New RIM Playbook #IN Legal or Marketing Project Groups

The new RIM Playbook is a valuable addition for Legal or Marketing project groups as it allows them to exploit highly secure RIM Blackberry servers that conforms to international corporate IT standards. 

 

The RIM PlayBook is capable of 1080p HD video, incluces an HDMI port, microUSB jack, WiFi, and Bluetooth 2.1 at one half a kilogram to provide “an amplified view of what’s already on your BlackBerry…” to “…use their tablet and smartphone interchangeably without worrying about syncing or duplicating data.”

The RIM Playbook tablet allows you to siphon data from your BlackBerry handset via Bluetooth tethering to display via the PlayBook.

RIM’s Playbook OS comes from recently acquired QNX and supports OpenGL, POSIX and HTML5 web standards and RIM’s new WebWorks SDK.

RIM Playbook Tablet Resonance Map

 

Join us to see how RIM’s Playbook helps your Legal and Marketing project Groups.

Cheers,

Nick Trendov

@SpeedSynch @Groups_Groups @eDIscovery_ @ResonantView

Advertisers, Lawyers, Venture Capitalists and the future of Social Media

Just as advertisers and lawyers finally learn to adapt to Social Media, the brightest Venture Capitalist in Silicon Valley, the same minds who gave birth to Yahoo, Google, Facebook and Twitter, are feverishly crafting a more fearsome spawn — Groups.

Advertisers, Lawyers & Content

Advertisers & Lawyers should Fear Groups

 

In the Great Wave Off Kanagawa

1. Advertisers Spend Client Money to Push Huge Content Waves

In the heyday of old Media advertisers spent a lot of client money attempting to deliver customers to their clients and while they may have understood that half of their budgets were being wasted they didn’t know how to measure which half.

2. Lawyers Spend Client Money to Sort through Huge Content Waves

Despite the fact that very few documents are useful or admissable, lawyers are compelled to launch high cost and generally low ROI eDiscovery projects by their need to minimize Risk for their firm and their clients.

Groups will add considerable Risk to Advertisers and Lawyers.

Can technology save advertisers and lawyers?

  

 

No GROUP Access but IBM Watson Supercomputer Trumps 'humans' in Jeopardy

WATSON

Watson, recently highlighted in Jeopardy, is IBM’s latest and fastest computer and amazing when it comes to ‘reasoning’ and the mining of concepts and text. Watson may rule content and Jeopardy but is ineffective if members of trusted groups deny access to Watson because it is not in the ‘circle of trust’.

Groups Disrupt Advertising & Legal Models

If you haven’t already guessed ‘Groups’ is actually a class of software tools that facilitates the create of digital spaces where groups of people interact, get work done and then disband.

The impact of Groups on content creation, measures and trust is what advertisers and lawyers should fear.

Groups of ‘trusted’ members make it extremely difficult for advertisers to to deliver any content unless it is pulled in by a trusted group member. Regardless of the type of work done by the group, it is simultaneously a consumer, broker and creator of content and measures and effectively disrupts advertising business models.

eDiscovery in small trusted groups will be virtually impossible unless a group member surrenders all of the group content to lawyers which itself may be contradictory private non-disclosure contracts now used by lawyers to negotiate settlements or to privacy laws.

An interesting legal conundrum.

To understand the future of Groups we must start in Silicon Valley.

Silicon Valley Re-Engineers Evolution

In Silicon Valley venture capitalists influence corporate profits by shaping manufacturing and content creation standard to ensure the products they take to market are successfully propelled forward by a ‘matrix’ corporations much like a swarming brood that decends upon unsuspecting markets like billions of locust.

For those that may not know why Silicon Valley matters…

Quick History of Silicon Valley

Fields and groves of trees were soon overwhelmed by factories serving military and commercial manufacturers and the birthplace of venture capital innovation that powered; HP, Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, Apple, Yahoo, the Internet browser, Google, LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, and other well known corporations.

Silicon Valley is the heart of the Internet.

Quick History of the Internet

During the cold war the US military feared Russian missles and connected military and university computers to assess target risk. Complex calculations of potential missle flight paths were shared by many computers to speed up response analysis.

Shortly afterwards linked computers began to share email, exchange files and porn–the blueprint for the modern internet was born.

