brands and 2.0 - proceed with caution
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A collection of slides about the relationship between brands and the wonderful world of 2.0TRANSCRIPT
Brands and 2.0
Proceed with caution
Brands and blogging don’t enjoy a marriage
made in heaven
Blogging changes the writer’s behaviour
more than it changes the readers’ behaviour
If your brand is going to blog you need to
understand what you want to change about
it
This is uncomfortable because brands
usually like changing consumer behaviour
not the other way round
There are no ‘old’ or ‘new’ media – there are communications
media and social media
Communications media are the natural
habitat of brands
Their use of social media is problematic
Social media demand that you trade control
for influence
Unless brands are happy with this they should stay out of
social media
Just use it to listen to the conversation
Social media is all about conversation
Brands only have a role if they can make
the conversation more interesting
Advertising can’t succeed against the
conversation but it can influence and
contribute to the conversation
The social media gurus bang on about the
stupidity of advertising but really it is a
criticism of media
Creative agencies must free themselves from media - they are
content creation companies
And increasingly content co-creation
companies
Media neutrality must mean just that – we
shouldn’t care where our content appears
Maybe media agnostic would be a better term
Media is only interesting as content distribution vehicle.
And increasingly it will be free to use.
Social media can’t be measured so lets stop
trying
We have to get comfortable with
managing the immeasurable
Lets face it the truth is that all good
advertising is a leap of faith
Only poor advertising is predictable