EMERGINGSocial Media Trends, Tools & Technologies

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Social Channels Weren’t Made For You

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Focus On Purpose, Not Technology

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Theory 1: Signals are created and emerging trends are found within the unintended purposes of a channel.

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One of these things is not like the others...

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Respect Desired Paths.

Theory 2: The strands of market research and marketing are converging within social media channels.

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Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle

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We’re looking at who’s written those comments, what their influence is and what comments have the most potential for helping us create new content.”

Iain Tait Global Interactive Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy

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Theory 3: The ability to monitor, isolate and measure actionable insights about influence in social media is growing... if taken with a grain of salt.

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Measuring Influence Is Hard

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A Side Note: Google+ is an anomaly that will either change the landscape of social media or be forgotten... or both.

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Theory 4: The idea of “local” has shifted. But the power of local (in situ) social interactions and artifacts is growing.

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Create Word Of Mouth On Demand

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Theory 5: The two most important acronyms for the next few years are not HTML5 or CSS3, but RSS and API.

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Content Curation

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NYSE API

Careers page RSS

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Taking advantage of trends...

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