New Media and Social Media Workshop




                                          Tsevis




     Foreign Service Institute – Department of State
            School of Professional and Area Studies
   Public Diplomacy Division Director: Matthew Lussenhop
   Instructors: Chris Degnan, Matthew Lussenhop, Eric Schwartzman
                       Course Number PY363

                         July 16, 2009
Media & Democracy




                    2
Prediction: Fourth Estate’s Fortunes Have Waned




                                                  3
Prediction: Living Mediascape




                                4
Prediction: Electronic Paper




                               5
Prediction: Social News Filter




                                 6
Digg vs. Other Media




                       Source: Compete.com



                                             7
Prediction: Growth of Social Networking




                                          8
World Map of Social Networks




  Source: Vinco’s Blog




                               9
Prediction: Google Combines Services




                                       10
Prediction: Privacy Levels




                             Source: NY Times
                                                11
Prediction: News Wars




                        12
Prediction: Social Graph




                           13
Prediction: Fact Stripping Robots




                                    14
Deconstructing the News Release




                                  15
Anatomy of the Blog




                      Source: Dickson Fong




                                             16
Anatomy of the Blog: Blogs and Blog Posts

                                    Homepage
Blog/Homepage




 Blog Post
                                   Author/ Date


 Blog Post




 Blog Post




                                                  17
Anatomy of the Blog: Feeds, Site and Social Search

                                          RSS Feed


Blog Search

 Social Search




  Top Rated


                                                18
Anatomy of the Blog: Permalinks


                                  Permalink




                                              19
Anatomy of the Blog: Hyperlinks




 Hyperlink


 Hyperlink



 Hyperlink



                                  20
Anatomy of the Blog: Comments




                                21
Anatomy of the Blog: Comment Moderation




                                   Consider
                                   adding
                                   information
                                   about turn
                                   around time




                                                 22
Anatomy of the Blog: Comment Moderation




                            Consider adding
                            moderation policy
                            hyperlink




                                                23
Anatomy of the Blog: Moderation Challenges




                                             24
Anatomy of the Blog: Blog Rolls



                                  Blog Roll




                                     Blog Roll



                                              25
Anatomy of the Blog: Widgets




                  Widget

                  Widget




                  Widget




                               26
Anatomy of the Blog: Tags Clouds




      A list of tags where size reflects
                  popularity.
                                           27
Anatomy of the Blog: Widgets




                               28
Astroturfing




               29
Anatomy of the Blog: TwitterFeed




                                   30
Anatomy of the Blog: RSS




                 Open Tag - < >
                         Close Tag - </ >




                                            31
New Media Monitoring




 Leveraging RSS:
 1. Web-based readers
 2. Desktop-based readers
 3. Email clients




                            32
Live Demo: Using Google Reader




                                 33
Live Demo: Email Alerts




                          34
Guidelines for Bloggers




                          35
Play Nice




            36
Pseudo-Anonymity




                   37
Summarize




            38
One to Many




              39
Democratize




              40
Unfiltered




             41
Blogger Ethics




                 42
Thou shall not confuse thy opinion with truth




                                                43
Thou shall not invoke personal attacks




                                         44
Thou shall stick to the subject at hand




                                          45
Thou shall cite thy references




                                 46
Thou shall punctuate and capitalize




                                      47
Thou shall own up to thy mistakes




                                    48
Thou shall not use aliases or sock puppets




                                             49
Thou shall not feed the trolls




                                 50
Thou shall resize thy images




                               51
Thou shall keep online baggage online




                                        52
Blogging: Implementation Benefits



  • Humanizes and personalizes
  • Fosters asynchronous communications
  • Crosses geographic boundaries
  • Engagement can be measured by number
    of comments, use of blog search tool,
    email subscribers, RSS and HTML usage
  • Effectiveness can be assessed by
    monitoring online conversations


                                            53
Social Media Policies




People       Policy     Process   Technology




                                               54
Social Media Policy




                      55
What Should I Blog About?




  "If I were going to start a blog now I would
       go very, very, very niche -- as niche as
       you can get...if you pick something
       specific and maybe that's not too
       heavily covered yet, you have a chance
       to establish yourself as a voice in that
       area."
            Peter Rojas, founding editor of Gizmodo and
            chief strategy officer of Weblogs, Inc.



