An Introduction To Social Media

                Collin Condray
             Twitter.com/ccondray
         SocialMediaRevolutionary.com
    collin@SocialMediaRevolutionary.com
                  8/19/2010
Introductions




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Collin Condray
     Web developer


     MBA from the U of A


     Category Manager


     Director of Retail Social
      Media

     Digital Strategist at
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      Saatchi & Saatchi X
Introductions
     Who do you work for?


     What do you do?


     What is your experience with
      social media?

     What do you hope to get out of
      today‘s session?


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Please Ask Questions!




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Excellent Resources
     Groundswell and
      Trust Agents




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What Is Social Media/Social
    Networking?




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What Is Social Media?
     AKA Social Networking
      AKA Web 2.0

     Twitter and Facebook


     These are the
      technologies.




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What is Social Media?
     Officially, social media is
      ―an umbrella term that
      defines the various
      activities that integrate
      technology, social
      interaction, and the
      construction of words,
      pictures, videos, and
      audio.‖ (Wikipedia)



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What is Social Media?
      ―A social trend in which
       people use technologies to
       get the things they need
       from each other, rather
       than from traditional
       institutions like
       corporations.‖
       - Groundswell




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What is Social Media?
      Long time in the making


      Web 1.0
        Mostly read only
        High degree of technical
         skill to communicate
         publicly




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What Is Social Media?
      Web 2.0
        Technology makes its
         easier for users to put
         content on the Internet

        Easier to have two way
         communication




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Social Media Quick Examples
      eBay, buy from other people


      Craigslist instead of newspaper
       classifieds

      Linux instead of Microsoft


      Rotten Tomatoes instead of Roger
       Ebert


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What Is Social Media?
      Social media networking
       is no different than
       regular networking.

      Same rules in How to Win
       Friends and Influence People
       apply.




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What Is Social Media?
      Become genuinely interested
       in other people.
      Make the other person feel
       important and do it sincerely.
      If you're wrong, admit it
       quickly and emphatically.
      Sympathize with the other
       person.
      Appeal to noble motives.


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What Is Social Media?
      Two-way communications




      Not blasting your message
       out




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What Is Social Media?
      Public reactions to entire
       networks, unlike email
       which is only between two
       participants.

      Even once closed
       networks like Facebook
       are revealing more to the
       public.



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What Is Social Media?
      Many ways to participate;
       one is probably right for
       you.




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Why Should I Care About Social
     Media?




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Why Should I Care About Social Media?
      Who cares what I had for
       breakfast?




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The Social Media Revolution




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Why Should I Care About Social Media?
      Social Media Outperforms
       Email

      February 2009 was the
       first month that time spent
       on social network sites
       exceeded that on
       e-mail.




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Why Should I Care About Social Media?
      The power of networking


        Help others and get help.
         Crowdsourcing.

        ―All of us are smarter than
         one of us.‖




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Why Should I Care About Social Media?
      Share interesting content.


      Create long term
       relationships. Connect
       with people you‘d never
       meet in real life.




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Why Should I Care About Social Media?
      Increase your online
       visibility.

      Show your expertise.
       Become the go-to expert.

      Personal brand building.




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Why Should I Care About Social Media?
      SEO (search engine
       optimization) benefits.
       Make it easier for those
       with interest in you to find
       you.




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Why Should I Care About Social Media?
      It‘s the future.




      Your customers are
       there. Don‘t miss
       the conversation.




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What Forms Of Social Networking
     Are There?




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People Creating




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How They Work - Blogs
      Mostly text and similar to a
       journal but contains written
       content, links, reader
       comments, and pictures.

      Many services (WordPress,
       Blogspot, Blogger, Tumblr)
       allow users to participate for
       free.

      Bloggers have many
30     motivations.
Blog Example – HuffingtonPost.com
      One site, many blogs.




      Most visited blog on the
       internet with 1.5 million
       visitors per day.




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How They Work - Podcasts
      Audio and video files
       typically available through
       subscribing to a service like
       Apple‘s iTunes.

      They typically live on a web
       site or blog that allows
       comments.

      Example: Twit.tv


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Podcast Example – Twit.tv
      Founded by Leo Laporte,
       radio/TV host.

      Started off with one show,
       grew to many.

      Various ways to have
       remote participants.

      Video added later.

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How They Work – Video/Photos
      Users create videos or
       take pictures and upload
       them to their respective
       sites.

      No cost to upload. Can
       store a limited (but not
       restrictive) amount of
       media



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How They Work - Flickr
      Flickr started out as an
       online album. Now owned
       by Yahoo, making it easier
       for those members to
       participate.

      Has some friending
       capability.

      Now allows short videos.


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How They Work - YouTube
      Open comments on videos
       by Google members.

      Lots of potential
       commenters because of the
       huge number of Google
       account holders.




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How They Work - YouTube
      Content creators can create
       their own channels.

      Videos have YouTube ads on
       them, and any profits are
       shared with the content
       creators.




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YouTube - Example




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YouTube - Example
      64,874,932 views

      DeVore family were soon made
       YouTube Partners. This gives
       YouTube the right to run ads
       over the videos they post, and
       in exchange, they are given a
       share of the revenue.

      Earned $160,000

      They sell "David After Dentist"
       t-shirts and share a portion of
       the revenue they earn with
       dental charities.

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Participation
      Blogs – One in four online
       Americans read blogs, the
       most popular activity on the
       web.

      Podcasts - Has one of the
       lowest penetrations of social
       networks with 11% of
       online Americans listening.

      Video – Many more viewers
       than creators

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How They Create Connections
      Blog authors read and
       comment on other blogs.
       They create an
       interconnecting network
       and form the Blogosphere.

      New software such as
       Disqus allows the same
       comment conversation to
       appear on multiple blogs.


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How They Create Connections
      With the right software
       the links are created
       automatically generating
       SEO traffic.




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How They Create Connections
      Blogs that generate more
       crosslinks improve their
       Google page ranking and
       are more likely to be
       found by searchers.




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Aside: Search Engine Optimization
     (SEO)




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Google Dominates Search




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How SEO Works

      1 Generation Google
       Algorithm: Links

      Unethical marketers or
       Black Hat SEO marketers
       would create sites with
       nothing but links to hack
       the system.



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How SEO Works

      2nd Generation Algorithm:
       Links + Content

      Black Hat SEOs practiced
       ―keyword stuffing‖ and hid
       keywords to improve
       ranking.




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How SEO Works

      3rd Generation Google
       Algorithm: Links +
       Content + Activity
       (traffic, RSS subscriptions,
       comments, updates, etc.)




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How They Challenge Existing Players
      Blogs are unregulated so
       anything goes.

      No editors.


      Fact and opinion are
       mixed. Rumors are
       reported, and conflicts of
       interest are not disclosed.


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How They Challenge Existing Players
      They provide almost the
       same level of quality as
       newspapers, radio, and TV
       very inexpensively.




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How They Challenge Existing Players
      Starting this year, the FTC
       required bloggers to
       disclose their conflicts of
       interest.




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How You Can Use Them
      Listen to what blogs are
       saying about your
       company.

      Blog search engines like
       Google Blog Search,
       Icerocket, and Technorati
       can help you find out who
       has the most influence in
       the subject that interests
       you.


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How You Can Use Them
      Comment on other blogs
       and ask those readers to
       come to your site/blog.

      Request comments on
       your blogs and find out
       what your customers are
       looking for.




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Blog Example




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Blog Example




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Blog Example




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Class Examples




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People Connecting
     Social Networking (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook)




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Social Networking in Plain English




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How They Work

      Profiles
        Brief description of who
         they are
        Where they live
        What they like
        Where they work




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How They Work
      Friends


      Friend requests


      Friends can see more of
       the interactions




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Participation
     •One in four Americans
     are on a social network.




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How They Create Connections
      By definition they are
       social with members
       exchanging public (e.g.
       Facebook walls) and
       private messages (e.g.
       Twitter direct messages).




