Add an eventSessions at SXSW Interactive 2012 about Social Media on Monday 12th March
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101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits
by Melanie Mathos and Chad Norman
Co-authors Melanie Mathos and Chad Norman will share a preview of the recently released book 101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits, which is available in the SXSW bookstore. This book provides nonprofits 101 ways to engage supporters, share their missions and inspire action using the social web in a how-to, case study-driven format. Nonprofits know they need to start engaging with supporters through social media channels. They identify who they want to reach, set objectives and build a strategy. Many nonprofits get stuck at this point because it is hard to keep up with the ever-evolving world of social media tools and tactics in what has emerged as a vital communication channel. This session will help nonprofits discover new ways of deploying their strategies to meet their social media objectives.
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But Are You a Real Journalist? #jan25 #occupy
by Jigar Mehta, Eric Carvin, Jennifer Preston and Tim Pool
The Whole World is Watching: From Tahrir Square to Homs to Zuccotti Park, citizen journalists and ordinary people are using social media, video and cell phones to document their stories and revolutions. New York Times reporter Jennifer Preston will moderate a panel w/ Jigar Mehta of the "18 Days in Egypt" project; Tim Pool, live stream video reporter of Occupy Wall Street movement; Eric Carvin, social media editor, Associated Press and Chris Michael from Witness.org. The panelists would like this to be a conversation so please bring your thoughts and questions about how technology is blurring the lines between traditional and citizen journalism -- and what that means. We will also remember those who lost their lives in recent months trying to report what was going on.#citizensx
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How to Be Strategically Unlikeable Online
For every brand turning on a new listening program or focusing on engaging their users online there is a lot of attention on the topic of social media strategy. Brands that don't have one are desperately chasing one - yet the problem is no longer a lack of strategy. That's so 2011. The problem now is that more and more brands are becoming strategically unlikeable. Being social isn't the same thing as being likeable. In some cases, they are actually opposite. In this panel, we will talk about the one principle that every successful person already knows, yet the one that has eluded so many brands ... why likeability is actually the golden trump card, and why brands are historically so bad at it. From examining the lessons from completely unlikeable leaders like Steve Jobs or Rupert Murdoch to sharing the theories of building likeable brands and the new culture of "likeonomics," Rohit Bhargava and Dave Kerpen, two bestselling authors will take audience members inside what it means to be unlikeable and offer real tips on how to avoid falling into that trap ... as a business and as a person.
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Social Media Comes of Age Without the Help of Porn
by Lisa Joy Rosner, Jason Falls, Jeremiah Owyang, Dave Evans and Katie Paine
Years ago, it was porn sites always pushing the envelope on graphics, interactivity, engagement, commerce, and stickiness (ewww). Now, it’s social media that’s getting lucky and monetizing eyeballs. In just the past two years, social technology has changed radically: Sure, previous advances in web, commerce and web content were largely driven by the adult market. But the current focus on collaboration and content sharing is being driven by individuals sharing their actual (as opposed to fantasy) experiences with brands, products and services. Social technology is redefining—and being redefined by—the interplay among organizations, customers and communities in what’s coming to be known as social business. Our speakers are social technology hotties. They have Klout scores ranging from the high 60s to the high 80s—so these are leaders of the social media pack. They’re here to lay out the future of social business so you can jump on it and profit from it. We promise a memorable, thrill-a-minute session that’ll leave you begging for more. We promise this will be the most fun you can have at the conference with your clothes on. This session is sponsored by NetBase.
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Voting’s Viral: Voters, Election Officials & Social
by Dean Logan, Dana Chisnell, Jared Marcotte, Jeannie Layson and Lee Rainie
How do you get reliable information about elections? Many voters get their information about who is running for election and what the issues are from friends and family. Increasingly, those friends and family are online, getting their information from social media sources and passing it on. What’s the conversation between voters and election officials? What’s the potential for increasing civic engagement through social media? This panel will discuss breakthroughs and cautions, experiences and pointers. What you learn about who is using what and why will surprise you.
