1. 10 Personas - to help you understand the behaviour and motives of the Social Media Users Social Media Afternoon – Brussels, July 9 th , 2009 Ingrid Rennoir - Strategy Consultant
3. What? Social media users have personalities that come out in how they relate to and use social media.
4. What? Social media users have personalities that come out in how they relate to and use social media. Users are people…
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6. What? So if we want to build efficient Social Media Sites, we need to get a deep perspective on the mediated social interactions, communication, actions, and behaviors of its users.
7. What? So if we want to build efficient Social Media Sites, we need to get a deep perspective on the mediated social interactions, communication, actions, and behaviors of its users. Personas will help us visualize this perspective!
13. Why? Reason #1 We want to know who the user is, what he does and why.
14. Why? Reason #2 The diversity of social media applications available attracts different kinds of users, engaging them in different kinds of activities and practices.
15. Why? Reason #3 The medium provides opportunities to engage users directly and through the activities in which they are engaged.
16. Why? Reason #4 Personas subdivide audiences into groups according to what they do and why they do it — not only what they mean, how much they earn, or how they consume.
17. Why? Reason #5 With personas we can migrate from page-based, contextual, and search- based advertising to user-targeted advertising.
18. Why? Reason #6 Personas help us to know who the user is, how to reach him/her, and how s/he influences others.
23. The personas Status seeker Critic Socializer Em-cee Lurker Buddy Harmonizer Creator Rebel Pundit
24. The personas: Status Seeker Personality characteristic: He believes visible accomplishments make a good impression and are socially recognised. Relationships can be understood in terms of exchange, trade and collecting. Status Seeker
25. The personas: Status Seeker Interests & behavior: He checks his owns stats as wel as leaderboards. He accumulates friends, symbolic tokens and other social status symbols Status Seeker
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27. The personas: Critic Personality characteristic: A writer and an author , interested in substance and content. He may see in audience approval a measure of his insights or intelligence, rather than popularity or status. Critic
28. The personas: Critic Interests & behavior: He is an important contributor, blogger, commenter. He takes a committed interest in online discussions or publications. Critic
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30. The personas: Socializer Personality characteristic: He believes in online community, using it to keep informed about friends, events and social news. He pays attention when invited and notified and accepts to be a (active) member of an online community Socializer
31. The personas: Socializer Interests & behavior: He wants to have fun when networking and can thus be an engine for social interaction. He participates in ratings, votings and respects the social conventions and etiquette. Socializer
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33. The personas: Em-Cee Personality characteristic: He uses his performance to get attention and may therefore be more interested in capturing an audience than in the contents. Social validation is important. Em-Cee
34. The personas: Em-Cee Interests & behavior: He attracts audiences and helps to create a center of activity on UGC platforms. He is interested in tools that allow him to broadcast his postings i.e. RSS, blogs, twitter… Em-Cee
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36. The personas: Lurker Personality characteristic: He doesn’t draw much attention but is an observant participant. He logs into site, browses, subscribes and follows others. Lurker
37. The personas: Lurker Interests & behavior: He generates a lot of page views as a more passive user. He may have concerns about security and privacy, but once these issues are properly addressed, he represent a large market. Lurker
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39. The personas: Buddy Personality characteristic: He has a strong sense of friendship and sees online activities as a vehicle for maintaining relationships. Buddy
40. The personas: Buddy Interests & behavior: He joins social media because his friends are there. The distribution of promotional messages using friend networks may be successful. Buddy
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42. The personas: Creator Personality characteristic: He creates, builds, makes and publishes. He provides contents that will be shared and or mashed up. Creator
43. The personas: Creator Interests & behavior: He is an early adopter of new trends and tools. He may invest time and energy in collaborative creative efforts. Creator
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45. The personas: Rebel Personality characteristic: He is a frequent heckler and when annoyed he might identify himself as being in the opposition. He will focus more on content or on a group. Rebel
46. The personas: Rebel Interests & behavior: He is subversive and may use Social Media to distribute opinions on commercial organizations. His opinions drive indirect traffic to the places where his opinions are aired. Rebel
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48. The personas: Pundit Personality characteristic: He considers himself as an industry leader or an expert, and routinely offers latest news, opinions and observations. He is a contributor and can capture the interest of an audience. Pundit
49. The personas: Pundit Interests & behavior: He plays an important role in make the web as the fastest source of news. He helps to validate the claims of net journalists and bloggers. Pundit
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51. The personas: Harmonizer Personality characteristic: He appreciates group membership motivated by the group’s relationships. He may do things to make others happy, particularly if it serves the group’s activity. Harmonizer
52. The personas: Harmonizer Interests & behavior: He is sensitive to group participation and engagement. He uses a range of communication tools and applications, especiallly when it is group-oriented. Harmonizer