I had the privilege of attending, and speaking at, the 2007 Canadian Marketing Association Annual Convention in Ottawa earlier this month. Here are a few fascinating tidbits I gleaned from the many excellent talks and presentations I attended:
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My last video from the CMA‘s National Convention & Trade Show was with Mark Zwicker, VP of Business Development at St. Joseph’s Communications. Mark provided a case study for attendees, and stressed that while clients are generally resistant to changes, providing analytic proof of bottom-line savings are hard to overlook.
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The best presentation at this years CMA’s National Convention & Trade Show was from Don Tapscott, of New Paradigm". Author of Wikinomics, Don spoke on the transformation of marketing, and described the web as "becoming a new form of production," as all users connect to it and collaborate.
Don outlined four drivers for this shift of the web, and provided detailed examples and metrics to buttress his claims. While the concepts might be straight-forward, when integrated they become a highly thought-out and developed map for change:
- The "new" web -> Web 2.0 (consisting of a variety of mediums):
- The Thing – the utility we use to connect to the web.
- The availability of broadband mobility, and high-bandwidth capable devices
- Geo-Spaciality – The availability of the web from any location
- True-multimedia
- Web Services
- Integration
- The Net Generation – For the first generation to grow up entirely on digital technologies Don provided the following quote to describe them; "We [the older-than-baby-boomer-children generation] are all digital immigrants, they [the kids] are all digital natives."
- The Social Revolution
- The Economic Revolution (consisting of four caveats);
- Peering
- Transparency – being open
- Sharing -Mass Collaboration
- Acting Globally