Venture Capitalists, Groups, Content and Trust

The internet perceived by most people when they view a browser is actually the world wide web or www and a small proportion of the ‘real internet’. Shortly after Netscape create the first visual brower Yahoo created the first highly successful commercial portal which was essentially a combination of a digital Yellow Pages and a business card listing.

Advertisers quickly determined that advertising budgets were better spent on Yahoo and a few years later Google helped get more advertisers to the internet by convincing more people to create content that would provide them ‘free’ advertising–the SEO model was born a few years later.

Evolution of Revolution

Yahoo was about people wayfinding in a huge directory and Google was about search optimization across millions of web sites though this caused stress to Venture Capitalists who needed more opportunities to provide Wall Street with opportunities for selling stocks of IPO’s or new companies going to the stock market.

Venture Capitalists saw that Google carved an private island inside the world wide web where corporations could advertise to people. VC’s then determined that offering people tools to advertise to each other would be event more profitable and soon formed the ‘social media’ islands where people joyfully spammed friends that were turned off by increasing amounts of spam delivered by search engine spiders and the advertisers that fed them. People were friendlier.

Group Tools that Rule

Twitter and Posterous are two of the three Group tools that I believe will lead the way to creating new opportunities and problems for advertisers and lawyers.

How do I know this?

Twitter allows members to follow or block other members en masse or create ‘private’ groups by combining features like lists, direct messages and # tags.

Posterous has recently announced a Groups focus which is extremely interesting as our success with Posterous is significant since we received 1,000 predictive analytics content ‘hits’ in 1 week for highly focused content by using the same Twitter-like Resonance technology used to synchronize 1,000 bloggers via simple Marketing Service Level agreements.

What is the third group tool that rules? Asana, at least for now.

Explore & Exploit Opportunities in Groups

Our experience includes the facilitation self-forming groups to deliver accelerated learning while simultaneously crafting trusted content focused Content and Web Strategies as well as Scenario, Business and Predictive Analytics.

Advertisers or Lawyers would benefit from our ability to align people, content, products or purpose, especially our combined use of Twitter, Posterous and other Social Media platforms combined with our accelerated group content facilitation.

Cheers,

Nick Trendov

@eDiscovery_ nick@scenario2.com @SpeedSynch @ResonantView

Exploit Predictive Analytics or Scenario Analysis #IN E-Discovery Projects

Scenario Analysis and Predictive Analytics offer a low risk, high value means to help eDiscovery project teams deliver less expensive high value results faster compared to usual eDiscovery methods.

Whether your eDiscovery teams employ Predictive Analytics or not, Scenario Analysis will help prioritize the sequence of eDiscovery processes and focus limited resources. Indeed if done properly faster, richer E-Discovery results may allow counsel to shape the legal action or negotiate from a position of knowledge before the eDiscovery teams commence their project.

Scenario Analysis for eDiscovery

Scenario analysis is very straight forward and may be done very quickly in most eDiscovery projects if practitioners are guided by the core concepts of scenarios.

1. A scenario is a cluster of stories or content related to the legal action that requires E-Discovery.
2. Case files may be created before an action is resolved or even before eDiscovery commences.
3. Counsel can generally describe two or three high probability outcomes as an action commences.

Go to our @eDiscovery_ Value Brief for a view of combining Predictive Analytics and Scenario Analysis.

Join us to see how to it is possible to use Scenario Analysis and ‘proxy content’ to accelerate your E-Discovery results.

Cheers,

Nick Trendov @eDiscovery_ nick@scenario2.com @SpeedSynch @ResonantView

2011 Mobile Innovation will be Made in Japan

In Japan mobile is the on-ramp of choice to access internet social media platforms and content curation they provide–

“In Japan people want what they want, when and where they want it…mobile vs. pc access is running about 50-50…page view requests from mobile exceeded pc for the first time in 2010.” Lars Cosh-Ishii Representative Director, Mobikyo

Content Curation vs Content Resonance

If you are Oprah you partner with Discovery Channel and curate content for millions of people, and they love it–but is this for you?

DIfferent jobs and social situations may require content to be curated from people that understand specific relationships between people place and time, something that Oprah would never know. In this case ‘Content Resonance’ is a great option.

Content resonance applied to predictive behaviours or commercial content curation provide an overview if resonance is new to you.

