Social media’s value proposition?
So I’m getting ready for the ad:tech panel on social media that I’ll be moderating this Wednesday. Just checked out the conference site, and I see that they’ve updated the program.
Joining me will be Adrian Toy, Regional Director Digital, Universal McCann, Australia and New Zealand’s Bebo GM Francisco Cordero, and Mike Murphy, VP, Media Sales, Facebook. Mike’s actually the conference’s main keynote, so together with the other guys we’ve got quite a crew.
The conference organisers have given us the task of deciding whether a value proposition has emerged for social media and consumer generated content. Given the companies in question, I can hardly imagine it will be “no”…. but it’s interesting that we should even be faced with the question.
So, what should I ask these guys?
Update: Fox Interactive Media (MySpace) business development director Nick Love is also on the panel. So that’s Facebook, Bebo and MySpace all on one panel. You don’t get that every day.



March 10th, 2008 at 4:43 pm
Mark, in case you’ve not heard it there was (I thought) an interesting discussion on TWIT late last year (episode 120 http://twit.tv/1200, gets to the point 10 mins in) re Open Social and what makes one network succeed over another — is it the applications or the people. Cheers, Paul
March 12th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Interesting topic that you hosted today at Adtech. Still think it will be interesting to see what happens in this space when companies and business start to interact in the space, and how users will react. I wonder if users will switch off and move away from this space if they feel they are being hit with subtle marketing messages to often and how the likes of facebook and myspace will control the level of marketing messages being dropped in the space.