Add an eventSessions at SXSW Interactive 2011 about Social Media on Tuesday 15th March
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Engineering vs. Psychology in Social Media: A Conversation
by Stephanie Dub and Jesper Andersen
As we continue to embrace all forms of social media, we unwittingly allow privacy settings and engineered functionality dictate the evolution and devolution of our relationships. We're beginning to see a new model of relational progression that is constructed by the levels of 'friendship' or 'following' allowed on sites, not necessarily what is psychologically beneficial.
With establishing social sites in an industry where success and product value are measured by data sets, user base growth, and scalability comes an ever growing ignorance of the distinction between building a successful service using computers and building a successful model of relationships.
Is it possible that the immediately fulfilling and addicting satisfaction of social media site use conceals the concept that the rules, metrics, and system preferences which define the world of tech and internet are not necessarily the ones that should be defining our relationships?
This presentation will take a look at the differences between psychological relational progression and the new world of engineering defined relationships. We will discuss the nuances and experiences that are important to relationships and how they integrate, or don't, with the informal new relationship model that social technology is creating. We'll then discuss how we foresee coming back to a middle ground between socially engineered and naturally occurring relational experiences.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Unwritten Rules: Brands, Social Psychology and Social Media
by Kate Canales and Ben McAllister
When a friend invites you to dinner, you bring wine or flowers – not $100 cash – as a gesture of thanks. That goes without saying. But if a brand comes to dinner, what should they bring? When it comes to social media, there are unwritten rules for how to behave that many brands simply aren't getting.
Brands are grappling with social media as they try to find a place at our virtual dinner table. Some brands get it, some gaffe it. The rules, it turns out, are hidden in basic social psychology. The established behaviors of friendship are the prevailing rules of the road in social media: sharing valuable information, entertaining one another, support in a crisis, celebration of a personal achievement. But the established behaviors of transactions (the way we historically interact with brands) can feel awkward and forced in social media. So how can brands build trust with their networks while being social like a friend? This session will look at social media behavior and what brands can do to become a delightful guest and valuable contributor at our virtual dinner party.
LEVEL: Beginner
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We First: How Social Media can Remake Capitalism and Build a Better World
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Perspectives on Social Media Marketing
PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING addresses 89 of the most compelling and important issues that marketers face on a regular basis when it comes to social media, providing advice and insight on how to deal with each issue from the perspective of two thought leaders in this arena: Stephanie Agresta from Weber Shandwick and B. Bonin Bough from PepsiCo. Together, they discuss what social media is, how it has changed the marketing landscape, how to implement a tactical and strategic social media plan across your organization, how to best measure the ROI of a social media campaign, and more.
Come meet Stephanie, chat about the current Social Media Landscape and get your book signed!
**Stephanie Agresta currently serves as EVP, Mananging Director of Social Media for Weber Shandwick. She loves Austin and SXSW and her favorite Austin restaurants include Guero's and Salt Lick!
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Beyond Wordclouds: Analyzing Trends with Social Media APIs
by Chris Busse
There are many services that will generate wordclouds and simple graphs from the conversations on social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook. These services use Application Programmer Interfaces (APIs) to access the data on the platforms then perform various analysis on that data. These tools are often very limited in their functionality, or are very expensive to use for large-scale ongoing analysis and even then they often don't cover all the needs of a dynamic organization.
This presentation will demonstrate how to programmatically access the APIs of several social media platforms to pull out specific data, store it in a database, and perform custom analysis on it to meet the needs of various business cases.
We'll take a look at how different social media platforms are better suited for gleaning different kinds of data. This includes Twitter and Facebook as well as various blog and location-based platforms. Specific business cases will be shown around marketing, communications, competitive intelligence, crisis management, and return on investment analysis.
Attendees of this presentation will leave with a better understanding of how looking at the universe of online conversation as a whole can provide valuable insight into what consumers are thinking and interested in at any given moment.
LEVEL: Advanced
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Conversational Journalism: Do's and Don'ts of Audience Participation
Journalists and scholars have talked on and off about the idea of journalism as a conversation for nearly 20 years. It stands in contrast to decades of traditional journalism as a lecture, in which the all-knowing journalist alone decides what is news and conducts a monologue with the public on such matters, or maybe a dialogue with public officials and other elites. Citizens here are at best passive bystanders. But no more.
Now pretty much anyone with Internet access and a few Web tools can create and distribute news, collaborate with professional journalists in real time and select what news to follow, if any, from a dizzying array of choices. The media business and academia were slow to pick up on the change but are now taking heed. Curiously, little empirical research developed to help us understand what exactly we mean by conversation and then how to apply it to journalism's most treasured values, credibility and expertise.
