- Social Media – The Future of Conversation with Kevin Bradshaw and Alex Ali
Robert Tercek sits down with Zendit CEO Kevin Bradshaw and PR expert and Amazing Race contestant Alex Ali to talk about the evolving nature of conversations in social media. While some people use social media as a broadcasting platform to reach the widest possible audience, others view it as a way of establishing deep connections and conversations around the world, instantly, with people who would otherwise be un- accessible. Timecodes: 01:30 Into to Kevin 02:00 What is Zendit? What does it do that Facebook and Twitter don’t? 03:33 Representing the “spray and pray” side of the coin is Alex Ali 4:08 Alex on leveraging social media in the publishing industry 04:50 Incentivising the Internet 5:41 Adam Carolla’s book campaigns, and how he his the #1 podcast in the world 07:37 There has to be an end result for the incentivizer 08:40 Using social media to “Gather your Tribe” 10:38 Creating a personal experience; social media has to play on heartstrings 12:45 Alex on The Amazing Race 17:00 Is social media really social anymore? 17:38 Creating a “Social Image” for good or bad. 18:30 The death of privacy, the emergence of ‘forced transparency’ 20:08 What does Facebook give to you? 22:20 Can you ever really stop using Facebook? 23:10 What problem does Zendit solve? 25:35 !Blether 27:58 Using !Blether to stop people from yelling at you! Aka, proactive brand care. 29:00 Beerdog! 31:54 Beer is the best location-based social affinity product 32:12 Machine vision and social media 36:42 …

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