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Trend Spotting Can Being "Trendy" Grow Your Organization?
Trend Spotting Can Being "Trendy" Grow Your Organization?
CAN BEING “TRENDY” GROW
YOUR ORGANIZATION?
Laurie Cirivello, GRCMC
Rachel Lee, Urbanologist, Grand Rapids
Aron Duby, GRCMC
SESSION OUTLINE
Four Trends
Leveraging Trends in our
Work
Urbanologist meet the
CMC: A project
development conversation
Q & A
TREND: THE NEW SOCIAL
FOUR TRENDS
The “Social” community
Hyperlocal – buzzword du jour?
Rise and Impact of Mobilization
Virtual Meets Physical
KEY ATTRIBUTES
TwoWay/ Engaging in the conversation
Going to where people are
Being a good citizen
Providing tools to help others help you
Lessons/observations about being
effectively social
HYPERLOCAL
More than a Media Trend
THE CITJ MOVEMENT
AOL bought two local startups with Patch.
MSNBC, acquired the hyperlocal aggregator
EveryBlock
CNN is investing $7m in the aggregator
Outside.in
THE RAPIDIAN
355 registered reporters/editors
128 represent NPOs
178 “New” reporter status
27 Full status reporters
RISE OF MOBILIZATION
MOBILIZATION AND
DEMOGRAPHICS
THE PEW REPORT 2010
"The mobile population is becoming more diverse
over time and more people are relying on their
cellphones as their primary form of wireless
connectivity”
lowincome groups are the fastest to adopt mobile
technology, furthering the idea that mobile
broadband could be a key component in closing the
digital divide.
when it comes to surfing the web, 18% of African
Americans use their mobile phones as their only form
of Internet access, compared with just 10% of whites.
MOBILE PERSPECTIVES FROM A
COMMUNITY WEB DEVELOPER
Conte[n|x]t is king
Giving on the go
The multimedia puzzle (and
opportunity)
MOBILE PERSPECTIVES FROM A
COMMUNITY WEB DEVELOPER
Conte[n|x]t is King
Content Context
•Location What do you
Specific have to offer
•Quick people on the
•Fresh go?
DowntownGR.org/m
MOBILE PERSPECTIVES FROM A
COMMUNITY WEB DEVELOPER
Giving on the Go
TexttoGive
Text XXXXX to ##### to donate
Choose either $5 or $10
Think Salvation Army, not capital campaign
mGive, Mobile Cause, CauseCast, PayPal
MOBILE PERSPECTIVES FROM A
COMMUNITY WEB DEVELOPER
Giving on the Go
MOBILE PERSPECTIVES FROM A
COMMUNITY WEB DEVELOPER
The Multimedia Puzzle
MPEG4
HTML5
RTP/RTSP
3GPP
FlashLite
MOBILE PERSPECTIVES FROM A
COMMUNITY WEB DEVELOPER
The Multimedia Puzzle
MOBILE PERSPECTIVES FROM A
COMMUNITY WEB DEVELOPER
The Opportunity
Pyramid Research released a report in 2009
predicting an annual compound growth rate for
mobile video of 28% over the next five years. That
means that by 2014, more than 500 million users
worldwide will subscribe to one of the growing
numbers of mobile TV services.
VIRTUAL MEETS PHYSICAL
OpenGraphProtocol.org
VIRTUAL MEETS PHYSICAL
on IMDB.com
VIRTUAL MEETS PHYSICAL
on IMDB.com
VIRTUAL MEETS PHYSICAL
on Facebook.com
Fun, Games and Place Based Applications
Embedding multimedia into Physical
objects: QR CODE
NPO’s using QR
HOW CAN COMMUNITY MEDIA
LEVERAGE THESE TRENDS?
Content, content, content!
Don’t compete – augment
Convene
Solve other people’s problems
Don’t try to change behavior...go
with it.
Teaching
Social Media for NPOs
Hosting and Streaming
Simplified production
Creating for the Small
Screen
New Producer Tools
Multiple Content
Distribution Methods
Repurposing/extending
Organizing content
Initiating mobilization
platforms
•GLANCE AT THE PAST
WEB
TV
RADIO
TOURISM
Creating Engagement
U Stream
Twitter Questions
Continuing the
conversation w/SM
Participatory Campaigns
Participatory
Campaigns
URBANOLOGIST MEETS CMC
Identify the Problem/Need
Define Characteristics
Define Resources
Brainstorm Solutions
Test against Trends
Refine
What will it take?
Who/What else needs to be involved?
Next steps