1. Hi, My name is
Tanya Smirnova
This presentation made for
the Pecha kucha research
activity for MA Digital media
management course in Hyper
island in manchester
2013
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One year ago, my life was full of big and important projects but all these projects weren’t important for me.
They were important for my boss, for my clients or at least it seemed to feel like that.
I was a project manager.

2. Life is a box
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My life was the same every day: Wake up, breakfast, one hour to get to the office, then around 12-13 hours at work, and than one
more hour in Subway...After that you just want to Rest In Peace on your bed because you are exhausted.
My life was full of boxes.

3. Beliefs
Quality of MY work
Add values in peoples lives
Trust and transparency
Team is everything
The problem started to grow when I realized that my beliefs in my life were so far of what I was doing and it was very frustrating.

4. Time for change
“Choose a job you love, and you will
never have to work
a day in your life.”
(c) Cofucius
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I really like this quote. That’s why I decided to find my passion and my own Path.
However, I didn’t know what I love and what I was passionate about. This was the starting point of my journey.

5. Freedom
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I started with embracing Freedom and quit my job, I become freelancer and created my team.
At the beginning, it was a team with responsible people and we just simply worked together.Without any goals or purpose.
But I still felt that I need more.

6. How I realize that Digital is
a right choose?
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It was a moment when I was in Helsinki, in an airport, and my client from Moscow called to ask about final version
of a presentation.The presentation was with my designer in Bali, I called her via Skype and asked her to put the presentation
in Dropbox and share it with client. In 15 minutes, I was set to board my next flight.

7. Digital Technology
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In that time I realized that Digital Technology can change my life.That’s how the Digital world become my passion.
The key is that you need to find your passion and do what you love.You will then understand what to do
and what your next steps are.

8. Potential
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I decided to see what I actually had done for the last 4 years and where is my potential - potential is not an endpoint
but a capacity to grow and learn.
As you can see, I grew fast with numbers of projects and people in my team and I also learnt a lot quickly in digital agencies.
So what’s next?

9. Future of Digital Agencies
Problem solvers
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I searched about the future of Digital Agencies and I found that there are no Agencies in the Future. Experts from Agencies will act
as problem solvers, rather than message crafters. It will be a future of experts and consultants.

10. I decided to be
a business
consultant
in Digital
Technologies
That’s why I decided to be a business consultant in Digital Technologies. I understood how powerful it is to help people and how
happy I am when I’m doing it. I decided to become an expert.The decision was made but what’s next? Am I ready to build my own
brand?

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At the beginning, I thought that I have everything I need (all tools, like Twitter, Facebook,Tumblr, even my own website).
But everything was so jumbled up.
I didn’t have a strategy - I was randomly creating a lots of content, my networks didn't have any connection with each other, etc.

12. What do you think is my current profession?
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I’ve conducted a research and asked my friends:What do they think is my current profession? Half of the people said that I am
a project manager and I am doing something with social media. People simply don’t know what exactly I am doing and it is not even
close to being an Expert =)

13. Picture source: www.123rf.com(c)
What do I need to do? I needed to rebrand myself (!) It is a challenge to control my online personal presence.When the
information appears online, it becomes permanent and widely accessible and the ownership of online information is difficult to
control.

14. Picture source: www.hbr.org the lean start-up model (c)
So you really need to know what do you want to say to people?
I decided to use the lean start-up model and at the beginning of this model, you need to summarize all your ideas in a framework
called a business model canvas.The Second step is called “get out of the building” and test your ideas.

15. My Purpose: Add values in
peoples lives
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I looked at my principles and created key messages accordingly. First, is adding value in peoples lives. It is something that Universe
has been doing for me for the past 25 years and now it is time to return the favour.

16. What’s the difference?
Trust and
transparency
Quality of my work
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Second, is the quality of my work, it is built on the right questions. I'm the type of person that if you ask me what’s the right
question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know. But I know how to find it.This is about trust
and transparency.

17. Team is everything
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Team is everything (!) I started to build a culture with my team, to create an environment where we can learn, grow and implement
our potential.As a first step, I asked them to write their personal goals and how our team can help them to achieve their goals to
move forward.

18. Picture source: kevinwynne.wordpress.com (c)
From inside to outside: If you want to be an expert, you need to be a part of expert-communities and even build your own
community around you. It is not only your team or clients, it is also mentors and coaches thatYOU need to find forYOU.

19. Picture source: facebook.com – screeshot (c)
For example, in Facebook, I have a lot of different people but most of them can talk only in English or in Russian. So what do I need
to do? Simply, I need to create groups of people, within of my page, and define all the content between these two groups.
Community and connections are important and it is especially important how you use them.

20. Picture source: www.firstnorth.org (c)
Now, it’s just the beginning: I want to be a business consultant in Digital Technologies. I know my Purpose and values.
I know I have a beautiful team.The Next step is prototype and test my brand to finalize the shape of it and continue to grow.
Thank you (!)

21. story about power of social media
I decided to post my presentation online and then A
chAIN OF UNEXPECTED EVENTS OCCURRED...
– In 5 days I got 18 305 views.
– My presentation was in top of the most popular
presentation of the week on slideshare.
– I received a lot of random messages through
my social networks with thanks from people.
– I’ve got two offers to be a consultant for business
(one in Russia and another one in america).

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