                                                          56
More Advice to Aspiring Bloggers from Peter Rojas



         • Be passionate
         • Start slow
         • Be enthusiastic
         • Be critical
         • Be credibility
         • Pick a niche topic



                                                57
Pro Blogger’s Tips for Choosing Blog Topics


         • Identify a need

         • Picture a reader

         • Break out of the echo chamber

         • Write something that matters to you

         • Write something topical

         • One topic per post

         • Plan ahead

         • Other ideas

                                                 58
Chris Brogan’s Blog Post Structure



        • Topic, title, image

        • Lead paragraph

        • Structure: Tell them what
          you’re going to say, say it,
          and tell them what you said

        • End with a question
                                Source: Chris Brogan




                                                       59
Wonder Wheeling Blog Post Ideas




                                  60
Ogilvy’s 25 Blogging Styles
            style                    description              posts per week buzz index    difficulty
 Insight Blogging      Orignal ideas and commentary           5+             4          hard
 Ambition Blogging     Attain something thru blogging         1              2           easy
 Meme Blogging         Starting a thread by sharing a query   1              5           medium
 Piggybacking          Blogging news or memes                 3              3           medium
 Life Blogging         Sharing things in personal life        5              2           easy
 Brand Blogging        Positive brand attributes              5              2           medium
 Detractor Blog        Shares passionate hatred               1              3           medium
 Announcement Blogging Breaks newsworthy information          5              5           hard
 Link Blogging         Blogging a series of links             2              4           medium
 Video Blogging        Original video posts                   5              3           hard
 Photo Blogging        Original photo posts                   5              2           hard
 Evangelist Blogging   Passionate support of a cause          5              3           medium
 List Blogging         Top ten format                         5              5           medium
 Feature Blogging      Thematically-ongoing feature posts     2              4           medium
 Repost Blogging       Reposting another post                 2              1           easy
 Guest Blogging        Authoring post for another blogger     5              3           medium
 Interview Blogging    Question and answer format             5              4           medium
 Event Blogging        Event coverage                         5              4           medium
 Live Blogging         Bloggin a near real time               5              4           medium
 Bridge Blogging       Extends international awareness        5              3           medium
 Classified Blogs      IDs a product or service for sale      1              2           easy
 Response Blogging     Response to a crisis or aquisation     5              3           hard
 Contact Blogging      Writing with intent to make contact    2              2           easy

                                                                                                        61
10 Techniques for Drawing Blog Comments

     • Invite comments

     • Ask questions

     • Be open-ended

     • Interact with comments

     • Set boundaries

     • Be humble

     • Be gracious

     • Be controversial

     • Reward comments

     • Make commenting easy
                                 source: problogger


                                                      62
Stimulating Good Conversation


The best discussion leaders take the skills of a great
interviewer and apply them to their online
communities, writing with a style that acknowledges
and builds upon previous comments, sustaining the
momentum of threads and eliciting knowledgeable
responses. Smart, personal and well-informed words
help these writers make their readers feel that they
cannot possibly spend even single day away from the
conversation.


        - Robert Niles, USC Annenberg Journalism Review



                                                         63
Benefits of Blogging




                       64
Blogger Relations




                    65
Collective Intelligence?




                           66
Submit your attention




                        67
Participate




              68
Courtship matters




                    69
No Broadcast Distribution




                            70
Humanize




           71
You can’t buy passion




                        72
Set the record straight




                          73
Blogger Relations Etiquette




           • Listen before talking
           • Participate, don’t control
           • Be of service
           • Be modest
           • Be authentic
           • Be transparent



                                          74
Case Study: Microsoft




                        75
Case Study: Nokia




                    76
Case Study: Rock-Ola




                       77
Blogger Relations to Drive Media Relations




              • Top 100 blogs

              • Hyperlocal blogs

              • Corporate blogs




                                             78
Cory Doctorow’s Blogger Relations Tips


   • Have a link

   • Have a permanent link

   • Have a link for everything

   • Avoid flash sites

   • Avoid PDFs

   • Make video downloadable and streamable

   • Put your URL on your images

   • Linking policies are ridiculous

   • Specify credit and usage rights

   • Send suggestions by the preferred means

                                               79
Online Reputation Management




                               80
Blog Crisis: Case Study




                          81
Case Study: Blog Crisis




                       Lessons Learned
   • Acknowledge immediately on website or blog
   • Identify influential bloggers in advance
   • Cultivate an inner circle of influential bloggers
   • One on one blogger relations impractical




