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Saturday 12th March 2011
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Babelfish
by Tim Holden
Will 2011 be the year of the Universal Translator? As this science fiction dream teeters over the horizon, what can and should we do now to prepare for a time when the translation robot, not the search engine, becomes the single most important audience for your site? Will SEO give way to TEO? Does language need its own subtext markup? And when on Earth is Microsoft Word going to replace its 'Bold' button with a 'Strong' one? Lay aside your Google Goggles and iLingual apps (just for 60 minutes or so), and enjoy a session that's packed full of accessible translation theory, insight into the working processes of web copywriters, and more than the occasional riff on Douglas Adams.
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Social Media Mythbusters
by Peter Kim
The early days of social media were filled with hope - and even more hype. Social media gurus and experts started popping up everywhere, offering brands assistance based on shaky credentials. Catchphrases became commonplace: customers are in control! Focus on people, not technology! Listen first! You don't need a Facebook strategy!
Without a doubt, social "stuff" has the potential to change the way businesses engage with consumers, employees work together, and consumers communicate with each other. However, businesses that focus on the learnings of early social media will find themselves no better off than the early pioneers who found themselves with figurative consumer arrows in their backs.
This session will focus on what worked early on, why it doesn't work now, and what companies need to be thinking about now in order to create and capture value from social business.
LEVEL: Advanced
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Social Media: The Next Generation of Business Engagement
by Dave Evans and Jake McKee
**This is a book reading**
In 2009 I presented my first book, "Social Media Marketing: An Hour a Day." It was very well received (full room, Barnes & Noble sold out while I was speaking.) I've just released my second book, which covers social technology and collaboration at deeper levels in business. I'd love to present this on the Author's Stage at SXSW 2011.See more about the new book here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obido...LEVEL: Intermediate
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Dear Miss Manners: WTF with the Social Web?
The social web is now a teenager –awkward, arrogant, snarky, fearless, experimental and open. She is shaking things up and having a major impact on our culture, social dynamics and etiquette. What are the new social dynamics and cultural impacts of all these tools and technologies?
This session will explore the emerging etiquette issues of our participatory hyper-connected world. What are the new rules? How are our relationships, culture and business assumptions changing? Do we understand the impact of this new relationship persistance?
- Do I have to ask before I post a photo of a friend online? Who has editorial approval?
- Am I required to respond to every inbound communication I receive or is “ignoring” an accepted response?
- Where is the line between encouraging participation and being just plain annoying?
- What are you doing mucking up my activity stream?
- What the heck is a “friend” anyway?
How do we design, build and manage these new spaces? What are the new rules of the online commons and the associated appropriate etiquette? This participatory session will ask attendees to contribute their own real world examples and will lay out a new framework for a new social contract. It’s our job to decide what we want our web teenager to be when she is all grown-up.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Social Media and the NBA: Where It's @
by Tariq Ahmad
Research on the NBA is vast. Research on social media is growing. But research on the intersection of the NBA and social media is very limited. I conducted research on how NBA fans use social media (specifically Facebook and Twitter) to support their favorite NBA teams, and results will be discussed. This presentation will also show how social media is changing the way NBA fans connect and keep up with their favorite teams, how teams are reaching out to fans, and how teams can improve their social media presence. Examples of how teams are using social media to connect with fans, as well as suggestions on how teams of all sports and sports leagues can make better use of social media to engage their fans will also be discussed.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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The Crisis of Trust in a Social Age: Issues and Opportunity
Culture is becoming ever more social as social media continues to explode. There’s been a casualty however. How much we trust other peoples’ opinions has massively dropped. We’ll examine the reasons it’s happened, dissect dimensions of trust and posit a way brands can be strategic and focused in how they earn back what’s been lost in this social age.
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140 Conference: Contextual Revolution
Access to information, people, and movements via the internet has changed the way we behave, but has it fundamentally changed how we think?
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Grow Some Balls: Build Business Relationships from Nothing
Fear holds many people back in business. There is fear of not having enough to offer, fear of not knowing what to say, fear of rejection. This session is about how the game is changing and how to build quality relationships out of nothing while not being afraid.
Business is about relationships and using technology to foster those relationships by growing social spheres of influence and creating a network of contacts of friends, acquaintances, and business partners. Also to be covered will be the advanced tips and tricks for making a cold connection a warm one, how to make a great impression, follow-up like a rock-star and how to complete deals that are not typical deals.
Social media sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook have changed the way business is done. When should you add someone on Twitter versus LinkedIn versus Facebook? How do you avoid being ignored? What about instant messenger? Is the IM agreement the new term sheet? All these questions will be explored in the session that covers the best methods for being successful in business even if your main function in your organization is not business.
