2012年2月28日 星期二

Social Media Marketing in Different Forms

Nowadays, Internet grows rapidly and becomes more and more essential in our modern society. After well-developed of social computing and platform, people can form their social networking easily.  Moreover, under the Web 2.0, user can share and express their opinions on their mobile or just comment it with just a button click. In the light of this, the social media is somehow used for business marketing.

The most common strategy are Recommendation and Reviews, Direct Social Recommendations, and Derived Social Recommendations.

Recommendation and Reviews

Normally, people love to buy the best thing with the lowest price, with the recommendation and reviews. On Internet, those reviews that were written by reviewers are the rating of the product. Visitors can enjoy the feature and select the things they want to buy.

I experienced the most of this feature is booking Hotels for my travelling. For example, Booking.com is a famous site for visitors to book the hotels online. Rating can by sorted by Recommended, Stars, Distance and Price. Those factors become the reviewing aspects by the users who have experienced stay on that particular hotel.

Recommendation and Reviews on Booking.com
 
Direct social recommendations

Direct social recommendation emphasize direct relationship, it is not like the above strategy. It can be formalized as a marketing campaign. The most famous we know is that we can easily share the news. For example, JosDB.com can provide a function "Email to Friends" to send the news to a group of friends.
 
"Email to Friends" option on JobsDB.com

"Email to Friends" User Interface on JobsDB.com

So far as I know, there is a website which is called "Addthis.com". It can provide a generic plug-in for website can install to website easily, just within a few lines of code.
 
Free Sharing Plugin on Addthis.com

Derived Social Recommendations
 
It involves software system to analyze and generate related recommendations to visitors. The most famous should be YouTube. It can show recommendations base on your input keyword. Although it may contain thousands of videos after a user input, YouTube has its own component to analyze the data and show the most related suggestions. Most likely it is by user ratings and views.

Derived Social Recommendations on YouTube.com
 
Summary
 
In summary, social media marketing involves social platform with good user interface, and artificial intelligence on information. The most important is how to collect the right data, right person, process the data and analyze the information in a collect way in user experience point of view.

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I have learnt the Blogosphere and Information Sharing, marketing on social media, and social multimedia computing.
on class on these two weeks.

The great thing is that social multimedia computing seem becoming more and more popular. Social multimedia provides several effective ways to harvest the large-scale digital traces of social behaviors. 

In the future, I think that using VBlog will be the next things that will be famous and hot on social platform.

9 則留言:

  1. Social Enabled Marketing platform do have a brightful feature. As the new generation grow, whose those had already using social platform everyday, will provide a huge potential target population for marketing.

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  2. the idea of vblog is good but it is not convenient enough. if you are trying to record something, lets say a event, you can easily summarize by wordings but not video. video costs you lots of time in cutting and concatenating. you may want some effects as well. being normal users, we are hard to do this by our own. that's why most of the vblog held by governments or companies to report past events or promote something new. this is the major obstacle of vblog development. another problem is quite personal. I don't want to show up my face to public, haha...

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  3. I also agree with Nic that vblog is good but not convenient enough. People now tends to use mobile device for social networking more than to use computer. Although the internet speed is getting faster, it cannot catch up with the demand of good video quality. Also, nowadays people want to know things quick. If you watch a video, it takes you a long time. But if it is just a text blog, people can skim through it very quickly and get the message more efficiently. So I think vblog may not be that attractive and popular in the near future.

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  4. Using VBlog as a media might be more impressive but i don't think it will get as popular as u think. Nowadays people like to access to social platform using mobile.But watching video on cellphone is not convenient and costly.

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  5. I dont think VBlog will be popular, unless the presentation of the video will be changed significantly, because video presentation is not convenient as a text or a picture, so that the viewer is difficult to extract part of the content that they are only interested in.

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  6. Thanks for your own story shared to me. I might work like you when I want to use the internet to buy something. The first trial is to see what the others' recommendation and reviews. On Internet, those reviews that were written by reviewers are the rating of the product. Visitors can enjoy the feature and select the things they want to buy. In Chinese old proverb: 听人劝吃饱饭. I don't know how to translate it in English. I think just relying on these data, we can make a better decision.

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  7. Personally VBlog is hard to being popular, as it needs a large prepare for each post even it is really attractive.
    For the professional blogger or company, it is a good way for them to delivery their message/

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  8. I also agree that vBlog is not a good idea. Let’s take your blog as an example. I can read your blog and all comments quickly. However, let’s think about if your blog and all comments are turned into videos. It becomes inconvenient for us to watch all videos.

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  9. Combine the examples you gave here and the examples gave in the lecture. It gives me a better understanding about this topic. It's great.

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