Dan Schultz: Designing a strategy for mobile innovation

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Dan Schultz Partner, Silicon Valley Software Group; 2013-2014 Reynolds Fellow, Reynolds Journalism Institute Dan Schultz (@slifty) is a civic hacker and innovator. Specifically, he is a Knight News Challenge winner, a recent graduate from the MIT Media Lab, a not-so-recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, and a 2012 Knight-Mozilla Fellow. Schultz lives in Providence, R. I., and wears many hats. He is a visiting programmer in residence at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications; a cofounder of Hyperaudio Inc., a non-profit organization that allows anyone to remix videos in a notepad; and a partner at the Silicon Valley Software Group, an organization dedicated to helping startups solve their technology problems. Schultz is a 2013 Reynolds Fellow working on Truth Goggles, a credibility layer for the Web. He is also a 2013 Sunlight Foundation grant recipient building CivOmega, a “Wolfram Alpha for civic information” that makes it much easier for nerds to make government data useful to normal human beings.

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DESIGNING A STRATEGY FOR

MOBILE INNOVATION

Dan Schultz @slifty

Silicon Valley Software Group

Idea

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Product

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What problem are you solving?Step 1:

How are you solving it?Step 2:

What assumptions do you need to test?Step 3:

Inputs / Outputs

Context

Experience

Location

Touch Camera

Microphone AccelerationDistance

TimeContacts Calendars

Weather

Inputs / Outputs

Traffic

Social NetworksLight

Gestures

Context

Time Activity

Attention Need

Experience

Simple SmallerInterruptible

Task Based Quick Ubiquitous

“People are disconnected from their geographic communities, because the information they consume is unrelated to their physical locations.”

Problem

Solution“Create personal content feeds based on exact places

where your users spend their time.”

“People are disconnected from their geographic communities, because the information they consume is unrelated to their physical locations.”

Problem

Hypotheses

Readers will...

run an application that tracks their position.spend time reading news related to places they have been.

care more about their community if they know what is happening in it.

run an application that tracks their position.spend time reading news related to places they have been.

care more about their community if they know what is happening in it.

Media organizations will...

have enough local content to power a personalized feed.

publish content in a way that can be tied to locations.

Hypotheses

Readers will...

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Content

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Content

Engagement

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NavigationEngagement

Idea

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Product

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Thank You!

Dan Schultz

dan@svsg.co

@slifty

Silicon Valley Software Group