Chris Brogan Rocked BlogIndiana.
Chris had a fantastic slide deck and personable presentation – including fantastic wacky pop culture references (including Fergy!), interaction with the crowd (berating us for only having a couple runners in the room!), and a polished presentation. There’s an incredible talent that I see in speakers like Chris that I see in Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin and others… the ability to take a very difficult and complex issue and explain it simply.
Brogan did this with his continuum of modern branding and how social media fits, from Awareness to Extended Action. Read through on the post for details, here’s my synopsis:
- Awareness – Utilization of effective marketing to introduce you, your product, or your service.
- Attention – Utilization of social mediums to provide people with a means to participate.
- Engagement – Sustained interaction between you and your community.
- Execution – The conversion… the download, the registration, the purchase, etc.
- Extension – The opportunity after the execution to promote the event and the results.
Chris did the ingenious and difficult work here of defining the process, so I’ll just add my 2 cents. (I hate doing this… makes me sound like I’m just piggybacking… I guess I am!) In order to turn this from a continuum to a cycle, I would add Analysis.
I think Analysis is key… both at the beginning and the end of the process so that the business can jumpstart the process with a lot more horsepower – as well as refine and improve the process each time. Measurement of results is essential so businesses understand where to optimize their limited resources for the maximum impact.
Not having read Chris’ and Julian’s book yet – I’m looking forward to picking it up and seeing how development and measurement of the strategy plays into the continuum.
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