Social Media What’s all the chat about?

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This presentation was created in 6 March 2009! It’s old and out of date then!!!!!

Social Me dia

CONTENT

it’s Elvis

COMMUNITIES

love you or hate you

COMMUNICATIONS

easy, instant

CONNECTIONS

super smart, super connectors

WHAT IS SOCIAL MEDIA?

“ the use of electronic and Internet tools for the purpose of sharing and discussing information and experiences with other

human beings in more efficient ways”

“being social online such as commenting, sharing things and talking to friends and making

new ones”

WIKI’s!

BLOGS!

FORUMS!

SOCIAL NETWORKS!

SOCIAL BOOKMARKING!

WIDGETS!

CONTENT COMMUNITIES!

PODCASTS!

VIRALS!

RSS!

CHATS!

Using those tools

59% TO KEEP IN TOUCH WITH FRIENDS AND FAMILY

To do social things such as......

57% LIKE LOOKING AT OTHER PEOPLE’S SPACES

49% WANT TO MEET PEOPLE WITH SIMILAR INTERESTS

47% TO EXPRESS OPINIONS AND VIEWS ON A TOPIC

20% DATING / ADULT

17% A SPECIFIC REASON (IE JOB NETWORKING)

Enabled through digital steroids SUPER BROADBAND, WIFI, CONFIDENCE, FREEWARE, OPEN SOURCE

WHY SHOULD

YOU CARE?

POPULARITY amongst natives

1.

100M PER DAY. 70,000 NEW ONES. 83% VIEWERS

200M BLOGS. READ BY 73%. CREATED 45%

57% JOINED SOCIAL NETWORKS. 55% UPLOADED

PICS. 22% VIDEOS.

23% INSTALLED WIDGETS. 18% EMBEDED.

TRUST from others 2.

90% SKIP ADVERTS

73% TRUST PERSONAL RECOMMENDATIONS

ONLY 14% TRUST ADVERTISING

ONLY 18% OF TV ADS GENERATE POSITIVE ROI

CREATIVITY from everyone 3.

CREATIVITY ATL to UGC 3.

LONGEVITY in search results

4.

CONVERSATIONS in pubs 5.

WHO’S DOING IT?

NOT just for kids.

Twitter av. age 37yrs

YouTube 60% > 35 yrs

YouTube 62% > $60k p/a

50% of 55+ online

MySpace av. 35yrs

MyTelegraph av.age 68

2m 46 (average video length)

100 friends (Facebook)

26mins per day (Facebook)

1.8m RSS subscribers (TechCrunch)

WHO’S CRACKED IT?

Customisable, simple, content rich, commentary

Community, sharing, useful, creative

Creativity, community, change, results

Participation, reviews, innovation, honesty

Challenge, collaboration, content

Competitive, creative, community

LEARNINGS

Social Exchange - interactions taking place between consumers (and brands) online. They take place using...

Social Media - the virtual communities and tools that people use to connect socially online. This is driven by.....

Social Connectors – 3 key audiences of Super Connectors (1- 8%);

Connectors (10 - 20%) and the Connected (72 - 89%). They share, converse and connect around…

Social Currency- the digital bytes of information and inspiration that convey messages (widgets, games, clips, tools, sites). This drives

Buzz ,word of mouth, traffic, awareness, links, advocacy, ambassadors, endorsers, fans, sales.

Give them something to talk about!

• HOW DO BRANDS CRACK IT

•  BEFORE BRANDS START TELLING STORIES,

•  5 FUNDAMENTALS

PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT THEM. SOME ARE

FRIENDS.

1.

So......start

monitoring

FRIENDS, FAMILY AND FANS ARE VITAL. FIND THEM.

2.

So......start

aggregating

LEARN TO LISTEN. WHERE AND HOW.

3.

what are people

saying ? How ?

WHEN YOU ‘SPEAK’, BE GENUINE. SOCIAL.

4.

So....be nice, sincere, humble, genuine

BRING SOMETHING TO THE PARTY. 5.

So.... make something

brilliant. That’s useful.