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Get Bold: Using Social Media
by Sandy Carter
Social Media has come a long way from the early days of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. We have all felt its impact in marketing and public relations, but the pace is accelerating and the drive to harness social tools for business process improvement is more important than ever. How does a company apply social techniques to their business to see the same advantages in customer service, HR or product development (and more!) as we did in marketing? How do companies become a Social Business? Using actionable frameworks and case studies, Sandy Carter, IBM Vice President, Social Business Evangelism and Sales, will discuss how you can create your own Social Business Agenda for greater competitive advantage in 2012.
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Chad Norman and Melanie Mathos Book Signing
Chad Norman and Melanie Mathos sign their book ‘101 Social Media Tactics for Nonprofits: A Field Guide’ at the SXSW bookstore.
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Sandy Carter Book Signing
Sandy Carter signs her book ‘Get Bold: Using Social Media to Create a New Type of Social Business’ at the SXSW bookstore.
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Events Are Now Platforms: Seven Tools for Success
by Brian Duggan, Brian Duggan and Loic Le Meur
Our goal with this session is to make events better for all of us. Events no longer exist in a vacuum. The new ideas and relationships we all seek from events are now available to us across a continuum of ongoing social tools, so audiences give as much attention to their devices as they do to a speaker, or to the person sitting next to them. How can we as event participants, producers, and sponsors best adapt to this new reality? How can these digital tools serve to humanize and improve our experiences, and make us more present, as opposed to being just another source of distraction and overwhelm? Join with leaders in the field as we explore best practices for using the wide array of tools that are emerging in the event space. Please visit www.buildingalliances.com/blog for a list of our invited guests representing key products and services in the space and links to the tools we encourage you to check out and use in advance of our discussion (including here at SXSW!)—Brian Duggan
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How Mexico’s Drug Traffickers Harness Social Media
by Shauna Dillavou
Mexico’s Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) use various types of social media to influence and manipulate public opinion. At the most basic level, DTOs regularly post videos to Youtube of interrogations, beheadings and dismemberments of rival gang members, to intimidate other groups and the public. Myspace is another soft influence tool; profiles abound that glorify the narco-life, including photos of fast cars, blinged-out weapons, and scantily-clad women. Narco-ballads, increasingly banned on Mexican airwaves, are also available on Myspace. Blog del Narco and parrot sites provide direct interaction between DTOs and the public. These sites anonymously post images of DTO communications hung on freeway overpasses or pinned to victims’ bodies, delivering threats to rival gangs, politicians, and police, and seeking the public’s favor. Citizens once used Twitter to warn of violence along routes to work and school. Now, DTOs pose as concerned citizens and to encourage the online citizen watch to help them locate rival gangs and law enforcement. DTOs use smart-phone applications to communicate, and to navigate the border region without law enforcement detection.
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How Social Media Imperils Political Parties
by Joe Trippi, Matt Bai, Mark McKinnon, Marci Harris and Nathan Daschle
Most things in our lives are now custom fit. If we want coffee, we can order it 50 ways. If we want to watch a movie, we can choose between Netflix, iTunes, On Demand, etc. If we need a restaurant review, we have OpenTable, Yelp, etc. However, for one of the most important aspects of our life, politics, we still have only two "meat or fish" options. We are also at a point where people are more disaffected than ever by political parties. A Pew post-election poll in 2010 found for the first time in modern American history, Independents outnumbered Democrats and Republicans in terms of party affiliation. This need for tailoring our lives has now met our distaste for political institutions. While political parties will always be a piece of American politics, their relevance is being severely diminished by the growth of social media. The biggest political movements in the last year (Wisconsin, the Arab Spring, the Tea Party movement) all came together OUTSIDE of political institutions, not from within (and largely due to social media). This panel will discuss this trend.
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How to Harvest Consumer Intent from the Social Web
by AJ Vaynerchuck, Edward Boches, Jeff Janer, Farrah Bostic and Jolie O'Dell
The social web lets us send out a constant stream of Facebook likes, Twitter tweets, Foursquare check-ins, social commerce reviews, and other recommendations about things we’ve experienced and want to share with our friends. These products, services, businesses, places, movies, music, articles, etc. are expressions of customer and influencer engagement and loyalty that brands have successfully started to leverage to grow their businesses.
