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Inside the Screen Monthly 
November 2011 
Greetings!

This edition of Inside the Screen Monthly focuses on the intersection of interactive television marketing and social TV. The majority of recently launched interactive campaigns incorporate social media and for good reason, as this month's blogs and articles detail. I'd love to hear your perspective, perhaps at TVOT Intensive next month in NYC.

Will Keller
President, WE Keller Group
5 Social TV Best Practices

Your interactive television marketing strategy must leverage the strength of existing social media platforms (see Building a Business Case for Social Strategies) because your viewers are already interacting with social platforms while they are watching your programming. Get them interacting with you!
CTAM iTV Idol Competion WE tv Twitter Selection
WE tv / MSG / Ensequence App - Twitter Selection

Keep these 5 Social TV Best Practices for single screen apps in mind as you design your app:

  1. Use configurable calls-to-action to get social media devotees engaged with your app.
  2. Tap into social dialogues that are already occurring. Target shows with higher levels of Twitter followers (my preference given size cap) and Facebook friends...read more 
HBS + MIT = 3 Social iTV Must Do's

 

Let's go to school for two lessons from a couple of darn smart professors. We'll begin with my alma mater Harvard and then head down the Charles to MIT. But first a cool visualization of social TV as a real time audience feedback loop for everything that happens on TV (no soundtrack on this video).  

Data visualization of connecting the social graph to the TV content graph
Courtesy of Bluefin Labs
HBS on Social TV

Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Associate Professor at Harvard Business School, describes social activity as "stalking" people. According to his research (Harvard Business Review, November 2011), about one-third of the time people spend on social sites is spent looking at profiles...read more  

 

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