LEVEL: Advanced
Sunday 13th March 2011
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Local: The Next Big Thing in Online Advocacy
by Ben Rattray
Online advocacy groups traditionally focus on demanding change from Congress, which is largely unresponsive to these efforts. Find out how citizen activists are changing the face of civic participation by using social media to mobilize people in their neighborhoods, schools and cities to successfully fight for local change every day.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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#FAIL: Infamous Social Media PR Disasters
by Marla Erwin
#Amazonfail, United Breaks Guitars, Motrin Moms: These are just a few of the social media PR disasters caused by inattention, poor service, or a failure to understand the target market. In the age of blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, one customer service mistake can be all over the web before you can say “non-apology form letter.” Enjoy a history of edifying and often hilarious social media misfires, and learn how to avoid being on the receiving end of user-generated campaigns that can cost thousands or even millions in bad publicity.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Analytics and Social Tools in Practice
by Sean Brown and Chris Traganos
Measuring the reach of your social media efforts is a good first step--but it's not enough. Sean Brown will show how MIT Sloan Management Review uses analytics to turn data into insight, and insight into action. Chris Traganos will describe the social tools that aggregate, syndicate, and amplify Harvard's message to the world, including integration with Facebook's open graph and real-time Twitter collaboration via Social Flow.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Social Health: Who Wants to "Like" Hemorrhoid Cream?
Social media is a powerful medium, and can really improve patient outcomes. It can also add some much needed life to marketing plans, and help brands build relationships with patients. With any luck this will be a win/win for patients and brands.
Right now the entire Pharma world is busy figuring out how to jump into social media. The problem is very few people are thinking about whether or not someone really wants a relationship with their Rx. Imagine announcing to the world on Facebook that you "like" your prescription Rx cream. Really? You want to do that? Well, different strokes and all.
In this session we'll talk about how to chose the right social technologies to achieve the brand's marketing goals. Part of that decision matrix is understanding people and how and why they use social technology. We'll definitely talk about why Pharma should never say they want "viral" marketing.
In a best case scenario, this will be a highly interactive presentation taking live suggestions and questions from the audience and discussing their unique situations. Tell me your product, we'll talk about your audience, and we'll discuss the appropriate use of social media technology for you.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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The Art of Enchantment
by Guy Kawasaki
Worldwide introduction of Guy's new book. This presentation is for people who have a great product or service but not a lot of money. Learn how to enchant people using word-of-mouth marketing, Twitter, Facebook, and presentations so that they become your raging, inexhorable thunderlizard evangelists.
LEVEL: Beginner
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People Like You and Me: Driving People-Powered Web Discovery
The notion of “social” on the Web is continuing to change as people look to connect more seamlessly online, no matter where they are. For the first time, the idea of an algorithmic-driven Web experience is challenged by a people-centric one where it is discovered through shared connections. People and interests define the next great organizing principle of the Web. This talk will discuss the evolution of discovery on the web--from directories, to search, to people--and what lies ahead.
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How Brands Are Monitoring Your Online Conversations
by Michael Fisher
It’s a reality that digital word of mouth is here; and it is here to stay. Millions of online conversations are happening, yet until now, brands have struggled to find a way to measure the quantity or quality of those interactions. Did you post on your friend’s Facebook wall asking if they want to grab a burger at Red Robin? Or tweet about what awful service you received while waiting on hold for 15 minutes with your credit card provider? Or comment on a blog a post about your desire to buy a new pair of True Religion jeans? Well, people are listening. And reacting -- more than ever before. Unlike in the past, brands are now faced with the ability to harness word of mouth via social media. Consumers are helping to shape that brand perception, whether they know it or not. So what are brands tracking today, and what should they be tracking? Knowing how advertising dollars successfully translate to the social world can be tremendously powerful information, for example. Is Snickers or Bud Light most successful with its SuperBowl commercial? Plenty of conversations happened online -- were you one of them? Michael Fisher will leverage his deep expertise on this subject to reveal how the content and conversations happening online today are often coordinated, measured, and analyzed across all channels. How can the consumer leverage this channel to connect with brands in a more one-to-one manner. and how can the brands successfully communicate back?
LEVEL: Beginner
Monday 14th March 2011
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Geppetto's Army: Creating International Incidents with Twitter Bots
by Greg Marra
Twitter has proven to be an invaluable tool for communication during intense periods of political unrest and social suppression. When thousands of people tweet about oppressive regimes and violence against protesters, the outside world gets a chance to understand events on the ground.