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How They Challenge Existing Players
      They take attention away
       from other activities such
       as TV.

      They enable people to
       collaborate who would
       have never met before.




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How You Can Use Them
      Create a profile, group, fan
       page, etc. and invite your
       communities to them.

      Some companies have
       created their own networks
        Salesforce.com is a CRM site
         allows its customers to
         connect with people in
         similar industries or
         departments.
        Webkinz

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Facebook
      Second biggest social media network in the
       world with 500 million members

      Skews younger


      Lots of things to do (Farmville)


      Some collaboration : Groups and Fan Pages


      Recent privacy controversy


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LinkedIn
      Primarily for professionals


      Originally started as an
       alternative to resumes

      Lags the other social
       networks in features




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Twitter
      Short, very fast
       conversation. 140
       Character posts.

      Focused on the
       conversation with few
       extra features.

      Almost entirely public.



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Facebook Conquers The World




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Other Social Media Networks
      mySpace


      Orkut


      QQ


      Ning




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Aside: Social Networking Theory




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Strength of Weak Ties
      Based on a 1973 paper by
       sociologist Mark
       Granovetter.

      Significant percentage of
       people get their jobs as a
       result of information
       provided by a weak tie or
       friends-of-friends.



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Strength of Weak Ties
      150 member is typically
       the most that can be
       maintained.

      The size of the tribe.
       Consistent across times
       and cultures.




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Strength of Weak Ties
      Now with social networks,
       you can maintain
       ―supernets‖ that have more
       than 150 weak ties, which
       you can trust more than
       mass media like TV or
       newspapers.

      The average number of
       Facebook friends is
       130, slightly less than the
       observed 150.

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Strength of Weak Ties
      There is some evidence
       that sharing information
       on social media networks:
        Makes you more likely to
         be liked in social
         interactions.




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Strength of Weak Ties
      There is some evidence
       that sharing information
       on social media networks :
        Builds "social capital" - a
         sociological measure of
         the value of beneficial
         relationships. Social
         capital is linked to
         increased well-being and
         self-esteem.



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Strength of Weak Ties
      There is some evidence that
       sharing information on social
       media networks :
        Increases influence. In a
         color picking experiment,
         the people who could see
         the choices of more
         participants (in other words,
         were better connected)
         persuaded the group to pick
         their color: even when they
         had to persuade the vast
         majority to give up their
         financial incentive.

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Strength of Weak Ties
      There is some evidence
       that sharing information
       on social media networks :
        Makes one more
         attractive: people with
         about 300 friends were
         rated as the most
         appealing, any more than
         that and their social
         attractiveness began to
         drop off.


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Virtual Worlds




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Virtual Worlds
      Participants organize
       themselves into clans with
       their own rules and
       hierarchy.

      Some are games and some
       are just a digital locations
       to hang out.

      Digital currency can be
       converted to real currency
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Class Examples




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People Collaborating




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How They Work
      Wikis – sites that house
       content generated and edited
       by multiple users.

      Examples
        Wikipedia
        Conservapedia
        wikiHow


      The community keeps order
       by watching the content and
       ideals of the community.


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How They Work
      Open Source Software –
       Software generated by
       interested groups of
       programmers

      Examples:
        Linux
        OpenOffice
        Apache
        Firefox
        Wikis
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Participation
      22% of online Americans
       say they use Wikipedia
       once a month.

      6% contribute to a wiki
       once a month.




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How They Create Connections
      Wikis have talk pages
       where contributors discuss
       what can be included.

      Those who contribute
       more have their name in
       front of more users.

      Contributors can be
       accredited experts or
       enthusiastic amateurs
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How They Create Connections
      In Open Source, those
       who add more features
       and fix more bugs can
       shape what appears in new
       releases of the software.




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How They Challenge Existing Players
      8th most popular site on
       the web.

      Wikipedia has helped kill
       the traditional
       Encyclopedia and
       Microsoft‘s Encarta.




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How They Challenge Existing Players
      The users highlight what
       they think is important
       about a company not what
       a company thinks is
       important.

      Example: Nike‘s page has a
       section on their alleged
       human rights abuses.



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How You Can Use Them
      Wikipedia is highly ranked
       in search results.

      Wikipedia discourages
       companies from creating
       and maintaining their own
       page, but it does allow
       them to make factual
       corrections.



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How You Can Use Them
      Wikis are open sourced
       and free so companies are
       creating them as an
       alternate support system
       for their customers.




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Class Examples




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People Reacting to Each Other
     Forums, Ratings, and Reviews




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How Do People Use Social Media?
      Forums (e.g.Yahoo and
       Google Groups)

      Bypass official
       reviewers. Anyone can
       point out flaws in what
       you‘re doing.




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How Do People Use Social Media?
      Ratings (eBay seller
       ratings)




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How Do People Use Social Media?
      Reviews (Amazon
      product reviews,
      Rotten Tomatoes movie
      reviews)




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How They Work - Forums
      Group members


      Post or answer any
       question in the group
       creating threads of
       conversation




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How They Work - Reviews
       Becoming more common
        than forums.

       Usually let you assign a
        rating level (i.e. 1 to 5
        stars) and a comment.

       Often you can comment
        on the comments.


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Participation
       20% of online Americans
        participate in forums.



       25% of online Americans
        read ratings and reviews.




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How They Create Connections
       Forums are slow motion
        conversations.

       By responding to each
        other, participants get to
        know each other and build
        new connections even
        though they‘ve never met.




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How They Create Connections
       Forums are a success
        because they let the
        participants ―show off.‖

       Example: Harriett Klauser
        was Amazon‘s top
        reviewer. She reads two
        books a day and has
        21,000 reviews.
        Publishers send her 50
        books a week to read.


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How They Challenge Existing Players
       Takes commentary from
        the hands of ―experts‖ and
        gives the customers the
        opportunity to have their
        say.

       A single customer can
        criticize any one thing that
        has gone wrong (e.g.
        there‘s a fly in my soup,
        the hotel smells funny, the
        video is boring).

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How You Can Use Them
       High ratings/reviews
        boost buy rates

       Poor ratings/reviews are
        opportunities
         Fix chronic problems
         Provide good, timely
          customer service
         Respond directly to
          customers with a bad
          experience

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Class Examples




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People Organizing Content




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People Organizing Content - Tags




108                Source: Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
How They Work
       Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy


       In a taxonomy, everything
        has its own spot defined by
        the experts.

       Example: In the taxonomy
        of species, Homo sapiens
        is a mammal, while
        Tyrannosaurus rex is a
        reptile

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Participation
       7% of online Americans
        are involved in tagging.

       The taggers attach
        keywords to sites so their
        decisions have an influence
        on search engine results




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How They Create Connections
       Tags define people. It‘s
        easy to find other people
        with the same interests
        based on what they are
        tagging.




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How They Challenge Existing Players
       Organizations have no
        control over how they are
        tagged.

       WalmartingAcrossAmerica.
        com was labeled fake.




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How You Can Use Them
       Find out how your
        organization is being
        classified, but also who
        is tagging. Connect with
        these people who might
        be interested.

       Tag your own site. This
        will help searchers find
        your site the way you
        want.


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Class Examples




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Accelerating Consumption
      RSS and Widgets




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How Do People Use Social Media?
       Accelerating consumption


         RSS (Really Simple
          Syndication)

         Widgets (Toys R Us)




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How They Work
       RSS has two elements.


       A transmitter that sends a
        feed of new items
        generated by a site (blog
        posts, Flickr photos).

       A receiver that displays the
        items in an organized
        fashion.

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How They Work
       Widgets are dedicated RSS
        feeds.

       Updated weather, local gas
        prices, etc.

       Live almost anywhere
        from a desktop
        application, to a blog
        sidebar, to your phone.

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Participation
       Fewer than 1/12th of
        online Americans say they
        use an RSS feed.

       RSS feeds are built into
        personalized home pages
        like Yahoo or in web
        browser smart
        bookmarks, and users
        might not realize they are
        using RSS.


