏ Monitor
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Managing the Conversation
๏ Plan
๏ Monitor
๏ Evaluate
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Managing the Conversation
๏ Plan
๏ Monitor
๏ Evaluate
๏ Engage
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Managing the Conversation
๏ Plan
๏ Monitor
๏ Evaluate
๏ Engage
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5 Questions to Ask When Developing
A Social Media Strategy
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5 Questions to Ask When Developing
A Social Media Strategy
1.Why are we doing this?
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5 Questions to Ask When Developing
A Social Media Strategy
1.Why are we doing this?
2.How does it fit into our institutional mission and
strategic plans?
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5 Questions to Ask When Developing
A Social Media Strategy
1.Why are we doing this?
2.How does it fit into our institutional mission and
strategic plans?
3.Who is going to maintain it?
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5 Questions to Ask When Developing
A Social Media Strategy
1.Why are we doing this?
2.How does it fit into our institutional mission and
strategic plans?
3.Who is going to maintain it?
4. How are we going to pay for it?
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5 Questions to Ask When Developing
A Social Media Strategy
1.Why are we doing this?
2.How does it fit into our institutional mission and
strategic plans?
3.Who is going to maintain it?
4. How are we going to pay for it?
5.What are we going to do less of?
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This is the day that the US went off the Gold Standard. It’s essentially the day that the world became an information economy, an economy based on data rather than stuff. All of a sudden money went from representing a physical-world commodity to representing what we said (and/or agreed) it represented. Everything that’s happening right now-- from the economy to the internet-- is a direct line on the vector of this change.