This document discusses how new technologies are enabling new forms of engagement and interaction online through crowdsourcing, social networking, location-based services, augmented reality, and integrating websites with social media platforms. It notes that while technology empowers people, it can also take things away, and addresses challenges around supporting artists in the digital age.

1. Better Living
Through
Technology

2. here there be
monsters

3. People protested and brought
down governments before
Facebook was invented. They did
it before the Internet came along.
- Malcolm Gladwell
New Yorker, Feb 2nd, 2011

6. One To One
One to Many
Many To Many Many To Many

7. old white guys
discovered & labeled
things

8. now we all get to
do it!

9. convergence culture

10. the people formerly
known as the
audience

12. crowdsourcing the
hive mind

13. crowdsourcing crisis
information

14. crowdsourcing funds

15. crowdsourcing
footage

16. crowdsourcing
solutions

17. digital access &
mobile

18. location-based
social networking

19. connecting the web
to the world of
things

20. augmented reality

21. extending the
storytelling
experience

24. social media?

27. WEBSITE
BLOG RESOURCES EMAIL SIGNUP
Widgets
Facebook
Video
Twitter channels
profile
Social Email
Bulletins
Bookmark
ing
Other sites
Other blogs

29. website
+
social media
=
engagement &
interaction

30. 1% collaborators
9% sharers
90% spectators
9

32. embed and spread

33. http://www.bethkanter.org

34. technology giveth
and technology
taketh away

35. obscurity is a far greater threat to
authors and creative artists than piracy
- tim o’reilly

36. how do you support artists
without fighting the
technology?

37. what’s better
than free?
http://springboardmedia.blogspot.com/
Wednesday, May 26, 2010

40. redefining
“live”

41. live screenings

43. diverse viewing
options

44. merchandise

45. what tools are
already available?
and free!

46. be visible & create
sense of inevitability

47. following new
developments