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The emergence of cloud computing and cyber-physical systems has led to consider security in data treatment as a major concern. In order to insure the confidentiality of managed data, encryption is today widely used.
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The availability of Wide BandGap active components (GaN, SiC) has enabled placing power electronics converters (actuator control, variable speed drives ...) in high ambient temperatures > 200 ° C . However, many hard spots remain, particularly the constraints imposed by passive components. A promising way of exploration is to increase the switching frequency to reduce passives components and then to allow technological leaps.
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In embedded systems, the multitasks conception and execution model is an essential component to correctly design and execute applications. It provides a programming and execution model for the optimal use of the hardware platform. In this context, the fundamental purpose of an execution model based on the Time-Triggered paradigm is to enable the development of temporally deterministic, therefore reproducible, systems.


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Shipping executive Philip J. Shapiro of Liberty Maritime Corp. testified before Congress this morning, calling on the federal government to post U.S. security personnel on ships traveling through pirate-infested waters:
We strongly urge the government to consider embarking a small number of U.S. government security personnel on the very few U.S.-flag vessels that transit high-risk tranist areas at any one time. In our view, small embarked security teams are a more effective deterrent than patrolling large ocean areas with vessels. Also, using small securtiy teams is a much more cost effective response than attempting to protect millions of square miles of ocean or in dealing with a hostage situation after the fact.
Shapiro also reiterated his call for Congress to remove the legal barriers to arming ships so that they may provide their own security. Until that happens, however, he said the U.S. government must protect U.S.-flagged ships.
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Just two days after the dramatic rescue of Capt. Richard Phillips of the Maersk Alabama, one of Shapiro's ships—the Liberty Sun—was attacked by Somali pirates who hit the ship four times with rocket-propelled grenades and sprayed the vessel with automatic-weapon fire. The pirates, however, were not successful in their attempts to board, deterred by a "virtual flood wall of water" streaming from hoses off the ship, Shapiro said.
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Since the new year, pirate attacks have dramatically increased off the Horn of Africa. The number of vessels attacked by pirates this year has already overtaken last year, 114 versus 111, respectively. Despite the sudden uptick in attacks, the pirates success rate has fallen due to the presence of foreign naval vessels, including the United States, patrolling the area, according to a subcommittee summary.
Obstacles to arming U.S. crews include legal liability overseas, arms export controls, and the reluctance of insurers to cover voyages with armed crews.
For Shapiro's full written testimony, click here. For a full witness roster for today's hearing before Subcommittee on Coast Guard and Maritime Transportation of the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, click here.
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Aussie government to rig filter testing
The great Aussie firewall is coming apart at the seams, as opposition mounts, and critics have a field day dissecting inept government plans for testing their shiny new filters. While the government might expect opposition from, well, the opposition, it is possible that the architect of the plan, Labour Senator and …
Could ISPs please..
.. filter the Young Labour portions of government websites.
They do realise they weren't meant to follow China's lead, right? It's a short step from blocking X to blocking Y(oung Labour). See what I did there?
This looks like it came...
straight from the UK NuLabour Policy Manual.
Rigging a favourable outcome?
Just like they're trying to rig a 'favourable' Speaker.
"Papers, Citizen!"
Now it all becomes clear.
1. Create law requiring technically demanding censorship.
2. Force ISPs to implement it.
3. Bankrupt ISPs with unreasonable the expectations.
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6. Power == Profit.
Filtering at 10,000
So at 10,000 sites there is a noticeable performance hit. Are they aware that there are BILLIONS of porno sites out there? Talk about daft.
OZ going down the pan
I have family in OZ and once upon a time there were many positive reasons to move out there and virtually no reasons not to, these days the opposite is becoming true.
This is yet another reason I wouldn't even consider it anymore, the country is clearly going down the pan, and going by the recent press and what I've been told the government seem to be mentally impaired to say the least!
Go to NZ
Thats ok move to NZ as its even nicer and they dont have the same daft laws. Emmigrating there is also easier than oz :)
John, compared to the UK, Australia is a free Utopia.
yes, they're trying to follow in our footsteps, but they've got nothing on us right now.
