Eric Schlissel

Please vote for my SXSW panel:

Cultural anthropology will become increasingly important to social media marketers, community managers and brand advocates as Internet users develop communal ties through technology. Social media and social networks have significantly increased social interactions online, creating cultural pools throughout the Internet. As outsiders or participant-observers we must study a culture before interacting with it in order to achieve our goals, whether messaging, management or motivation.

We’ll start by exploring the identification of norms, values, mores and symbols of online communities, while establishing more efficient practices of building targeted campaigns and community outreach based on this information. We’ll conclude with some examples and case studies and specific methodologies of creating ethnographies of communities.

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Today I’m giving a presentation on the history and future of social networks and social media at the American Public Gardens Association conference in Pasadena. I’ve attached the powerpoint and will be updating this post with the latest version as the afternoon progresses. This is released under Creative Commons, so please feel free to use this preso!