Below is live coverage of the Keynote: Clay Shirky, Author of Here Comes Everybody from the SES San Jose 2009 conference.
This coverage is provided by Barry Schwartz of the Search Engine Roundtable.
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| Keynote: Clay Shirky, Author of Here Comes Everybody | (08/11/2009) |
| 9:03 | Barry Schwartz: Okay, I am here, the keynote with Keynote: Clay Shirky, Author of Here Comes Everybody |
| 9:05 | Barry Schwartz: Crazy story, I was on my way to Bloomberg's sattalite office to do an interview about Google's recent "caffeine" changes but timing was mixed up and I had to turn around
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| 9:07 | Barry Schwartz: Mike Grehan is called up now |
| 9:08 | Barry Schwartz: He explains he is now the VP of these shows |
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| 9:09 | Barry Schwartz: He thanks Matt McGowan |
| 9:09 | Barry Schwartz: Mike then talks about his first book on how search engines work and link structure. |
| 9:12 |  | Barry Schwartz: He continues to introduce the conference... Still waiting on keynote... |
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| 9:16 | | Barry Schwartz: Now, he introduces Clay Shirky
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| 9:17 | | Barry Schwartz: Clay starts...
Idea of the book is "group action just got easier" |
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| 9:18 | | Barry Schwartz: The new signal is the change in user behavior on how these users meet these new technologies |
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| 9:18 | | Barry Schwartz: HSBC recruits new customers (the bank)
They specifically go after college grads and they sign up 1,000s of customers |
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| 9:19 | | Barry Schwartz: Then a news article goes up "HSBC breaks interest-free gradute promise"
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| 9:20 | | Barry Schwartz: HSBC didn't think about Facebook |
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| 9:20 | | Barry Schwartz: This guy puts up a Facebook page named "Stop the great HSBC Graduate Rip-Off!"
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| 9:21 | | Barry Schwartz: It gets thousands of members and they begin to share notes on the issue
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| 9:21 | | Barry Schwartz: They figure out ways to figure out a work around and then they create protests, which generates more protests. |
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| 9:21 | | Barry Schwartz: Then they go to London and do a real-live protest, it didn't happen b/c HSBC caved to these socialmedia folks |
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| 9:23 | | Barry Schwartz: This shows you how powerful Facebook is and it is much different than previous ways to go about it |
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| 9:23 | | Barry Schwartz: "Every URL is a latent community," he said. |
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| 9:23 | | Barry Schwartz: "We are living in the middle of the largest expansion of expressive communication" |
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| 9:24 | | Barry Schwartz: He then goes into the history of media  |
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| 9:27 | | Barry Schwartz: Computers and phones are symetrical (you talk and listen) |
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| 9:28 | | Barry Schwartz: As media becomes digitized, the Internet allows you to deliver it all |
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| 9:28 | | Barry Schwartz: (1) Many to Many
(2) Symmetry
(3) Media in same landscape
Are three main changes that we see in media |
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| 9:30 | | Barry Schwartz: It is not just about the technology, it is more about how people use those tools or technology |
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| 9:31 | | Barry Schwartz: Josh Groban got his audience through the internet |
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| 9:32 | | Barry Schwartz: Girl Grobanites (his fans) were hanging out on his discussion boards
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| 9:32 | | Barry Schwartz: These Grobanites wanted to raise money for charity for his birthday
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| 9:32 | | Barry Schwartz: They raise 12k and write a check |
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| 9:32 | | Barry Schwartz: Then the Grobanites decide to raise money at every Groban event
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| 9:33 | | Barry Schwartz: So then they decide to do an online version of this auction |
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| 9:33 | | Barry Schwartz: 16k they bring in, more than 10x what they raised in person |
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| 9:33 | | Barry Schwartz: They keep doing these auctions over and over again |
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| 9:34 | | Barry Schwartz: In the 1st year, they raise 75k
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| 9:35 | | Barry Schwartz: They come up with the Josh Groban Foundation, it is just an RSS feed web site, with a donate button |
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| 9:36 | | Barry Schwartz: Then they decided, the Grobanites, that they want to break off and do a less professional org to do this, so they made a new site, a less professional web site.
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| 9:39 | | Barry Schwartz: What we see is that in some cases, paying people to do things, sometimes kills the desire for those volunteers to do those actions |
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| 9:39 | | Barry Schwartz: There are motiviations:
(1) feel autonomous
(2) feel competent
(3) feel connected |
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| 9:39 | | Barry Schwartz: Paying people might kill these motivations to do this |
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| 9:40 | | Barry Schwartz: Thanks is the "coin of this realm" the currency for these volunteers is a thank you |
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| 9:41 | | Barry Schwartz: Ask youself, when you see things like this, "Why is this new?" |
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| 9:44 | | Barry Schwartz: There are certain things that "can't be part of the market" |
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| 9:44 | | Barry Schwartz: If you have a nice date, it is okay to send flowers the next day, but not to send the money the flowers would cost, he said. lol  |
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| 9:46 | | Barry Schwartz: This is a great session on "social media" but trying to connect it with "search" |
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| 9:47 | | Barry Schwartz: FYI, I know many of you are reading this live blogging, you can comment with questions or feedback. |
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| 9:50 | | Barry Schwartz: He shows more ways to use blogging, videos, etc to talk about real time events, to blow apart media |
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| 9:50 | | Barry Schwartz: She is not a journalist but became the go to news reporter for a specific news event
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| 9:52 | | Barry Schwartz: There is no professional media company that would see their readership go up by 30000x and then tell those readers to buzz off, but bloggers do that all the time. |
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| 9:54 | | Barry Schwartz: How do you harness this? Well, don't have your PR people do this, b/c people will see through it. |
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| 9:55 | | Barry Schwartz: FYI, need to run to a MSFT Bing meeting now, but next up are two live sessions 1 How to Optimize for Search and Engage the Community and 2 Always be Testing: Marketing Optimization in Challenging Times |
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| 9:56 | | Barry Schwartz: Okay closing this down, tune in for next sessions in 30 minutes.
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