10,000 eh?
So is it 10k URLs or sites?
Hmm, well should just about cover average online store, what about everyone else? Doesn't the BlueTack anti-corp IP list contain something like about 2.5M IPs, not including DNS aliases, not URLs!! BlueTack is just a volunteer list let alone something, I use the term losely here, government organised!
"or it will bankrupt the ISPs"
leaving the remaining players to form, in cooperation with a responsive government, a cosy cartel.
Scratch mine and I'll scratch yours. Nice work if you can get it to work.
NZ here I come...
My thoughts exactly, and probably what we'll end up doing eventually! :-)
It's not 10,000 blocked
10,000 is the number of sites we will ultimately be permitted to access - all moral minority approved.
(It would be funnier if it wasn't entirely possible that this is what the arsetards are planning). :-(
It's not all beer and skittles in The Land of the Long White Cloud
try this piece of new legislation:
Like you Brits can talk...
You can say that Aus might be going down the tubes, but at least the people of Aus are making there voices heard - notice that part about protests in every capital city? Where are the large scale protests in the UK about ID Cards, Censorship Laws, Uber-databases, DNA not being removed from police databases, and so on?
You have no one to blame but yourselves for the fact that your country is the way it is - you let the daily mail make the laws because the rest of you dont get off your ass and make yourselves heard!
Give me Aus any day!
A primary job of national governments is national defense
Regarding privacy, there is no guarantee privacy on the internet.
National governments worldwide already eavesdrop on international traffic. And foreign governments eavesdrop on the national traffic of other countries. Some countries already eavesdrop on their own citizens (UK and USA).
Privacy is also threatened by the many trojans and viruses that, even if your computer isn't compromised, there is a good likelihood on any given day that you will communicate with a compromised computer.
A primary job of national governments is national defense and the protection of its citizens lives and property.
A national firewall that does that protects its citizens against foreign hackers and cyber attacks is a good national firewall. It would be a step on the path to upgrading the internet to a higher technical level so people can start relying on it.
If a national firewall is going to be used for censorship of opinions, and to limit news, then it is a bad firewall.
If the national firewall censors pornographic images and video, well, we can all express our opinions in text form. So it really doesn't limit freedom of speech. (That said, a national firewall should, if it even does any censoring, only censor clearly illegal pornography, like kiddie porn, sex acts with animals, and pictures that courts have ruled on.)
If a national firewall only stops some foreign hackers blackmailing citizens and residents, or if it only stops some foreign based DDoS attacks, it will be worth the price.
A short lived censorship
The current Aus Government is dependent upon a very small number of independent politicians in order to pass laws. The indies are often also christian fundies, nut jobs one and all.
Once there is a change in the balance of power, these fundies will become toothless.
Re:@John and Like you Brits can talk...
" John, compared to the UK, Australia is a free Utopia.
yes, they're trying to follow in our footsteps, but they've got nothing on us right now."
The problem with this is I moved from the UK to avoid this shit. Now there's a Nu Labour movement hear with KRudd07 and his intept band of merry morons where do I go next?
As for the comment about "at least we're protesting" you obviously don't realise that the Brown Government has ostensibly banned protesting as you need permission first. Also, the police in the UK have a million and one laws they can abuse to grab you off the street and keep you off it until you become subservient.
Oz is trying real hard to f*ck things up though, bless 'em.
It's Labor here not Labour
We spell it Labor as in "ALP, Australian Labor Party".
I've noticed all you UK guys spell it the UK way, not the Aussie way ;)
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Information has been received that Canberra will be the site of protest action on the 13th December. The following comments were placed on the "Action and facts" thread on Whirlpool:
"Newflash! Coordinators have been organised for ACT. So I present you with, the rally details:
13th of December
12pm – 2pm
Garema Place (under the big screen), Civic
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re:It's Labor here not Labour
Let's not get started on American (and other) bastardisation of the English language, it'll never end. It is essentially a mis-spelling with Labour/Labor being represenatatives of the labourers i.e. the working man. In Australian terms the party being founded in 1891 to promote/protect the interests of the working man. It also separates it as a term from "labor - an obsolete unit of area".
