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CCT356: Online Advertising and Marketing. Class 7: More on Social Media Marketing. Administration. Second assignments = likely next week Final project questions? March 13 – Keith MacDonald March 20 or 27 – Julie Tyios (if 27 th , we’ll consider revising final project presentations.).
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CCT356: Online Advertising and Marketing Class 7: More on Social Media Marketing
Administration • Second assignments = likely next week • Final project questions? • March 13 – Keith MacDonald • March 20 or 27 – Julie Tyios (if 27th, we’ll consider revising final project presentations.)
Four general forms • Bookmarking/Aggregating • Content Creation/Sharing • Social networking • Mobile/location-based
Bookmarking & Aggregation • Creating links, collections and connections with ease • Embedded buttons (like/share/digg/reddit/RSS/etc.) increasingly default in most CMSs, allowing for easy sharing by readers
Delicious • Personal bookmarking with a social focus • Bookmarks reside on server, can be public to show interests of individual/group • Was on the ropes after purpose/lack of integration with Yahoo! – still sticking around though • Marketing implications?
Reddit/Digg • User-submitted content with up/down voting by user population • Quick scan of what’s trending/hot on Internet • Reddit gaining in popularity at present – partially due to nature of historical audience • Marketing implications?
StumbleUpon • A mix of aggregation and social sharing • “Stumble” button scrolls through categories of sites based on user preferences and like/dislike ratings of stumblers • Marketing implications?
Content Sharing • Free publication platform for photo, audio, video content • “Long tail” model – all media theoretically equal, but some more attuned to mass consumption, some more niche • Viral possibilities via sharing with other services (but only a possibility)
Wikis as knowledge sharing • Collaborative document creation • Limited marketing potential (e.g., Wikipedia’s neutral POV and restrictions on biographical pieces limits “spin” on pages)
Blogging • Longer-form information pieces (compared to FB and Twitter at least) • Can be effective marketing if done right - challenges in corporate communication? • Blogs for personal branding (e.g., academic/opinion leader blogs) • Commenting and its discontents • SEO and blogging – readable permalinks, keywords, social sharing integration, others
Twitter as Microblogging • Short bursts (140 char) • Organic tagging through hashtags (#omgwtfbbq) • Rapid public communication – can be effective or toxic, depends on how the conversation is enjoined • Examples of successes/failures?
Podcasts • Structured audio/video message • Like other internet content, far more measurable, targeted • Quality an issue – good audio/video is not easy to do, and expectations are set by radio/TV which have decades of experience • Examples?
Social Networks • See last week’s guest lecture (and wait for Juile’s for more) • General (e.g. FB) and specific (e.g., LinkedIn) • Facebook Connect – FB as Open (and largely shared) ID – taps into FB’s already immense marketing database
What does it mean for a company to be social? • Individuals are social, organizations not as much – makes for a potentially complicated relationship • Organizations with tight messaging control fail on social media – why? • Increasingly, organizations that don’t join the conversation are at the mercy of it • Successful techniques in enjoining the conversation?
Tips • Establish (and follow!) fair community guidelines • Engage and schedule regular communication across channels at an appropriate level (e.g., what’s the right level of communication around Twitter? Facebook? Blogs?) • Crosslink – don’t just post to one medium, ensure and build links to others • Conflict resolution tips
Tracking/Analytics • More from Keith next week • Easily accessed info – e.g., YouTube/Google Analytics, Facebook Page counts, Twitter Analytics (drawing on internal APIs) and URL shorteners – all tracked and if done intelligently, yields important information neverbeforeavailable
Geolocational/Mobile • Will fit this in somewhere! • Specific challenges/opportunities when computing and data are mobile and embedded in physical/social context
Next week • Keith on analytics • Mar 20 – either Juile or piece on mobile/locational marketing (depends on schedule)