Navigating The Way Forward

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Tony Hodgson dotgain.org Conference 30 November 2010 Naviga.ng the Way Forward

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Second Keynote presentation at dotgain.org Conference London November 2010

Transcript of Navigating The Way Forward

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Tony  Hodgson  

dotgain.org  Conference  30  November  2010  

Naviga.ng  the  Way  Forward  

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Naviga.ng  the  Way  Forward  

  Guide    Des.na.on    Direc.on  

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“Just  when  you  think  it  can't  get  any  worse,  suddenly  it  gets  even  worse”.  

Marvin  the  Android  -­‐  Hitchhikers  Guide  to  the  Galaxy  

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Disrupting the Future

Uncommon Wisdom for Navigating Print’s Challenging Marketplace

Joseph W. Webb, Ph.D.Richard M. Romano

“We  are  today  as  far  into  the  electric  age  as    the  Elizabethans  had  advanced  into  the  typographical  and  mechanical  age.  And  we  are  experiencing  the  same    

confusions  and  indecisions  which  they    had  felt  when  living  simultaneously  in  two    contrasted  forms  of  society  and  experience.”  

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First  published  48  years  ago!  

Four  epochs  of  history  

Oral  tribe  culture  Manuscript  culture  The  Gutenberg  Galaxy  Electronic  age  

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Oral  Tribe  Culture  –  many  thousand  years  

One  to  One  

Cave  painEng  from  Lascaux,  France,  c.  15,000-­‐10,000  BC  

One  to  a  Few  

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Manuscript  Culture  -­‐  4500  years  

One  to  a  Few  

One  to  Few  more  

Sumerian  Clay  Tablet  –  3000  BC    

Italian  Illuminated  Bible  –  1500  AD  

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Gutenberg  Galaxy  -­‐  550  years  

One  to  Many  

One  to  Very  Many  Gutenberg  Bible  c1450  

One  to    Many  More  

AARP  Magazine  Nov/Dec  2010  

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Electronic  Age  –  20  years  

One  to  Very  Many  in  

Netscape  Navigator  Browser  1995  

1995:  16  million  users  

2010:  2  billion  users  –  nearly  1/3  world  popula.on  

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The  web  is  viewed  as  “just  another  publishing  medium.    This  was  definitely  not  our  inten.on”.  

Robert  Callieu,  Time  Magazine,  May  1997  

Tim  Berners-­‐Lee  and  the  Post-­‐Gutenberg  Galaxy  

The  World  Wide  Web  could  prove  as  important  as  the  prin.ng    press.  That  would  make  Berners-­‐Lee  comparable  to  Gutenberg.  

Robert  White,  Time  Magazine,  May  1997  

The  idea  that  anyone  in  the  world  can  publish  informa.on  and  have  it  instantly  available  to  anyone  else  in  the  world  created  a  revolu.on  that  will  rank  with  Gutenberg's.  

Walter  Isaacson,  Time  Magazine,  December  1999  

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The  Global  History  of  Media  

  At  first,  Word  of  Mouth   One  to  one,  one  to  a  few  

  Drawing,  Pain.ng,  Wri.ng   One  to  a  few…    Hundreds  at  most  

  World  wide  web  of  two  billion  users…   Many  to  many,  or  a  few  …  or  just  one  

  Prin.ng,  Radio,  Film,  TV   One  to  many…   One  to  many  hundreds,  thousands,  millions  

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Fast  forward  to  the  NoughEes  

Many  to  Many  

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A  Peek  into  the  Future  

  The  Future  of  Print  Media  beyond  2020  

  Ci.zen  Crea.on    

“We  an.cipate  that  at  least  1/3  of  all  news  and  magazine  content  will  be  created  by  ci.zens  by  2020”    

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The  Des.na.on  

  Defending  print  against  new  media  misses  the  point  

  Print  has  been  the  dominant  mass  publishing  medium  

  Digital  changes  publishing  itself  from  a  broadcast  medium  to  a  personalised  medium  

  We  are  entering  a  new  epoch  when  publishing  could  only  be  done  by  a  few  to  when  it  will  be  done  by  anybody.    

  Key  point  to  overcoming  McLuhan’s  “confusion  and  indecision”  

  Mass  broadcast  publishing  and  marke.ng  is  in  decline  but…  

  Personalised  publishing  creates  opportuni.es  for  communica.on  media  service  providers  

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The  Challenges  for  our  Clients  

  Marketers  no  longer  control  the  marke.ng  message  

  Publishers  and  their  retail  channels  are  being  by-­‐passed  by  authors,  ar.sts,  their  readers  and  their  listeners  

  Content  is  no  longer  mass  produced.  It  is  personalised.  

  Relevance  and  immediacy  are  the  new  measures  of  quality  

  The  medium  is  as  important  as  the  message.  How  you  reach  your  audience  determines  who  you  reach.  

  Everybody  can  be  their  own  publisher  through  their  mobile  phone,  their  tablet,  their  Facebook  page.  They’ll  publish  to    web,  to  mobile,  to  print.    

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It’s  What  this  Conference  has  been  About  

  Cross  Media  Marke.ng  

  Relevant,  mulE-­‐channel  and    personalised  

  Web  to  print  

  The  web  as  a  on-­‐demand,  transacEon  medium  

  Personalised  Publishing    Mobile  to  print  photobooks  

  InteracEve,  personalised,  premium  products  

  Data    Underpins  everything  

  New  Media  

  Pla^orm  independent  outputs  –  PDF,  print,  on-­‐demand,  personal  

  Digital  Marke.ng  with  the  Web  

  Web  sites  are  not  brochures.  It’s  about  how  you  engage  clients  

  Email  

  Old  media  or  new?  Similar  challenges  to  print.  

  Social  Media  

  In  its  infancy,  but  is  the  future  of  mass  communicaEon  

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Direc.on  –  how  dotgain.org  is  helping  

  Customer  engagement   Website  EvaluaEon    Customer-­‐Centric  Index   Online  MarkeEng  Strategy  

  Business  Strategy   On-­‐site  Consultancy    SituaEon  Analysis  –  market,  clients,  technology,  skills    Digital  Business  Strategy  

  Learning    SoluEons  Selling  and  MarkeEng  workshops  

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Naviga.ng  the  Way  Forward  

  Long-­‐term  future  

  Chart  progress  as  we  go    Annual  review    Think  5  years  ahead