In the main it stems from the use of "English Webster's spelling-rules" in the colonies - not arrogant, but factual. Labor in Australian political party terms also used to be spelled Labour at one point (changed early 19xx) the name changed being influenced in part by the party being taking it's influences from the US labor movement.
We'll get onto the ridicule of yoghurt/yogurt another day.
English people couldn't, in general, give a toss about most digs at the UK but mis-spelling and bastardisation of the language is often a step too far. Ironic considering most of it is a bastardisation of various European dialects :)
I was hoping to come back at you with robust argument for why we *appear* to be letting them bend us over a legislative chair, and then follow it with a scathing remark about the Aussies.
I failed completely. You're absolutly right, at the moment the vast majority of us are stupid, pathetic and lazy. Too comfortable in our tiny, expensive, borrowed houses. Too busy rushing desperatly to dead end jobs or dole queues so we can keep up this months payment on last years sofa.
Perhaps all is not lost, I envision, one day, all of a sudden, the straw'll meet the camel and the lot of us will FINALLY wake up, and waste no time in burning all of this to the fucking ground.
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I don't know much about California State Senator Tom McClintock, but it's pretty pathetic that he can't even eke out a solid victory over a cartoon character!
As ballots continue to be counted two weeks after Election Day, the Republican is just barely in the lead in his race against Charlie Brown!
Wait, what's that? It's not that Charlie Brown?
OK, so maybe it's someone else, but McClintock should be more than 592 votes ahead of a Democrat in the heavily conservative 5th District of California. The vote difference is close enough that both candidates went to DC this week to participate in freshman orientation on Capitol Hill…
Neither candidate has been declared a winner, but both Charlie Brown and Tom McClintock will be in Washington this week to attend freshman orientation for newly elected members of Congress.
Maybe they'll both show up this morning on the steps of the U.S. Capitol, when the newcomers pose for their official class photograph.
"That may be a collector's item," McClintock spokesman Bill George said Thursday.
We'll see how this one turns out. Absentee and provisional ballots are still being counted and a recount seems likely.
In related news in Minnesota, Al Franken is faring well in his recount fight against The Riddler.
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Ron Paul Shills for Klan-Endorsed Carpetbagger
Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX) is well known to be Capitol Hill's voice of measured reason and old-fashioned morality, at least on days when Joe Lieberman is out bloviating for Sarah Palin.
Well this week, Dr. Paul cast his gaze of reason and morality across this great land and came to the same conclusion that the Ku Klux Klan did in 2003: California must elect State Rep. Tom McClintock to higher office…
Paul, the libertarian-Republican congressman from Texas who raised more than $34 million for his presidential race, sent out an e-mail last week urging his massive donor base to contribute to McClintock.
"Tom McClintock is one of the most promising warriors in the fight against big government we have seen in a long time, and the special interests and big bankers know it. … You have stood with me as….
…I campaigned for the Presidency to return our federal government to its proper role. Will you help me bring a reliable ally to Congress?"
Beyond the Klan's endorsement, Paul must have admired McClintock's one-man foiling of a Chinese plot to steal oil off the coast of Florida — a region that is roughly the same distance from McClintock's home as the district he's running in.
With a resume like McClintock's, you have to wonder how Paul picked him over equally reasonable, moral candidates like, say, Ted Stevens.
(By the way, just to give Ron Paul supporters a head start on the comments section, let me just point out that I am a pathetic, ignorant scum of the earth who deserves nothing short of deportation and a slow, painful death.)
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Will KKK Help Deliver Tom McClintock to Congress?
Tom McClintock's campaign to replace outgoing Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA) has hit a snag on the revelation that some old friends may still hold a burning cross for him.