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How They Create Connections
       RSS makes it easier for
        people to follow more
        online activity.

       Widgets are social because
        they spread. Putting a
        widget on your web site
        allows others to see it,
        and they might want to
        add it to their sites as well.


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How They Challenge Existing Players
       Do not directly threaten
        institutional power, but
        they do accelerate the
        consumption of media.




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How You Can Use Them
       Excellent marketing tools
        if you are pushing out
        regularly scheduled
        updates such as articles,
        blog posts, or new
        catalogs.

       Widgets can spread virally
        as fans tell their friends
        about new, neat apps.


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Class Examples




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Evaluating New Tools




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Evaluating New Social Media Tools
       Does it create new,
        meaningful connections
        among the community?




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Evaluating New Social Media Tools
       Is it easy to join?


       Example: Facebook
        connect




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Evaluating New Social Media Tools
       Does it empower people
        at the expense of existing
        players?




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Evaluating New Social Media Tools
       Is there enough content
        created by the
        community?




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Evaluating New Social Media Tools
       Can anyone build on top
        of the new tool?




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Social Technographic Profiles




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Changing Customer Segmentation
       Demographics – What
       people are intrinsically
         Age
         Income
         Education
         Employment
         Race




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Changing Customer Segmentation
       Psychographics – How
        they think and live
         Personality
         Values
         Attitudes
         Interests
         Lifestyles




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Changing Customer Segmentation
       Technographics – how
        they use social media
        technology.




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Creators
       24% of online Americans
         Publish a blog
         Publish their own
          webpage
         Upload created video
         Upload audio/music they
          created
         Write articles or stories
          and post them




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Conversationalist
       33% of online Americans
         Update status on a social
          networking site
         Post updates on Twitter




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Critics
       37% of online Americans:
         Post ratings/reviews of
          products or services
         Comment on someone
          else‘s blog
         Contribute to online
          forums
         Contribute to/edit
          articles in a wiki




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Collectors
       20% of online Americans:
         Use RSS feeds
         Ad tags to web pages or
          photos
         ―Vote‖ for web sites online




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Joiners
       59% of online Americans
         Maintain profile on a
          social networking site
         Visit social networking
          sites




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Spectators
       70% of online Americans
         Read blogs
         Watch video from other
          users
         Listen to podcasts
         Read online forums
         Read customer
          ratings/reviews




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Inactives
       17% of online Americans
         None of the previous
          activities


       My Mom




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Example: American Politics
       Democrats are more likely
        to use social media than
        Republicans by 10 points.
       Republicans are 20 points
        less likely to use social
        media. Use other methods
        to reach them.
       Independents are in the
        Critics, Joiners, and
        Spectators.


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What is your social media strategy?


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Creating a social media strategy-
      How do I get started?
      Listen, Engage, Measure




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Listen
       Google


       Blog search engines


       Search.Twitter.com


       Dedicated software (e.g.
        Radian6, ScoutLabs,
        Nielsen BuzzMetrics)


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Listen
       What are your customers
        saying about you?

       Is it good or bad?


       Is there anyone already
        passionate about your
        brand or industry?



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Engage
       POST
         People


         Objectives


         Strategy


         Technology




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People
       What are your customers
        ready for?

       Technographic Profile




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People
       Make sure your target
        audience is ready for what
        you throw at them.




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Objectives
       What are your goals?
         Listening – better
          understand your
          customers.

         Get insights from your
          customers to help make
          marketing and product
          development decisions.




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Objectives
       What are your goals?
         Talking/broadcasting –
          spread your message.

         Make an existing digital
          marketing initiative
          (banner/search ads) more
          interactive.




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Objectives
       What are your goals?
         Supporting – help your
          customers support each
          other.

         Effective for companies
          that have high support
          costs or to connect with
          cohesive groups that
          already exist.



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Objectives
       What are your goals?
         Embracing – integrate
          your customers, including
          helping designing your
          products

         Most challenging
          objective, best used after
          completing one of the
          previous objectives.



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Objectives
       Internal communication


       Example: 37 Signals


         Software company
         Members in 5 countries
         Use wikis and Twitter to
          keep in touch




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Strategy
       What change do you want
        your customers to make?

         Carry messages to others


         Engage more with your
          organization.




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Technology
       What social media tools
        should you use or build?

       Use the previous steps to
        decide what technology
        fits best.




155
Talking
       Viral Video


       Engage in social networks
        and user-generated
        content sites.

       Start a blog.


       Create a community –use
        an existing platform or
        build your own.

156
Measure
       Number of followers on
        social media networks

       Number of posts,
        comments, Tweets, etc.

       Key influencers, who
        already have a following
        that is talking about you

       Share of conversation

157
Measure
       What are they saying?
        (wordcloud)

       Are they saying good or bad
        things about you? Are the
        good comments increasing?

       Where is the conversation
        occurring? (blogs, news
        sites, forums, social media
        sites)

158
What Can You Do With The
                   Measurements?
       Customer service

                                    ―Geez, one bad employee can really
       Correct misinformation      ruin your day!‖


       Find out what the
        community has an interest
        in but what is not
        currently being discussed
        online.


159
Reacting to Measurements
      • Generate awareness
        among customers and
        other community
        members.

      • Increase employee
        awareness.




160
Reacting to Measurements
      • Keep content/interactions
        helpful, fun, and inspiring

      • Increase impressions from
        multiple sources on a
        variety of platforms.




161
Social Media ROI Example




162
Social Media ROI




163
Case Study: Blendtec
      Viral Video




164
Who Is Blendtec?
       High end blender
        manufacturer

       Low end blenders cost
        $399




165
Who Is Blendtec?
       In 2007, their marketing
        director saw their techs
        putting 2x4s into the
        blender.

       Videoed the process and
        put them on the company
        website

       Total cost: $50 for 5
        videos                     George Wright, CEO


166
Who Is Blendtec?
       Blendtec‘s webmaster put
        a link on Digg, a social
        linking site.

       Someone outside the
        company put them on
        YouTube.

       6 million views



167
WillItBlend.com




168
Results
       Sales up 400% since
        WillItBlend.com
        appeared.




169
WillItBlend.com - 2007




170
WillItBlend.com - 2010




171
Case Study: Best Buy - Twelpforce
      Customer Support




172
Twelpforce
       Recognize that there was
        another way to help
        customers with their
        technical support.

       Listen to your customers
        where they‘re at.




173
Twelpforce
       Barry Judge, CMO,
       provided leadership and
       clout in getting the project
       off the ground.




174
Twelpforce Commercial




175
BBYFeed.com
       Rapid development


       Two months to deploy




176
Twelpforce – Agent3012
       Engage
        employees.

       BestBuy knew that
        it had many tech
        enthusiasts that
        work for it.




177
Twelpforce Results
       Twelpforce customer
        satisfaction is higher than
        for Best Buy standard
        customer support.

       This translates into
        increased purchase intent
        and a likelihood to spend
        more per purchase.



178
Case Study: Best Buy –
      BlueShirtNation.com
      Human Resources




179
BlueShirtNation.com
       Started by Best Buy
        marketers Steve Bendt and
        Gary Koelling.

       Wanted to get better
        customer insights from the
        people who were on the
        front lines working
        directly with the
        customer.


180
BlueShirtNation.com
       Set up a server with an
        open source
        blogging/content
        management system,
        Drupal, under one of their
        desks.




181
BlueShirtNation.com
       They gave chalk talks in
        stores to drum up
        participation on the new
        site.




182
BlueShirtNation.com
       In a year, they had 14,000
        employees on the
        network; 85% of them
        were sales associates.




183
Listening
       Restoration of employee
        discount

       Fixing in store problems
        (e.g. wrong size displays)




184
Talking
       Central place where
        policy can be posted




185
Energizing
       Allows enthusiastic         ―I work in retail. I inspire
        employees to share with     creativity and fun with my
        the rest of the             employees. I grand open
        organization.               stores, as many as possible,
                                    really. And I have never
                                    before loved a job and a
                                    company the way I love this
                                    one.

