welcome to userland - a user centric web2.0 workshop

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Welcome to Userland

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Hi, I'm an online strategist at FRANk media and I was running this workshop at the User Centric web2.0 conference (Sydney11-13 June 2008). It's meant to be a starting point for a brand's online strategy. You can find me also at: frankmedia.com.au/blog. Hope you enjoy it.

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Welcome to Userland

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User centric web 2.0 hands on workshop:

Research Creative

online profile

Competitor analysis

Industry analysis

Target audience

Be an entertainer

Play with your users

Give users a voice

Use syndication

Be useful

Internal users

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Lets start with your marketing goal.

What do you want to accomplish?

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Your online profile

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Touch points

Online

Promotional

experientialRetail outlet

Product placement

Mobile

Packaging

Customer service

Direct mail

TV

Radio

Outdoor

Sponsorship

Brochure

Voice mail

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Online touch points

community

podcast

Web2.0 Application

Branded content

blog

Microsite

newsletter

emailWebsite

Banner

Search

Socialprofile

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Google yourself

How many times are you appearing on the first page?

What are you appearing as? Your own sites/blogs/social communities?

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Website

Video on website

Myspace

Wikipedia

Youtube

The band OKGO – different touch points means more interaction!

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Userland currency is attention

Tell me why I should pay attention.

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Your website

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Be a user

Go through your website.What are the engagement points? How easy it is for me to start a conversation with you?

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Practice being human

Is the copy on your website human?

Would you speak/act like that if you were a person?

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What’s in it for me?

What are the benefits you currently

offer users for joining?

Go through the joining process. How easy is it to join?

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Do you want me to contact you?

Try out your “contact us” page.

When did you get an answer & by whom?

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Website analysis

What are your strong points? What isn’t working?

Are you having a conversation with your

users? Are you encouraging user engagement?

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The web isn’t a “captive” medium. Pull users instead of pushing to them.

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Your competitors

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Google your competitors

What touch points do they have? Drill down their sites and see what they’re doing.

How engaging are they?

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Competitor analysis

What do your competitors have in common? Is there something they are missing? Is there a gap for you to own?

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How high should you jump to beat them?

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Your industry

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Google key words related to your business and look at

Large portals like NineMSNGovernment and nonprofitsBlogsOnline communitiesStart ups

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Industry analysis

Did you discover any trends in your

industry?

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There is a lot of clutter out there.You’ll need to find a way

to cut through it.

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Your target audience

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Your target audience

Who are the people who love you?(Start with your employees)How many of them are out there?Do you have their details?

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Where’s the love?

How are they engaging with you?How often do they engage?What is the level of engagement?

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What do they think?

What do they think about you?

Can you survey them to find out? (Using an email?)

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What are your users saying about you?

Go to youtube & flickr and search for your brand.

Are users talking about you?What are they saying?

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Users like to be talked with not at.

Forget about “Brand power”.Think “User power”.

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The power of users

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Coke & Mentos experiment proved that it’s not about the dollars you spend.

It’s about the shared experience you create

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$0 investment = $10 million worth of promotion

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This wasn’t possible until now.

The new web makes ideas travel faster then ever.

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idea1.0 idea2.0

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Idea2.0 is about creating a shared experience.

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Be an entertainer

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You know it’s a success when people are buying the t-shirt.

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Be an entertainer

Create a webshow for your brand.Try to have it in one location.Try to have it no longer then 2

min.

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Play with your users

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Will people buy the t-shirt?

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Play with your users

Create a game. Users can participate with photos or videos but no “25 words or less” please.

Try to make it social, real & fun.

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Give your users a voice

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Give your users a voice

Can you get your users helping you?

Can you create a platform for your users to help other users?

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Help your users spread the word

In its first five months, FreeRice fed more than one million people.

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They achieved this through syndication.Users were talking about Free Rice

through blogs, schools and communities.

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Help your users spread it

Try to think of something people would like to put on their blog. What will that be? How will ithelp drive word of mouth?

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How can you be useful?

Don’t sell me a shoe. Teach me to run.

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Be useful

Create a brand utility.

Try to think of something that will make your users life better.

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Engage internally

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408 Zappos employees are twittering

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Zappos CEO is twittering

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At Zappos it’s not only about “Marketing”…

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That’s why people talk about them.

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Internal users

How can you use web2.0 tools internally? What strategy will you have to take it out of the organisation? How will you drive the change?

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Look again at your marketing goal.

Can a user centric approach get you there?

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This workshop was inspired by:

Kathy sierraGerd LeonardPaul isacksonDavid ArmanoSeth GodinJackie PetersThe KizerStatler and

Waldorf

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