Post on 18-Oct-2014
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Generations & The Networking Advantage
Tribes, Weak Ties & Personal Capital
Alex
Local Business Marketing Spend: 2013
BIA Kelsey Research
Puzzled By A Trend
Why Does Connection Marketing Instinctively Matter to Biz Operators?
BIA Kelsey Research
Seth Godin: Internet and Hanging With Your Tribe
Urban Tribes, Identity Capital, Weak Ties
Trouble: Crisis NOW, Capital is for LATER
Identity Capital
• How we build ourselves piece by piece over time• Repertoire of assembled individual assets• Most importantly, what kids bring to the adult marketplace
Can a Tribe Really Help?
• Similarity breeds connection
• Homogeneous clique
• Incestuous group• Restricted speech
Strength of Weak Ties
• Weak Ties are the people we have met, or are connected to somehow, but do not currently know well and have not been promoted to close friends
• Force us to communicate from a place of difference…with Elaborated Speech
• Requires us to make our points more fully• Promotes more thoughtful Growth and Change
Biz Stone: Co-founder Twitter on Colbert Report
The FB News Feed Challenge
FB Reducing Weak Tie Network
Weak Ties
• The people we know the least are the most transformative
• New things always come from outside your inner circle
• Twenty-somethings resist leveraging the strength of their weak ties– I want to get a job on my own– I hate networking– That’s not my style
Eric Schmidt, executive chairman of Google
“ Y-E-S is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it’s a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means you will do something new, meet someone new, and make a difference.”
Boomers Get Weak Ties
• College campus: playground to explore, chase identity, and begin stalking change
• Learned that interconnectedness is not texting friends at 1am- but reaching out to weak ties that make a difference to our lives even though they don’t have to
• Engaging human grace vs. servile respect• But, boomers have grown distant and apart-
Social Networks new playground for old skills
Biggest increases in Social Media usage found among older age groups• 43% of internet users aged 65 and older reported being social networking site users as of May, a large jump from 32% at the end of 2012
• 60% of internet users aged 50-64 used social networks as of May, up from 52% in December
Boomers Run Marketing Now
BIA Kelsey Research
Social Media Marketing: Harvesting Weak Ties & Personal Capital
Wishing You (and Alex) A Long Life of Weak Ties
Adam JapkoPresident
DigitalSherpaDigitalSherpa.com
Ajapko@digitalsherpa.com