                                    My name is Ashley Hemsath,
                                    and I am Best Buy.‖


186
Supporting
       Employees can find what   ―My biggest goal is to get my
        they need from other      team members promoted. I
        employees.                remember the names of
                                  everyone I hired and I know
                                  what store they are at now.
                                  It‘s really cool seeing them
                                  interacting with me and each
                                  other directly on BSN (Blue
                                  Shirt Nation)‖

                                          -Ashley Hemsath


187
Embracing
       Surfaces great ideas and   ―I found out later that [I was
        talent                     sitting next to] Kal Patel, Best
                                   Buy‘s EVP of strategy. He saw
                                   my posts on BSN and said to
                                   his assistant, ‗I need to meet
                                   that girl!‘‖

                                           -Ashley Hemsath




188
Case Study: Nestle vs. Greenpeace




189
Nestle vs. Greenpeace
       On March 17, 2010.
       Greenpeace criticized
       Nestles‘ purchase of palm
       oil from an Indonesian
       source that deforests
       Orangutan natural habitat.




190
Nestle vs. Greenpeace




191
Nestle vs. Greenpeace




192
Nestle vs. Greenpeace
       Initially had only 1000
        views.

       Nestle requested removing
        the video because it violated
        their trade mark.




193
Nestle vs. Greenpeace
       Response: Greenpeace
        organized their members to
        start making comments on
        Nestle's Facebook page

       Video now has over
        350,000 views.




194
Nestle vs. Greenpeace
       Nestle removes critical
        comments and comments
        with the Greenpeace
        modified Nestle logo.

       Response: Even more
        angry comments from
        Greenpeace.




195
Nestle vs. Greenpeace
       Nestle continues to
        remove comments from
        their Facebook page.

       Proposes switching palm
        oil vendors by 2015




196
Nestle vs. Greenpeace
       Nestle avoids mentioning
        the controversy directly.

       Only people talking about
        it are Greenpeace
        supporters.




197
Nestle vs. Greenpeace




198
Does this scare you?
       Your critics are already
        saying bad things about
        you, and there‘s nothing
        you can do about it.

       Get your message out
        there, or your critics‘
        message will be the only
        one your customer sees.



199
Nestle vs. Greenpeace
       What should you do?


         Don‘t hide – be
          transparent.

         No one at Nestle wanted
          to destroy the
          environment.




200
Nestle vs. Greenpeace
       What should you do?


         Don‘t be quiet. Respond
          quickly.

         Nestle did not know what
          to do at the time. Offer a
          solution to the problem.




201
Nestle vs. Greenpeace
       What should you do?


         Negative comments are a
          sign that that your
          followers want to trust
          your brand again.




202
Nestle vs. Greenpeace
       What you should do?


         If possible, use humor.




203
Dodge Year End Clearance Event
               Commercial




204
PETA Objects
       "Most top ad agencies in
        the country won't even
        consider producing an ad
        featuring a great ape these
        days given the well-
        documented abuse that
        young chimpanzees and
        orangutans suffer in the
        entertainment industry."



205
Dodge Commercial – Take 2




206
Case Study: Old Spice Guy




207
Old Spice Man




208
Old Spice Man - People
       Targets women who make
        the purchases in their
        households, including
        products for their men.

       Manly Man appeals to
        women.

       Also appeals to men because
        they want to be like the Old
        Spice Guy.

209
Old Spice Man - Objectives
       Move the perception of
        Old Spice products from
        your grandfather‘s scent to
        a younger audience.

       Drive sales.




210
Old Spice Man - Strategy
       Called for comments on
        Reddit, a link sharing site.

       Posted a time-stamped
        picture of Isaiah saying hi
        to Reddit.




211
Old Spice Man - Strategy
       Activated the Reddit
        community, by posting a
        video to Kevin Rose,
        founder of Digg and
        competitive site.

       Members submitted the
        response to Reddit,
        homepage where the pic
        of Isaiah and the
        submission thread stayed
        all day.

212
Old Spice Man - People
       Targeted a                  Person
                                                     Twitter
                                                    Followers
        combination of
                              Ashton Kutcher        5,261,418
        high influencers
                              Ellen DeGeneres       4,851,084
        and ―little people‖
                              Demi Moore            2,814,678
        for the target        Perez Hilton          2,259,144
        audience.             Kevin Rose            1,176,718
                              Alyssa Milano           935,642
                              Christina Applegate     623,538
                              Gizmodo                 103,382
                              Rose McGowen             80,783
                              Justine Bateman          21,503
                              @georgegsmithjr           5,149
213                           @knitmeapony              1,300
Old Spice Man - Strategy
       Created videos and posted
        links to the videos on their
        blogs and @replied to
        them on Twitter.

       Activated large
        communities and created
        buzz while only a small
        fraction of videos were
        posted.


214
Old Spice Man - Technology
       Multiple platforms:
         People Creating
           YouTube




         People Connecting
           Twitter
           Facebook




215
Old Spice Man - Technology
       People Cataloging
         Reddit
         Digg


       People Collaborating
         Yahoo Answers




216
Old Spice Man - Measure
       Generated 16,562
        YouTube comments or
        72% of the total number
        of comments on the
        channel.

       11 million views in
        three days.

       Old Spice Body Wash
        sales up 107% in the last
217     month
Re: @Alyssa_Milano 1 | Old Spice
      @Alyssa_Milano wrote "GENIUS. Shirtless Old Spice guy replies on Twitter
      w/ hilarious personalized videos http://tnw.to/16XQ3 via @Zee




218
Re: @Alyssa_Milano 2 | Old Spice
      @Alyssa_Milano wrote "My coffee went up my nose. @oldspice guy made a
      video reply to my tweet!! Watch: http://youtu.be/-oElH6M_5i4 "




219
Re: @Alyssa_Milano 3 | Old Spice
      @Alyssa_Milano wrote "Are you flirting with me, @oldspice guy?‖




220
Re: Alyssa_Milano 4 | Old Spice
      @Alyssa_Milano wrote "Ummm --- Are you sitting down??? Sit down. Ready?
      The @oldspice guy sent me roses!"




221
Alyssa Milano Response




222
Old Spice Man – The Gotcha
       Alyssa Milano flipped the
        Old Spice campaign to her
        own campaign with this
        video Here Is What To Do
        Next Mr. Old Spice, asked
        for a $100k donation to
        one of her charities.




223
Old Spice Response
       As of 8/13/2010, Old
       Spice has made, in the
       words of Alyssa Milano, an
       "extremely generous"
       donation to a Gulf-area
       non-profit, 9th Ward Field
       Of Dreams.




224
Old Spice Man – Sustaining
                       Momentum
       Will they keep their
        communities?

       What will Old Spice do
        with its new-found mass
        of fans? Social media
        success is built on long
        term strategies.




225
Will The Joke Get Old?
      Will Parodies Dilute The Humor?




226
Old Spice Man – What It Means To You
       The technology is in in
        your hands: $200 flip cam
        does HD YouTube level
        video just fine. iPhone 4 is
        almost as good.
        Imperfections makes it
        real as well.

       Someone out there will
        react positively to your
        brand. Find them and
        engage them.
227
Old Spice Man




228
Legal and Ethical Issues




229
Social Media Policies
       Where not proscribed by
        law (e.g. financial, legal
        industries), what your
        employees post on social
        media networks should be
        similar to your existing
        electronic information
        policy.




230
Facebook Privacy
       In April, Facebook
        launched the Open
        Graph API which allows
        developers to tailor
        offers, features, and
        services to each one‘s
        interests and tastes —
        even if that individual has
        never visited the site
        before.


231
Facebook Privacy
       3rd Party Sharing


       Once you ―like‖
        something, outside
        companies get to see some
        of your hidden profile.




232
Facebook Privacy
       Privacy advocates


       Quit Facebook day was
        organized




233
Facebook Privacy
       Response: Gave users the
        opportunity to share their
        data in a more nuanced
        way.

