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The Infosnacker's Guide to the Galaxy Embracing Short Form, Ephemeral & Realtime Content @nickkellet / @listly #lavacon The Infosnacker's Guide to the Galaxy The Infosnacker's Guide to the Galaxy The Infosnacker's Guide to the Galaxy

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The Infosnacker's Guide to the Galaxy Embracing Short Form, Ephemeral and Realtime Content Strategies Don’t panic and carry a towel. Winners are grabbing your attention with less content: short form video, textified images, listlicles, audio soundbites and infographics. Discover tools and techniques to master short-form media in all the different digital formats. Words, videos and audio all have their long forms, but short and snappy wins today. Learn how to start short to earn longer bursts of attention. Masterfully design content that’s repurpose-ready for omni-channel transformation. Speak to different types of learners. Learn tools to tell your story in snack-size bites for the full spectrum of media. Embrace your content graph and snacker thinking. Nothing is impossible, just highly improbable. #LAVACON2014 #content #strategy #event

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The Infosnacker's Guide to the Galaxy

Embracing Short Form, Ephemeral &

Realtime Content@nickkellet / @listly #lavacon

The Infosnacker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Infosnacker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Infosnacker's Guide to the Galaxy

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• I’m experimenting on SOCIAL CONTENT at LISTLY. • I practice what I preach. I iterate. It WORKS. • We’re HELPING here:

• Speed to author, Ease of sharing, SERP, collaboration

(Social Lists) , Curate/Moderate, Embeds, Responsive

HTML5 (mobile content),deep Wordpress Integration,

Javascript for non Wordpress • Gaps / FUTURE direction:

• Authoring app, API, automation, smart sorting ,

more CMS integrations • My life is a content EXPERIMENT • Join in, I COLLABORATE

My Story

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1. Framing : Fads & Trends

2. 7 Media Types

3. 42 Types of Hybrid Media

4. Social vs Content

5. Collaboration & Participation

6. Authoring for Amplification

7. Modelling Our Digital Reality

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ListlyREPLACE• Is your content supposed to earn links

for SEO?

• Will it be shared across social?

• Or does it just be an end point and solve a problem?

• I’ll explore processes on how that can be taken in house

CONTENT OBJECTIVES

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ListlyREPLACESHORT FORM, EPHEMERAL & REALTIME

Where do they exist? !

FRAMING the opportunity

MarketProduct

Feature

!!!!!!!!

History of Search !

Many players one winner

!Yahoo & Microsoft saw

FEATURE !

Google Saw MARKET

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Creativity from opposites

Short form

Long form

Now Later

Short term

Long term

Alone Together

Brevity Ephemeral

CollaborationSynchronicity

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Fricton DRIVES Fresh thinking

Real Time

Private Public

Anonymous Static

Slow Changing

Openness Content Evolution

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ListlyREPLACEFinite ATTENTION

• Earn Incremental CHUNKS

• Permission is bite-sized

• Context helps

SERIAL, EPISODE, THEME • Little & often

• People leak like balloons

• How many touches does it takes to create a loyal customer?

Short Form is an ART

Lesson: Game Rules

Time

Value

Building trust bite by bite

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ListlyREPLACEOREO / SUPERBOWL

Lightening catcher

From GUTENBERG to REALTIME • Publish ONCE is dead

• We author like GUTENBERG

COLLABORATE in REALTIME • Curating / moderating is fast & simple

• Content needs LIFECYCLE management

• Stories EVOLVE. Why is content STATIC?

• Build CONTENT like LEGO

REALTIME needs TEaMWORK

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• One Blog Post vs Many • One Slide vs Many

Urgency / Sparsity • Disney: Limited Release Video • Groupon: Expiring Discount • Facebook: College by College

Action / Reward • Ephemeral is a motivator not a fad

Think FOCUS NOT “Ephemeral”

Single Slide Decks

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1. Framing : Fads & Trends

2. 7 Media TYPES

3. 42 Types of Hybrid Media

4. Social vs Content

5. Collaboration & Participation

6. Authoring for Amplification

7. Modelling Our Digital Reality

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finite List: 7 MEDIA TYPEs

Exception: 3D print : touchable media, smellivision

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SOCIAL NETWORKS

MEDIA PLATFORMS

(aka content networks)