                                                         82
Micro Blogging




         Source: Current TV




                              83
Twitter as a News Source




                           Source: Examiner.com   84
Anatomy of a Microblog

                     External
                  Communications




                  Media Relations




                                    85
Anatomy of a Twitter Client: TweetDeck




                                         86
Anatomy of a Twitter: TweetChat




                                  87
Hashtags.org




               88
Twitter Case Studies




                       89
Eric Schwartzman


                          (310) 463-4026                                            Phone

                          ebs[at]schwartzmanpr[dot]com                              Email

                          schwartzmanpr.com                                         Website

                          ontherecordpodcast.com                                    Podcast

                          spinfluencer.com                                          Blog

                          ericschwartzman                                           Friendfeed

                          @ericschwartzman                                          Twitter




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                                                                                                                  90
Live Demo: Livening Up Your Blog




                                   91
Demo: Blogging a YouTube Clip




                                92
Demo: Livening Up Your Blog




                              93
Demo: Site Meter




                   94
Demo: FeedBurner




                   95
Live Demo: Email Subscription Widget




                                       96
Demo: Social Bookmarking Widget




                                  97
Live Demo: Tagging Blog Posts




                                98
Live Demo: Livening Up Your Blog




                                   99
Live Demo: Livening Up Your Blog




                                   100
Live Demo: FriendFeed




                        101
Respecting Usability


 • Ease of use

 • Clarity and brevity

 • Easy to read

 • Can’t consume what you can’t find

 • On intranet’s, usability impacts worker productivity

 • 10% of design budget on usability will double site’s results

                                                    Jakob Nielsen




                                                                    102
Online Audio and Video




                    podcast




     download                 webcast




                                        103
Podcasts




           104
Podcasts Defined


    Types of Podcasts:

       •   Audio and Video
       •   Repurposed Electronic Media
       •   Print MSM Extensions
       •   Originally Produced




                                         105
Global Podcast Audience




                      Wave.3 Universal McCann Study 2008 [PDF]


                                                                 106
Global Podcast Audience Growth




                   Wave.3 Universal McCann Study 2008 [PDF]

                                                              107
Global Podcast Audience Growth




                   Wave.3 Universal McCann Study 2008 [PDF]

                                                              108
Finding Podcasts through Show Notes




                                      109
iTunes Podcatcher




                    110
Distributing Through iTunes




                              111
RSS 2.0 with Enclosures




   Podcast Feed in Firefox 3   Podcast Feed in Internet Explorer 7
                                                                     112
Feed Validators




                  113
Podcast in iTunes




                    114
Who is Podcasting: Case Study




            Who is Podcasting?




                                 115
Case Study: IBM

Podcasts: Employees as Evangelists




                                     116
Case Study: LA Opera – B to C


Challenge: Help the LA Opera build stronger relationships with
  its existing subscribers and attract new, younger subscribers
  by giving audiences a rare, behind the scene look into one
  the world’s leading opera companies.
Strategy: Told through the perspective of the director of the
   company’s latest production, profile the relationships
   between the incomparable creative talents collaborating and
   the production process.
Results: LA Opera is the world’s first opera company to
  experiment with podcasting. Placido Domingo, Anna
  Netrebko and Rolando Villazon will all be featured in the first
  episodes. Featured in NY Times, LA Times and Hollywood
  Reporter.




                                                                117
Case Study: APM Music




                        118
Case Study: APM Music




                        119
Case Study: APM Music




                        120
Case Study: APM Music




                        121
Case Study: Castrol

  The Media Business: Editorial vs. Advertising




                                        •NHRA Driver Ashley Force
                                        First

                                        •Castrol Executives Second




                                                                     122
Case Study: Starbucks




                        123
Case Study: Starbucks




                        124
Podcast Production




                     125
Podcast Production




                     126
Podcast Production




                     127
Podcast Production




                     128
Development and Production



Should you podcast?