Until now. This presentation explores key practical tips from doctoral research on how best to incorporate citizen audiences into online media processes. Doing it haphazardly can mean loss of perceived credibility, authority and just plain likeability. Doing it well, however, can create the kind of sustained interest we all crave for our sites.
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Nanocelebrity: How to Combine Expertise with Voice
by Shane Tilton and Shane Tilton
The purpose of this panel is to focus on a few key points. The first point is to briefly discuss how to form content within the channels of social media communication (microblogging/microcommunication/anything that uses XMPP to transmit information) that shows off a person's expertise. The presentation will use examples from key figures in the field and note how those figures connect their knowledge with their audience.
The second point that will be explored in this presentation will be how “opinion leaders” were formed in this channel. It looked like since these channels used as a pseudo-formal “many-to-many” communication platform, it seemed that the strength of speaker comes from the ability of that speaker’s message to be re-transmitted, how “well-known” is the user and the value of the information/knowledge being delivered by the user. It is a through a combination of these factors that a user can attract and maintain a following. Examples of this will be shown during the presentation.
The final point that I want focus on is how these opinion leaders using these channels to deliver vital information to an audience. I would like to be able to tell the stories of the community outside the confines of the network. There is a series of interesting and complex narratives that can be shared by these nanocelebrities to the rest of the outside world. These narratives will be shared during the presentation.
LEVEL: Beginner
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The Luxury/Digital Paradox: Taking Luxury Brands Digital
by Phillip Jackson
Luxury, by definition, is built on exclusivity. The web is inherently democratic.
In the past, this contradiction caused luxury brands to be hesitant about moving online – but in the face of the internet’s ever-increasing ubiquity and print advertising’s decreased returns, more and more luxury brands are making the transition to on-line advertising and e-commerce.
While many luxury brands have accepted that a digital presence is essential, they are still figuring out how to maintain the cache, allure, and exclusivity that underpins their brand perceptions while simultaneously balancing the “democratic” rules of the digital landscape.
This presentation will show how luxury brands can participate in the digital-sphere through case studies of luxury brands that have effectively communicated their 'brand story' online by leveraging the following territories:
1. Communicate the dream of the luxury brand
2. Digital as a piece of the larger puzzle
3. Tell a great story
4. Be a cultural tastemaker
5. Provide a trusted guide to lifestyle enhancement
6. Use history as a way to push forward
7. Encourage the spirit of competition
8. Talk to younger luxury consumers
9. Offer incomparable service
10. Use digital to convey exclusivityBy using these strategies, luxury brands will gain just as much, if not more, from embracing digital than any other category.
LEVEL: Beginner
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This Week in Social Media
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Social Contests: Brand Loyalty Builders or Lazy Marketing?
With the growing prevalence of Twitter and Facebook, social contests are a dime a dozen. Nearly every day another wave of "Tweet this to win" memes clog up my stream. So do these tactics really work? Or are they just easy-to-execute, lazy marketing methods? Join this session for a look at which social contests work best at building brand fans & which ones land in the lazy marketing hall of lame. Count on real-life examples, privacy & legal stuff, & my opinionated suggestions--steeped in experience--on which contests work best to win friends & influence people. Oh and I’ll probably give some stuff away, just to stick with the theme.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Social Media or Sado-Masochism? Cyberbullying & Celeb 2.0
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How to Make Money with Social Media
by Jamie Turner
If you’re like many people, you’re ready to take a deeper dive into social media. After all, creating a YouTube channel or developing a Foursquare promotion is one thing, but actually tracking a social media campaign on an ROI basis is something else altogether.
Join Jamie Turner, co-author of How to Make Money with Social Media, in this fun, engaging and educational talk about how to calculate the ROI of a social media campaign. In this talk, you’ll learn about the 5 business models the Fortune 500 use to make money with social media. You’ll also learn about the three categories of social media measurement. And, finally, you’ll learn how to calculate your Customer Lifetime Value and use that to see if your social media campaign is generating a positive ROI.
If you’re interested in learning how to calculate if your social media campaign is generating profits, then you won’t want to miss this fast-paced, upbeat talk from someone who speaks on TV, the radio and to corporations such as The Coca-Cola Company on the topic of How to Make Money with Social Media.
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Jamie Turner
by Jamie Turner
Jamie Turner, co-author of the book How to Make Money with Social Media, will be stopping by the SX Bookstore to greet registrants and sign copies of his book.