But what about the other side of the stream: the trusted referrals and recommendations we receive from our friends, as well as the things we discover on our own, and want to buy, read, visit, or listen to later? In other words: our intent to do something. There is a tremendous and largely untapped opportunity for brands to identify consumers who have overtly expressed interest and to 'harvest their intent' by helping them to bridge the gap between discovery and action with useful, timely and relevant information and offers.
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iVision Africa: New Media's Role in Reframing Africa
by Ngozi Odita and Jepchumba Thomas
Africa is more than AIDS, poverty, civil strife and safaris. With the ever-increasing access to digital tools Africans on the continent and all over the world are using the web to farm a new vision of Africa in the 21st Century. Social media platforms amplify and help spread this “new take” on the continent, both enabling Africans to tell their own stories and offering an alternative to mainstream media’s coverage of Africa. Ultimately, using new media Africans can and are becoming the architects of what very well may be a new “African Renaissance.” This Core Conversation will discuss how Africans are using the mobile and social web, what sort of content is being produced and what are the messages being communicated. This conversation will also examine new media’s social and economic impact as it relates to Africa.
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Own the Media. Or the Media Will Own You
by Lucas Mello, Mauro Silva, Cristina Monteiro and Ricardo Guerra
For a long time the business of media was all about buying people’s attention. Not so long ago, “spontaneous media” (whatever it really means) stepped in. But the growing fragmentation of media landscape and more social driven media experiences are making people’s attention harder to get.
Don’t panic. It’s time to add owned media to the equation. Audience is value, and if your can build one or use better one that you already have you will own the greatest asset of all. And, at some point, a consequence of this might be to stop buying media and start selling it. Is your marketing department is ready to start making money instead of spending it?
LiveAD, brazilian award winning creative hotshop (and 2011 SXSW interactive activism finalist!), talks about the importance of owned media along side paid and earned media. And shows some advantages of platform building and some nice results achieved for clients such as Nike, C&A, Lacoste and Oi (one of the biggest mobile carriers in Brazil).
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Social Media in the Underground World of B2B
by Jeanette Gibson, Shanee Ben-Zur, Susan Emerick, Duane Schulz and Melissa Chanslor
We’ve seen multiple examples at SXSW in years past of consumer brands successfully leveraging social media and aligning to business objectives to generate ROI, many of which have millions of consumers interacting with their products on a daily basis. While B2B brands don’t always have the flash and sizzle of consumer brands, social media has the power to drive innovation, sales and success in every industry – consumer and enterprise alike. This session will focus on social media advice and best practices for B2B companies. Hear from some of the world’s leading B2B brands, including two Fortune 100 brands, about leveraging social media as a competitive advantage and engaging with and activating internal and external stakeholders. They’ll focus on how to make the case within a B2B organization and to the C-suite to invest in social media, as well as how they measure impact within their respective companies.
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SXSW Interactive Accelerator
Social Media and Social Networking Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges.
Emcee: Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures)
Judges: Maria Thomas (Axios Ventures), Andrew McCollum (New Enterprise Associates / Facebook), Jeff
Dachis (Dachis Group)Finalist: Whodini, Banjo, Thirst Labs, Votifi
For more information about the SXSW Accelerator event click here - http://sxsw.com/interactive/star...
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5 Reasons You Should Stop Investing in Facebook
by Niki Weber
Brands have been diving head first into Facebook over the past few years but their social reality has failed to live up to their lofty expectations. Guided by a sea of experts who can say "social" but can't do social, brand pages often resemble online ghost towns with engagement that consists of mere small talk and fake smiles. To make matters worse, Facebook went from a friendly handhold to a ruthless chokehold of world-wide-web domination. This Future 15 session will help you put Facebook back in its rightful place.
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HOW: Why HOW We Do Anything Means Everything
by Dov Seidman
In today's interconnected and even morally interdependent world, we rise and fall together. The way to forge a better, more sustainable path of growth and progress lies in the realm of human behavior- HOW we do what we do. Leaders have become successful at measuring how much by out-selling and out-spending. But instead of asking how much, we should be examining HOW. How we behave, lead, consume, build trust in our relationships, and relate to others has always mattered but in an age when everything can be tweeted and blogged about and where there is no such thing as private behavior, HOW matters more than ever and in ways it never has before. Through entertaining anecdotes and illuminating examples, Dov Seidman will discuss why, in light of the recent financial and environmental crises of epic proportions, how is no longer just a question: HOW is the answer.
