Who’s the Point? Finding Me and Meaning in Social Media by Bill Albing

Finding Me and Meaning in Social Media

by Bill Albing

Concept This presentation is a concept An approach to a very broad concept The concept of social media

This presentation is a concept

An approach to a very broad concept

The concept of social media

WHY use social media? Everyone always asks: why use Twitter, why use Facebook, why use the computer? it seems almost like an oxymoron – how social, if online, how media (in the middle) , if supposed to be immediate?

Everyone always asks:

why use Twitter, why use Facebook, why use the computer?

it seems almost like an oxymoron – how social, if online, how media (in the middle) , if supposed to be immediate?

More than Artifacts Links on LinkedIn or Xing or photos on social networks Purchases on Amazon with recomm’ for future purchases Multi-player games and simulations of socializing

Links on LinkedIn or Xing or photos on social networks

Purchases on Amazon with recomm’ for future purchases

Multi-player games and simulations of socializing

What it is NOT Web for its own sake Business or clicks or counts Self-promotion or branding Making money or making friends … alone

Web for its own sake

Business or clicks or counts

Self-promotion or branding

Making money or making friends

… alone

Isn’t Content king? Is Web content-centric? Content may be king, but we want participatory democracy Content is essential but not an end in itself

Is Web content-centric?

Content may be king, but we want participatory democracy

Content is essential but not an end in itself

More and More Not just content Or even the flow of content But the interaction with content AND Interaction with each other Interaction of humans on Web

Not just content

Or even the flow of content

But the interaction with content

AND Interaction with each other

Interaction of humans on Web

Multi-Faceted Interaction It is not science or art or sport or religion or politics – It is ALL of these, online Social media is what makes possible Web interactivity Multi-directional, multi-dimensional

It is not science or art or sport or religion or politics –

It is ALL of these, online

Social media is what makes possible Web interactivity

Multi-directional, multi-dimensional

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. - George Bernard Shaw

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

- George Bernard Shaw

Humans being human communication Information computing expression interaction

communication

Information

computing

expression

interaction

Igniting Social Media Ignite Raleigh IS social media – me and you and my intention and your participating Participating - from making presentations to voting to buzz to the actual event

Ignite Raleigh IS social media – me and you and my intention and your participating

Participating - from making presentations to voting to buzz to the actual event

Collectively Intelligencing As a collective we have a goal of creating the Web to connect us and our intelligences As an individual each of us is on a quest for meaning

As a collective we have a goal of creating the Web to connect us and our intelligences

As an individual each of us is on a quest for meaning

Interfacing the Truth Interface between it all is SM Individual quest for meaning Social collective intelligence Online information, expression, etc. Squishy interface layer

Interface between it all is SM

Individual quest for meaning

Social collective intelligence

Online information, expression, etc.

Squishy interface layer

A Web is a Web is a Web Take Steven Johnson’s Interface Culture a step farther Not just interface to machines or to Web Web is the interface

Take Steven Johnson’s Interface Culture a step farther

Not just interface to machines or to Web

Web is the interface

UI for All Interactivity All information not real unless it is on the Web Networking of all content and all decision making and all team-worked effort

All information not real unless it is on the Web

Networking of all content and all decision making and all team-worked effort

Whose Consciousness Not machine consciousness Terminator I Robot Matrix Or even our consciousness

Not machine consciousness

Terminator

I Robot

Matrix

Or even our consciousness

de Chardin’s Convergence Teilhard de Chardin said the universe strives towards higher consciousness, and does so by arranging itself into more complex structures. Well, maybe that’s what we’re doing with the Web.

Teilhard de Chardin said the universe strives towards higher consciousness,

and does so by arranging itself into more complex structures.

Well, maybe that’s what we’re doing with the Web.

Who’s the Point? The point of social media isn’t the media itself – it’s what we are accomplishing. The point is not a thing. The point is me and you.

The point of social media isn’t the media itself – it’s what we are accomplishing.

The point is not a thing.

The point is me and you.

To Sum Up (or Down) Social media not just in middle We all participate in social media; it is an interactivity! Social media is more than the message or the medium Use the Web - Be Social The Point is Me and You and Us

Social media not just in middle

We all participate in social media; it is an interactivity!

Social media is more than the message or the medium

Use the Web - Be Social

The Point is Me and You and Us

Next Step “ Ignite MultiSite ” Multiple geographical sites All at same time Participation is global

“ Ignite MultiSite ”

Multiple geographical sites

All at same time

Participation is global