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http://blogs.nitle.org/let
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Valuing Social Networks Through Creative Potential • Fiscar 2010 • Sunday 23rd May 2010
3. Valuing Social Networks
Through Creative Potential
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4.
5. • Michael Arrington’s Model
• Divides Social Network user base geographically
• Compares divided user base to marketing money spent in
that region
• Applies a weighted average to Social Network dependent on
user location and their “market place”
Valuing Social Networks Through Creative Potential • Fiscar 2010 • Sunday 23rd May 2010
6. 191 million
People online (U.S.) in 2008 (Comscore)
63%
Valuing Social Networks Through Creative Potential • Fiscar 2010 • Sunday 23rd May 2010
7. 191 million
People online (U.S.) in 2008 (Comscore)
Arringtons Model
Advertsing spend online
($25.2 billion)
Users
$132 p/a
Average per person in U.S. (2008)
( Advertsing spend online
X
Users in market place )
Valuing Social Networks Through Creative Potential • Fiscar 2010 • Sunday 23rd May 2010
8. • Each Social Network is assessed by “weighted
averages”
• Facebook with a core user base in U.S., U.K. etc is worth
more than Orkut (predominantly Brazilian)
• Model scales accurately when compared to sales of
LinkedIn, Bebo and Facebook
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9. Bebo Facebook
Points 3,530,156 10,223,824
FBValue $5.1 Billion $15 Billion
Bebo Value $850 Million $13.5 Billion
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10. • Arrington’s model makes no account of:
• Social Interaction
• Communication
• Education and Learning
• Consumer Psychology
• or Creative Potential
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12. • What is creative potential?
• Varying capacity of the ability or power to create
• The ability or prowess of individuals and/or groups to discover and develop
new, uncommon or unique ideas or concepts or new associations between
existing ideas or concepts
• Fluctuating variable affected by surroundings, interaction, communication and
collaboration
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13. • Why is creative potential important?
• “Creativity is considered one of the core resources of the 20th
Century” (Hornak 2009)
• Increasing acknowledgement that creativity is more
important than intellect and credentials in problem solving
• Creative Students make better students
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14. "Imagination is more important than
knowledge."
- Albert Einstein
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15.
16. • Participation leads to collaboration
• In networks where collaboration is promoted, interaction will
often lead to collaboration
• Von Hippel’s Kite Surfers
5 min
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17. “In the long history of human kind (and animal kind, too)
those who have learned to collaborate and improvise
most effectively have prevailed”
- Charles Darwin
5 min
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18. • Collaboration leads to creativity
• Converges diverse ideas and/or beliefs
• Increased engagement results in increased creativity (Kao et
al. 2008)
• Creativity is a cyclical process
• Designers have to get passed the “Gatekeepers” of society
(Csikszentmihalyi)
5 min
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19. “Creativity has always been a highly collaborative,
cumulative and social activity in which people with
different skills, points of view and insight share and
develop ideas together”
- Charles Leadbeater
5 min
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20. • Creativity leads to innovation
• “Creativity... is the engine that drives the new way of doing
things” (Marques 2010)
• “Innovation is the successful implementation of creative
ideas...” (Amabile 200)
• Creativity - generation
• Innovation - implementation
5 min
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21. It’s a cyclical process
Participation
Innovation
Collaboration
Creativity 5 min
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22. • Power of Social Network when used creatively
• Increased speed of social communication/collaboration
• Maya Facebook project
• Innocentive
• Mechanical Turk
• Lost Camera
• Open Street Map
5 min
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23.
24. Bounded Ideation Theory
Understanding
+
- Ratio of good
Cognitive Inertia ideas to
total ideas
-
Exhaustion
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25. • Divided message
• Similar but differentiated ideas may detract from each other by
splitting followers
• Many voices with similar messages are weaker than many voices
with the same message
• Echo Chamber
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26. • “Group think” mentality
• Language
• Must be a frame work of communication
• Must be a common understanding
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27.
28. • Wider access to creative means, networks and
support
• Expectations on designers likely to rise
• Increased access to contextual awareness
• Increasingly context aware users
• Designers will be able to accurately identify which
networks suit their needs
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29. • Less able to “hide behind technique”
• No longer a job for life
• Access to “Gate keepers”
• Potential resource
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30.
31. • Diversity of communication channels
• Diversity of user base
• Ethnicity
• Geographically
• Educationally
• How are relationships formed
• Serendipitous or not
• Cross linking
• Recommendations
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32. • Frequency of contact
• Duration of contact
• Physical vs.Virtual interaction
• Ability of the network to harbor an echo chamber
• Group think mentality
• Granularity of the system
• Language
• Customisation
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33. Conclusion
Valuing Social Networks Through Creative Potential • Fiscar 2010 • Sunday 23rd May 2010
34. • Current models don’t adequately value the creative
aspects of Social Networks
• Creative Potential is “rife” and important on Social
Networks
• There is a cyclical process of Participation,
Collaboration, Creativity and Innovation
• Designers are faced with both an added creative
resource but also added creative expectations
• There is a need to formulate a new valuation model
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