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Advanced Integrations of Social Media Analytics
by Susan Etlinger, Blake Robinson, Megan Costello, Margaret Francis and Chris Lightner
Social Media analytics are often a confusing and convoluted mess, but that doesn't mean that they have to be. ‘Advanced Integrations of Social Media Analytics’ will help ensure you're reaching your full analytical potential. Learn how to analyze social media data to accelerate the success of any initiative. Featuring case studies of social media metrics and dashboards from top brands, how-to exercises on valuing social media activity, and case studies on how to cross social media data with other data sources (website data from Google Analytics/Omniture, site traffic data, proprietary customer data, structured market research data, etc.) to create a deeper understanding of your overall business on the web. This session is a must for anyone who needs to provide measurement on social media programs and web business and marketing success.
LEVEL: Advanced
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Cage Match: Social vs. Video
by Russ Somers and Natanya Anderson
Social media and online video battle for mindshare among marketers. Which one totally rules? We’ll lock Russ Somers, Director of Marketing at Invodo and Natanya Anderson, VP of Content Strategy and Delivery at Powered, in a cage (metaphorically – or maybe literally) to lead a Core Conversation on the pros and cons of each. On the video side: Russ leads marketing for Invodo, a company at the forefront of the eCommerce video industry. Invodo produces video and technology to drive conversion for online retailers including Toys R Us, Verizon Wireless and Golfsmith. On the social side: Natanya leads content strategy for full-service social media agency Powered, guiding the development and delivery of creative content to clients including HP, Sony, iVillage, Atkins and RadioShack. Natanya and Russ provide industry insights and lead what will be, with your contributions, a spirited discussion.
LEVEL: Beginner
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How to Build Your Tribe
Do you really need a tribe? Or is it the latest gimmicky buzzword? When Seth Godin told me that leading a Tribe could be more valuable than money, I challenged him. Then I interviewed 200+ business and non-profit founders. I discovered that the successful ones took off because they had tribes. They may not have used the word "tribe" (they used words like "blog readers," "email subscribers" and "fans"), but a tribe IS what helped them take ideas and turn them into movements. So how do YOU build YOUR tribe? To answer that question, I'm going to invite founders who built strong, supportive tribes to join me on this panel. You and I will lead them in a discussion in which they'll teach how they did it.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Iterate or Die: How Media Businesses Must Adapt
In the past 15 years, the media and technology worlds have practically switched places. Tech companies have gone from needing to be 50,000+ employee behemoths to being teams of two guys that can ship products 1 million people love and that can change the world. All-powerful news organizations that used to support globe-trotting foreign correspondents reporting on human rights are now teams of 8-10 bloggers who must be glued to their computer screens at all times for a whiff or tweet of breaking news.
Companies that leverage the content their users create like Facebook, Quora, Instagram and Twitter are getting better and better every year, while thinning profit margins are undermining the ability of paid media professionals to produce quality work.
How should for-profit media companies evolve in an era when the audience has taken over the controls? What are the business models that media companies are using today and how are they changing? Which approach will you take?
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Marrying for Money: The ROI of Relationships
You CAN measure the ROI of relationships - personally, and professionally, and this seminar will show you how. No spreadsheets needed for this lecture, and only minimal algebra. Bring a cocktail napkin, a flair ink pen, and learn how to calculate the net present value of your future mate, your pet, or the 8,299 followers of your company's Twitter feed. Yet ROI alone will not tell you the ultimate value of your relationships. What other indicators do you need to be looking at to predict whether or not you, your future mate, your pet, or your followers will be happy with the relationship in the long run? Strong relationships depend on other factors - connection, a sense of fairness, health, humor, fun, the ability to learn and evolve together, and a sense of overall engagement with each other, and with life. At a more macro level, communities need to understand the equity they are building not just economically, but socially and environmentally as well. As the social graph reveals a huge volume of data about our actual relational behavior, we have an opportunity to pause for a moment: to consider the value system reflected in how we measure each other, ourselves, our relationships in the world. Participants will walk away not just with a clear and precise method for how to measure ROI, but also a holistic framework for measuring return on social behavior.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Power of Socially-Interactive Content in Virtual Environments
by Jon Goldman
The rise of social gaming, and its adoption within the world's mainstream cultures, has had a profound impact on many of the world's cultures, as well as the way in which we interact with each other, with digital content and how we consume media. No longer do people want to simply consume online media in a static and lonely fashion, randomly e-mailing and tweeting links to their friends. Today's consumer aims to mimic their real-life social interactions within their online experiences, bringing the full promise of the Internet - to enhance and expand our real-world lives - with them into their online experiences.
