SOCIAL NETWORKING
Trends & Applications




                     December 2009
                    Teemu Arina
tarina.blogging.fi                    tar1na
POWER OF SOCIAL
  NETWORKS
Finland   Facebook   Suomi24   IRC-galleria
                                              Ref: vincos.it
SEARCH IS PRIMARY
SEARCH TODAY


               Search
               Engines
                                Social
                               Networks
   Images, Audio
      & Video
                            Social
               People    Bookmarking
                Web
PROSUMERS
                                      Media
                    Producers                     Customers


                  Creators                     Enthusiasts
     Explicit   Production metadata           Attention Metadata




Metadata



    Implicit
                  Remixers                     Customers
                 Usage metadata               Descriptive Metadata


                                                                     Ref: Ryan Shaw
THE TECHNOGRAPICS IS SOCIAL




                          Youth
                 Adults
    Creators     18% 39%          Blogging, creating video/audio/music


    Critics      25% 43%          Ratings, comments, wiki edits


    Collectors   12% 14%          RSS, voting, tagging


    Joiners      25% 58%          Social networking


    Spectators 48% 66%            Reading blogs/forums/reviews,
                                  listening podcasts, watching video


    Inactives    44% 26%          None of the above
                                                                       Ref: Forrester
SALES FUNNEL   REVERSE FUNNEL
Linear         Non-linear
Us – Company   Them – Customer
Talking at     Conversation with
Searching & Browsing



                         Recommendations & Persuasion


                Reinforcement & Sacrification



                                 Usage & Value Creation
Engagement




                 Value Recognition & Self Expression
SOLUTION SPACES
Aware        Searching & Browsing



Interested
             Recommendations & Persuasion


             Reinforcement & Sacrification



Engaged      Usage & Value Creation


             Value Recognition & Self Expression
EXAMPLE: DELL
AWARE
Searching & Browsing
OPTIMIZE SEARCH RESULTS




OWN
OPTIMIZE SEARCH RESULTS


BOUGHT
OPTIMIZE SEARCH RESULTS




EARNED
Obama YouTube Channel
REACH OUT TO OTHER SITES


                        1 800 videos
                        120 000 000 views

                        150 000 subscribers
Innovations – Widgets
LET USERS TAKE CONTENT AWAY
iPhone Application
GIVE BETTER BROWSING TOOLS
KNOW HOW
TO SPREAD
AND
MEASURE
KNOW HOW TO MAKE AN IMPACT
INTERESTED
Recommendations & Persuasion
 Reinforcement & Sacrification
USAGE-BASED
RECOMMENDATIONS
USER-GENERATED
CATEGORIZATION
AGGREGATION AND
VISUALIZATION
DIRECT CONTEXTUAL
RECOMMENDATIONS
PROVIDE A FACE
REVERSE MARKETING
UNDERSTAND NETWORK EFFECTS


                http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TYy_3786bo
ENGAGED
      Usage & Value Creation
Value Recognition & Self Expression
My.BarackObama.com = Do-It-Yourself Citizenship
IT IS NOT ABOUT US
MAKE
My.BarackObama.com deconstructed

MEANING
GIVE CREDIT
LINK USER CONTEXTS TOGETHER




         Ask questions via Twitter!
   Message any question to @ask_company,
         tag with #product_name
WHY AND HOW THIS
   ALL WORKS?
Ronald Coase


Theory of Transaction Costs
Moore - Metcalfe - Reed
Broadcast Network

                      Social Network

                     Creative Network

Sarnoff   Metcalfe   Reed          1     12   150   1000<



                       Collaboration

                      Communication

                            Publishing
Informal Network Roles   Intelligence Activities
 ■Connectors              ■Aggregation
 ■Nomads                  ■Transfer
 ■Experts                 ■Sensemaking
 ■Bridges
 ■Gatekeepers
SOCIAL OBJECTS
Beat                                                                 Hum


Occasional   Videos Blog posts Photos Microblogging Presence   Continuous




                             SOCIAL
                            OBJECT
                          THE UNIFYING
                            CONTEXT


                                                               Ref: Jyri Engeström
WHAT STRATEGY?
Providers       Users




               Innovators
 Advertisers
Successful Digital Experience
           Useful    Useable       Desirable        Sustainable              Social
         Reason     Intuitive      Differentiated   Maintained             Conversation
         Purpose    Easy to use    Memorable        Supported              Sharing
         Needs      Accessible     Aesthetic        Evolving               Community
                                                    Scaling                Networking



                                                                                                     Next
Basics
                                                                                                     level

                    Users, Brands, Business processes, Values etc.




                                                      Ref: Original by David Armano 2007, modified by Teemu Arina
OLD WORLD


        DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS
DIGITALIZATION IN ORGANIZATIONS

     Opportunities and sophistication

                                                    Online              Digital
        Email    Website           e-Business
                                                    Collaboration       Ecosystems



                                       Value



                                                    W
                 Visibility
Comm




                                                                         Open In
                                                    Im
                                                      ays of W
                                                       proving
                              C
     unication




                                hain Int




                                                                                 novation
                                                               orking
                                         egration
ROLES IN THE ECOSYSTEM
                  Increases chances of survival by
    CATALYST      supporting the growth of a living
                  and functioning ecosystem.

                  Aims to own and control a large
    DICTATOR      portion of the ecosystem.


                  Extracts more value from the
     MILKER       ecosystem than contributes back.


                  Builds specialized services &
   NICHE-PLAYER   niche skills, which help the actor
                  to differentiate from others.
NEXT WAVE?
NOW WEB
– JWT Trendletter August 2009


NOWISM
– Trendwatching.com
Ref: Domino’s Pizza, USA
http://twitter.com/cremebruleecart
         Over 8400 followers
AWARENESS SYSTEMS
     “...offer tremendous potential for
     innovation, with a wide range of forms
     and contexts for transforming the
     space around us.”
     – Panos Markopoulos et al. (2009)
COMMUNICATION     CONTENT     CONTEXT
<<2000            2000-2008   2008>>


3 MOBILE ERA’s
Ref: SPRXMobile
INFORMATION & ATTENTION
      “What information consumes is rather
      obvious: it consumes the attention of its
      recipients. Hence a wealth of information
      creates a poverty of attention.”
      – Social Scientist Herbert Simon (1971)
CONTINUOUS PARTIAL
ATTENTION
– Linda Stone (1998)
FROM
INFORMATION
OVERLOAD,
TO...
SOCIAL INTERACTION
OVERLOAD
LIQUID
MODERNITY
  – Zygmunt Bauman
CONNECTIVISM
& INFOTENTION




                Ref: George Siemens & Howard Rheingold
TOMATOES.                       Teemu Arina
                                CEO - dicole ltd.

                                tarina.blogging.fi
                                www.dicole.com
                                teemu@dicole.com

                                MY VCARD TO YOUR PHONE:




      “Imagination is more
   important than knowledge.”
        – Albert Einstein



                                                    tar1na

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