4. PYRAMID of INFLUENCE
Vertical Flow &
Controlled Information
Old models CEO
no longer work BOARD OF
in isolation
DIRECTORS
ACADEMICS
TECHNICAL EXPERTS
ELITE MEDIA
GENERAL POPULATION
5. PYRAMID of COMMUNITY
Power of Peer-to-Peer &
Horizontal Communications
GENERAL POPULATION
EMPLOYEES
ACTION CONSUMERS
New models SOCIAL ACTIVISTS
are firmly
established
6. CEO
PYRAMID of
BOARD OF
AUTHORITY
DIRECTORS
ACADEMICS
TECHNICAL EXPERTS
DIAMOND of ELITE MEDIA
INFLUENCE GENERAL POPULATION
The new dynamic
EMPLOYEES
ACTION
CONSUMERS
SOCIAL
ACTIVISTS
PYRAMID of
COMMUNITY
7. DIAMOND of INFLUENCE
Moving forward, as communicators
we must consider
3 FUNDAMENTAL
SHIFTS in
COMMUNICATIONS PARADIGM
17. Rise of
“a person like me”
A person like me (Japan)
80% A person like me (Global)
70% 65%
60% 61%
50% 47%
43%
44% 39%
40% 40%
31%
29%
30%
22%
20%
10%
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
18. Today, 7 years after Twitter’s inception…
there are 200 million active users creating over
400 million Tweets each day.
By comparison, it took 3 years, 2 months,
and 1 day to reach the first billion Tweets
POWER of
peer-to-peer
28. control
CEO
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
ACADEMICS
TECHNICAL EXPERTS
ELITE MEDIA
content GENERAL POPULATION content
EMPLOYEES
ACTION CONSUMERS
SOCIAL
ACTIVISTS
community