Selecting the subject matter

Finding your voice view

Intros and outros

Music options: Podsafe & APM view

Search engine optimization view

Show notes view

A word on copyright view




                                    129
Podcast Production


  • Recording live interviews



  • Recording phone interviews



  • Editing



  • ID3 tagging




                                 Levelator

                                             130
ID3 Tagging




              131
Audio & Video Syndication

RSS enabling podcasts



Blogging podcasts



Promoting RSS feeds



Measuring your impact



Putting podcasts in perspective




                                  132
Implementation Recommendations




    Integrate Flash Streaming
    Use Flash Streaming Strategically
    Consider Offering a “Best of Episode”




                                             133
Promoting Podcasts: Signature Blocks




                                       134
Promotion Podcasts: Email Marketing




                                      135
Promoting Podcasts: PNRs




                           136
Promoting Podcasts: SEOed Press Release




                                          137
Promoting Podcasts: Industry Awards




                                      138
Online Video: Reach and Frequency

• Americans Viewed a Record 16.8 Billion Videos Online in April
  Driven Largely by Surge in Viewership at YouTube.

• Average U.S. Viewer Watched 6.4 Hours of Online Video During
  the Month.




                                                     source: comScore   139
Online Video: Audience by Brand




         Source: Nielsen Online [PDF]

                                        Source: On the Record…Online
                                                                       140
Online Video: Marie Digby




                            141
Online Video: Marie Digby




                            142
Online Video: Marie Digby




                            143
Blog Response: Marie Digby




                             144
Blog Comments: Marie Digby




                             145
Viral Video Case Study: Chevy Tahoe




                                      146
Viral Video Case Study: Chevy Tahoe




 • 629,000 visitors to the site by the time of the
   contest
 • 25% of all SUV sales, out selling Ford by 2 to 1
 • 46 day sales cycles, down from 120 days




                                                      147
Online Video: Internal Communications




                                        148
Online Video: Internal/External Communications




                                             149
Video in Online News Rooms




                             150
Shooting Video: Streaming Gear




                                 151
Shooting Video: Flip




                       152
Shooting Video: HD Portable Gear




Sanyo Xacti HD1000 4MP MPEG4 High Definition 1080i   Sennheiser Camcorder Wireless Body-pack
Camcorder with 10x Optical Zoom -- $700              System with ME2 Omni Lavaliere




                                                                                               153
Shooting Video: High-End – Canon XL H1S




                                          154
Video Editing Software – Windows Movie Maker




                                               155
Video Editing Software – Mac iMovie




                                      156
Centralized Online Video Distribution




                                        157
Content Strategy: Live Online Broadcasting




                                             158
Audio and Video Recap

 • Deliver on the needs of an underserved audience

 • Give listeners something they can’t get else where

 • Relationship-based communications

 • May not be well suited for breaking news

 • News content vs. feature content

 • More controlled/one-way channel

 • Credibility and third-party validation

 • Efficiency by leverage existing assets

 • Unscripted and authentic

 • Podcast news releases

                                                        159
Social Bookmarking




                     160
Favorites use Title Tags




                           161
Social Bookmarking




                     162
Benefits of Sharing


  1. Access favorites from anywhere
  2. Share your favorites publicly
  3. Use popular opinion to find info online




                                               163
Live Demo: Social Bookmarking




       1. Create Delicious account
       2. Log in
       3. Post URL
       4. Save
       5. Search popular tags




                                     164
Live Demo: Social Search Monitoring




 1. Query Delicious
 2. Add Resulting RSS Feeds to Google
    Rearder




                                        165
Live Demo: Questions




        1.   Yahoo! Answers
        2.   Linkedin Questions
        3.   Facebook Status
        4.   Twitter




                                  166
User Ratings




               167
Social News Site: Digg




                         168
Social Bookmarking: Digg




                           169
Social Networking




                    Image by: Luc Legay

                                          170
Global Social Networking Penetration




                                       171
Global Social Networking Penetration Growth




                                              172
Corporate Social Networking Adoption




                                       173
Global Social Networking Brand




                                 174
Social Networking – Usage Trends




                                   175
Social Networking: US Communities by Popularity




               • Facebook                           78%
               • MySpace                            42%
               • Linkedin                           17%
               • Twitter                            10%



