Subtitle: How social media changes everything Slides for a talk to British Computer Society london branch, 15 January 2009.

1. The search for shared meaning How social media changes everything

2. @davebriggs [email_address] www.davepress.net

5. Mobiles on, please!

6. #davebcs

7. Networkers (less than) anonymous

8. Digital enabling

9. So, shared meaning?

10. Here Comes Everybody

11. The Long Tail (something about niches)

12. "We sold more books today that didn't sell at all yesterday than we sold today of all the books that did sell yesterday."

13. Individual and yet social

14. Infobesity?

15. “ There is no information overload, only filter failure”

16. “ An aggregation of fragments is the only kind of whole we have now”

17. No permission required

18. What can we do?

19. Let’s make things less boring!

20. Listen Acknowledge Create Share

21. Small Cheap Simple

22. Worse is better

23. Prototype!

24. If you build it, they won’t come

25. Creators Critics Collectors Joiners Spectators Inactives

26. New media doesn’t kill old media

27. Managing communities takes up time

28. Interactive websites need interactive organisations

29. Blocking is silly

30. The risk isn’t what bad things might happen if you do things differently, but what good things won’t happen if you don’t

31. If you don’t do it, someone else will

32. Fundamentally: what is it that you want to achieve?

33. Have we found a shared meaning?

34. digitalyw @davebriggs don't think is about shared meaning - more that everyone has their own interest but sometimes it still contributes to common aim

35. 72prufrocks @davebriggs 'shared' as in each person understands the same, or 'shared' as in each person contributes part of the meaning?

36. Tonymolloy @davebriggs shared meaning aka consensus/common ground? are we in McLuhanist message/medium land here?

37. Hmmmm

38. Social individualism, perhaps?

39. “ If you don’t like change, you’ll like irrelevance even less”

40. Thanks for listening