Join us to explore our group content creation and curation solutions for Advertising and Legal E-Discovery projects.

Cheers,

Nick Trendov @SpeedSynch nick@scenario2.com @eDiscovery_

Mobile Resonance Aligns Relationships #IN Groups

Offering mobile advertising effectively is almost impossible until individuals declare specific interests though it is possible to reach out and understand an individual by understanding their group relationships. 

Mutualistic relationships are formed among groups, people and content in that groups may align people or content to social or commercial goals; alternatively social or commercial goals may align people or content. 

Mobile Content Explosion

 Content delivery in a mobile platform is no longer an option as mobile handsets are now the interface of choice for internet access in Japan where mobile interactions include payments for goods, services and access to social media groups. 

 Globally Twitter makes it easy to Tweet to get an answer from trusted groups globally 24 hours a day rather than attempting to scroll and assess hundreds of thousands of hits from search engines.

 Resonance Aligns People, Content and Purpose

 Twitter-type Resonance advertising tools provide great value to stressed-out marketers and advertisers who look to reach out to mobile customers as Social Media, data overload, SEO spam overwhelm traditional advertising and media business models.

The links below offer Resonance perspectives for advertisers or practitioners that serve groups or individuals.

 Self-Forming Groups – In Nature

 “Nature shows us how to avoid deadly data overload illustrated by The New York Times article that describes how soldiers are swamped by great bursts of data and deadly consequences that may follow…”

 Self-Forming Groups – Micro-Finance

 “This booklet tells you in simple terms how to help the poor to form Self-Help Groups…”

 Self-Forming Groups – Pharmaceutical

 “Self-forming groups of patients which distribute antiretroviral drugs to those on treatment have proved highly successful in retaining patients in care in Mozambique, and drastically reduced the need for patients to travel to health facilities, according to Tom Decroo and colleagues in a study reported in the advance online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes…”

 Join us to explore how Twitter-like Resonance helps you align people, content and purpose in trusted groups.

 Cheers,

 Nick @SpeedSynch  @ResonantView  nick@scenario2.com

Value of Twitter-type Resonance Tools #IN Mobile Advertising and Marketing Models

Twitter-type Resonance advertising tools provide great value to stressed out marketers and advertisers who look to reachout to mobile customers as Social Media, data overload, SEO spam overwhelm traditional advertising and media business models.

What is Resonance?

The simplest way to understand Resonance is to picture someone juggling one or more tennis balls.  They juggle as long as the story or content represented by the tennis ball is meaningful to them and when their focus or perspective changes they drop the balls they don’t need and pick up others.

People and tennis balls (stories or content) must resonante with each other.

Resonance is Juggling Stories or Content that you need

Groups, Resonance and Trust

Since juggling a lot of tennis balls simultaneously may be stressful, busy people rely on people they trust to provide guidance and suggestions as to the tennis balls that may help them in their day and ask someone to toss them a tennis ball that they need and when they are done they drop it.

Resonance is like juggling Tennis balls

Resonance Confuses Marketers and Advertisers

Lobbing Advertising Stories into Twitter

SEO may have conditioned marketers and advertisers to serve as much content as possible out via internet web sites, blogs and social media platforms, after all the price was right, pushing content was virtually free.

In late 2008 over half of all searches started in social media platforms rather than search engines as people began to trust other people rather than the search engine spiders and the advertisers that fed them.  Twitter’s use of Resonance in a mobile software platform that includes elements of voting and self-forming groups offers the most unique value to advertisers and marketers. 

Twitter makes It is easy to understand which stories or content resonate with people, groups across different geographies and spam is inconsequential.

Twitter-type Resonance is Spam Free

When the SEO crews that made millions with the Google business model encounters the social media platforms that were islands they incorporated various techniques to get inside, something that the search engine spiders could not do.  The most common technique was ‘The Follower‘ where spammers set up shop and formed groups to overwhelm natural groups and the content they generate inside Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media spaces.

Spammers Fail to Pollute Twiiter

Technology Fails to Overwhelm Twitter Trust

Spammers use every means and technology possible to lob in as many stories as possible, Twitter however has one important difference, if people don’t like stories or content they just drop the ball and if they don’t repeat or Re-Tweet then the content dies unlike a blog or space where spam sits around forever and polutes the perspectives and trust of natural group members.