We are entering a time when neither the actual means of distribution, nor the content, are the primary driving forces behind consumer consumption of media, but rather, it is the socialization around that media that leads people to continually want to consume hours and hours of digital content every day and week.
We will take a look at examples of socially-interactive digital content in our everyday lives, as well as the impact it is having on consumers and advertisers. This discussion will also provide examples of how content developers can better incorporate socially-interactive features into their online content--music, videos, photos, etc.--and how they can get site users and other consumers to fully enjoy and appreciate the power of socially-interactive features.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Social Commerce: Products Find Us: iPhones to Underoos
by Brian Solis, Erik Qualman and Julia Hartz
If Facebook were a country, it would be the third largest in the world. 2008-2010 showed us that Social Media is huge and here to stay.
What 2011-2013 will show us is that the value developed and shared within social media efficiently influences our purchase decisions [social commerce]. We will no longer search for products and services, rather they will find us via social media. This new world is one in which consumers win and companies that produce great products of value excel.
Join social media specialists Brian Solis (Author of Engage) and Erik Qualman (Author of Socialnomics) as they discuss:
+ Current Social Commerce Trends & Technology
+ Case Studies: The good, the bad, the ugly
+ Review how can companies capitalize today and 2-3 years from now
Notes: Per SXSW request of having more duo presentations this year, we feel this is a dynamic duo (well rated past SXSW speakers) discussing a new and very important technical topic.
LEVEL: Advanced
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The Death of the Brand Website
by Gary Nelson
It’s likely that your consumers check Facebook, Twitter, newspapers and other online sources every week, if not every day. But how many times a week are they coming to your website? Today’s brand sites do a great job of communicating a message, but what most sites lack is fresh content that keeps visitors coming back. Major brands can take a lesson from blogging sites that do an excellent job of keeping content fresh by creating stories around their products, adding video, and integrating social networks like Twitter and Facebook. This session will examine the smaller brand sites that are already starting to structure their sites more like blogs, and the audience will walk away with actionable ideas for turning their big-brand site into a place where people want to keep coming back to. The session will also explore how to carefully add on-brand community features to your site in order to your consumers a place to interact with one another and with the brand.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Creating a Unique Social Experience
"What is good social strategy" is fundamentally changing. Instead of everyone wanting to match competitor's social strategy (they have a blog & facebook so I should have a blog & facebook), we should be creating unique social experience that differentiate us from competitors. Apple wants their products to be unique from other computers and Abercrombie wants their shopping experience to be different from other stores....Why shouldn't we want social experiences to be different enough from competitors that the experience itself becomes part of the brand?
Powerful example = NBC's O&O local TV stations where they swapped out comments on news articles for a custom feedback system where people register their mood for how an article makes them feel. This exponentially increased interactions and gave people a new way to find local news. Instead of browsing random categories like "around town"; NBC visitors find "news in my city that people are laughing at" or "news...people are furious about". The unique interactions have rocketed NBC's numbers in a commodotized space (same boring stuff on ABC, CBS, local newspaper, radio) In just 12 months they DOUBLED registered users to 12 Million and TRIPLED traffic in an industry that is lucky to get a 10% increase: http://bit.ly/bd2dpD
LEVEL: Beginner
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Video's Second Coming: Making It Social
by David Slater
Well over 90% of people who shoot video with a camcorder, point & shoot, or mobile device do nothing with it. This video, orphaned and sad, longs to be shared and loved. Today video on the web is still largely stuck in a non-interactive, non-social networked, broadcast-like "I post footage and you can view it" world. Basic commenting, metadata, and tagging of entire video clips provide rudimentary social capabilities, but new enabling technologies are required to make video truly a shared experience.
As the cost, scale, and responsiveness of cloud computing converges with maturing social networks, the underpinnings are now in place to develop the kinds of systems required to make working with video fast, widely accessible, and collaborative. Letting users share not only movies, but the source files as well, co-editing across two or more creators, remixing of trusted associates already published content, automated frame-accurate (rather than entire movie) tagging, and auto-creation of context-specific metadata are just some of the possibilities these new systems could enable.
This session will explore the current state of online video in the realm of social networking; why so few ever take their video off the device on which it was shot; the benefits of further enhancing shared experiences with video; and the tools, technologies, and behaviors required to allow video to be a standard communication tool in social media.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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