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Social Media Marketing Redux: The Manifesto

Written by alisa. Posted on January 11, 2011. Filed under Uncategorized. Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , . No comments.

The Web is Social, The Web is Real-Time

On data ubiquity

Written by alisa. Posted on December 30, 2008. Filed under OpenID, Social Media, Uncategorized, alisa leonard, data portability, facebook, facebook connect, social graph. Tagged . No comments.

So Facebook Connect is finally making some strides with Silicon Alley Insider posting today that Gawker’s new user sign-ups and comments have increased due to their Facebook Connect implementation.

Now, this has been a frequent topic of mine as of late…and lets for a minute suppose a world in which user graph data was readily accessible across any Web touch point, to the point that one’s user experience became completely intuitive and socially contextual based on said graph data. Think, the Amazon model on steroids (using your actual data, not cookies or anonymized data). Awesome or creepy?

Decentralized, Distributed Social Web

Written by alisa. Posted on December 1, 2008. Filed under OpenID, Social Media, alisa hansen, alisa leonard, data portability, facebook, facebook connect, social graph. Tagged . No comments.

Could not have said it better myself.

Data Ubiquity

A Paradigm of Streams: iCrossing Chats Across the Pond

Written by alisa. Posted on September 3, 2008. Filed under OpenID, Social Media, alisa leonard, alisa leonard = alisa hansen, data portability, facebook, facebook connect, social graph. Tagged . No comments.

I often chat with my UK colleauge, Ben Bose– who happens to be one of our most brilliant, and we often get to chatting. I thought I’d share:

me: when i say ‘the web is social’ people look at me strangely

i think marketing people dont like it
well, digital agencies
will nod and say yes!
but if they REALLY accepted it
it has much broader, fundamental impacts on the BUSINESS of digital agency
than the industry is willing to admit or change at the moment

Ben: You should see the looks we get here! Absolutely!
It’s all about products, and business.
The web is social.
The web is not an add-on.

me: right, well and the current approach to the web is fairly siloed…especially if you consider that ‘social media’ is considered a channel and not the state of the web itself (by most marketers)

Ben: Indeed.

me: there’s still a lack of adoption industry-wide of the paradigm shift from a web of pages to a web of applications

Ben: We had a deck flying around recently from another company.
It dealt with their web strategy.
Drove me up the wall – a spokes diagram with words like “social media” and “synergy”.
Grrrr.

Mark H. over here has a nice paradigm of the web.
He doesn’t believe in sites, just pages.
So the web is constructed per individual, based on their experiences.
I doubt I’m explaining it well.

me: no i know what he is saying
i don’t believe in a ‘sites’ paradigm either, but would not necessarily a ‘pages’ one either

i would offer a web paradigm of streams

rather than pages

Ben: Interesting….


me: my personlized web experience is really one of streams
both fragmented and aggregated
not in pages themselves….but in the actions i take on the web
it is those actions that live beyond pages and can live simultaneously was well
this becomes apparent with examples like FriendFeed
but even beyond that
i think we will begin to see our ‘life streams’, if you will, in browser functionality perhaps

Ben: With things like Ubiquity?

me: sure
and perhaps Chrome
Goog’s play into the browser is more than a browser war,
its an-access-to-data war
data=streams

Ben: What do you think of Chrome?

me: or rather,
streams=data

i haven’t used it yet…i have a mac

Social Computing Utopia: Ubitquity

Written by alisa. Posted on March 10, 2008. Filed under OpenID, Social Media, Uncategorized, alisa leonard, data portability, facebook, facebook connect, social graph. Tagged . No comments.

For some reason there is debate around the merits of data portability, and more specifically the Data Portability Workgroup. But really, data portability is merely a step in a further abstraction from the present structure of the Web– contained sites to a “pageless web” that is an open, fluid, ever ubiquitous form of computing. The promise of a web that is at once networked, liquid, social, and semantic. Data portability nay-sayers, in my opinion, lack the vision to see that DP is simply one of the first elements in many iterations in the progression towards a seemless, social web. We are evlolving from lock-in “sites” and “social networks” even now (to creating microformats and the promise of data storage in the decentralized “Cloud” of virtual servers). It seems we are only at the tip of the iceberg…if we step back and think of computing as a series of abstractions, each iteration enabling a higher degree of connectivity, ease of use, decentralization and seemlessness– we may begin to see that a fluid, connected, “portable” web experience (even a VRM) is not far flung. I say “portable” because eventually “portability” would in theory disolve into simply “ubiquity.”