And, yes, I do mean the Ku Klux Klan…
Republican Tom McClintock, who is running for an open California seat against Democrat Charlie Brown, surely would have preferred that the KKK not endorse him for governor in 2003.
Democrats are resurrecting that endorsement to play against McClintock, who hopes to win the seat being vacated by Rep. John Doolittle (R-Calif.).
The endorsement came via press release during McClintock's gubernatorial campaign against Arnold Schwarzenegger and Gary Coleman. It stated, among other things…
The Imperial Klans of America, Knights of the Ku Klux Klan (IKA) have announced their full support for Tom McClintock's bid for the governorship of California. Their support is announced in what they term "the lesser of all evil candidates."…
The IKA is a non-profit, Whites' civil rights organization. It is dedicated to the unification, preservation and advancement of White Christian America.
Of course McClintock's problems go far beyond embarrassing endorsements. To begin with, he doesn't live anywhere near the Congressional district; he's from Thousand Oaks, roughly 500 miles to the southwest.
He's also running against someone named Charlie Brown, who is such a loveable loser that surely the voters will see it in their hearts to let him be a Congressman… or at least to kick the football.
But the KKK endorsement may be the final straw. If it kills his candidacy in California, McClintock should consider carpet-bagging to Colorado's 4th Congressional District, which isn't that much further away from Thousand Oaks than where he's running now.
Out there, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave has managed to ride the Klan's endorsement all the way to Capitol Hill.
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Total Recall for Arnold Schwarzenegger?
Arnold Schwarzenegger, who swept into office following the 2003 recall of unpopular Gov. Gray Davis, may soon learn that the recall process can be a two-edged AK-47.
The influential — and, we should note, heavily armed — California prison guards union announced a brand-new recall movement on Monday — and this one is to remove Schwarzenegger himself…
The petition drive by the California Correctional Peace Officers Association is the latest political challenge for Schwarzenegger, who faces political, legal and administrative battles over his efforts to close a $17.2 billion budget gap and enact a budget that is now 70 days late.
Now the prison guards are still a long ways away from recalling their rival Kindergarten Cop. (By "a long ways," I mean 1,041,530 signatures and a formal ballot initiative.) But think of all the political careers that could be revived if they succeed…
* There's Gary Coleman, who lost the last recall election to Schwarzenegger, and is now playing a slave in a right-wing propaganda movie.
* There's Mary Carey, another recall loser, who… uh, also acts in films.
* And then there's State Senator Tom McClintock, who finished third to Schwarzenegger in 2003… Only he's not available because he's already running for Congress in a district approximately 600 miles away from where he actually lives.
But Schwarzenegger, who is batting a thousand in political elections, won't go down easily. He can raise campaign funds with ease and he enjoys far more bipartisan support than Gray Davis ever had. And if he needs to threaten voters with a final trump card, he certainly has one…
Can you say "Jingle All The Way 2"?
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BRU-61/A Bomb Rack Contract for Cobham
Posted by Armed Forces International's Aviation Expert on 22/03/2011 - 10:10:00
British aerospace and defence firm Cobham has been awarded a multi-million dollar contract to manufacture and supply bomb racks to attach to the wings of United States Air Force jet fighters.
The BRU-61/A Small Diameter Bomb (SDB) Racks will be used to support operations using the GBU-39 SDBs, which have been in service since 2006 and equip the USAF's fleet of F-15E Strike Eagle combat jets.
A follow-up to the GBU-39, the GBU-52 SDB II, is currently in production and was covered in a 2010 AFI News Item.
Cobham will now supply over 400 BRU-61/A racks to the USAF, supplementing the 1,400+ already produced by the company and in use at locations around the world.
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As an in-service Multi-Stores Carriage System, the BRU-61A has seen extensive combat service since its introduction to the USAF, especially in Iraq, where numerous close air support missions have been flown.
The F-15E Strike Eagle is an enhanced version of the original F-15A Eagle air superiority fighter, which first flew in 1972. Inducted into the USAF in 1988, the Strike Eagle has seen action over Iraq, Afghanistan and, at present, is one of the types deployed to enforce the Libyan no-fly zone.