Predictive Analytics and Mobile Marketing Resonance

SpeedSynch Resonance maps offer tools and techniques to measure the alignment of People, Content, Products or Processes and predict changes in Resonance so that advertisers or marketers can adjust their messages and budget allociations accordingly.

This is the Resonance Map of a mobile marketing entrpreneur and it is possible to see what is top of mind for him and the people that rely on his content via his blog and Twitter stream.

SpeedSynch.com Resonance Map of Mobile Entrepreneur

Join us to explore SpeedSynch.com Resonance Maps and the value of Twitter-type Resonance tools in mobile advertising and marketing models.

Cheers,

Nick Trendov @SpeedSynch  @ResonantView  nick@scenario2.com

Exposed E-Discovery Counsel Struggle #IN Great Data Waves

eDiscovery Counsel may be armed with little more than...

Exposed Counsel?

It seems that eDiscovery currently depends on counsel’s ability to run into a great 100 meter high wave of data, pull out a few liters of water and present it to a judge or jury with the assistance of ‘modern’ E-Discovery tools that provide cover equivalent to a Speedo bathing suit and not much else.

Counsel Struggles in Great Data Waves

eDiscovery Counsel struggles with Great Data Waves

Massive amounts of electronic data must be harvested, processed and analyzed, sometimes in databases that span countries or continents–a costly and time consuming process.Applying our datamining experience illustrates a better, cooler and faster approach to eDiscovery by using tools that help the content declare whether it is important in your eDiscovery work by employing the concept of Resonance and SpeedSynch Resonance Maps.

Overview of Discovery
Under the law of the United States, civil discovery is wide-ranging and can involve any material which is “reasonably calculated to lead to admissible evidence.” This is a much broader standard than relevance, because it contemplates the exploration of evidence which might be relevant, rather than evidence which is actually relevant.

‘Might be Relevent’
The notion of extending eDiscovery to data or content that ‘might be relevent’ is interesting and tends to increase size scope and time in eDiscovery projects as there is no end in sight with ‘might’.

Relevent Scenarios
When an action is launched by a plaintiff the experience of the defending counsel or previous cases usually offer a range of scenarios as a potential outcome of the action.

Working backwards from the outcome scenarios to access the data that would enable their manifestation would reduce eDiscovery time, cost and stress by up to 80%. Plaintiff’s, defendants, counsel and the assets they apply to eDiscovery are focused. 

The Great eDiscovery Data Wave
When you start your E-Discovery project do you feel like your are looking up at a great wave of data about to sweep you away?

Resonance Matters

SpeedSynch Resonance Maps facilitate the employment of a Scenario based E-Discovery approach and SpeedSynch Resonance Maps allow content or data that matches scenarios to float up to the attention of eDiscovery project teams.

Join us to explore the use of Scenario based eDiscovery and the use of SpeedSynch Resonance Maps–help cover your Counsel so that they can do their job better!

Cheers,
Nick @SpeedSynch @ResonantView  nick@scenario2.com



#IN 2011 Great Content Curators will OWN Social Media Networks

In 2011 great content curators will own social media networks as community members will need fast answers to more questions.

Oprah’s OWN

Oprah’s ability to deliver ‘great content’ as a super content curator led to her OWN network partnership with Discovery and immediate access to almost 100 million people.  The OWN ‘wrapping’ of the floundering Discovery Health Channel is innovative and shows the power of a great curator.

A number of trends and patterns have contributed to the value provided by curating content and innovation around aligning people to content and products.

These are some of the things to consider when you look to curate content that resonates and serves current and future customers.

Trust Moves away from SEO

Since late 2008 or early 2009 over half of internet searches now start in Social Media platforms and now people seem to trust other people a little more in finding fast answers to tough questions rather than search engine spiders or the advertisers that feed them.

Mobile May Sink SEO

Very few people that I know have an appetite to look at millions, thousands or even hundreds of Google search results on their mobile phone and as Google Android, RIM, Nokia, Sony, LG, Samsung and Apple interfaces mobile devices become gain as an on-ramp to Social Media platfomrs and the internet, the percieved value of SEO will drop even faster.