SOCiAL & MEDIA NOT SOCIAL MEDIA

Time

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2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013

YOUTUBESCRIBD

SLIDESHARESOUNDCLOUD

LISTLYINSTAGRAM

FLICKR

THE Shift FROM HOST TO EMBED

VINE

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EARNED media 2. Destination

SEARCH Engines

3. Metrics & Social Proof

4. Network Effect

MEDIA NETWORKS : Amplification

Self Hosted Content

Media Networks

OWNED Blog

OWNED embeds

SEARCH

EARNED embeds

vs

Views

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ListlyREPLACEVIEWS or ENGAGEMENT?

New Rules: Engagement EARNS views

BEATING HeartsRolling Eyes VS

Sharing

LikeEMBED

COMMENTSOCIAL FEEDS

VIEWS

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TRACKABLE SPREADABLE MEDIA

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ListlyREPLACEThis matters when you

commit to build a BODY OF WORK

TIME TO AUTHOR VaRIEs by Media

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Analysis: 3500 Posts / 130 Blogs

Lists 30%/ 98%

Audio 5% / 30%

Slides 3% / 40%

Video 15% / 80%

Graphics 20% / 81%

%age of blogs using media 100%

30%

0%

%age of posts

using media

via Content Audit Analysis

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ListlyREPLACECONSUMERS don’t differentiate

between “PAID, OWNED & EARNED”

!

- CONTENT is now SOCIAL

- COLLABORATIVE age

- LURKERS have power in 1 : 9 : 90

!

POEM > SCOPE

Shared/Social, Collaboration Owned, Paid & Earned

POEM SHOCK

Source - @Jowyang - web-strategist.com

$ EARNEd

$ PAID

BRAND

$ OWNEd

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BUILD Your EMPIRE

Company Blog

TWITTER

SOCIAL ADS

FACEBOOK

Pinterest

Slideshare

re-TARGETED ADs

G+YOUTUBE

landing pages

LINKEDIN

LEAD FORMS

Downloaded assets

Webinars

Reviews

Organic SEarch

Listly

sponsored posts

Media coverage

Local content

Social mentions

Social Shares Curated

mentions

EMAIL

HELP DESK

Search ADSUGC

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BeyonD POEM: Defining “SociAL Content”

Shared Links

Curated Content

Media Platforms

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WHAT IS SOCIAL CONTENT?Shared Links

Media Platforms

Curated ContentScoopit Paperli

Storify Listly

Pinterest Rebelmouse

Social Networks: G+, Facebook Linkedin, Twitter Sourcing: Reddit, Digg Delicious, StumbleUpon Collaboration: EmpireAve, Triberr, Listly Platforms: Buffer, Hootsuite, SproutSocial

Video: YouTube, Vimeo, etc Slides: Slideshare, Prezi etc Images: Instagram, Flickr, Imgur, etc Lists: Listly, Ranker Audio: Soundcloud, Audioboom, etc Text/Docs: Scribd, Blogs, Pulse, Medium etc

Media Platforms

Curated Content

Shared Links

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1. Framing : Fads & Trends

2. 7 Media TYPES

3. 42 Types of Hybrid Media

4. Social vs Content

5. Collaboration & Participation

6. Authoring for Amplification

7. Modelling Our Digital Reality

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GOAL Design for reuse

HYBRID MEDIA

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HyBRID Curation : lists

Videos of videos Slides of slides Lists of lists etc

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CONTENT to HYBRID MEDIA

Unified model 42 HYBRID types

plus 7 Curated LISTS

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42The answer to life, universe

and everything

424242The answer to life, universe

and everything

The answer to life, universe

and everything

42

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1. Framing : Fads & Trends

2. 7 Media TYPES

3. 42 Types of Hybrid Media

4. Social vs Content

5. Collaboration & Participation

6. Authoring for Amplification

7. Modelling Our Digital Reality

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ListlyREPLACEMEDIA PLATFORMS

offers innovators a new strategy to be CONTENT CENTRIC

Most brands have more SOCIAL than CONTENT connections (i.e. SOCIAL CENTRIC)

Where does your BRAND have more followers ?

CONTENT Centric?

