The Future of Social Media Gerd Leonhard @ PICNIC 2009

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The PDF of my speech at PICNIC 2009 in Amsterdam, see http://www.picnicnetwork.org/page/53112/en Key points: * Social Networks are the Next Broadcasters * The world's OS is changing: from closed to open * What does a Social OS look like? * Copyright Gridlock * The global social brain * Socially augmented reality * The extreme reputation economy... and much more

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The next 5 years in Social Media

‣ Futurist‣ Strategist‣ Author & Bloggerwww.mediafuturist.comtwitter.com/gleonhard

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First: a big “Thank You” to everyone in my NetworkMost of what I ‘know’ you have given to me.

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Knowledge grows when shared

The World’s Operating System is Morphing

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Not Social

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Not Social

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SocialBusiness Marketing

AdvertisingContent & Media

CommunicationEducation

Politics

Not Social

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Social

A new, social OS

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Meet the New BroadcastersPeer

A fundamental Shift: Closed to Open

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EducationTelecommunication

Media & Content

Business

Energy

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Education

TelecommunicationMedia & Content

Business

Energy

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Open....is a real challengeThe Desire for Control is ingrained in our genes, our lives, our education

Open can mean out-of-control & chaoticOpenness can create risk.

Open may feel unsafe.

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The Degree of Openness and your Revenue Growth Rate

will be directly related

Guess what:

Anything ‘Social’ must be

Open.12

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12 Months: Total Copyright Gridlock

12-24 Months: Resistance to Change retires!

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Source: FT.com ‘claws and effect’

3-5 years: Ownership will matter a

lot less, Mind- and Market- share will matter a lot

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2-3 Years: the global, social ‘Brain’

Real-Time Reviews

Geotagging

Status Updates

Pictures & Video

Uploading

Augmented Reality

Bookmark- Sharing

Life-streaming

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5 years: 1/3 of the population will engage

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18 months: Socially Augmented Reality

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Source: Nokia Siemens Networks

2 years: the cost of staying in touch drops towards zero

Next 18 Months: real-time, social, mobile: Feedback, Rating, Comments, Tagging...

Source: trendwatching.com

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The absence of accurate, real-time and verified data about you or your business may soon mean that you virtually don’t exist

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Extreme Reputation Economy

2 years: Social Business... or none

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12 months: Social Media is CRM

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Social Business =Trust Osmosis

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Trust

Within 12-24 Months: intelligent, automated Social ‘Agents’

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The Semantic Web

12 months: Privacy becomes an action we must take

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12-18 Months: Digital Jet Lag becomes a serious issue

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Curation & Filtering becomes a huge business

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2 years: Social ‘Books’

CuratedInteractive

Real-timeCommons-owned

ConnectedPeer-reviewed

Non-Linear

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The cult(ure) of API is exploding

3 years: Social Capital will be become as important as actual money.

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Social Capital Example

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3 years: Social Advertising = 30% of digital

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Adios to ‘disconnected’ Advertising

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18 months: much smarter, social advertising

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2 years: one-way communications from a non-trusted source are 99%

useless

Inspired by trendwatching.com

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Abundance of...Many new Products &

Services Trusted Opinions

Content ConTEXT & Trusted Filters

Connectivity Private Spaces

Machine Intelligence Human Ingenuity & Creativity

Numbers of ‘Connections’ Actual Relationships

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Scarcity of....T h e F u t u r e o f S o c i a l M e d i a

2-5 years: virtual venues, telepresence & holography

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3-5 years: 30% Freemium in most ‘Content’ Industries

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• Behavior, habit & culture changes always come first

• Monetization is a possible consequence (not a starting point)

• Every large and engaged audience can be turned into

money.

About Social Media Monetization

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Source: Morgan Stanley Conference 2009

Expect radical habit changes when the technology actually works

REVENUE

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• email me at gerd@mediafuturist.com• twitter.com/gleonhard• facebook: gleonhard• more presentations at

www.mediafuturist.com

Thanks for listening!

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