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7 Top Trends in Social Media Speaker:  Jeff Bullas Twitter:  @JeffBullas Date:  Nov 24, 2011
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years The 7 Top Trends in Social Media Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years The 7 Top Trends in Social Media Looking into the future is always fun and science fiction writers have had their creative ideas on robots, mobile communications and other seemingly magical devices often. In fact, even cartoonists have predicted the future with Dick Tracy’s phone watch becoming a real device. Watching technology weave its magic is summed up in the quote by the science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke. “ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic“.    Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend One: Social Mobile Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend One: Social Mobile The invention and evolution of the computer in your hand, the “smart phone” that is connected to high speed broadband Internet is revolutionizing our communications and society. Facebook and Twitter apps are enabling people to take their social networks with them.  The latest change to this ongoing trend is that Twitter is now embedded in the  Apple iOS5 mobile operating system  at the menu layer. Twitter has seen user acquisition  increase by 300%  since the launch. Does this signal the end of the humble simple “text”? Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Two: Socialisation of Search Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Two: Socialisation of Search Google’s search results are determined by complex algorithms designed and developed  by hundreds of clever mathematicians wearing white lab coats and calculated by computers in dark humming data centers. Google has started rolling out its “+1″  button that they are starting to indicate will be the start of the rise of  ”social signals” that will be used to determine what content is being voted on as valuable by humans rather than just machines. Google and Bing have increased the visibility and priority of social networks in search results. You may have noticed over the last 12 months that YouTube videos, Facebook pages and LinkedIn profiles and other social media are ranking higher in search results when conducting an online search. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Three: Geo-Targeting of Social Media Marketing Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Three: Geo-Targeting of Social Media Marketing The rise of FourSquare and Google “Places” has made checking in for specials in your local area a reality…. again driven by the “smart phone”. The mobile web will continue to make a major impact over the next 5 years as the worlds more than 5 billion phones become “Smart” . Another part of this local social marketing trend is the new development of post code targeting capability in social media marketing on Facebook which is being rolled out in the USA. The self serve paid Facebook marketing platform is now starting to include postcodes along with the other demographic data that Facebook has in its database about you. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Four: Social Commerce Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Four: Social Commerce E-Commerce has been with us for nearly 15 years and is now producing a major negative impact on “bricks and mortar” stores that are not also online. It is predicted that 20% of total retail sales will be online over the next few years. Over the last 12 months technology has emerged that allows you to take your shop (via “Apps”) to the Facebook “network” so that users do not have to leave the Facebook eco-system to buy their favourite brands. In fact many of the worlds top bands and musicians have their own Facebook store on their “Fan Page” Commerce is now becoming “ Omni Commerce ” – Everywhere! Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Five: Social Gaming Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Five: Social Gaming Games used to be played on a field or park, around a board in the middle of a table or with a deck of cards. Gaming has been redefined with the evolution of “ Social Gaming ” enabled by rich multi-media and easy to use social networks. Zygna (which was only founded in 2007) has usurped traditional gaming companies by developing Farmville and Mafia Wars that is currently played by 230 million Facebook users every month.  In 2010 Facebook and Zygna signed a 5 year agreement on the use of Facebook credits which returns 30% of all games revenues to Facebook.  Revenues will exceed $1 billion in 2012 which is achieved through the sales of “virtual” products. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Six: Global Magazine Super Blogs Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Six: Global Magazine Super Blogs Publishing is transforming rapidly from offline print to online platforms with the rise of global blogs that attract tens of millions of readers every month. Huffington Post which started as a political blog was recently sold to AOL for $315 million. Traffic to these these blogs are driven by social networks  The Huffington Post handles over 1 million comments every month from more than 35.6 million unique visitors. In fact in June, 2010, traffic to the Huffington Post passed the doyen of traditional media, The New York Times. Blogs on various topics from social media (Mashable) politics, food and technology  are attracting millions of global readers every month. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Seven: Global Micro Niche Business Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Seven: Global Micro Niche Business Niche industries were in the past restricted by geography, technology and the tyranny of distance. Now they are able to become multi-million dollar enterprises with the global reach of social media that is not restricted by place, time and poor logistics. Examples of this include “ AussieBum ” (sells mens underwear globally) and “ AquaBumps ” (which sells digital photography around the world focusing on water, surfing and beach images). It is not only the revenue of these social network enabled businesses that surpasses the previously location bound industries but the speed at which they scale which is due to the virality of social networks including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. By the way ladies you do have to admire the “WonderJock”! Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills Social Media “ Putting a dent in the universe”