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Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 is a due out on March 16 in Europe and March 20 in the US. While we weren't fans of the first game, calling it "an exercise in rage control" and criticizing the AI, we enjoyed the E3 demo we saw of the sequel a few months back. Beyond fixing many of the issues we complained about when we played through the first game, it's also running on the CRYengine3, which means it's likely going to look a good deal better than the first. We just wish it had Move support, too, since that would definitely make it stand out.
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The Old Man Legacy Fund, a nonprofit volunteer group, has been working over the past five years to raise money for a $5.5 million memorial to the Great Stone Face that hung over Profile Lake in Franconia Notch before it came crashing down May 3, 2003. The group raised about $500,000 over that time frame, and Legacy Fund Chairman Dick Hamilton of Littleton said Wednesday his group has voted to halt any further work at the site.
"The interest level is there, but the money just isn't," said Hamilton. "We still get thousands of people that visit the site every year. But with the economy the way it is, we just don't think the price tag that our plans carry is a realistic goal. What we have in place there now, people are very happy with anyway."
Hamilton and fellow board members successfully raised about $500,000 for the first phase of the memorial, completed in 2011, which includes a series of steel rods that when viewed from a certain angle, show an outline of the profile against the cliff.
The Old Man of the Mountain Profile Plaza also contains hundreds of stone pavers, purchased by members of the public, engraved with names of project supporters and memories of the famous rock outcropping.
"We have 720 pavers in place now," said Hamilton. "Those will remain on sale until December 2014. We've had support from hundreds of people throughout New Hampshire and beyond."
The second, more expensive phase of the Legacy Fund's plans called for five granite monoliths to be situated in such a way that when viewed in sequence from a raised platform, they would appear to merge into one image resembling the outline of the Old Man.
Hamilton said the stones would represent the five large slabs of granite that formed the rock profile.
"The cost of moving forward with those plans is just too much," said Hamilton. "Without large donations from corporations, we won't reach that goal. If someone calls us up and says we have $1 million for you, I might reconsider, but we were charged with creating a fitting memorial for the Old Man. We feel as a group we've done that."
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Hamilton said his group will take the remaining funds and do "some small touch-up projects" at the plaza, such as adding benches and signage. Any left-over monies will be put into an endowment fund for Cannon Mountain State Park for maintenance of the site.
The Old Man of the Mountain was discovered in 1805 and became one of the state's most popular tourist attractions before it fell, inspiring such works of literature as Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Great Stone Face." The New Hampshire Legislature adopted it as the state emblem in 1945, and the image appears on license plates, highway signs and the state quarter.
Hamilton said that while the Old Man has been gone for a decade, he is not forgotten.
"People want to go there, to stand and look at where the Old Man used to be," said Hamilton. "They want to show their kids the spot. The plaza gets between 200 and 300 visitors a day, and we had between 25,000 and 30,000 people there last summer. He is still an iconic image of our state."
An anniversary service will be held at Profile Plaza on May 3, the 10th anniversary of when the Old Man fell. The Old Man of the Mountain Legacy Fund invites all friends of the Great Stone Face to gather from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to share their memories of the Old Man, and take part in a moment of silence.
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6 Factors that turn social media strategy into RESULTS
Oct 14th
After working as a marketing consultant for more than a decade, I know how exhilarating it is when a client really executes well on a strategy.
Unfortunately, I too often see deeply-embedded cultural baggage weighing down a company's full potential to succeed. Here are the common elements that make the difference between a strategy document gathering dust on a shelf or becoming a dynamic business driver:
1) Active executive sponsorship
I was recently brought in to do a social media strategy workshop with a big health care company. The president of the company greeted me and said "I know we need to do this. We are counting on you to lead us in the right direction." Not only did she verbally demonstrate support, she was actively engaged in the entire meeting and led the part of the program determining next steps. This active leadership is CRITICAL to organizational change.