 Source: http://www.consumerinternetbarometer.us/



                                                          176
Social Networking: MySpace




      Back End               Front End

                                         177
Social Networking: Facebook




                              178
Social Networking: Custom URLs




                                 179
Social Networking: Facebook Company Pages




                                            180
Social Networking: Facebook Company Pages




                                            181
Social Networking: Facebook Company Pages




                                            182
Facebook by the Numbers


• 12x growth since opening to nonstudents in
  Sept. 2006
• 20m minutes spent in March 2008
• 6.4b minutes spent prior year
• Between 30m and 35m users
• Microsoft paid $240m for 1.6%, $15b value
• $145m ad revenue in 2007
• MySpace had $510m in ad revenue in 2007
• $0.15 CPM vs. $13 CPM at Yahoo!
                    Fortune Magazine, May 26, 2008




                                                 183
Case Study: HSBC




                   184
Social Networking: Linked In




                               185
Social Networking: Linked In Groups




                                      186
Social Networking: Niche Nets




                                187
Social Networking: Niche Nets




                                188
Social Networking: Niche Nets




                                189
Social Networking: White Label Platforms




                                           190
Social Networking: White Label Platforms




                                           191
Social Networking: ExchangesConnect




                                      192
Social Networking Aggregators




                                193
Social Networking Aggregators




                                194
Social Networking Mash-Ups




                             195
Social Networking for PR


  • Market research

  • How to videos

  • D.I.Y. videos

  • Promote events

  • Solicit donations

  • Find influentials

  • Build affinity groups

  • Be community minded, not sales minded

                                            196
Naked Conversations



     “Formality suppresses dialogue; informality
  encourages it. Formal conversations and
  presentations leave little room for debate. They
  suggest that everything is scripted and
  predetermined. Informal dialogue is open. It
  invites questions, encourages spontaneity and
  critical thinking...Informality gets the truth out. It
  surfaces out-of-the-box ideas -- the ideas that may
  seem absurd at first hearing but that create
  breakthroughs.“
                         -Larry Bossidy, CEO, Honeywell



                                                      197
PSNH Case Study: Process Detail




                                  198
New Media Case Study: PCNH



                 Organizational
                   Communications




Twitter          Online Newsroom          YouTube &
                                            Flickr




 Customer    News Media    Constituents
   Service




                                                  199
Wikipedia




            200
Wikipedia – From Marketing Sherpa




  Getting Listed

  “Stub” articles

  Propose articles for creation

  Enlisting community member to create an article




                                                    201
Wikipedia – From Marketing Sherpa




  Monitoring Your Listing

  Appoint a Wikipedia ambassador

  Participate in the community

  Monitoring your existing Wikipedia pages (RSS)




                                                   202
Wikipedia – From Marketing Sherpa




  Getting Errors Fixed

  Flag factual errors on discussion pages

  Handle criticism on discussion pages

  Propose new links on discussion pages




                                            203
Wikipedia – Other Issues




          Terms and Conditions

          Conflicts of Interest

          Neutral Point of View Policy

          “Peacock Terms”




                                         204
Wikipedia Hall of Shame




                          205
Monsanto Edits Michael Moore




                               206
US DoJ Obfuscates Bush Criticism




                                   207
Wisdom of the Chaperones




                           208
Chris Wilson On the Record…Online




                                    209
Carry the Message

                                         Online Communications Master Class
                                         June 26, 2009 - Boston
                                         PRSA | Map

                                         Online Communications Boot Camp
                                         June 24-25, 2009 - Boston
                                         PRSA | Map

                                         Social Media for Journalists
                                         June 19, 2009 - NYC
                                         Media Bistro | Map

                                         Understanding New Communications Technologies
                                         June 3, 2009 - Las Vegas
                                         The Licensing Show | Map




Source: Social Media Training Calendar




                                                                                         210
Help Yourself




                211
Eric Schwartzman


                          (310) 463-4026                                            Phone

                          ebs[at]schwartzmanpr[dot]com                              Email

                          schwartzmanpr.com                                         Website

                          ontherecordpodcast.com                                    Podcast

                          spinfluencer.com                                          Blog

                          ericschwartzman                                           Friendfeed

                          @ericschwartzman                                          Twitter

                          facebook.com/ericschwartzman                              Facebook




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