Most businesses are currently approaching the process of incorporating social media into their marketing plans, I can see that they do not truly understand all of the components of social media. They get that social means building relationships and that شراء متابعين تيك توك is the form of communication that they are using to build these relationships. But this is not a deep enough understanding on which to base the marketing success of any product or service. There is so much more to be considered, because social media is dynamic, nuanced, and richly layered.
To fully understand and be able to utilize social media effectively, marketers need to obtain a thorough understanding of all its components. Without this knowledge they will only be sending out messages which will not have the ability to achieve their desired impact. These are the companies that have a Facebook page and run impressive campaigns to get people to “like” them. They think they are now using social media because they have so many followers and post something on their Facebook page every so often. But are their messages hitting the mark and motivating their intended audience to take a specified action? Without incorporating the additional components of social media, these efforts are all unfortunately doomed to failure.
To be most effective in social media, it is helpful to think of its components as forming a cube, with social and media as two of the sides. The additional sides of this cube are object and timing. In modern society, we choose to have our objects define us. In other words, objects such as cars, houses, iPads, etc. define who we are as much as our actions do. “We buy watches not just to tell time, but to have a good time. We buy sunglasses not just to see better, but to be seen.” explains Debra Kaye an award winning innovation expert. Culturally humans have always been this way and this will probably not change. This is why we don’t see people with only one technology object, such as just one smart phone. We like having more than one depending on where we are, what we are doing, what we are representing, or who we may be trying to impress at the moment.
Marketers that don’t consider the delivery system, the object, of social media don’t fully understand the cultural impact of their message, or how it is used and absorbed. For example, text messages are viewed in a very different way than emails. Consumers have accorded an emotional meaning and reciprocity to text messaging that email simply doesn’t have. A company that uses text messaging without a deep understanding of this medium could actually alienate the very audience it is trying to most engage.
The fourth side of the social media components cube is timing. This is very important because humans act differently and respond differently depending on timing. They are open to receiving messages in different ways at different times of the day. They may want to have shorter, action-based messages during the work day, but could be more open to educational elements at night or over the weekend. Social media also has a spatial dimension as part of timing, that the extension of one’s personality into larger and larger networks, which is what gives dimension to the cube structure rather than a flat graph, where activities have no relationship to one another.
Let me pose a hypothetical to illustrate the impact of social media in litigation and e-discovery’s place in it. Let’s take a client who advances a personal injury claim and asserts that he or she can no longer lift, bend, or whatever. Then, during the course of the litigation, that person or even a friend of that person posts photos of them skiing and having a great time in the hot tub near the slopes. If you are defending the case, those photos will make your client very happy. If you are prosecuting the case, they probably won’t. As you can see, understanding social media and how to ethically obtain those posts are now a relevant and important part of the practice of law in Florida.
In addition to obtaining electronic data, including these posts, in a lawsuit, parties and their counsel now have an obligation to act in advance to preserve this data through such mechanisms as Litigation Hold Notices. Florida attorneys must also be aware of and advise their clients of the liabilities for failure to preserve ESI, whether it is requested or, in some cases, not. For further information on this, you are welcome to view the two featured videos on e-discovery on the homepage of my site.
Conclusion
In conclusion, Florida attorneys and business people can now ill afford to ignore social media. While you may not desire to tell the world what you think of a movie you just saw through such posts, you at least must understand the basics of social media and how it can impact a lawsuit in which you are involved or may later be involved.
As businesses, in particular, gravitate to storing all their data electronically and individuals increasingly live in the digital world of social media, you can no longer ignore social media. It is not as difficult as you likely thought and once you try it, you will develop more comfort with it and may even come to embrace it.