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7 Top Trends in Social Media

  • 1. 7 Top Trends in Social Media Speaker: Jeff Bullas Twitter: @JeffBullas Date: Nov 24, 2011
  • 2. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years The 7 Top Trends in Social Media Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 3. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years The 7 Top Trends in Social Media Looking into the future is always fun and science fiction writers have had their creative ideas on robots, mobile communications and other seemingly magical devices often. In fact, even cartoonists have predicted the future with Dick Tracy’s phone watch becoming a real device. Watching technology weave its magic is summed up in the quote by the science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke. “ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic“.  Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 4. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend One: Social Mobile Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 5. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend One: Social Mobile The invention and evolution of the computer in your hand, the “smart phone” that is connected to high speed broadband Internet is revolutionizing our communications and society. Facebook and Twitter apps are enabling people to take their social networks with them. The latest change to this ongoing trend is that Twitter is now embedded in the  Apple iOS5 mobile operating system  at the menu layer. Twitter has seen user acquisition  increase by 300%  since the launch. Does this signal the end of the humble simple “text”? Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 6. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Two: Socialisation of Search Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 7. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Two: Socialisation of Search Google’s search results are determined by complex algorithms designed and developed  by hundreds of clever mathematicians wearing white lab coats and calculated by computers in dark humming data centers. Google has started rolling out its “+1″  button that they are starting to indicate will be the start of the rise of  ”social signals” that will be used to determine what content is being voted on as valuable by humans rather than just machines. Google and Bing have increased the visibility and priority of social networks in search results. You may have noticed over the last 12 months that YouTube videos, Facebook pages and LinkedIn profiles and other social media are ranking higher in search results when conducting an online search. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 8. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Three: Geo-Targeting of Social Media Marketing Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 9. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Three: Geo-Targeting of Social Media Marketing The rise of FourSquare and Google “Places” has made checking in for specials in your local area a reality…. again driven by the “smart phone”. The mobile web will continue to make a major impact over the next 5 years as the worlds more than 5 billion phones become “Smart” . Another part of this local social marketing trend is the new development of post code targeting capability in social media marketing on Facebook which is being rolled out in the USA. The self serve paid Facebook marketing platform is now starting to include postcodes along with the other demographic data that Facebook has in its database about you. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 10. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Four: Social Commerce Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 11. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Four: Social Commerce E-Commerce has been with us for nearly 15 years and is now producing a major negative impact on “bricks and mortar” stores that are not also online. It is predicted that 20% of total retail sales will be online over the next few years. Over the last 12 months technology has emerged that allows you to take your shop (via “Apps”) to the Facebook “network” so that users do not have to leave the Facebook eco-system to buy their favourite brands. In fact many of the worlds top bands and musicians have their own Facebook store on their “Fan Page” Commerce is now becoming “ Omni Commerce ” – Everywhere! Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 12. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Five: Social Gaming Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 13. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Five: Social Gaming Games used to be played on a field or park, around a board in the middle of a table or with a deck of cards. Gaming has been redefined with the evolution of “ Social Gaming ” enabled by rich multi-media and easy to use social networks. Zygna (which was only founded in 2007) has usurped traditional gaming companies by developing Farmville and Mafia Wars that is currently played by 230 million Facebook users every month. In 2010 Facebook and Zygna signed a 5 year agreement on the use of Facebook credits which returns 30% of all games revenues to Facebook.  Revenues will exceed $1 billion in 2012 which is achieved through the sales of “virtual” products. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 14. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Six: Global Magazine Super Blogs Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 15. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Six: Global Magazine Super Blogs Publishing is transforming rapidly from offline print to online platforms with the rise of global blogs that attract tens of millions of readers every month. Huffington Post which started as a political blog was recently sold to AOL for $315 million. Traffic to these these blogs are driven by social networks The Huffington Post handles over 1 million comments every month from more than 35.6 million unique visitors. In fact in June, 2010, traffic to the Huffington Post passed the doyen of traditional media, The New York Times. Blogs on various topics from social media (Mashable) politics, food and technology  are attracting millions of global readers every month. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 16. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Seven: Global Micro Niche Business Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 17. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years 7 Top Trends in Social Media Trend Seven: Global Micro Niche Business Niche industries were in the past restricted by geography, technology and the tyranny of distance. Now they are able to become multi-million dollar enterprises with the global reach of social media that is not restricted by place, time and poor logistics. Examples of this include “ AussieBum ” (sells mens underwear globally) and “ AquaBumps ” (which sells digital photography around the world focusing on water, surfing and beach images). It is not only the revenue of these social network enabled businesses that surpasses the previously location bound industries but the speed at which they scale which is due to the virality of social networks including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. By the way ladies you do have to admire the “WonderJock”! Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills
  • 18. Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Driving excellence in International Trade for 50 years Build your knowledge and skills Build your knowledge and skills Social Media “ Putting a dent in the universe”

Notas do Editor

  1. Watching technology weave its magic is summed up in the quote by the science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke. “ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic “. Grandfather mobile story!
  2. Watching technology weave its magic is summed up in the quote by the science fiction writer, Arthur C. Clarke. “ Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic “. Grandfather mobile story!
  3. The invention and evolution of the computer in your hand, the “smart phone” that is connected to high speed broadband Internet is revolutionizing our communications and society. Facebook and Twitter apps are enabling people to take their social networks with them. The latest change to this ongoing trend is that Twitter is now embedded in the  Apple iOS5 mobile operating system  at the menu layer. Twitter has seen user acquisition  increase by 300%  since the launch.
  4. The invention and evolution of the computer in your hand, the “smart phone” that is connected to high speed broadband Internet is revolutionizing our communications and society. Facebook and Twitter apps are enabling people to take their social networks with them. The latest change to this ongoing trend is that Twitter is now embedded in the  Apple iOS5 mobile operating system  at the menu layer. Twitter has seen user acquisition  increase by 300%  since the launch.
  5. Google’s search results are determined by complex algorithms designed and developed  by hundreds of clever mathematicians wearing white lab coats and calculated by computers in dark humming data centers. Google has started rolling out its “+1″  button that they are starting to indicate will be the start of the rise of  ”social signals” that will be used to determine what content is being voted on as valuable by humans rather than just machines. Google and Bing have increased the visibility and priority of social networks in search results. You may have noticed over the last 12 months that YouTube videos, Facebook pages and LinkedIn profiles and other social media are ranking higher in search results when conducting an online search.
  6. Google’s search results are determined by complex algorithms designed and developed  by hundreds of clever mathematicians wearing white lab coats and calculated by computers in dark humming data centers. Google has started rolling out its “+1″  button that they are starting to indicate will be the start of the rise of  ”social signals” that will be used to determine what content is being voted on as valuable by humans rather than just machines. Google and Bing have increased the visibility and priority of social networks in search results. You may have noticed over the last 12 months that YouTube videos, Facebook pages and LinkedIn profiles and other social media are ranking higher in search results when conducting an online search.
  7. The rise of FourSquare and Google “Places” has made checking in for specials in your local area a reality…. again driven by the “smart phone”. The mobile web will continue to make a major impact over the next 5 years as the worlds more than 5 billion phones become “Smart” Another part of this local social marketing trend is the new development of post code targeting capability in social media marketing on Facebook which is being rolled out in the USA.The self serve paid Facebook marketing platform is now starting to include postcodes along with the other demographic data that Facebook has in its database about you.
  8. The rise of FourSquare and Google “Places” has made checking in for specials in your local area a reality…. again driven by the “smart phone”. The mobile web will continue to make a major impact over the next 5 years as the worlds more than 5 billion phones become “Smart” Another part of this local social marketing trend is the new development of post code targeting capability in social media marketing on Facebook which is being rolled out in the USA.The self serve paid Facebook marketing platform is now starting to include postcodes along with the other demographic data that Facebook has in its database about you.