There is no such thing as a grassroots cultural change. The person at the top must "get it" and make people accountable for the change. Measurable expectations for change must be driven into performance objectives. Here is the most important thing a leader can do to keep the change going week to week: Ask questions about it in staff meetings.
2) Immersive learning
"Can you just do this for us?"
When I hear that question, I know my client is not ready to commit to the organizational change needed to make a social media strategy work.
The big difference between a company "checking the box" and one that is really being transformed is that people are rolling up their sleeves and learning by doing. They're not out-sourcing tweets and blog posts. They're making "content" and customer engagement central to the company's marketing mission and adjusting job requirements accordingly.
This is excruciatingly difficult. For 100 years, we have been conditioned to pay an advertising agency to handle our customer media and then sit back and wait for something to happen. Certainly advertising is still an important part of the marketing formula. But a content strategy must be organically linked to some extent between employees and customers for it to "take" in the company culture.
3) Patience + Resources
Starting a social media strategy from scratch is like putting a soccer team together while the game is underway — you still have a business to run. Certain players will rise or fall, certain strategies will work or be abandoned as we adjust to the competition and the reaction from the market.
To persevere in this rather chaotic transition, a team should be provided with the appropriate amount of resources and enough patience to allow them to gel and perform. The change is not sustainable if it is simply an "add on" to an already full plate. You wouldn't take a cross-country trip in a broken-down car running out of gas. The first few miles might be fine, but for the long-term you need to have a vehicle and the fuel to help you get to your goal.
4) Focus
Chasing the shiny red ball is a strategy killer. If you have done the upfront research and planning, you should be confident in following a plan long enough to give it a chance to make an impact. Shifting priorities without following through on a plan will waste time and money faster than anything else.
5) Creative application
A few years ago, I might not have made this such a priority. Back then, it was probably novel enough just being on the social web! But today, everyone has a blog. Everyone has a Facebook page. Are you devoting creative resources to these efforts to really stand out and deliver the goods for your customers? That is becoming increasingly difficult isn't it?
6) Measurement aligned with goals
Repeat after me. "I will measure my marketing efforts." In today's data-filled world, there is no reason NOT to measure. It's just this simple: How do you know your strategy is working if you don't measure? Don't get caught up in the endless ROI debate. Pick meaningful KPI's that are helping to move the needle for your business objectives.
Well that's my take on what it takes to make a social media strategy work. What's your view? Which one of these is the most important to you?
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How do you budget for social media marketing?
Oct 9th
I had a long discussion this week with an analyst trying to figure out how companies should be budgeting for their social media marketing efforts.
It's always frustrating trying to answer a question like this because of course there is no cookie-cutter answer. A marketing strategy — and the appropriate budget — is going to be determined by your organization's goals and the competitive structure of your industry.
However, to optimize the opportunities behind a social media effort, I do believe organizations need to commit to budgeting in a consistent and patient way. Here's a traditional view of funding an advertising or promotional program:
Of course this is a very simplified view, but in a traditional media spend, you might run an ad campaign and, after some lag, awareness increases and then abruptly drops when the ad campaign spending is over. Of course this could be repeated over and over again and the persisting level of awareness would eventually increase because of the long-term commitment to advertising.
When approaching social media or content marketing, the commitment should be for the long haul. It's unlikely that you're going to strike lightning with your first few blog posts or Facebook updates. The idea is to drive relationships through consistent small engagements that eventually lead to awareness and bigger interactions, like a sale.
The idea behind this graph (again, very simplified) is that there is a start-up cost to build a social media competency but that it should become more efficient over time. Your costs will be level or perhaps even go down as you get into a groove. At the same time, there is no immediate affect on awareness like you might get with an aggressive advertising campaign. Unless you are already a well-established brand, it takes time to build an audience that trusts you and looks to you for meaningful content and engagement.
It's likely that your company will invest in both paid and earned media and that the two will be integrated in some way. In that case, the expense of the integration and the effect on awareness would be blended:
So that is a basic framework to consider if you're in the middle of your annual budgeting process. Again, there is no one-size-fits-all strategy or budget that you can apply uniformly across every company but I hope some of these fundamental ideas will help point you in the right direction. Make sense to you? How do these basic strategies differ in your company?