       Many options are set to
        share automatically.

       Facebook still pushes its
        users to share.

234
Future Social Media Trends




235
Location Based Services
       Users ―check in‖ to a location


       Notify their friends in the service‘s network
        or syndicate it in Facebook and Twitter as
        well.

       Locations can also offer deals as well.




236
Group Buying
       Lets shoppers ―gang up‖ on
        a deal.

       Retailers get guaranteed
        customers.




237
Mobile Ads
       Allows advertisers to
        affect customers at the
        shelf




238
Mobile Payments
       Very popular in Asia.


       In Japan, can pay vending
        machines with a cell
        phone.

       Useful in locations where
        there is little
        infrastructure.


239
Closing Comments




240
Get Involved
       Be there – you can‘t talk
        to your customers without
        being in the game.




241
Get Involved
       Be first – don‘t get
        brandjacked.




242
Get Involved
       Be connected – build an
        army




243
Get Involved
       Be yourself – people can
        sense a fake




244
Get Involved
       Be humble – People
        connecting together are a
        hugely powerful force.
        They can be more
        powerful than your
        organization.




245
Get Involved
       Be consistent -let your
        followers know someone
        is at home.




246
Questions?
Thank you!

            Collin Condray
         Twitter.com/ccondray
     SocialMediaRevolutionary.com
collin@SocialMediaRevolutionary.com

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Introduction To Social Media-ITRI Presentation

