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Friday, March 14, 2008

Are Digital Marketing + Social Design Compatible?

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I'm attending a panel next week at the Ad Age digital marketing conference.  The topic?  Making social media work:

Making Social Media & Marketing Work
Social media and marketing is no longer an 'emerging media' buzzword, but a discipline that nearly every marketer has embraced.  What tactics are smart marketers eyeing? Where does the discipline lie within an agency? What kinds of new social media models will emerge in 2008?

Moderator: Jim Nail, Chief Strategy & Marketing Officer,  TNS Media Intelligence/Cymfony 

Confirmed Panelists:

David Armano, VP, Creative, Critical Mass
Michael Barrett, EVP, Chief Revenue Officer, Fox Interactive Media
Colleen Decourcy, Chief Digital Officer, TBWA Worldwide
Eric Plaskonos, Director of Brand Communications, Philips Electronics North America
Troy Young, CMO, VideoEgg

If you look at my visual above, it will tell you something about what my POV will be on the panel.  Like many of you, I'm a "consumer"—I buy stuff.  I'm also an active participant in social networks incorporating many of the social utilities like Facebook, Twitter and blogging in my daily routine.  I'm part of multiple communities.  I produce content.  I'm a "user" (sorry folks, it's not a dirty word)—I use Web applications and software regularly.  I don't even think about it.  It's like breathing.  And I'm a customer too. But above all, I'm a person—a human being.

Through all of the rapid shifts we are witnessing I often self-analyze my own digital behavior.  I wonder why it's the geeks and not the marketers who are designing the social experiences like You Tube, Flickr, My Space, Facebook etc.  I like to think about what Josh Porter describes as "social design":

"Social design is design that focuses on the social lives of users. It deals with the activities, behaviors, and motivations of people who work and play together through software interfaces. It is built on the observation that many of the decisions we make are greatly affected by those we surround ourselves with in our social lives: our family, friends, and colleagues."

So the geeks build the platforms and networks.  The users use them.  The users become participants.  Participants form the networks and communities and participation in communities sucks up our time and attention.

Then where does that leave marketing?  Maybe next week, we'll get a little closer to that answer.  But my guess is we'll probably end up with more questions.  If you're going to the event, please look me up.

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Will any of these panels (but specifically this one) be recorded? I would love to see a re-broadcast as I'm sure would others.

Len, Good question. Don't know, but if so—I will link to it!

Thanks David - I think this analysis could work well for membership recruitment and services too as I've said here http://tinyurl.com/2kt93g

It's Abbey from Ad Age here. We'll have a videographer there and will definitely be posting some video. We've also got reporters covering it and my colleague Matt Creamer is blogging the event.

David -- looking forward to a great discussion. Glad you're part of it!

Thanks for providing that info Abbey. Looking forward to the next two days!

I'm a "user" too and I enjoy it, even though I'm not wired enough to easily access and review the latest posts from the blogs to which I've subscribed.

But the other day I was thinking about something NPR says during their pledge drives. To paraphrase: users need to give back, for as much as they use. In other words, I shouldn't be reading all these blogs and accessing hyperlinks and watching video to the extent that I do, because I don't produce my own content in return. And I don't have my own blog. Given these circumstances, is "user" still a clean word, as you put it in your post?

David, I notice you make constant reference to "social media" when talking about digital experiences like social networks, blogs, wiki's etc. I'm wondering what type of media on the web you would classify as not being "social"?
Thought being: have link, will travel (to friends, family, blog, cell phone, email, IM, and so on).

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