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Jason Falls Book Signing
Jason Falls signs his book ‘No Bullshit Social Media: The All-Business, No-Hype Guide to Social Media Marketing’ at the SXSW bookstore.
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An Unusual Arsenal: Tech Tools to Topple a Tyrant
by Neal Ungerleider, Sonja Gittens-Ottley, Aasil Ahmad, David Gorodyansky and Jamal Dajani
Instead of guns and knives, the revolutionaries who descended upon Tahrir Square on Feb. 1 packed a potent arsenal of technological tools that ended the corrupt, 30-year reign of President Hosni Mubarak. Their weapons of choice: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube – everyday tools that can be used to plan a party or plot a revolution.
“We use Facebook to schedule the protests, Twitter to coordinate, and YouTube to tell the world,” wrote one protester in a particularly succinct tweet.
But with one third of the world living under Internet censorship, the tools we take for granted in America are precious commodities elsewhere. When Mubarak’s government hit the kill switch, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube – and those using these tools to rally – were rendered powerless. When the Internet goes black, as it did Jan. 27, how do revolutionaries access these invaluable social channels to communicate, mobilize and ultimately overthrow an unjust government? How do citizens in radio silence tune into the rest of the world – without incurring the wrath of their government? What are the tools behind the tools that every revolutionary should include in his tool kit? And why should you care?
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Bridging the Digital and the Divine
by Adrienne Baker, Paul Drohan, Mathew Tombers, Patton Dodd and Daniel Pawlus
Surveys regularly show 80% of Americans consider themselves religious or spiritual. How do religion and faith play out online, and how are organizations trying to engage diverse faith audiences? In this panel, 3 highly successful faith organizations and the interactive agency that has supported them will discuss their success and frustrations as they try to bridge the digital and the divine. Patheos will share their expertise in social media engagement and talk about how to monetize content in the faith space without losing your soul. Odyssey Networks will show how they are using multiple applications, including a mobile app, to distribute content. Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC) will discuss their new digital strategies, via their Webby-nominated website and social media platforms. Digitaria will bring its extensive interactive knowledge and the new technologies they use for both non-profit and Fortune 500 clients to drive engagement and dynamic user experiences.
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Character Building As an Attention Magnet
by Kahlil Ashanti and Michael Margolis
Lets skip over the bluster and the bragging of social media storytelling. Instead, lets talk about the kinds of stories that get people’s respect and attention. When you think of the leading voices who are crushing it online, their influence seems almost effortless. Because you feel like you’ve known them forever. What’s the secret? They’ve developed a style of personal narrative that reveals more of who they are and how they think, to the point of death-defying vulnerability. So lets talk about developing your own storytelling mojo for greater recognition and playing on a bigger stage.
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Europe Is Different, so Adapt Your Strategy!
Nowadays, everyone seems to be focused on China as the worlds 'next' market. However, the European Union has a larger combined economy than the US, with the largest markets within it being Germany, France, the UK and Italy. With European social media use dominated by Facebook, you might assume that the an identical platform allows for easy application of US-focused social media marketing approaches to the countries of the EU.
It couldn't be further from the truth - From tonality, to the willingness to share, to the topics of data security and privacy: In terms of being social online, Europe is different from the US. And Europe is different from Europe. Therefore: adapt your measures! If you want to successfully market your brand and products on a pan-European level – this is the session you need to attend!
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Is Technology Making Our Lives Richer or Poorer?
by Jaron Lanier and Nicholas Thompson
A conversation between Nicholas Thompson, a senior editor covering technology for the New Yorker, and computing pioneer Jaron Lanier. They'll discuss the virtues of technology, but also the ways it has made us less imaginative, more distracted, and less connected to other people. Lanier is one of the founders of "virtual reality," but he has since become the most prominent critic of what technology has wrought. Last year, he published “You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto,” a provocative critique of digital technologies, including Wikipedia (which he called a triumph of “intellectual mob rule”) and social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, which Lanier has described as dehumanizing and designed to encourage shallow interactions.
