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Chapter 8
Web 2.0, Social Media, and
Online Trends
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WHAT WE WILL COVER
Defining Social Technologies and Utility
 User-Generated Content
 Creating Business Utility Using Social
Media Tools and E-marketing
 The Social and Business Impacts of Web
2.0
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DEFINING SOCIAL TECHNOLOGIES
AND UTILITY
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Social technologies are simply purposebuilt collections of existing capabilities and
tools, in most cases bundling together a
combination of existing and occasionally
some new online concepts to create a
novel technology-enabled online
experience paralleling offline socializing.
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WEB 2.0
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WEB 2.0
The term Web 2.0 was first coined by Tim O’Reilly
(founder of O’Reilly Media) and used publicly at a trade
conference in 2004
 Represents what most people refer to as the interactive
web
 Socially-enabled sites often look and feel more interactive
and are often enhanced by audio and video tools focused
on various forms of user-generated content (UGC)
such as blogs and conversation threads
 Enhances the ability to promote a sense of online
community
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TECHNOLOGY THAT TOOK
US FROM WEB 1.0 TO 2.0
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Adobe Flash – Nearly every browser now
comes with Adobe Flash. It allows
interactivity, animation, and streaming of
audio and video.
Javascript – Simply put, Javascript is the
communicator between your computer and
the Internet.
API – In the Web 2.0 world, there is an
Application Protocol Interface (API) for
everything. Through the use of APIs,
developers are able to access established
programs and use their functionality.
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SOCIAL IS FOR EVERYONE
A recent study by Nielsen showed that the popularity of
social networking and blogging is not limited to younger
teens and adults:
"Females
make up the majority of visitors to
social networks and blogs, and people aged
18-34 have the highest concentration of
visitors among all age groups. Americans aged
35-49 are also avid visitors: 4 percent more
likely than average to visit social networks and
blogs than they do any other site and 27
percent of these sites’ audience."
www.nielsen.com/content/dam/corporate/us/en/reports-downloads/2011-Reports/nielsen-social-media-report.pdf
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WHAT TYPES OF SITES ACTUALLY
CONSTITUTE “SOCIAL MEDIA”?
Site Type
Current Examples
Blogs
Blogger; Wordpress; Blogspot; Tumblr
Wikis
Wikipedia; Wikileaks
Social Bookmarking
Delicious; Digg; StumbleUpon, Reddit
Social Networking Sites
Facebook, MySpace, Tagged, LinkedIn
Social Updating Services
Twitter; Yammer
Virtual Worlds
Second Life; HABBO, The Sims Online
Social Endorsement/Rating Sites
Yelp; TripAdvisor, DineHere.ca, Urbanspoon
Media Sharing Sites
Flickr, YouTube
Geo-Location
Foursquare, Gowalla
Forums
IGN boards, babycenter.com
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TOP SOCIAL MEDIA SITES IN
CANADA
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SOCIAL UTILITY
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Social utility is a term that suggests you
only spend time on sites that are useful to
you, and that the time invested on
socially-oriented websites must somehow
contribute to your happiness or social
satisfaction, or create social opportunities
for you, or we hypothesize that you
wouldn’t or shouldn’t bother.
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THREE PILLARS OF
SOCIABILITY
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Affiliate
◦ Beyond simply making people aware of the
opportunity to join something, ensure that users want
to be affiliated with your group. The underlying
psychological driver of this is the need to belong.
Participate
◦ Once new users have made the leap to wanting to join
your site (that is, to publicly declare their desire to
affiliate with you), you must help them easily
understand the rules of participation.
Validate
◦ Validate the user’s on-going social experience by
constantly reinforcing the social utility of your website.
This will not be the same for every user, since each
user will have a different level of social comfort,
involvement, and confidence.
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DESIGN AND USABILITY
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Design esthetic and usability are critical
components to building a successful
interactive media site; the most powerful
of these become almost addictive to
users.
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BUSINESS UTILITY
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Business utility involves exploring how to
deploy social media platforms and
technologies to create business outcomes
(e.g., increased sales, higher customer
loyalty, lower transaction costs, etc.) that
have real value for an enterprise, but are
also acceptable to users.
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LEGAL AND ETHICAL
FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL
MEDIA
Enormous costs associated with storage to
maintain user information and bandwidth for
consumption
 Maintaining users’ privacy and security
 ASCC (Canada), FTC (U.S.) enforce ethical
codes and standards
 Legislation that applies to offline advertising
and competitions will apply to online
competitions
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LEGAL AND ETHICAL
FRAMEWORK FOR SOCIAL
MEDIA
Unique laws and regulations apply when
your social media (or other online
promotional efforts) involve children or
“minors” and could vary by jurisdiction.
 Professionals engaged in the creation and
deployment of social media campaigns or
efforts need to seek professional advice
on what codes apply to what issues and
when.
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TECHNOLOGY
IMPLICATIONS AND COSTS
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The cost of accumulating and storing
multimedia-intense content is enormous.
Additionally, running a site oriented toward
interactive media requires significant
bandwidth.
Web 2.0 sites are more expensive to create
and run than traditional websites.
Organizations need to factor this in as part
of their long-term strategy of information
retention, particularly as it relates to social
media applications that are hosted.
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USER-GENERATED CONTENT
A fundamental ingredient to most social
media applications
 True social sites focus on providing the
context in which users generate content
themselves, rather than providing the
actual content
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USER-GENERATED CONTENT
AND BRAND RISK
Aware of the risks of undertaking any
kind of online social campaign
 Media transparency
 Monitor online messages being posted
about your enterprise or organization
 Anticipate potential brandstorms
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SEARCH ENGINE
OPTIMIZATION (SEO) ON
SOCIAL SITES
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Strategies to optimize web searches:
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Site design
Technology architecture
Site audits
User-generated content, user interaction
Linking and click-throughs
Tagging
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CREATING BUSINESS UTILITY
USING SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS
AND E-MARKETING
Emerged as a new paradigm around mid2000s.
 Share information at a rapid rate.
 Marketers and consumers have access to
similar information.
 Go to where your customers are rather
than have them come to you.
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E-MARKETING
Phase 1: Early on, marketing’s use of IT technology rested solely on gathering
and using e-info data.
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E-MARKETING
Phase 2: As the Web began to grow, most companies began to use IT as a
way to communicate directly with their customers. However, the
communication was still only one way—from company to consumer.
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E-MARKETING
Phase 3: As the social web began to take over, marketing became e-dominated,
where use of the Web is an integral part to marketing’s communications with
consumers.
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THE SOCIAL AND BUSINESS
IMPACTS OF WEB 2.0
There has been a rapid decline in the
consumption of network TV as more and
more choices have become available and
cable broadcast systems have increased their
global penetration.
 There has been a significant decline in the
consumption of newspapers, magazines,
radio, and most other forms of mass media.
 The amount of time spent online by the
average citizen has steadily increased every
single year for 15 years as more and more
people spend more and more time online.
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ONLINE ADVERTISING
SPENDING
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CHANGE IN
ADVERTISING REACH
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RECAP
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What is Web 2.0 and why does it matter
to an organization?
What features can make a social website
more successful?
What are the risks and rewards of this
technology for society and the
organizations and businesses that
operate within it?
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