How the physics of social media could kill your marketing strategy
Aug 19th
There is a fundamental reality of the social web that is slowly killing your marketing strategy, whether you know it or not: The Physics of Social Media.
Now, don't freak out. It's not complicated or boring, and it makes no mention of black holes or the Higgs Boson. It's a pretty simple but important idea about the increasing demands on your content and marketing messages. Let's look at the two colliding factors that will dramatically impact your marketing initiatives.
1) The amount of available information is accelerating. I recently saw an infographic reporting that all of the information created in the past two years equals the amount of recorded information for all of human history. Is that true? I don't know. I make up most of my statistics any way, but it sounds about right. The point is, we are in a permanent state of information overload and it's going to get much, much worse.
2) Our processing capability is the same. We only have one brain that evolved to process basic threats, physical needs, and verbal communication. The physics of the human brain is woefully unprepared for this information onslaught. We cannot add processing speed to that limited capacity (at least yet).
In the physical world, this is what happens when you try to push too much stuff though a finite pipeline — catastrophic failure. A flood. Wires bursting into flame. Server crashes.
So this presents the fundamental dilemma for you and me. How do we get our marketing message to cut through the infinite information and make it through to a consumer brain — without going broke or having a catastrophic strategic failure?
We've never faced this before
This is a relatively new problem. Even in the early days of mass broadcasting, getting your message through was easy. You simply bought advertisements on the most popular radio and television programs. Those days are coming to an end. Nielsen reported that in 2011, the number of hours that Americans viewed TV declined for the first time in the history of television. Newspaper advertising, adjusted for inflation, is down to 1950s levels. Even website visitors are down. In the past two years, 68% of the Fortune 500 companies had a drop in unique visitors to their company websites.
So we have no choice. Day by day, every single company in the world is realizing that it must join this social media battle for consumer mindshare. And that war is raging though web-based content.
If you are comfortable with your content marketing strategy, don't be. The game is about to become vastly more difficult and if you just keep on doing what you're doing, you are slowly going to get wiped out.
Three ways to maintain content mindshare
How do you fend for your piece of your customer's mindshare in the face of this information tsunami? There are only three possible strategies:
1) Maintain mindshare through increasingly spectacular content. This is the classic — but theoretically unsustainable — content marketing strategy: Offer amazing content that will make people want to spend time with you. But the cost of maintaining this quality level is inexorably going up. So this approach will inevitably stall as costs rise and companies discover the finite economic value of loyalty.
2) Maintain "mindshare" with less pipeline. If the cost of maintaining mindshare is going to keep going up (and it will), another idea is to find a way to push out the same amount of value through less time with your content. This would explain the meteoric rise of content aggregation, infographics, and visually-oriented sites like Pinterest and Instagram. People don't have to read. They are capturing information quickly and moving on to the next item in the pipeline. I think it is safe to predict that we are just at the beginning of this trend. Free advice: Invent social media platforms to expose more information in less time and you will become rich.
3) Infiltrate other content with your message. This is like a Trojan Horse. When a consumer opens up somebody else's content they find you. The idea is that you let other content providers bear the huge cost of maintaining mindshare and you sneak in. Examples:
- Guest posts on popular sites
- Influencer outreach — Nurturing relationships with high-impact influencers willing to share and validate your content
- News-jacking — Establishing a voice of authority so that the news channels come to you.
- Brandscaping — Sharing space with other, related brands
- PR — Methodically finding opportunities to place content in big "pipelines"
I would suggest that a successful long-term social media marketing strategy must have at least parts of all three of these, in addition to an aggressive network building strategy.
If you made it this far, thank you. I know this is heavy stuff and I appreciate your patience with the explanation. What do you think? Are you starting to feel the crunch? What are your ideas on how a marketer can prepare for this next phase of competition? Or, do you think I'm wrong?
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Please. Make me feel something!
