The Future of Social Media - my presentation at Blogres in Slovenia, June 20, 2008

I had the great pleasure of speaking at Blogres in Ljubljana, Slovenia today, on the subject of Social Media.

Here is the pdf (7.6 MB):  Future_of_social_media gerd_leonhard blogres_slovenia_june_2008.pdf

Update: Boris Upelj's Video is here

Update: Part 2 (Sat): future_of_social_media_2_gerd_leonhard_blogres_lubljana_2008_web.pdf

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Some highlights from my presentations:

Key Trends

• All that can goes digital... very fast
• All that can connect, will
• Storage is becoming almost free
• Bandwidth is becoming cheaper all the time
• Most ‘computing’ goes mobile
• Devices become “Me” i.e. personal (invisible technology)
• Media goes ‘social’
• Content will “feel like free” (i.e. bundled & flat-rated)
• ‘Old’ style Advertising & Marketing won’t work here!

Forget the word 'Consumer"

• It’s a 2-way conversation now!
• Happy users will now do some of the marketing for you
• Interested users now supply ideas and ‘content’
• Engaged users now provide images, videos, text, music...
• Loyal users now want to have conversations with you
• The Internet is finally becoming a ‘social’ and cultural web where Brands that influence Culture do better
• In 2-3 years, there will be no more offline or online
• The kids are now the Authorities!

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