Do you work in media? Are you interested in digital? Do you care about how social media can go beyond the dependence on platforms or algorithms? This talk briefly covered the development of social media from the protests in Tahrir Square of the 'Arab Spring', to Zuckerberg testifying before the US Senate and Congress in April 2018.
We then follow with breaking the mould of journalism (you don't need to have studied journalism if you want to work in journalism), what are the right numbers to track (analytics) and why engaging with your audience, rather than focusing on pure aggregate growth is a smarter strategy.
26. A few easy deductions/conclusions
● Social media continues to grow
● Mobile is the way most Norwegians get online/social
● Video is a big deal
● 25-34 year olds are most active on Facebook, followed by 35-44 year olds
36. Be great in 8
1. Numbers are your friend
2. Less is more: the poorest
performers overproduce
content
3. Be aware of platform
dependency
4. Talk to people
5. Text still matters, but, are you
overproducing? (If you are a
newspaper, no problemo).
6. Build in experimentation
7. You don’t need to be everything
to everyone
8. The female audience: FB (&
Twitter etc) need to do a better
job of tracking this
11 February 2011
After 3 weeks of working 16 hours a day, 7 days a week
No broadcast journalists were let in and AJ wasn’t the famous.
We were receiving hundreds of pieces of content a day via a custom portal sharek (to share)
Resulting in this being called ‘a social media revolution’ (it wasn’t) i wasn’t clicktivism but it did facilitate
http://blog.aisinsurance.com/2017/05/31/marketing-a-small-to-mid-size-business/
(note that this is a marketing website - not even news)
Why are people going to these platforms?
Just because you’re big doesn’t mean you’re best, its about building relationship with your audience
Numbers are your friend
Less is more: best performing accounts are niche/conservative with their posts. They know who their audience is and they know what they’re delivering
Conversely, the poorest performers overproduce content (ie, spamming their audience), and generally have the largest inactive audiences
Is it time to rethink FB lives generally don’t work. Apply liberally
(Cross functional teams - Aine- neva labs) Numbers can only tell your part of that story. Next step is to go to desk people and find patterns - what is it that works for business - dress code, don’t call me bossy, asian market inforgraphics and what works where?
You don’t need to be everything to everyone.
Find out who your audience is and love them hard https://radiokahuna.com/wp-content/uploads/Everclear-Everything-To-Everyone.jpg