Resonance Trumps SEO

It is difficult to impossible for a search engine spider to understand your question and an answer that is suitable to your situation and understanding how to deliver content that ‘resonates’ to questions requires a little work and engagement so that people can declare what is important.

Social Media platforms like Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook have grown tremendously and there are many good tools to help people find good content or products that resonate with their immediate need — we do this with SpeedSynch Resonance Maps.

Advertisers Live Large

Advertisers have always preferred large deals so that they can minimize costs for their clients and deliver high value but appear to struggle with the content and stories easily created and delivered globally in Social Media platforms like Twitter or focused advertising possible in LinkedIN or other plaftforms.

Huge waves of content are formed by the minute and advertisers or their clients may naturally feel that they must devote very large budgets and spend on advertising programs to be heard above the noise created in internet sites, blogs and Social Media.

Focus Trumps Budget

In our experience the value of a message or content delivery increases if it can be oriented to either a single person or small group and to accomplish this we look to focus on customer behaviour patterns and TransMedia or Cross Media tools.

We let our customers tell us which questions, answers or stories are important to them, and this may be done anonymously, quickly and simply by using NeuroPersona tools.

TransMedia or Cross Media Trend 

The delivery of content or advertising stories has seen considerable innovation in the past 15 years and TransMedia or Cross Media techniques is one of the most promising in a world where answers and content outnumber questions but both are hard to find quickly.

The Matrix was one of the most popular successful deployment of TransMedia storytelling where people might get a good part of the message by viewing one or more of the movies but the whole story was accessible to those that found the comic books and attended the events which completed the picture.

IKEA Cross Media Innovation

Recently a simple IKEA internet banner add shows us another application of advertising delivery, self-configured stories where people put the story together from all the bits they pick up in different places and spaces according to what resonates with them, something no advertiser or marketer would ever know.

Contact Us

Contact us for a conversation about great content curation cases, tools, tips and tricks — especially if content is your business!

Cheers,

Nick Trendov @SpeedSynch  nick@scenario2.com

Resonance Rules Predictive Analytics in Great Web and Social Media Marketing

Predictive analytics offers the promise of predicting the future to business executives that direct people and resources to deliver products to markets globally across Web and Social Media channels though in our experience the future is difficult to predict until it happens.

Many simple and proven tools are available to help businesses predict and prepare for what may happen in the future like scenario analysis where clusters of stories are combined to represent possible future states from different perspectives of the business, its customers or other relationships that span extended business value chains.

Predictive Analytics and Global Supply Chain Risk 

In the course of adapting to global competitive pressure business has adopted global supply chains as means to survive and thrive.  The idea behind extended supply or value chains was that all non-core, high risk or high cost processes would be sourced externally to ensure profitably in turbulent markets.

Risk reduction and the quest for higher profits drove global supply chain and outsourcing trends.

The markets or rather customers seem to have their own ideas and now have access to almost an unlimited array of products globally.  Businesses have started to see that customer demand may change faster than it takes to deliver a product shipped internationally or even faster than a heavily managed software project.

Aligning Customer and Product Resonance in Extended Global Value Chains

 

Predicting the Future like Shell Oil    

SpeedSynch scenarios are used to align products or content to customers via a scenario or a cluster of stories that represent a possible future.

 Scenarios were brought into the business limelight by Pierre Wack lifted the creation of Scenarios to a high commercial art and honed his skill at SHELL OIL and SHELL has fantastic resources describing their scenarios and how they are created.

Success, Risk and Resonance 

Success in business is most often confused with precision, formulas and plans though it appears that after you plan life, life just happens. 

When a business plan goes in one direction and their customers go in another we say that the business value didn’t ‘resonate’ with the needs of their customers or simply the business was not successful in serving their market. 

Branding and advertising helps increase the resonance of our content and products with customers and reduce the business exposure to market risk. Business executives are also focused on finding ways to ‘predict’ the future to help them focus on opportunities and direct resources in search of profit.

Resonance Rules Prediction Marketing

Internet marketing changed very little since marketers discovered how to successfully market on the internet, first with Yahoo about 10 years ago and afterwards with Google ads and Search Engine Optimization or SEO.

New Media, TransMedia and Cross Media Value

The intersection of Old Media and Web2.0 has created a New Media, that’s for sure, but what else is happening? 