  • 1. An Introduction To Social Media Collin Condray Twitter.com/ccondray SocialMediaRevolutionary.com collin@SocialMediaRevolutionary.com 8/19/2010
  • 3. Collin Condray  Web developer  MBA from the U of A  Category Manager  Director of Retail Social Media  Digital Strategist at 3 Saatchi & Saatchi X
  • 4. Introductions  Who do you work for?  What do you do?  What is your experience with social media?  What do you hope to get out of today‘s session? 4
  • 6. Excellent Resources  Groundswell and Trust Agents 6
  • 7. What Is Social Media/Social Networking? 7
  • 8. What Is Social Media?  AKA Social Networking AKA Web 2.0  Twitter and Facebook  These are the technologies. 8
  • 9. What is Social Media?  Officially, social media is ―an umbrella term that defines the various activities that integrate technology, social interaction, and the construction of words, pictures, videos, and audio.‖ (Wikipedia) 9
  • 10. What is Social Media?  ―A social trend in which people use technologies to get the things they need from each other, rather than from traditional institutions like corporations.‖ - Groundswell 10
  • 11. What is Social Media?  Long time in the making  Web 1.0  Mostly read only  High degree of technical skill to communicate publicly 11
  • 12. What Is Social Media?  Web 2.0  Technology makes its easier for users to put content on the Internet  Easier to have two way communication 12
  • 13. Social Media Quick Examples  eBay, buy from other people  Craigslist instead of newspaper classifieds  Linux instead of Microsoft  Rotten Tomatoes instead of Roger Ebert 13
  • 14. What Is Social Media?  Social media networking is no different than regular networking.  Same rules in How to Win Friends and Influence People apply. 14
  • 15. What Is Social Media?  Become genuinely interested in other people.  Make the other person feel important and do it sincerely.  If you're wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.  Sympathize with the other person.  Appeal to noble motives. 15
  • 16. What Is Social Media?  Two-way communications  Not blasting your message out 16
  • 17. What Is Social Media?  Public reactions to entire networks, unlike email which is only between two participants.  Even once closed networks like Facebook are revealing more to the public. 17
  • 18. What Is Social Media?  Many ways to participate; one is probably right for you. 18
  • 19. Why Should I Care About Social Media? 19
  • 20. Why Should I Care About Social Media?  Who cares what I had for breakfast? 20
  • 21. The Social Media Revolution 21
  • 22. Why Should I Care About Social Media?  Social Media Outperforms Email  February 2009 was the first month that time spent on social network sites exceeded that on e-mail. 22
  • 23. Why Should I Care About Social Media?  The power of networking  Help others and get help. Crowdsourcing.  ―All of us are smarter than one of us.‖ 23
  • 24. Why Should I Care About Social Media?  Share interesting content.  Create long term relationships. Connect with people you‘d never meet in real life. 24
  • 25. Why Should I Care About Social Media?  Increase your online visibility.  Show your expertise. Become the go-to expert.  Personal brand building. 25
  • 26. Why Should I Care About Social Media?  SEO (search engine optimization) benefits. Make it easier for those with interest in you to find you. 26
  • 27. Why Should I Care About Social Media?  It‘s the future.  Your customers are there. Don‘t miss the conversation. 27
  • 28. What Forms Of Social Networking Are There? 28
  • 30. How They Work - Blogs  Mostly text and similar to a journal but contains written content, links, reader comments, and pictures.  Many services (WordPress, Blogspot, Blogger, Tumblr) allow users to participate for free.  Bloggers have many 30 motivations.
  • 31. Blog Example – HuffingtonPost.com  One site, many blogs.  Most visited blog on the internet with 1.5 million visitors per day. 31
  • 32. How They Work - Podcasts  Audio and video files typically available through subscribing to a service like Apple‘s iTunes.  They typically live on a web site or blog that allows comments.  Example: Twit.tv 32
  • 33. Podcast Example – Twit.tv  Founded by Leo Laporte, radio/TV host.  Started off with one show, grew to many.  Various ways to have remote participants.  Video added later. 33
  • 34. How They Work – Video/Photos  Users create videos or take pictures and upload them to their respective sites.  No cost to upload. Can store a limited (but not restrictive) amount of media 34
  • 35. How They Work - Flickr  Flickr started out as an online album. Now owned by Yahoo, making it easier for those members to participate.  Has some friending capability.  Now allows short videos. 35
  • 36. How They Work - YouTube  Open comments on videos by Google members.  Lots of potential commenters because of the huge number of Google account holders. 36
  • 37. How They Work - YouTube  Content creators can create their own channels.  Videos have YouTube ads on them, and any profits are shared with the content creators. 37
  • 39. YouTube - Example  64,874,932 views  DeVore family were soon made YouTube Partners. This gives YouTube the right to run ads over the videos they post, and in exchange, they are given a share of the revenue.  Earned $160,000  They sell "David After Dentist" t-shirts and share a portion of the revenue they earn with dental charities. 39
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  • 41. Participation  Blogs – One in four online Americans read blogs, the most popular activity on the web.  Podcasts - Has one of the lowest penetrations of social networks with 11% of online Americans listening.  Video – Many more viewers than creators 41
  • 42. How They Create Connections  Blog authors read and comment on other blogs. They create an interconnecting network and form the Blogosphere.  New software such as Disqus allows the same comment conversation to appear on multiple blogs. 42
  • 43. How They Create Connections  With the right software the links are created automatically generating SEO traffic. 43
  • 44. How They Create Connections  Blogs that generate more crosslinks improve their Google page ranking and are more likely to be found by searchers. 44
  • 45. Aside: Search Engine Optimization (SEO) 45
  • 47. How SEO Works  1 Generation Google Algorithm: Links  Unethical marketers or Black Hat SEO marketers would create sites with nothing but links to hack the system. 47
  • 48. How SEO Works  2nd Generation Algorithm: Links + Content  Black Hat SEOs practiced ―keyword stuffing‖ and hid keywords to improve ranking. 48
  • 49. How SEO Works  3rd Generation Google Algorithm: Links + Content + Activity (traffic, RSS subscriptions, comments, updates, etc.) 49
  • 50. How They Challenge Existing Players  Blogs are unregulated so anything goes.  No editors.  Fact and opinion are mixed. Rumors are reported, and conflicts of interest are not disclosed. 50
  • 51. How They Challenge Existing Players  They provide almost the same level of quality as newspapers, radio, and TV very inexpensively. 51
  • 52. How They Challenge Existing Players  Starting this year, the FTC required bloggers to disclose their conflicts of interest. 52
  • 53. How You Can Use Them  Listen to what blogs are saying about your company.  Blog search engines like Google Blog Search, Icerocket, and Technorati can help you find out who has the most influence in the subject that interests you. 53
  • 54. How You Can Use Them  Comment on other blogs and ask those readers to come to your site/blog.  Request comments on your blogs and find out what your customers are looking for. 54
  • 59. People Connecting Social Networking (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook) 59
  • 60. Social Networking in Plain English 60
  • 61. How They Work  Profiles  Brief description of who they are  Where they live  What they like  Where they work 61
  • 62. How They Work  Friends  Friend requests  Friends can see more of the interactions 62
  • 63. Participation •One in four Americans are on a social network. 63
  • 64. How They Create Connections  By definition they are social with members exchanging public (e.g. Facebook walls) and private messages (e.g. Twitter direct messages). 64
  • 65. How They Challenge Existing Players  They take attention away from other activities such as TV.  They enable people to collaborate who would have never met before. 65
  • 66. How You Can Use Them  Create a profile, group, fan page, etc. and invite your communities to them.  Some companies have created their own networks  Salesforce.com is a CRM site allows its customers to connect with people in similar industries or departments.  Webkinz 66
  • 67. Facebook  Second biggest social media network in the world with 500 million members  Skews younger  Lots of things to do (Farmville)  Some collaboration : Groups and Fan Pages  Recent privacy controversy 67
  • 68. LinkedIn  Primarily for professionals  Originally started as an alternative to resumes  Lags the other social networks in features 68
  • 69. Twitter  Short, very fast conversation. 140 Character posts.  Focused on the conversation with few extra features.  Almost entirely public. 69
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  • 72. Other Social Media Networks  mySpace  Orkut  QQ  Ning 72
  • 74. Strength of Weak Ties  Based on a 1973 paper by sociologist Mark Granovetter.  Significant percentage of people get their jobs as a result of information provided by a weak tie or friends-of-friends. 74
  • 75. Strength of Weak Ties  150 member is typically the most that can be maintained.  The size of the tribe. Consistent across times and cultures. 75
  • 76. Strength of Weak Ties  Now with social networks, you can maintain ―supernets‖ that have more than 150 weak ties, which you can trust more than mass media like TV or newspapers.  The average number of Facebook friends is 130, slightly less than the observed 150. 76
  • 77. Strength of Weak Ties  There is some evidence that sharing information on social media networks:  Makes you more likely to be liked in social interactions. 77
  • 78. Strength of Weak Ties  There is some evidence that sharing information on social media networks :  Builds "social capital" - a sociological measure of the value of beneficial relationships. Social capital is linked to increased well-being and self-esteem. 78
  • 79. Strength of Weak Ties  There is some evidence that sharing information on social media networks :  Increases influence. In a color picking experiment, the people who could see the choices of more participants (in other words, were better connected) persuaded the group to pick their color: even when they had to persuade the vast majority to give up their financial incentive. 79
  • 80. Strength of Weak Ties  There is some evidence that sharing information on social media networks :  Makes one more attractive: people with about 300 friends were rated as the most appealing, any more than that and their social attractiveness began to drop off. 80
