11. Today, 400 million active users The average user 55% daily return 2.2 visits a day 27.7 minutes/day Architecture Profiles Groups Events Pages Fundamentally changed the internet
15. Ensuring a Legacy Outreach: Reach out to make sure the legacy is ensured. Ensure you are in constant touch with the people running the page/group Lessons from Johnny Chatterton, Burma Campaign Capture the contacts. People will stop checking the group/page before you know it Establish a trusted admin team that you can rely on and leave to administer the group Act quickly, assume that if it goes viral you only have 1 chance to reach your targets
16. What makes something go Viral? Motivation The “invite your friends effect” The media/blogs – it must go offline Urgency (people are dying) Trust The “my friend Bob is doing this, so I should” Remember, you can’t engineer it. It’s up to your users to make it go viral, you have to put everything in place & hope!
>Never looked at a Social Network Site >Don’t have a SNS profile >Have less that 20 friends >don’t Interact with one or more sites daily >Unless you’re already mentioned that you’re in this seminar via any SNS / twitter etc. Photo Credit http://flickr.com/photos/wheatfields/1614171272/ CC BY-NC-SA
Her’s an example of how behaviour is changing
Here’s an example of impact
And it’s this profound: email was the internet’s first killer app, not the web: access via mobiles will only accelerate this trend
Activity online isn’t different in type from activity offline. (In fact - many young people wouldn’t recognise the dichotomy) But - it is changed by being online: bedroom wall example -(Constant Contact generation)
But - we have to remember that young people see this differently. (in the same way you might see your youth centre as being about personal and social development - and YP see it as a space for meeting friends and hanging out).