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Social Role-Playing: Brands and Publishers
by Halle Hutchison, Kevin Barenblat, Sarah Smith, Justin Merickel and EB Boyd
If the advent of social media platforms causes brands to become publishers then what do publishers become? Whether the ultimate role reversal or just a momentary identity crisis, brands and publishers know that they don’t want to be the last to the party, struggling to keep up with the current conversation and void of “Likes.” Brands and publishers alike are now storytellers -- curators -- and seek the expertise of those who understand that social media platforms are an extension of their branding and serve the same purpose -- retaining consumers, attracting new ones and encouraging a deeper relationship. Both groups seek to create and optimize content, and better yet, deliver a seamless consumer experience with consistent, integrated advertising.
While the conversation about ROI and future of social media is just beginning, most brands and publishers are looking to experts that offer a holistic and tailored solution for capitalizing on the social marketing opportunity with Facebook and Twitter. Both groups know that quality publishing and the right dialogue are important and translate into word of mouth support that scales.
Come spend an hour listening to a small and engaging group of international social media and digital marketing experts, a leading publisher and a renowned brand, all who have seen the light of social media and know it shines brightly when executed well.
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Star Trek and Social Media
Is Twitter the Borg? Will social media help solve our global challenges? Who's the better captain -- Kirk or Picard? We'll answer these and many other questions from Professor Rotolo's course, "Star Trek and the Information Age," which explores modern issues of technology, society and leadership through examples from Star Trek. The session will also highlight how social media are used as a central component of the course, providing tips and best practices.
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SXSW Interactive Accelerator
Social Media and Social Networking Technologies start-up companies pitching their products and/or services in round one to high profiled industry expert judges.
Social Media and Social Networking Technologies
Emcee: Brad Burnham (Union Square Ventures)
Judges: Maria Thomas (Axios Ventures), Andrew McCollum (New Enterprise Associates / Facebook), Jeff Dachis (Dachis Group)
Finalist: vox.io, SceneTap. Hoot.Me, IB5kFor more information about the SXSW Accelerator event click here - http://sxsw.com/interactive/star...
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The Not So Allied Forces of Social TV Comedy
by Jon Burkhart and Will Saunders
The US and UK have joined forces enough over the years, so with tweet-powered comedy, we Brits are going it alone. Sorry Team CoCo and Fallon. This talk’s all about what’s happening in the Mother Country when Twitter and Facebook fuel the funny on the telly. Why listen to us? From Monty Python to The Office, the BBC produces more comedy than any broadcaster in the world. But the web changed everything. What happens when Auntie Beeb focuses on developing new comedy talent from the web up? Or when it teams with social TV consultants like Urgent Genius to make immersive second-screen experiences? The keys to the next generation of Britcom are in the hands of TV viewers tapping on iPads. But what kind of TV comedy will that create? Hecklers, come one, come all. Sit in the front row and let us pick on you as we tell you about some experiments we've been doing with live comedy and social media including a live Twitter-powered experiment just for SXSW.
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Independent Manufacturing with Social Media
by DL Byron
Ten years ago, we had this idea to make a product that'd keep our coffee and chips fresher. We researched, designed, and manufactured it all with sweat equity and many late nights on the Internets. Today people call that being a Maker. Back then we were just trying to make a buck. This talk will share how our product ended up in the Space Shuttle, Antarctica, pantries, and Grandma's looms.
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Why Women Fail to Rule the Social Networks
by Tanja Gabler
Too bland, too bored, too busy? Why women fail to rule social networks.
Women see themselves as "social" by nature, they claim to have better communication skills than men do - and mostly they are right. They even hold the majority in all big social networks except LinkedIn. But when it comes to using Social Media for marketing themselves, they fail. While men boast proudly about their achievements in status updates women write birthday wishes to others and ask for private advice. What's the reason behind that phenomenon? Answers from statistics, psychologists, marketers, gender experts and the users themselves.
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