  • 82. Virtual Worlds  Participants organize themselves into clans with their own rules and hierarchy.  Some are games and some are just a digital locations to hang out.  Digital currency can be converted to real currency 82
  • 85. How They Work  Wikis – sites that house content generated and edited by multiple users.  Examples  Wikipedia  Conservapedia  wikiHow  The community keeps order by watching the content and ideals of the community. 85
  • 86. How They Work  Open Source Software – Software generated by interested groups of programmers  Examples:  Linux  OpenOffice  Apache  Firefox  Wikis 86
  • 87. Participation  22% of online Americans say they use Wikipedia once a month.  6% contribute to a wiki once a month. 87
  • 88. How They Create Connections  Wikis have talk pages where contributors discuss what can be included.  Those who contribute more have their name in front of more users.  Contributors can be accredited experts or enthusiastic amateurs 88
  • 89. How They Create Connections  In Open Source, those who add more features and fix more bugs can shape what appears in new releases of the software. 89
  • 90. How They Challenge Existing Players  8th most popular site on the web.  Wikipedia has helped kill the traditional Encyclopedia and Microsoft‘s Encarta. 90
  • 91. How They Challenge Existing Players  The users highlight what they think is important about a company not what a company thinks is important.  Example: Nike‘s page has a section on their alleged human rights abuses. 91
  • 92. How You Can Use Them  Wikipedia is highly ranked in search results.  Wikipedia discourages companies from creating and maintaining their own page, but it does allow them to make factual corrections. 92
  • 93. How You Can Use Them  Wikis are open sourced and free so companies are creating them as an alternate support system for their customers. 93
  • 95. People Reacting to Each Other Forums, Ratings, and Reviews 95
  • 96. How Do People Use Social Media?  Forums (e.g.Yahoo and Google Groups)  Bypass official reviewers. Anyone can point out flaws in what you‘re doing. 96
  • 97. How Do People Use Social Media?  Ratings (eBay seller ratings) 97
  • 98. How Do People Use Social Media?  Reviews (Amazon product reviews, Rotten Tomatoes movie reviews) 98
  • 99. How They Work - Forums  Group members  Post or answer any question in the group creating threads of conversation 99
  • 100. How They Work - Reviews  Becoming more common than forums.  Usually let you assign a rating level (i.e. 1 to 5 stars) and a comment.  Often you can comment on the comments. 100
  • 101. Participation  20% of online Americans participate in forums.  25% of online Americans read ratings and reviews. 101
  • 102. How They Create Connections  Forums are slow motion conversations.  By responding to each other, participants get to know each other and build new connections even though they‘ve never met. 102
  • 103. How They Create Connections  Forums are a success because they let the participants ―show off.‖  Example: Harriett Klauser was Amazon‘s top reviewer. She reads two books a day and has 21,000 reviews. Publishers send her 50 books a week to read. 103
  • 104. How They Challenge Existing Players  Takes commentary from the hands of ―experts‖ and gives the customers the opportunity to have their say.  A single customer can criticize any one thing that has gone wrong (e.g. there‘s a fly in my soup, the hotel smells funny, the video is boring). 104
  • 105. How You Can Use Them  High ratings/reviews boost buy rates  Poor ratings/reviews are opportunities  Fix chronic problems  Provide good, timely customer service  Respond directly to customers with a bad experience 105
  • 108. People Organizing Content - Tags 108 Source: Groundswell by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
  • 109. How They Work  Taxonomy vs. Folksonomy  In a taxonomy, everything has its own spot defined by the experts.  Example: In the taxonomy of species, Homo sapiens is a mammal, while Tyrannosaurus rex is a reptile 109
  • 110. Participation  7% of online Americans are involved in tagging.  The taggers attach keywords to sites so their decisions have an influence on search engine results 110
  • 111. How They Create Connections  Tags define people. It‘s easy to find other people with the same interests based on what they are tagging. 111
  • 112. How They Challenge Existing Players  Organizations have no control over how they are tagged.  WalmartingAcrossAmerica. com was labeled fake. 112
  • 113. How You Can Use Them  Find out how your organization is being classified, but also who is tagging. Connect with these people who might be interested.  Tag your own site. This will help searchers find your site the way you want. 113
  • 115. Accelerating Consumption RSS and Widgets 115
  • 116. How Do People Use Social Media?  Accelerating consumption  RSS (Really Simple Syndication)  Widgets (Toys R Us) 116
  • 117. How They Work  RSS has two elements.  A transmitter that sends a feed of new items generated by a site (blog posts, Flickr photos).  A receiver that displays the items in an organized fashion. 117
  • 118. How They Work  Widgets are dedicated RSS feeds.  Updated weather, local gas prices, etc.  Live almost anywhere from a desktop application, to a blog sidebar, to your phone. 118
  • 119. Participation  Fewer than 1/12th of online Americans say they use an RSS feed.  RSS feeds are built into personalized home pages like Yahoo or in web browser smart bookmarks, and users might not realize they are using RSS. 119
  • 120. How They Create Connections  RSS makes it easier for people to follow more online activity.  Widgets are social because they spread. Putting a widget on your web site allows others to see it, and they might want to add it to their sites as well. 120
  • 121. How They Challenge Existing Players  Do not directly threaten institutional power, but they do accelerate the consumption of media. 121
  • 122. How You Can Use Them  Excellent marketing tools if you are pushing out regularly scheduled updates such as articles, blog posts, or new catalogs.  Widgets can spread virally as fans tell their friends about new, neat apps. 122
  • 125. Evaluating New Social Media Tools  Does it create new, meaningful connections among the community? 125
  • 126. Evaluating New Social Media Tools  Is it easy to join?  Example: Facebook connect 126
  • 127. Evaluating New Social Media Tools  Does it empower people at the expense of existing players? 127
  • 128. Evaluating New Social Media Tools  Is there enough content created by the community? 128
  • 129. Evaluating New Social Media Tools  Can anyone build on top of the new tool? 129
  • 131. Changing Customer Segmentation  Demographics – What people are intrinsically  Age  Income  Education  Employment  Race 131
  • 132. Changing Customer Segmentation  Psychographics – How they think and live  Personality  Values  Attitudes  Interests  Lifestyles 132
  • 133. Changing Customer Segmentation  Technographics – how they use social media technology. 133
  • 134. Creators  24% of online Americans  Publish a blog  Publish their own webpage  Upload created video  Upload audio/music they created  Write articles or stories and post them 134
  • 135. Conversationalist  33% of online Americans  Update status on a social networking site  Post updates on Twitter 135
  • 136. Critics  37% of online Americans:  Post ratings/reviews of products or services  Comment on someone else‘s blog  Contribute to online forums  Contribute to/edit articles in a wiki 136
  • 137. Collectors  20% of online Americans:  Use RSS feeds  Ad tags to web pages or photos  ―Vote‖ for web sites online 137
  • 138. Joiners  59% of online Americans  Maintain profile on a social networking site  Visit social networking sites 138
  • 139. Spectators  70% of online Americans  Read blogs  Watch video from other users  Listen to podcasts  Read online forums  Read customer ratings/reviews 139
  • 140. Inactives  17% of online Americans  None of the previous activities  My Mom 140
  • 141. Example: American Politics  Democrats are more likely to use social media than Republicans by 10 points.  Republicans are 20 points less likely to use social media. Use other methods to reach them.  Independents are in the Critics, Joiners, and Spectators. 141
  • 142. What is your social media strategy? 142
  • 143. Creating a social media strategy- How do I get started? Listen, Engage, Measure 143
  • 144. Listen  Google  Blog search engines  Search.Twitter.com  Dedicated software (e.g. Radian6, ScoutLabs, Nielsen BuzzMetrics) 144
  • 145. Listen  What are your customers saying about you?  Is it good or bad?  Is there anyone already passionate about your brand or industry? 145
  • 146. Engage  POST  People  Objectives  Strategy  Technology 146
  • 147. People  What are your customers ready for?  Technographic Profile 147
  • 148. People  Make sure your target audience is ready for what you throw at them. 148
  • 149. Objectives  What are your goals?  Listening – better understand your customers.  Get insights from your customers to help make marketing and product development decisions. 149
  • 150. Objectives  What are your goals?  Talking/broadcasting – spread your message.  Make an existing digital marketing initiative (banner/search ads) more interactive. 150
  • 151. Objectives  What are your goals?  Supporting – help your customers support each other.  Effective for companies that have high support costs or to connect with cohesive groups that already exist. 151
  • 152. Objectives  What are your goals?  Embracing – integrate your customers, including helping designing your products  Most challenging objective, best used after completing one of the previous objectives. 152
  • 153. Objectives  Internal communication  Example: 37 Signals  Software company  Members in 5 countries  Use wikis and Twitter to keep in touch 153
  • 154. Strategy  What change do you want your customers to make?  Carry messages to others  Engage more with your organization. 154
  • 155. Technology  What social media tools should you use or build?  Use the previous steps to decide what technology fits best. 155
  • 156. Talking  Viral Video  Engage in social networks and user-generated content sites.  Start a blog.  Create a community –use an existing platform or build your own. 156
  • 157. Measure  Number of followers on social media networks  Number of posts, comments, Tweets, etc.  Key influencers, who already have a following that is talking about you  Share of conversation 157
  • 158. Measure  What are they saying? (wordcloud)  Are they saying good or bad things about you? Are the good comments increasing?  Where is the conversation occurring? (blogs, news sites, forums, social media sites) 158
  • 159. What Can You Do With The Measurements?  Customer service ―Geez, one bad employee can really  Correct misinformation ruin your day!‖  Find out what the community has an interest in but what is not currently being discussed online. 159
