Soulja Boy Discusses the Future of Social Media
Saturday, February 4th, 2012
21-year-old music phenomenon Soulja Boy sits with WSJ’s Lee Hawkins to discuss how he managed to leverage social media into a successful music career.
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21-year-old music phenomenon Soulja Boy sits with WSJ’s Lee Hawkins to discuss how he managed to leverage social media into a successful music career.
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Twitter and other social media reacted throughout President Obama’s State of the Union address. WSJ’s social media guru Zach Seward talks to Jerry Seib and Kelly Evans about the response in the Twiterverse.
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Social Media Week is a global multi-city conference. On Feb 13-17 we host in New York, Miami, DC, Paris, Hamburg, London, Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Toronto, San Francisco. Reflecting on the global impact of social media and its role as a catalyst in driving cultural, political, economic and social change, Social Media Week’s theme in February 2012 will focus on Empowering Change through Collaboration.
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Join our Facebook activists in the ‘Jedi Council’: http://is.gd/yYDDBM
On the 3rd of January, Volkswagen asked on Facebook for advice for 2012 (http://is.gd/vwfail). More than a thousand people commented asking VW why they are lobbying against environmental laws and why their boss Martin Winterkorn refuses to meet Greenpeace.
More about the Greenpeace VW campaign: http://vwdarkside.com
VW’s refusal to talk to Greenpeace: http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/climate/volkswagens-biggest-fear-cup-tea-and-chat-20111208
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Will Wright is the designer behind successful life simulation game The Sims. Wright’s next creation, HiveMind, aims to take the player into the real world.
Wright describes HiveMind as a group of cross-platform, cross-media online applications. It is designed to turn everyday life into an interactive gaming experience.
This is done by tapping into personal information from social media networking sources such as Facebook and Twitter and layering this with information about a person’s physical surroundings.
The result is an alternative reality game. HiveMind will learn your wishes and map these to the people and world around you. Wright calls this “situational awareness.”
He got the idea when stumbling upon a car show he hadn’t known about. Wright says HiveMind can make real life richer by allowing players to serendipitously discover new opportunities and experiences.
“I started thinking about games that we can build that would allow us to triangulate you in that space and build that deep situational awareness,” says Wright. “There will be all types of games, but the key will be focusing the experiences, including multi-player, within the real world and away from the fictional world that games currently invest in.”
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Robert Tercek sits down with Zendit CEO Kevin Bradshaw and PR expert and Amazing Race contestant Alex Ali to talk about the evolving nature of conversations in social media. While some people use social media as a broadcasting platform to reach the widest possible audience, others view it as a way of establishing deep connections and conversations around the world, instantly, with people who would otherwise be un- accessible.
Timecodes:
01:30 Into to Kevin
02:00 What is Zendit? What does it do that Facebook and Twitter don’t?
03:33 Representing the “spray and pray” side of the coin is Alex Ali
4:08 Alex on leveraging social media in the publishing industry
04:50 Incentivising the Internet
5:41 Adam Carolla’s book campaigns, and how he his the #1 podcast in the world
07:37 There has to be an end result for the incentivizer
08:40 Using social media to “Gather your Tribe”
10:38 Creating a personal experience; social media has to play on heartstrings
12:45 Alex on The Amazing Race
17:00 Is social media really social anymore?
17:38 Creating a “Social Image” for good or bad.
18:30 The death of privacy, the emergence of ‘forced transparency’
20:08 What does Facebook give to you?
22:20 Can you ever really stop using Facebook?
23:10 What problem does Zendit solve?
25:35 !Blether
27:58 Using !Blether to stop people from yelling at you! Aka, proactive brand care.
29:00 Beerdog!
31:54 Beer is the best location-based social affinity product
32:12 Machine vision and social media
36:42 Facebook VS Google Plus: why we can’t share between the two easily
39:20 The importance of the Super Fan
41:20 Transactional platforms: What is the proprietary data asset?
46:00 Wrap!
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In an interview with WSJ’s Alan Murray, social media expert Clay Shirky discusses the effect of Facebook, Twitter and other social media in the recent uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia, and what it could mean for the Middle East at large. This interview originally aired on 2/18/2011
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Multiplatinum rapper Soulja Boy, who has 2.5 million Twitter fans and has had his videos watched more than 500 million times on YouTube, talked to WSJ’s Lee Hawkins as part of “WSJ Weekend Conversations. ” The 20-year-old rapper discussed his Internet marketing strategy for his forthcoming single, “Speakers Going Hammer,” and performed the single for a crowd of fans.
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This video infographic shows all the latest facts & figures about social media. For more cool video infographics visit – http://www.videoinfographs.com
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