Social Media
Group of internet based applications
Build on web 2.0
Ideologically
Technologically
Creation and exchange of UGC
It's all about
Participation
Sharing
Collaboration
Related concepts
Web 2.0
Software developers
End users
How to use the web
Continuosly modified by all users
No specific technical update
Adobe Flash
RSS
AJAX
A platform for social media
User generated content
How people make use of social media
Media content
Publicly available
Created by end-users
Requirements
Publicly accessible
Website
Social networking site
To a selected group of people
Created outside of professional routines
Drivers
Technological
Social
Economical
Types of social media
Collaborative projects
Simultaneous creation of content
Many end users
Joint effort of many
Main source of information for many consumers
Blogs
Date stamped entries
Equivalent to web pages
One person
Interaction
Comments
Risks
Protest website blogs
Staff members writing negatively
Content communities
Sharing of media content
High popularity
Specific contents
Video
Photo
Text
Slides
Social networking sites
Personal information profiles
Inviting
Friends
Colleagues
Virtiual worlds
Virtual game worlds
3D Environment
Avatars
Strict rules
Limited degree of
Self-presentation
Self-disclosure
Virtual social wrolds
3D Environment
Virtual life
No rules
Similar to real life
Base theories
Media research
Social presence
Elements
Visual
Acoustic
Physical
Influenced by
Intimacy
Immediacy
Asynchronous
Synchronous
Achieve social influence
Media richness
Goal of communication (how effective they are on...?)
Resolution of ambiguity
Reduction of uncertainty
Parameters
Amount of information transmited
Spefici timeframe
To classify social media
High
Low
Social processes
Self-presentation
For what?
Influencing
Getting rewards
Why?
Control the impressions other people form of them
Create a consistent image
Of myself
Against the others perspective of myself
Self-disclosure
Revelation of personal information
Conscious
Unconscious
Consistent with the image one would like to give
Close relationships
Parameters
Degree of self-disclosure
Type of self-presentation it allows
To classify social media
High
Low
Advice for companies
About using media
Be active
Choose the right medium
Select your target group
Ensure activity alignment
Different contact channels
Reduction of ambiguity
Avoid sending contradictory messages
It's about your corporate image
Integrate to become more effective
Social media
Traditional media
Access for all
About being social
Be active
Take the lead
Your content is always fresh
Engage in discussions
With customers
Prosumers
Be intersting
Give customers a reason to engage
Listen to your customers
Deliver what they like to
Hear
Talk about
Determine what they find interesting
Develop content that fits expectations
Be humble
Discover it
Learn about it
Be unprofessional
SM users are people like you
Get feedback from users
Be honest