Viral Marketing Explained
How do you entice people to join you? How do you look cool? How does everyone have fun?
2017 The #OpenData nerds unite! The first conference of the largest structured free knowledge project is underway #WikidataCon https://t.co/WLM0hX6QXP
For TAGS fans exciting news.... @mhawksey Chief Innovation, Community and Technology
Officer
at ALT, by night a Google Developer Expert, mashup, social network, analytics, Google Apps Script, data
junkie.
Using Google Spreadsheet to automatically monitor Twitter event hashtags and more. Little did I know then
that
7 years later I'd still be working on this idea in the form of TAGS.
TAGS Explorer by @mhawksey - the Twitter conversation during #WikidataCon #DataIsBeautiful #Wikidata #OpenData
'Embedding almost anything like a Twitter Search widget in new Google Sites' … #GSuite #gsuiteedu
2010 #Marketing is about leading tribes nowadays. "CMO now stands for Chief Movement Officer" - Seth Godin #cmo
The way you succeed today is to start with a tiny niche and grow it. And you don't grow it via hype, via spam, telling people to pay attention, but by providing tools that your believers can use to spread the word.
"The First Follower: Linchpin to Creative
Leadership"
Leadership Lessons and making a movement - watch it happen in under 3 minutes. Succinctly said, Leadership
is
Over Rated. The best way to make a movement, if you really care, is to courageously follow and show others
how
to follow. I think we all secretly want to be the leader and control everything. However, there is a lot to
be
said about the fearless follower. That is authenticity. They are not following the crowd. They see something
they like and jump in with both feet. The world needs more fearless followers.
Fake viral campaigns have become a ploy of the modern age. Anything that erodes an atmosphere of confidence hurts the entire community, says Len Shyles, an associate professor of communication at Villanova University, in an e-mail. “It is dishonest because it leads people to believe it is something it is not,” says Professor Shyles. “It is designed to manipulate public opinion."
RT A Flesch-Kincaid test gave ReTweets a reading grade level of 6.47 years of education, while random Tweets only required 6.04 years.
The Linguistics of ReTweets
ReTweets are the first entirely observable and analyzable viral content spreading mechanism in the history
of
mankind and as such they offer an unparalleled window into what makes humans spread ideas. Another
characteristic commonly found in viral content is novelty; that is, the “newness” of the ideas and
information
presented. Constructive words like build and create behavior are ReTweetable, while
abstract
thought and sensation-based words are not. Tweets about work, religion, money and media/celebrities are more
ReTweetable than Tweets about negative emotions, sensations, swear words and self-reference.
*Please RT helps. -- Twitter Grader Tool
Marketers create programs that are "not interruptive or [about] sneaking an ad in,
but
part of an overall self-expression experience.
Marketing is increasingly about self-expression, and social
networking and virtual worlds and embellishing their pages. This is accomplished by using tools, characters, and icons designed to promote empowerment and self-expression.
Cross-device integration: mobile gadgets, IM, and online sites are
not separate channels it will all occur seamlessly over multiple devices.
Engagement marketing and Participatory Advertising Advertisers sponsor home pages, skins, and other branded content so kids who are attracted to a sponsor will make it their own, and spread it virally, becoming brand advocates.
Brand integration is absolutely a way to fit in and stand out as part of a social network.
But as online consumers become more sophisticated. The sponsor must be brought into the community beyond
'click me, touch me, view me.
Parents may want to know what "brand integration" means. It's the buzzword social-networking
companies use when they talk about how they're going to make money on the millions of profiles and blogs
on their sites.
The kid version of "brand integration," is also called "immersive advertising," and
finds
sponsors like Lucky Charms cereal. Two clever examples in teen social networking are Tagged.com's
advertiser-sponsored "tags," which described as graphic icons that kids can
trade with online friendship bracelets.
Advertisers sponsor home pages' 'skins' [such as a Web page's "wallpaper" and other elements that give it a certain look and feel] and other branded content so kids who are attracted to a sponsor 'will make it their own, and spread it virally, becoming brand advocates.
VIRAL VIDEO"S
Social Networking [1] Getting Integrated
"Social networking is plainly the future of media," says Greg Tseng, co-founder and CEO of San
Francisco-based Tagged.com. A key trend in OSN for 2007 is a heightened focus on integrated brand
engagement.
Teens constitute Tagged's target audience. Tagged relies on advertiser-sponsored "tags" -
graphic icons that kids can trade à la online friendship bracelets. The tags "automatically imply
endorsement for a product [and] allow for significant brand engagement integrated into the fabric of the
site.
But they're less intrusive than regular advertising."In terms of revenue-generating business
models,
OSN sites remain in an embryonic state. Some, such as MySpace, have turned to music-downloading services and
real-life events to boost their bottom lines; Facebook this fall introduced a low-cost, self-service
marketing
component, and several corporations have launched their own branded social networking sites and channels. In
an effort to appeal to its target's passion for self-expression.