  9. E-Commerce has been with us for nearly 15 years and is now producing a major negative impact on “bricks and mortar” stores that are not also online. It is predicted that 20% of total retail sales will be online over the next few years. Over the last 12 months technology has emerged that allows you to take your shop (via “Apps”) to the Facebook “network” so that users do not have to leave the Facebook eco-system to buy their favourite brands. In fact many of the worlds top bands and musicians have their own Facebook store on their “Fan Page” Commerce is now becoming “ Omni Commerce ”
  10. E-Commerce has been with us for nearly 15 years and is now producing a major negative impact on “bricks and mortar” stores that are not also online. It is predicted that 20% of total retail sales will be online over the next few years. Over the last 12 months technology has emerged that allows you to take your shop (via “Apps”) to the Facebook “network” so that users do not have to leave the Facebook eco-system to buy their favourite brands. In fact many of the worlds top bands and musicians have their own Facebook store on their “Fan Page” Commerce is now becoming “ Omni Commerce ”
  11. Games used to be played on a field or park, around a board in the middle of a table or with a deck of cards. Gaming has been redefined with the evolution of “ Social Gaming ” enabled by rich multi-media and easy to use social networks. Zygna (which was only founded in 2007) has usurped traditional gaming companies by developing Farmville and Mafia Wars that is currently played by 230 million Facebook users every month. In 2010 Facebook and Zygna signed a 5 year agreement on the use of Facebook credits which returns 30% of all games revenues to Facebook.   Revenues will exceed $1 billion in 2012 which is achieved through the sales of “virtual” products.
  12. Games used to be played on a field or park, around a board in the middle of a table or with a deck of cards. Gaming has been redefined with the evolution of “ Social Gaming ” enabled by rich multi-media and easy to use social networks. Zygna (which was only founded in 2007) has usurped traditional gaming companies by developing Farmville and Mafia Wars that is currently played by 230 million Facebook users every month. In 2010 Facebook and Zygna signed a 5 year agreement on the use of Facebook credits which returns 30% of all games revenues to Facebook.   Revenues will exceed $1 billion in 2012 which is achieved through the sales of “virtual” products.
  13. Publishing is transforming rapidly from offline print to online platforms with the rise of global blogs that attract tens of millions of readers every month. Huffington Post which started as a political blog was recently sold to AOL for $315 million. Traffic to these these blogs are driven by social networks and the Huffington Post handles over 1 million comments every month from more than 35.6 million unique visitors. In fact in June, 2010, traffic to the Huffington Post passed the doyen of traditional media, The New York Times. Blogs on various topics from social media (Mashable) politics, food and technology  are attracting millions of global readers every month.
  14. Publishing is transforming rapidly from offline print to online platforms with the rise of global blogs that attract tens of millions of readers every month. Huffington Post which started as a political blog was recently sold to AOL for $315 million. Traffic to these these blogs are driven by social networks and the Huffington Post handles over 1 million comments every month from more than 35.6 million unique visitors. In fact in June, 2010, traffic to the Huffington Post passed the doyen of traditional media, The New York Times. Blogs on various topics from social media (Mashable) politics, food and technology  are attracting millions of global readers every month.
  15. Niche industries were in the past restricted by geography, technology and the tyranny of distance. Now they are able to become multi-million dollar enterprises with the global reach of social media that is not restricted by place, time and poor logistics. Examples of this include “ AussieBum ” (sells men's underwear globally) “ AquaBumps ” (which sells digital photography around the world focusing on water, surfing and beach images). It is not only the revenue of these social network enabled businesses that surpasses the previously location bound industries but the speed at which they scale which is due to the virality of social networks including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.
  16. Niche industries were in the past restricted by geography, technology and the tyranny of distance. Now they are able to become multi-million dollar enterprises with the global reach of social media that is not restricted by place, time and poor logistics. Examples of this include “ AussieBum ” (sells men's underwear globally) “ AquaBumps ” (which sells digital photography around the world focusing on water, surfing and beach images). It is not only the revenue of these social network enabled businesses that surpasses the previously location bound industries but the speed at which they scale which is due to the virality of social networks including Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.