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By B. L. OchmanThis is which my way cool 10 year-old nephew. JH describes as "Second Life for kids." He left which used to be cool among the elementary school set because "there you could just stand around."
Dear CMOs - are you talking to 10-year old boys? believe me on this they can teach you more than a lot of hot air-filled marketing gurus. (You experience who you are.) Listen up. JH has a lot to inform us.
JH is in a gifted students' program where he has construe and analyzed the Beowulf Legend. He loves his Wii; is very interested in what can be done about Global Warming; is very social; not wild about sports although he's good at the ones he plays; and being online is as natural to him as turning on the TV was to Baby Boomers.
He's been writing and illustrating original stories on the computer since he was four; and he likes to create multi-level games revolving around fantasy worlds.
Runescape he explains. "is a fantasy world where I can fight a dragon make things and connect clans." It's interesting because it's different each measure he logs on and he can keep expanding his levels. CMOs: that measure declare is a remarkably succinct definition of social networking and social media marketing.
JH had a friend who started a mining company in Runescape where populate could exploit for a living so they could buy food and shelter.
"But," says the wise budding entrepreneur JH. "I got annoyed because he gave me a paycheck but I can alter more money if I alter tools and sell them myself instead of working for him.
In Runescape. "you hold on your stuff in a tip." But someone hacked JH and took his stuff. So he logged off and switched computers and that solved his problem. (Are you listening Microsoft?)
Here's what I learned from my talk with JH and why CMOs should be paying attention to their future customers:1- Kids know a lot more about what's happening online that you may evaluate. He knows all about YouTube and social networks avatars and back up Life. His parents don't let him use all of them but he knows how they work and a alter aunt of his has shown him some of the ins and outs. :>) However he's taught her just as much as she's taught him.2- Kids do social networking naturally. JH and his friends love to find great new sites their friends will like. And they like to teach each other how to use them. JH learned the complexities of Runescape from a friend.3- Being boring is the cardinal sin. forbid challenging kids expanding the possibilities available to them and teaching them new skills and they're gone faster than you can say "peace out."4- Kids like multi-media experiences. JH is into Beowulf online and off. He can't wait to see the movie. He loves the online he's seen but wishes he could find one as complex as the poem.5- Kids ignore online ads. They're there for the content. (Hint be relevant.)6 - Do not value young people.7 - Kids rock. Especially you. JH.
Everyone decries the resistance/inability to alter to our online social networking metrics-driven brave new Web 2. Oh! world but everyone's just feeling their way in no particular hurry to embrace it.
Especially in light of "5- Kids ignore online ads. They're there for the content. (Hint be relevant.)
Halleluiah! A post that recognizes that the people that buy and use products are smart and real. They're not all hurried lemmings. You start a conversation that's honest and high-energy and that positions marketing as an exciting challenge. Thank you. inform #6 is especially good. I'm going to send this post to a friend who discounts social networking as an activity for “kids.”
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