Aug 15th
By Mars Dorian, Contributing {grow} Columnist
Recently, I watched a talk that blew my mind. It was called "Why the best companies make you feel something".
The speaker, John Kearon, dubbed as the "Steve Jobs of Market Research," asked the audience which of the following states contributed the most to the success of an advertisement:
A) Purely Logical
B) Logical and emotional
C) Purely emotional
You'd probably pick B like most did, but Kearon claims that PURE emotion is the sole buying decision influencer — because it's targeting
your oldest and most powerful part of the brain – the fight-or-flight REPTILIAN BRAIN. Grrrrrrr.
And in order to create the strongest reaction (e.g. making people ACT on your calls to actions), you have to create something that either pisses them off or excites them.
Kearon left his speech with a bold claim (I'm paraphrasing): "We are feeling creatures. Content matters so much LESS than you think it does. Do something shocking or exhilarating in your marketing, but don't be bland. If people feel nothing, they do nothing."
Whether that's 100% true or not, it made me think about my digital career so far. It also reminded me of this popular quote in the branding world:
This order is important.
When I write with more FIRE (aka passion), I get more shares and comments. When I create work that's more edgy and over-the-top,
I get more (and better) clients.
When you say that's totally unreasonable, you're abso-fricking-lutely right. But we humans are unreasonable creatures by default:
Buying a car for 60,000 bucks is unreasonable. The main reason for getting a car is that it takes you from point A to point B
faster and more conveniently than your feet. But who cares? A Kia simply doesn't make you feel the way a Mercedes does.
What about the iPad ? (Ahh, no example without Apple. Those bastards.) When it launched no one needed it. It was too impractical to create work with it (that's what the Mac's for), and the app choice was rather meager back then. But people bought it like it has the cure for death inside. Because it wasn't YOU who bought it — it was your emotive reptilian brain again. Grrrrr.
Oh let's forget those high-class products … just look at what kind of content people spread virally online. Cats that fart and hiccup at the same time or a father that pierces his daughter's laptop with a 44?
Come on, that kind of content has ZERO value, but it DOES evoke a strong emotional reaction in you, whether it's laughter or disgust.
Totally unreasonable, but totally emotional.
Here's my claim – in these social media times when everyone's OBSESSED with stats and data, and how-to content, maybe it's time to remember WHOM we are doing this all for — real, human beings. With reptilian brains.
Try it out for yourself — instead of worrying just about the content, focus more intensely on the emotional part of your marketing strategies :
How to infuse more emotional OOOOMPH into your marketing
- Be "too." Some people say my site is too cartoonish and colorful – it looks more like a comic geek's lair than a visual marketing biz. Well, they're obviously not my clients. I attract the RIGHT clients who luv that style. What about you — what can you make "too?" Too edgy, too colorful, too friendly? Too over-the-top design? Find those edges. And walk right up to them.
- Concentrate on the feeling benefit of your products and services. Show pictures, words and/or videos of how people feel after they bought your product or services. What's the state you want them to feel?
- Write visual. Using lots of latin-based words makes your ego think you're one smart something, but it has the emotional power of a vacuum instruction manual. The easier it is to grab your sentences, the more your audience can picture it. And if they can "picture" it, they can feel it. Ambulate this direction? No. Walk this way.
- Include conflict. Me versus them. Our group against theirs. Your past self versus your new one. Whenever we include conflict and contrasts in our content, sparks fly. And emotions arise.
- Surprise. Email clients when they least expect it. Personally welcome every new subscriber to your email list. Send your best customers a real card on special occasions. Create a video for your brand that no one would expect (but still relates to the brand.) When that works, you have their full attention, and you can do something with it.
Remember what Kearon said: If people feel nothing, they do nothing.
So, go beyond the numbers and how-tos, and create an emotional response to make people ACT on your calls to action!
Have you tried this in your company? Are you going to try it now? How are you going to make me feel something?
Mars Dorian describes himself as a creative marketeer with a moon-melting passion for human potential and technology. You can follow his adventures at www.marsdorian.com/
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