There is a growing interest in TransMedia or Cross Media,  the ability to engage people by taking a story and delivering it in different places, spaces and times appears to be a faster, simpler and more flexible future for creative marketers and their customers who want to break out of the crowd. 

TransMedia helps people create their own engaging story and Resonance is about understanding the relationships that create market value. 

Current TransMedia Perspectives

Sylvester Stallone shows TransMedia types what to do as he subtly elbows out Leonardo DiCaprio and Angela Jolie out of the way by driving his movie Expendables past Inception and Salt.

The SpeedSynch Resonance Map below shows the Resonance Map created by Sylvester Stallone.

SpeedSynch Resonance Map of Sylvester Stallone Crushing Google

0. Blackberry Twitter app shows Stallone top of Twitter trends worldwide 2010.07.24

1. Check Google volume on Twitter

2. Go to Twitter to find waves of ‘buzz’ tweets — looks like Brazilians tweeting millions

3. Go to Movie site to see when Slyvester Stallone movie is being released — August

4. Find Stallone Expendables movie press releases

5. Use SpeedSynch to create Keyword Theme maps for SEO competitive analysis

6. Review SpeedSynch SEO competitive analysis maps and keyword theme weights

7. Deep dive SpeedSynch Maps show detailed SEO competitive analysis

8. Compare DiCaprio’s INCEPTION with Stallone’s EXPENDABLES Resonance Maps 

Resonance Marketing Rules

In watching Stallone go to work on his competitors in a TransMedia or Cross Media format where the marketing story is spread across multiple media channels globally it is easy to miss the real value behind the success—customer Resonance.

People who go to movies, just like any potential customer have an affinity for a brand and a product, and Stallone’s marketing push with Twitter focused attention to Expendables and away from Inception.

Resonance, Marketing and Product Sales

Applying Resonance Marketing to product sales is a simple process.

1. Craft marketing stories to appeal to multiple customer perspectives or Persona in multiple languages, cultures and markets.

2. Focus on relationships between People, Process (work) and Content.

3. Facilitate and accelerate learning to boost engagement and sales.

 

 

Note: A Persona mask represents customer perspectives or behaviours and may be worn or removed as needed.  We build Persona masks by mapping Customer ‘Resonance’ by understanding their perspectives from the content they prefer, post or other information provided.

Persona masks illuminate stories, processes and probabilities so that we can serve anyone behind a Persona masks regardless of the market segment to which they have been assigned.

SpeedsSynch Resonance Maps help predict future Persona behaviours important for Prediction Marketing.

Resonance Predicts Customer Behaviour Changes 

Traditional marketing models have a difficult time adapting to constantly chaning customer behaviours.

Understanding and aligning the Resonance of Products, Content and Processes allows the business to see when customer needs or behaviours change according to their Resonance.

Products, Risk and Prediction

The art of prediction, highly valued by marketers, accountants and bookmakers starts by understanding what has happened in the past in order to determine what may happen again in the future. 

Typically market researchers take past behaviours and adjust for anticipated changes in the future and create an estimate or guess of what might happen where they create a story whether it is based on a ‘feeling’ or supported by hundreds of spreadsheets as what happens tomorrow is best seen a few days afterwards.

Obvious risks of what may happen in the future are arbitraged as close to zero by using different techniques such as buying insurance or using a portfolio investment approach.

Prediction, Forecasts, Sales and Profit

We show our clients how to apply scenarios and Resonance to quickly identify change, opportunities and reduce risk in their product innovation, manufacturing and sales cycles.

 We craft Persona Masks to predict future customers behaviours or how customers will Resonat.

A Persona mask is ‘crafted’ by linking stories and numbers to customer perspectives to infer possible future behaviours and since we can never know exactly how behaviours will occur in the future we use Scenarios to determine a range of behaviours and get a sense of the potential range of  customer behaviours that may occur in the future.  If this seems a little strange consider the profession of Finance and why accountants forecast.  A financial forecast directs business activity and sets measures of success. 

Stories are behind the numbers carefully constructed by accountants in plans of one, two or more years.  Accountants convert stories to numbers and place them in a structure called a chart of accounts and then manipulate numbers for the rest of the year in a way that separates them from the stories that were at their core.  Indeed accountants ‘map’ out the future of the business with numbers rather than stories.

