The document discusses social media, memes, and creating content for social platforms. It covers how memes spread virally and get made based on cultural trends. Key concepts explained include how social media facilitates interactions between users, how content spreads based on theories of influential spreaders versus casual spread, and types of content that typically goes viral. Guidelines are provided for creating effective social content.
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Creating Great Social Media Content
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Social Media, Memes, and the Joys Creating Social Content
September 23, 2010
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August 15, 1971
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The 7 Trends Changing Everything
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6. 5 The consumer is in control
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Atoms to Bits
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8. 7 Real-time to My time
“Mommy, why can’t I pause the TV?”
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The end of centralization
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The future is always on
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The end of the desktop
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Welcom
e
to the
global
convers
ation
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13. Prospect
Broadcast
Media
Telemarketing
Mobile
Web
Social Media
Email
Direct
Print
Mail
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brand
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company brand consumers
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“Guerilla Marketing”
for GoldenPalace.com
for Forgetting Sarah Marshall
for Aqua Teen Hunger Force
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Ads Everywhere...
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19. 17 Toyota: “YourOtherYou” Campaign
“Prank Marketing”
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“Undercover Marketing”
for Blackberry
“Cigarette Fairy”
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“Mobile Marketing”
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(but recent research indicates only 15% of
“viral” media passed on)
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What is “social media”
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Marshal McLuhan
“The medium is the message.”
Media: a technology that affects society not
by its content but by its characteristics.
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no “content”...
...but has social effect
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“media”
Sender information or data Receiver
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“mass media”
Receiver
or data
tion
rma
info
Sender information or data Receiver
info
rma
tion
or d
ata
Receiver
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social: the interaction of humans with other humans
media: technology used to store and deliver information or data
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social media
Participant
or data
n
rm atio
info
Participant information or data Participant
infor
mati
on o
r dat
a
Participant
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Social Media:
technologies that facilitate
interactions between humans
using information or data.
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32. 29 A (somewhat incomplete) Timeline of Social Media
not to scale
USENET
1979 listserv Napster flickr
1986 1999 2004
pneumatic post
1865
SecondLife
2003
postal service
Persia, 550BC
The Palace
radio ARPANET Wikipedia
1994 twitter
1891 1969 2001
The WELL Facebook 2006
1985 Friendster 2003
2002
@ MySpace YouTube
email
Third Voice 2003 2005
1966 BBS IRC 1999
1978 1988
telephone
del.icio.us
~1890
2003
telegraph
France, 1792 MUD1
Blogger
1978
1999
CompuServe MoveOn
1969 1998 digg
epinions 2004
1999
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How memes get made
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Memes
๏ units of cultural information
๏ cultural evolution or cultural diffusion
ins
wk e
๏ subject to natural selection Da en
ard sh G
R ich elfi
๏ variation Th e S 1976
๏ competition
๏ mutation
๏ it’s not survival of the fittest, it’s survival of fastest (those best able
to spread)
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Viral Transmission
Virus
Virus Host Virus
Virus
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TB Transmission
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High School Dating
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Graph of The Internet
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“The Tipping Point”
๏ “Hubs” Malcolm Gladwell
๏ “Superconnectors”
๏ “Influentials”
๏ Viral media based on the theory that a few important people in a
network can accelerate transmission and acceptance of an idea.
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One-to-one
Duncan Watts
๏ Memes take hold because culture is ready
๏ Six degrees of separation true, but connectors not important
๏ People influence others around them
๏ Anybody is just as likely to launch a trend as anyone else
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Source: Paul Adams http://www.slideshare.net/padday
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Source: Paul Adams http://www.slideshare.net/padday
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vs.
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vs.
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Creating For Social Media
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Archetypes of great
social content
๏ Surprise
๏ Sex
๏ Destruction
๏ Musical
๏ Fantastic
๏ Connection
๏ Self-awareness
๏ Behind the scenes
๏ Spectacle
๏ Cute/Kind
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Carton’s Law:
What Works Best Online is What Can Only Work Online
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Carton’s Law 2:
Technology Changes Quickly, People Change Slowly
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Source: Paul Adams http://www.slideshare.net/padday
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Carton’s Law 3:
Brands are collaborations
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Carton’s Law 4:
People Don’t Interact With “Technology”,
People Interact With People
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This is the day that the US went off the Gold Standard. It’s essentially the day that the world became an information economy, an economy based on data rather than stuff. All of a sudden money went from representing a physical-world commodity to representing what we said (and/or agreed) it represented. Everything that’s happening right now-- from the economy to the internet-- is a direct line on the vector of this change.