Decoding the Social Web

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This is an introductory presentation SMEXbeirut delivers in its strategy and TOT sessions. It was created as a part of our 2011 MADskills program, a training of trainers in the use of media for advocacy and development in Arab society. It's also available in Arabic.

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Decoding the Social Web

When did the internet become “social”?A. When Facebook launched on February 4,

2004.

B. When Tim Berners-Lee’s World Wide Web prototype as created in 1990.

C. When a mobile phone in the U.K. received one of the first SMSes in 1992.

D. The Internet has been social from the beginning.

Sources:•http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/business-news/transformation-tracker/28803/new-media-timeline-1969-2010/•http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml•https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/Main_Page

Sources:•https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:Analog_clock_base.png / http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Analog vs. Digital?

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Digital Traits

A. Perfect copies

B. Long-range transmission

C. Safer and more efficient to store

D. Malleable: shapeable and reshapeable; XML and APIs

Source:•https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:Macintosh-motherboard.jpg

What’s still missing?

does this help?

30 linear steps = 3030 exponential steps = 1B

20101995

World: 399.3%Middle East:1,675.1%

users

Growth in Internet Usage

16 million

2.72 billion

Pen. Rates

0 100

Internet Mobile

Internet penetration = No. Users / Total Population

0

8

15

23

30

2010 2011

Facebook Adoption in the Arab World

Facebook Adoption

Lebanon facebook users

25.5%

Lebanon

has arou

nd

80,000 T

witter

accounts

.

Twitter accounts in the Arab region: 1,150,000

used to be: filter, then publish

now it’s: publish, then filter

Our Tools

open licensingeveryone shares and shares alike

late 90s, early 2000s

Source:

•https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Open_content

podcastsanyone can broadcast

2001, 2004

Source:•http://www.moma.org/collection/object.php?object_id=89465

social networksanyone can join

2002-2004

photo-sharingeveryone’s got an agency

early 2000s

2004

video-sharingeveryone owns a TV network

2005

mashupsanyone can plot any data

2005

Source:•https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/wiki/File:Audience.jpg•http://www.holovaty.com/writing/chicagocrime.org-tribute/

twitter aka microbloggingeveryone has his own newswire

2006

Source:

•https://si0.twimg.com/a/1308256633/images/logos/twitter_newbird_blue.png

crowdmapseveryone can collect the data

2007

Source:

•http://legacy.ushahidi.com/

smart phoneseveryone, everything, everywhere

Source:

•https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:HTC_Desire_Z_overview.jpg

•http://www.flickr.com/photos/tbuser/2675780623/sizes/m/in/photostream/

With all these channels...

Strategy.

1.Know what you’re trying to achieve.

2.Know who you’re talking to and speak directly to them.

3.Know what you want them to do.

4.Build trust and credibility.

5.Know how you’ll measure your success.

Strategy.

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This session was led by participants in SMEXbeirut’s MADski11s social media trainer certification program. The delivery of two trainings is a requirement of the six-month course. For more information about the program or to share your feedback, please contact Mohamad Najem at mohamad@smex.org.

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