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5. If you don’t know his name, you might recognize his work… 5 From SlideShare “Why I left Google. What happened to my book. What I work on at Facebook.” - Paul’s blog: ThinkInsideOut.com
6. @Padday slides are on SlideShare 6 The Real Life Social Network2007 – 2010, Google How your customers social circles influence what they buy what they do and where they goMay 2011, FaceBook
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8. a broad audience vs. a narrow audience.7 For more on Paul: UPA IntroThinkOutsideIn @padday
9. 8 Source: Adams, How your customers social circles influence what they buy what they do and where they go
10. 9 Source: Adams, How your customers social circles influence what they buy what they do and where they go
11. 10 Weak ties Source: Adams, How your customers social circles influence what they buy what they do and where they go
12. Countless temporary ties 11 Source: Adams, How your customers social circles influence what they buy what they do and where they go
13. 12 Source: Adams, How your customers social circles influence what they buy what they do and where they go
14. 13 Source: Adams, How your customers social circles influence what they buy what they do and where they go
15. Paul Adams is an interesting, relevant speaker… 14 Follow him on twitter, read his blog, and find his slides on slideshare The Real Life Social Network2007 – 2010, Google How your customers social circles influence what they buy what they do and where they goMay 2011, FaceBook For more on Paul: UPA IntroThinkOutsideIn @padday
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18. On Site Training Usability.org offers this (and a longer one) as an on-site course for clients. For details, contact: Kath Straub kath@usability.org 17
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Notes de l'éditeur
Paul currently works as a Global Brand Experience Manager at Facebook, where he conducts research that informs advertising strategy. He is recognized as a leading thinker on designing social interactions, and spent four years at Google, leading user research for their social web projects.
Show of hands, how many have seen this SlideShare presentation, or have seen Paul present it.Described for the first time the “problem with facebook” was that it treated my circles of friends as equals. This is a version 2 posted one year ago. It was based on research that he did at Google. He was with Google from 2007-2010 and just joined Facebook in January 2011.His talk with us was on June 21.Google Plus was released as a field trial about 2 weeks later—where the circle concept is thought to be one of the killer apps.
While we don’t have the slides he shared at UPA, he lifted much of his talk from the social circles deck on the left. The Real Life Social Network was revised last year (v2), and I can’t recall when I first saw it.
My takeaways were a bit different. I’ll hit the highlights for you.
The web was built to link static documents togetherEvolved to incorporate social mediaNow, seeing a web built around people, where their profiles and content are moving with them as they visit different websites."social by design" - phrase is posted all around FacebookAccept it. You will have a social presence on the web. Asking if you can opt out of social media is like asking if you can opt out of having friends and family.
To understand what motivates people to act the way they do, we need to understand that people live in networks. When we think of customers, it’s easy to think about people in isolation. People as independent actors. But that doesn’t exist. People live in networks.Most people have 10 strong ties—the people they are closest with.
Weak ties are people you know, but don’t care about that much. You don’t talk with them frequently. Friends of friends. We can only stay up to date with about 150 weak ties. This “magic” number isn’t new. There seems to be a physiological limit on our brains to stay aware of that many people. It dates back 10,000 years to Neolithic Villages that would historically split after growing above 150 people because relationships and communication would break down and be too difficult to maintain. Same for:Roman armies - Roman armies formed in groups of 150Today:Online games (World of Warcraft), and people editing one Wikipedia article. Avg FB user has 130-170 friendsAs technology changes the tools we use to communicate, we still use the same behavior patterns that we evolved over those thousands of years.
Temporary ties come in and out of your life without much thought. The store clerk, the help desk employee, the person who answered your forum question, the other person who visited the hotel you’re about to book.
We often look to others when making decisionsWe assume that people know things that we don'tWe turn to people even when we know the answerOur network structure impacts who we askThey ask their friends, and so on. When you ask your 4 friends, you’re asking those that have influenced them before—40 strong ties (with some overlap).We’re heavily influenced by the people around usPeople that sit next to heavy eaters eat moreStudents rooming with disciplined studiers work harderPeople look at the actions of others and do the same thing
Advertising puts a lot of emphasis on trying to find the most influential person to represent their brand. But does that work reliably?We are preoccupied with the influencers and not as much with those that are influenceableWere starting to develop ways to measure people's tolerance for influenceCurrent focus on 3 factors:Past experience - good or badRisk averse personalityDeep set habitsStrong tie relationships influence us the most