Michael Rawlins presented on business strategies for leveraging persuasive architecture in social media. He discussed how technology has shifted from hardware to software and people. Social media platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn have seen steady growth since 2005. Companies are now participating in social media for business drivers like promoting their brand and engaging customers. Rawlins explained principles of persuasive design like reciprocity, social proof, and scarcity that can influence people's behaviors. He argued companies should apply these persuasion techniques through their social media initiatives and measure success through usability testing and quantifying ROI.
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Leveraging Persuasive Architecture
1. Business Strategies for Social Media
Leveraging Persuasive Architecture
Presented to the SNEC-PMI
October, 2012
Michael Rawlins, User Experience Strategist
2. About me...
Michael Rawlins
Sr. User Experience Architect
•Certified Usability Analyst since 2003
•Certified User Experience Analyst (expected 2013)
•Early adopter of Social Networking
•Instructor of:
•Usability Testing Methods
•Interaction Design Techniques
•Persuasive Design Techniques (PET)
•Social Media Strategy
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3. Why compelling?
Shifting Technology Focus...
Big Hardware Smaller Hardware Software People!
60’s - mid 70’s mid-70’s - 80’s 90’s Now
Social Media...
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4. Really?
Computers weren’t initially created to persuade; they were
built for handling data -- calculating, storing, and
retrieving...
Persuasive Technology
Using Computers to Change What We Think and Do
B.J Fogg - Stanford University
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5. Steady Growth Since 2005
Facebook has Linkedin has
reached one over 100 million
billion active profiles...
users...
Facebook Statistics (10/4/12) Linkedin Statistics
http://www.facebook. /press/info.php?statistics
com http://blog.linkedin.com/ /03/22/linkedin-100-million/
2011
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7. Becoming routine...
Becoming routine for
many people
Communities
are becoming mature
and diverse in types of
subscribers
More multi-channel design
expected
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9. What are people doing?
Connecting with friends,
family and work peers
Promoting businesses,
causes and interests
Redefining how they
communicate
Source: Pew Research
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16. Form Factor
Cognitive
Involvement
Persuasive
Design
Source: http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-the-growth-of-social-media-2011/ 16
17. Persuasion theory...
Life = making choices
More information = more difficult to choose
More choices available = more difficult to choose
People have developed semi-automatic reactions
to help make choices.
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21. Social motivators
Recognition Cooperation
Belonging Competition
Comparison Social Control
Facilitation Loss Aversion
Peer Pressure Dissonance
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22. Leveraging persuasion...
Use reciprocity to give things away for free and
people will return
People are inclined to return favors you have done for
them
Chances are you’re already giving something
away for free
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23. “Freemium” strategies...
Free newsletters and RSS Feeds
Free Tips
Free webinars/podcast
Free trial software...
Goal: Ask users/visitors to promote your content in
return for what they get.
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24. The sub-conscious mind...
When something is scarce, people automatically perceive it
more valuable
Scarcity in time is extremely effective (example:
limited access to content, previews, etc.)
Scarcity in amount is equally effective in gaining
users/visitors attention
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25. Designing for trust...
Authority figures can trigger behaviors... Establishing
authority makes it easy for people to choose you, your
product or service offering over the next distraction
Social Proof “People are like sheep!”. The more
information we put in front of our users/visitors, the more
they rely on other people’s choices to make
their own
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26. Changing behaviors...
Commitment/Consistency - the moment people
decide on something, they start convincing
themselves it’s the right choice
Goal: Leveraging all of these elements as part of a
Persuasive Architecture enables smart companies to
rationalize social media initiatives.
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28. Applied Persuasion...
Piano stairs - TheFunTheory.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw
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29. Key Points...
This is the age of Person-to-Person-to-Person communication.
Provides a B-to-C and B-to-B framework.
Many social networks have an underlying design based on
persuasive influence markers like reciprocity, likability and
social proof.
Social networks are redefining how people gain answers to
questions - and accessing news & information.
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30. You’ll Need to Dig Deeper...
Business strategies need to go beyond ‘parity plays’
Quantify successes by usability testing (leverage new
applications in the cloud (like Verifyapp.com)
ROI will come from data-mining and behavioral modeling
Consider persuasive architecture just like technical
architecture
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