10 Creative Ways to Create an Impact Online
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Ben Cotton gave a presentation entitled '10 Creative Ways to Create an Impact Online' at the CIPR Social Media conference.
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10 Creative Ways to Create an Impact Online
- 1. 106 Creative Ways toCreate an Impact Online April 2011 Ben Cotton contact@ben-cotton.com @bencotton socialwebthing.com
- 3. Also blogs for Edelman Digital, Behind the Spin and Tweasier
- 4. Has previously worked in a busy press office, famous cricket club and PR research centre
- 5. Working for Edelman Digital since the beginning of 2010
- 8. The conversations are the same, except they are taking place online
- 10. More than 10 million Smartphones in the UK (Comscore)
- 12. Everyone is now a photographer, journalist and film maker
- 14. Information obesity makes being heard more difficult
- 19. A challenge
- 21. Larger audience
- 23. Some targeted a small number of high value influencers
- 24. The others are simply outstanding examples of work that got people noticed
- 26. Considered getting a Barbershop quartet to sing the reasons!
- 27. Got people to write endorsements and support on the group’s wall
- 29. Uploaded recommendations from colleagues on Vimeo to support her application
- 31. Outreached to a small number of high value influencers who shared the video with their networks
- 33. Created Facebook album explaining why agencies and clients should hire him
- 35. The blog enabled him to gain hands on experience of creating and editing online news, not just journalism
- 37. Taylor set them 3 challenges to complete and others started joining in
- 40. Extremely public
- 41. Potentially damage digital footprint
- 43. Names now score highly on Google for things relevant to their career
- 44. Achieved their objectives and made an impact online
- 46. Any questions?
- 47. Thank you Contact details Available from contact@ben-cotton.com slideshare.net/bencotton @bencotton socialwebthing.com
Editor's Notes
- I’ll start with an apology. The eagle eyed amongst us will see that I‘ll be talking about 6 creative ways to create an impact online, rather than the 10 as originally advertised. I hope nobody feels short changed.
- Before we start, a little bit about me.
- I realise people are going to be talking mostly about brands today, so I thought I’d do something a bit different and talk about individuals who have made an impact online.Perhaps they’re not world-famous as Andy Warhol predicted, but I think he was on to something.I also believe you can also apply the same principles to branding whether it be for an individual or multi-national company I also thought it was an interesting quote as often our clients come to us with a brief, to be talked out onlineThey want to be famous.We tell them they don’t want to be.They should be trusted, authentic and credible over famous
- Fast forward 40 years and you’ll see that ommunicationhas changed.There are many participants in the conversationThere is an opportunity for brands to engage and hopefully have a deeper and more meaningful relationship with fans.
- Increasing access to the internet whether it be from a PC or laptop means that people can have their 15 minutes more easily
- The low cost and high availability of technology means that your 15 minutes just got closer
- Everyone can be part of the conversationBut being heard is more difficult. In fact, I would use the phrase information obesity to describe the volume of information that bombards us everyday.There’s now a global audience and this has huge implications on how organisation’s behave.
- There are a plethora of social media platforms out there, which are the tools of the trade for many of us.Broadly we use them to listen, understand and engage with fans
- But seem people get don’t have any problems being getting seen, heard or commented on. Don’t worry I won’t subject you to Rebecca Black.
- So there is a lot of bad or at least very strange stuff out there that we find amusing, however I don’t think its the impact any of us in the room would like to make?I would argue its no good having a high level of fame, if you’re not credible.They have made an impact, but it’s not the outcome they wanted.Instead I’m going to show you some examples of people who have really impressed and subsequently become online hits!Branding should seek to build trust, credibility and authority.Are they credible? Are they trustworthy? Are they an authority?
- Before we begin, I spoke to the people featured within this presentation and tried to understand why they have ‘gone’ digital
- They are great examples of people not brands who have made a name for themselves Google ‘em to see what online impact they have made!
- HyperlocalDigital publishing
- Some of my esteemed colleagues bring their ideas to life with drawings or infographics.I’ve attempted it quite badly here.What this scrawl shows us is that all the people featured in the case studies did not get jobs just because of their creative social media idea.Whilst it may have helped, it’s a combination of on and offline factors, which make the whole strategy.This is something we often forget with brands. People talk about Old Spice as a great social media success. It was. But that was just one part of a whole strategy.
- Hopefully I have talked you through a couple of good examples of how people have used social media to create an impact online.
- I’ll finish as I began, with a quote from Andy Warhol.I’m sure the case studies I’ve curated, started out as the ‘little times’, but have certainly marked ‘a whole period’ in their life
- A nod to @Wadds who recently mentioned that you can never have too many lolcats in a preso