CONTENT CENTRIC

CONNECTION CENTRIC VS

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CONTENT CENTRIC

Nash Grier

Twitter 3.4m Facebook 2.2m vs Vine - 9.5M YouTube 3.6m Instagram 6.7m

19.8m

5.6m

CONNECTION Vs CONTENT

Nash

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CONNECTION CENTRIC

Gary Vaynerchuk

Twitter 1.0m Facebook 173k Linkedin 329k G+ 2.1m vs Vine - 24,6k YouTube 46k Instagram 44k Soundcloud 713k Slideshare 3.6k

831.2k3.6m

CONNECTION Vs CONTENT

Gary

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1. Framing : Fads & Trends

2. 7 Media TYPES

3. 42 Types of Hybrid Media

4. Social vs Content

5. Collaboration & Participation

6. Authoring for Amplification

7. Modelling Our Digital Reality

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ListlyREPLACECollaborative

AUTHORING

!

Collaborative PROMOTION

!

Consumer SHARING & USER GEN CONTENT

SCALE: FROM 1 TO MANY

VS

VS

VS

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ListlyREPLACEALONE or TOGETHER?

Are YOU adopting COLLABORATION?

Find, READ, Share & Publish

integrated model for Find, READ, SHARE & PUBLISH

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THE 1% RULE 1:9 :90 SELF-SERVE = LURKING

Less TECHNOLOGY, more PSYCHOLOGY

HABIT / BEHAVIOUR is king

Power resides BRANDS that earn/ own ATTENTION

1% CREATE

9% CURATE

90% CONSUME

THE ENGAGEMENT FUNNEL

SELLING TO SELF-SERVE

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ListlyREPLACEBeyond commenting

• Instagram > CREATORS

• Pinterest > CURATORS

• Reddit / Yelp / Listly > RATERS / RANKERS

People expect to be SOCIAL with CONTENT

PEOPLE WANT SOCIAL CONTENT

PAIDOWNED EARNED

THE AUDIENCE

“BAND” on STAGE

EVERYONE CAN HAVE AN EQUAL ROLE ON STAGE

1st CLASS CONTRIBUTOR

VS

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1. Framing : Fads & Trends

2. 7 Media TYPES

3. 42 Types of Hybrid Media

4. Social vs Content

5. Collaboration & Participation

6. Authoring for Amplification

7. Modelling Our Digital Reality

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ListlyREPLACEWe need more MASTERY

SCOPE / HYBRID help your why

Pick TOOLS / PLATFORMS that cross-amplify

Build competency via a BODY OF WORK - exponentially better

Embrace PLATFORM CULTURE: find the Nash Griers

TOOLs to Mastery

Tyre Kicker

Tool Master

Single Body of Work

VS

VS

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ListlyREPLACEDesign for

SHAREABILITY • Many ways to SHARE • TEXT & message

trees first

Exploit HYBRID MEDIA

Design for ReUSE

Wicked Title Big IDEA #1BIG IDEA #2BIG IDEA #3

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CONTENT Plan

Wicked Title

Big IDEA #1

Big IDEA #2

Big IDEA #3

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Create Keynote/

PowerPoint

Custom Size (think

Twitter Cards)

1 Page for Wicked

Title

1 Page per

Big Idea

Text (Quote)

+ Images (Flickr CC)

Fonts (dafont.com

etc)Export to “Images”

Publish to Slideshare

Listly Instagram

1 2 3 4

5 6 7 8

What’s the process?

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NEST BIG IDEAs/Phase over time

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1. Framing : Fads & Trends

2. 7 Media TYPES

3. 42 Types of Hybrid Media

4. Social vs Content

5. Collaboration & Participation

6. Authoring for Amplification

7. Modelling Our Digital Reality

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HYBRID DIGITAL

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Brand Value

Connection Centric

Content Centric

Utility : Solve Problems

Relationship : Build Connections

Social Content

Paid Exposure

Owned Media

Properties

Earned Media

Exposure

Communities: Curators &

Collaborators

Target Persona

(Strangers)Customers

Fans, Influencers &

Sceptics

VsVsVsVs

x x x=BRANDVALUE

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ListlyREPLACENick Kellet

list.ly / @listly

[email protected]

@nickkellet

linkedin.com/in/nickkellet

facebook.com/nickkellet

Quetions? LEt’s Connect!

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