Our practice is to blend stories, numbers, maps and storyboards to avoid the common trap that marketers and accounts fall into as they manipulate numbers and stories independently of each other.  This ‘split’ causes stories and numbers that started at the same place to get out of sync with each other.  Our Resonance maps align Products to Customers by employing content.

Stories and numbers must Resonate with customers or the business gets out of harmony across its value chain which typically results in something breaking, relationships or profits.

Mining Hidden Value with Resonance Analytics in Global Value Chains

ROI Re-Capture is another benefit of using Resonance to understand where to find the expertise, stories or content value useful for internal projects or external marketing campaigns.  No need to re-invent the wheel, just find the value or content hidden along your global value chain according to what is needed for success.

Links between numbers and stories may be found at http://personati.wordpress.com or SpeedSynch.com

Reversals in Outsourcing and Global Value Chains

Currently we see the manufacturing and service support of key products and processes moving closer to customers to minimize the risk of extended supply chanins that include customers behaviours changing faster than products or projects can be delivered and risk associated with privacy or legal E-Discovery issues.

Contact us for more information about Predictive Analytics, Resonance and the tools needed to deliver high value to Customers that change quickly.

Cheers,

Nick @SpeedSynch nick@scenario2.com

Persona Masks base on SpeedSynch Resonance Maps

 

2010 Predictions and Observations that will Resonate #IN 2011 @SpeedSynch

These 2010 Predictions and Observations that will Resonate #IN 2011 have been posted on @SpeedSynch or WordPress blogs. 

Cheers,

Nick @SpeedSynch  nick@scenario2.com

Spam, Social Media and the future of Search 

Search engines and the advertisers they serve have a big problem with Social Media; they can’t shape its content and appear to have innovated beyond spam and PR with the follower.

  

The future of internet marketing and search is the follower.

  

Social Media and the Follower

 

The follower is like a heat seeking missile that follows targeted people in social media–usually ‘influencers’ because social media　bloggers, influential or not, have become immune to　subtle　efforts of advertisers to promote their products or generate content to attract people that like content generated by specific bloggers.

 

It seems that once a blogger is identified as being influential or a blog as a gathering space for bloggers of influence one or more followers are dispatched to blogs to offer content that interjects the stories important to their patrons, the advertisers.  This is natural and easy as blogs are content generation engines.

 

Avoid Social Graphs and Super Bloggers

 

In my experience the real value of the ‘super blogger’ is directly related to sending your content out and others re-sending or posting, just like a chain letter.

This is done with the hope of boosting search engine visibility–leads and sales are a bonus, but not the main objective.

 

It’s not a popular view, but I would think that if you had the time to find the most influential bloggers you would be at the back of a long line and when you get to the front of the line, you would be disappointed with the result.

 

However, if you must take this path, think about these questions;

1. Do they reach your prospective customers or markets?
2. Can or will they help you and at what cost, $ or time?
3. What is the desired outcome from engaging the super bloggers?
4. Can they understand your products or customers or markets?
5. Will they just re-send your story or modify it for their own purpose?

 

Good luck with it and it’s always better to talk to someone you can serve with your content or product rather than an agent.

 

The Biggest Social Media Success Stories

 

Social Media is a hunk of software and software is created for two reasons; 

• Compliance
•  Speed up processes

Success of software tools depends on if it fits the need of the person typing and the person reading what that person typed so the ‘biggest’ stories will be about how many millions of people signed up to a website so they could do something faster (Twitter) or that the website they use is ‘trusted’ (LinkedIN) or just plain old fun but a privacy nightmare that sells as much information as dumb users will enter (Facebook).

 

Don’t Invest Time or Money in SEO

 

SEO is about giving Google money and there are other options, either way you need to do this; 

• Understand keyword themes of the reasons your customers buy
•  Analyze keywords used by your competitors

Options–Establish presence where Search Engine Spiders don’t matter–

• Find blogs or social media sites favoured by your customers
• Go to blogs that use competitor’s clients
• Pay per click, no fuss, saves time.

Search has moved past 90% of SEO experts with Google’s purchase of Metaweb last month so all the time you spend figuring out how to do SEO will be much better spent with your family.

 

The Tweet below is an answer to a question rather than an observation or prediction.

 

Explain Social Media Authenticity in a Tweet “Any words used in similar spaces share meaning.”