  • 160. Reacting to Measurements • Generate awareness among customers and other community members. • Increase employee awareness. 160
  • 161. Reacting to Measurements • Keep content/interactions helpful, fun, and inspiring • Increase impressions from multiple sources on a variety of platforms. 161
  • 162. Social Media ROI Example 162
  • 164. Case Study: Blendtec Viral Video 164
  • 165. Who Is Blendtec?  High end blender manufacturer  Low end blenders cost $399 165
  • 166. Who Is Blendtec?  In 2007, their marketing director saw their techs putting 2x4s into the blender.  Videoed the process and put them on the company website  Total cost: $50 for 5 videos George Wright, CEO 166
  • 167. Who Is Blendtec?  Blendtec‘s webmaster put a link on Digg, a social linking site.  Someone outside the company put them on YouTube.  6 million views 167
  • 169. Results  Sales up 400% since WillItBlend.com appeared. 169
  • 172. Case Study: Best Buy - Twelpforce Customer Support 172
  • 173. Twelpforce  Recognize that there was another way to help customers with their technical support.  Listen to your customers where they‘re at. 173
  • 174. Twelpforce  Barry Judge, CMO, provided leadership and clout in getting the project off the ground. 174
  • 176. BBYFeed.com  Rapid development  Two months to deploy 176
  • 177. Twelpforce – Agent3012  Engage employees.  BestBuy knew that it had many tech enthusiasts that work for it. 177
  • 178. Twelpforce Results  Twelpforce customer satisfaction is higher than for Best Buy standard customer support.  This translates into increased purchase intent and a likelihood to spend more per purchase. 178
  • 179. Case Study: Best Buy – BlueShirtNation.com Human Resources 179
  • 180. BlueShirtNation.com  Started by Best Buy marketers Steve Bendt and Gary Koelling.  Wanted to get better customer insights from the people who were on the front lines working directly with the customer. 180
  • 181. BlueShirtNation.com  Set up a server with an open source blogging/content management system, Drupal, under one of their desks. 181
  • 182. BlueShirtNation.com  They gave chalk talks in stores to drum up participation on the new site. 182
  • 183. BlueShirtNation.com  In a year, they had 14,000 employees on the network; 85% of them were sales associates. 183
  • 184. Listening  Restoration of employee discount  Fixing in store problems (e.g. wrong size displays) 184
  • 185. Talking  Central place where policy can be posted 185
  • 186. Energizing  Allows enthusiastic ―I work in retail. I inspire employees to share with creativity and fun with my the rest of the employees. I grand open organization. stores, as many as possible, really. And I have never before loved a job and a company the way I love this one. My name is Ashley Hemsath, and I am Best Buy.‖ 186
  • 187. Supporting  Employees can find what ―My biggest goal is to get my they need from other team members promoted. I employees. remember the names of everyone I hired and I know what store they are at now. It‘s really cool seeing them interacting with me and each other directly on BSN (Blue Shirt Nation)‖ -Ashley Hemsath 187
  • 188. Embracing  Surfaces great ideas and ―I found out later that [I was talent sitting next to] Kal Patel, Best Buy‘s EVP of strategy. He saw my posts on BSN and said to his assistant, ‗I need to meet that girl!‘‖ -Ashley Hemsath 188
  • 189. Case Study: Nestle vs. Greenpeace 189
  • 190. Nestle vs. Greenpeace  On March 17, 2010. Greenpeace criticized Nestles‘ purchase of palm oil from an Indonesian source that deforests Orangutan natural habitat. 190
  • 193. Nestle vs. Greenpeace  Initially had only 1000 views.  Nestle requested removing the video because it violated their trade mark. 193
  • 194. Nestle vs. Greenpeace  Response: Greenpeace organized their members to start making comments on Nestle's Facebook page  Video now has over 350,000 views. 194
  • 195. Nestle vs. Greenpeace  Nestle removes critical comments and comments with the Greenpeace modified Nestle logo.  Response: Even more angry comments from Greenpeace. 195
  • 196. Nestle vs. Greenpeace  Nestle continues to remove comments from their Facebook page.  Proposes switching palm oil vendors by 2015 196
  • 197. Nestle vs. Greenpeace  Nestle avoids mentioning the controversy directly.  Only people talking about it are Greenpeace supporters. 197
  • 199. Does this scare you?  Your critics are already saying bad things about you, and there‘s nothing you can do about it.  Get your message out there, or your critics‘ message will be the only one your customer sees. 199
  • 200. Nestle vs. Greenpeace  What should you do?  Don‘t hide – be transparent.  No one at Nestle wanted to destroy the environment. 200
  • 201. Nestle vs. Greenpeace  What should you do?  Don‘t be quiet. Respond quickly.  Nestle did not know what to do at the time. Offer a solution to the problem. 201
  • 202. Nestle vs. Greenpeace  What should you do?  Negative comments are a sign that that your followers want to trust your brand again. 202
  • 203. Nestle vs. Greenpeace  What you should do?  If possible, use humor. 203
  • 204. Dodge Year End Clearance Event Commercial 204
  • 205. PETA Objects  "Most top ad agencies in the country won't even consider producing an ad featuring a great ape these days given the well- documented abuse that young chimpanzees and orangutans suffer in the entertainment industry." 205
  • 206. Dodge Commercial – Take 2 206
  • 207. Case Study: Old Spice Guy 207
  • 209. Old Spice Man - People  Targets women who make the purchases in their households, including products for their men.  Manly Man appeals to women.  Also appeals to men because they want to be like the Old Spice Guy. 209
  • 210. Old Spice Man - Objectives  Move the perception of Old Spice products from your grandfather‘s scent to a younger audience.  Drive sales. 210
  • 211. Old Spice Man - Strategy  Called for comments on Reddit, a link sharing site.  Posted a time-stamped picture of Isaiah saying hi to Reddit. 211
  • 212. Old Spice Man - Strategy  Activated the Reddit community, by posting a video to Kevin Rose, founder of Digg and competitive site.  Members submitted the response to Reddit, homepage where the pic of Isaiah and the submission thread stayed all day. 212
  • 213. Old Spice Man - People  Targeted a Person Twitter Followers combination of Ashton Kutcher 5,261,418 high influencers Ellen DeGeneres 4,851,084 and ―little people‖ Demi Moore 2,814,678 for the target Perez Hilton 2,259,144 audience. Kevin Rose 1,176,718 Alyssa Milano 935,642 Christina Applegate 623,538 Gizmodo 103,382 Rose McGowen 80,783 Justine Bateman 21,503 @georgegsmithjr 5,149 213 @knitmeapony 1,300
  • 214. Old Spice Man - Strategy  Created videos and posted links to the videos on their blogs and @replied to them on Twitter.  Activated large communities and created buzz while only a small fraction of videos were posted. 214
  • 215. Old Spice Man - Technology  Multiple platforms:  People Creating  YouTube  People Connecting  Twitter  Facebook 215
  • 216. Old Spice Man - Technology  People Cataloging  Reddit  Digg  People Collaborating  Yahoo Answers 216
  • 217. Old Spice Man - Measure  Generated 16,562 YouTube comments or 72% of the total number of comments on the channel.  11 million views in three days.  Old Spice Body Wash sales up 107% in the last 217 month
  • 218. Re: @Alyssa_Milano 1 | Old Spice @Alyssa_Milano wrote "GENIUS. Shirtless Old Spice guy replies on Twitter w/ hilarious personalized videos http://tnw.to/16XQ3 via @Zee 218
  • 219. Re: @Alyssa_Milano 2 | Old Spice @Alyssa_Milano wrote "My coffee went up my nose. @oldspice guy made a video reply to my tweet!! Watch: http://youtu.be/-oElH6M_5i4 " 219
  • 220. Re: @Alyssa_Milano 3 | Old Spice @Alyssa_Milano wrote "Are you flirting with me, @oldspice guy?‖ 220
  • 221. Re: Alyssa_Milano 4 | Old Spice @Alyssa_Milano wrote "Ummm --- Are you sitting down??? Sit down. Ready? The @oldspice guy sent me roses!" 221
  • 223. Old Spice Man – The Gotcha  Alyssa Milano flipped the Old Spice campaign to her own campaign with this video Here Is What To Do Next Mr. Old Spice, asked for a $100k donation to one of her charities. 223
  • 224. Old Spice Response  As of 8/13/2010, Old Spice has made, in the words of Alyssa Milano, an "extremely generous" donation to a Gulf-area non-profit, 9th Ward Field Of Dreams. 224
  • 225. Old Spice Man – Sustaining Momentum  Will they keep their communities?  What will Old Spice do with its new-found mass of fans? Social media success is built on long term strategies. 225
  • 226. Will The Joke Get Old? Will Parodies Dilute The Humor? 226
  • 227. Old Spice Man – What It Means To You  The technology is in in your hands: $200 flip cam does HD YouTube level video just fine. iPhone 4 is almost as good. Imperfections makes it real as well.  Someone out there will react positively to your brand. Find them and engage them. 227
  • 229. Legal and Ethical Issues 229
  • 230. Social Media Policies  Where not proscribed by law (e.g. financial, legal industries), what your employees post on social media networks should be similar to your existing electronic information policy. 230
  • 231. Facebook Privacy  In April, Facebook launched the Open Graph API which allows developers to tailor offers, features, and services to each one‘s interests and tastes — even if that individual has never visited the site before. 231
  • 232. Facebook Privacy  3rd Party Sharing  Once you ―like‖ something, outside companies get to see some of your hidden profile. 232
  • 233. Facebook Privacy  Privacy advocates  Quit Facebook day was organized 233
  • 234. Facebook Privacy  Response: Gave users the opportunity to share their data in a more nuanced way.  Many options are set to share automatically.  Facebook still pushes its users to share. 234
  • 235. Future Social Media Trends 235
  • 236. Location Based Services  Users ―check in‖ to a location  Notify their friends in the service‘s network or syndicate it in Facebook and Twitter as well.  Locations can also offer deals as well. 236
  • 237. Group Buying  Lets shoppers ―gang up‖ on a deal.  Retailers get guaranteed customers. 237
  • 238. Mobile Ads  Allows advertisers to affect customers at the shelf 238
  • 239. Mobile Payments  Very popular in Asia.  In Japan, can pay vending machines with a cell phone.  Useful in locations where there is little infrastructure. 239
  • 241. Get Involved  Be there – you can‘t talk to your customers without being in the game. 241
  • 242. Get Involved  Be first – don‘t get brandjacked. 242
  • 243. Get Involved  Be connected – build an army 243
  • 244. Get Involved  Be yourself – people can sense a fake 244
  • 245. Get Involved  Be humble – People connecting together are a hugely powerful force. They can be more powerful than your organization. 245
  • 246. Get Involved  Be consistent -let your followers know someone is at home. 246
  • 248. Thank you! Collin Condray Twitter.com/ccondray SocialMediaRevolutionary.com collin@SocialMediaRevolutionary.com