But what if none of those thousands of people were real, and the events never happened?
Previous research has shown that Twitter bots can build up a following, garnering hundreds of emotionally invested followers who are fooled into believing the bots are real. A single puppetmaster could create hundreds of Twitter bots, letting them live perfectly normal and believable lives for months while they build up followers. Then one day, a careful crafted false story unfolds on the stage of social media, played out by a single director with hundreds of actors. Incidents like Balloon Boy demonstrate that powerful stories can become widespread before there is time for fact checking. Before anyone realizes all the TwitPics of the massacre are faked, the fake event will have made international headlines.
This presentation will discuss the technical feasibility of such an attack on the global media infrastructure and discuss the implications of a news system that trusts "recent" over "reputable".
LEVEL: Beginner
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Machine Learning and Social Media
by Bruce Smith
Social media applications encounter messy user-generated data in blog posts, status updates, tweets, user profiles, etc. These documents contain free-form text that obeys no particular rules of grammar, punctuation or spelling.
If the data is so messy, how can a computer program recognize adult content or hate speech or spam? How can a computer program tell the difference between an advertisement and a product review? How can a computer program distinguish between a positive and a negative product review?
Machine learning offers some solutions. For example, given sample tweets labeled (by people) as spam or non-spam, machine learning tools can generate a program (or model) that attempts to duplicate the human judgments. You could use this kind of model in your application to filter out tweet spam.
In this talk we will describe
•Some common machine learning algorithms
•Machine learning tools – free and commercial
•Acquiring and managing training data
•Extracting useful features from your documents
•Choosing the right technique for a problem
•Measuring quality and improving your model over time
•Integrating a machine learned model with your applicationComing out of this session, you will know where you might use machine learning in your applications, and you will know how to get started.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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Broadcasting Value: How Twitter Users Communicate Relevance
by Rion Snow
Twitter is redefining the way information is reported, spread, interacted with, and absorbed. Each individual on Twitter can fluidly act as a primary source, a filter, an information catalyst, and a consumer. Taken collectively, the information preferences expressed by Twitter users provide a valuable signal indicating the relevance of information and information sources across Twitter and the web as a whole. In this talk we consider the information ecosystem of Twitter through the lenses of lists, top tweets, and trending topics, exploring the emergence and value of transparently communicated information preferences.
LEVEL: Beginner
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Sentiment of Two Women: Sentiment Analysis & Social Media
by Lillian Lee and Bo Pang
"What do other people think?" has always been an important consideration to most of us when making decisions. Long before the World Wide Web, we asked our friends who they were planning to vote for and consulted Consumer Reports to decide which dishwasher to buy. But the Internet has (among other things) made it possible to learn about the opinions and experiences of those in the vast pool of people that are neither our personal acquaintances nor well-known professional critics --- that is, people we have never heard of. Enter sentiment analysis, a flourishing research area devoted to the computational treatment of subjective and opinion-oriented language. Sample phenomena to contend with range from sarcasm in blog postings to the interpretation of political speeches. This talk will cover some of the motivations, challenges, and approaches in this broad and exciting field.
LEVEL: Beginner
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The Thank You Economy
The Thank You Economy tackles the ROI of social media and the humanization of business as I see it. I'll be doing an ENORMOUS amount of Q&A. I'm looking to bring it to the masses and allow the engagement of a Q&A session while talking at the top level about the pulse of social and web community as we see it today.
LEVEL: Intermediate
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The Tweets That Time (And You) Forgot
by Mick Darling
The conversations on Twitter and other social media add value to the common discourse, but even as the conversations happen we miss massive pieces, and afterward they become very difficult to find.
The reliance on #hashtags and lack of intelligent searching and filters on most twitter clients complicates this conversation gap resulting in a balkanization of the Twitter-sphere. At the last #140Conf in NY during the course of one hour over 75% of the tweets on topic about the conference would not have shown up in a search for "#140conf" which is the main way for outsiders to get in on the conversation.
My company is collecting comprehensive conversations from events like the #140conf events in LA and Boston, major sporting events, television premieres and political events like the Presidential State of the Union Address. We will be collecting as much of the complete conversation from these events as we can using smart searching techniques, special filtering techniques, and good old fashioned human processing. Over the next year we will be harvesting the tweets from these events and will demonstrate how content producers and audiences can recapture lost conversations.
At SXSWi 2011 we will compare what parts of these conversations are most talked about and demonstrate what the audience has been missing, providing insights and techniques to bring more people into the public conversations.
LEVEL: Intermediate
Tuesday 15th March 2011
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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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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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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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