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Video presentation on “Persuasive Psychology for Interactive Design” in PodCamp Toronto

Brian — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 17:30:14 +0000

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Persuasive Psychology for Interactive Design

Brian — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 19:12:48 +0000

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How to Win Friends and Influence People in Social Media (e-book)

Brian — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:43:42 +0000

Back in 1936, when Dale Carnegie published his book How to Win Friends and Influence People, he could never have anticipated it would become one of the first bestselling self-help books, selling a huge 15 million (and counting…) copies worldwide. Dale's classic book on interpersonal communication provides concrete advice on how to handle people—how to encourage them to like you, to win them over to your way of thinking, and how to become an inspiring leader. To simplify Dale Carnegie’s advice on handling people, we have taken 31 of his principles and merged them into just 10 groups. If Dale were alive today, we’re sure his advice to community managers would look something like this.

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Social Psychology of Social Media

Brian — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 21:16:30 +0000

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BER – a framework for measuring the relative performance of multi-unit programs

Brian — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:47:55 +0000

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Digital Persuasion Equation – the science of online influence

Brian — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 17:55:28 +0000

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The psychology behind websites that can change people’s health behaviours

Brian — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:11:03 +0000

Back in 2011, I published a scientific study on the psychological design of health behaviour change websites in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR). With my co-authors Prof Thelwall and Prof Dawes, we designed this study with the goal of identifying how to build websites that could promote public health and also help people improve their wellbeing. For instance, we wanted to understand the psychology behind websites that could motivate people to quit smoking, exercise more, or eat healthier foods.

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Psychology of websites and social media campaigns

Brian — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:34:23 +0000

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Website credibility for social marketing campaigns

Brian — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:20:41 +0000

From 2006-2008, I conducted a large study of website credibility on a global anti-poverty campaign, in order to assess the impact of website credibility and trust on target audience’s participation levels. The study found a relationship between website credibility, users’ trust, and their participation levels. The findings suggest that online campaigners need to engineer credible and trustworthy e-campaigns if they wish to maximize their potential impact. The following excerpt describes the practical applications of this study. Passage from the dimensions of website credibility and their relation to active trust and behavioural impact For social marketers, pre-campaign research is called formative research; this is the point where problems are identified, target audiences are considered, solutions are examined and intervention materials are tested. Our study suggest that Website credibility and active trust factors should be addressed during the early campaign planning phases to increase the probability that target audiences find the campaign’s messages believable, safe and motivating. The following suggestions show how the findings in this paper may be applied to online social marketing campaigns. 1. Since Website users may conceptualize campaign Web sites (in part or whole) as the credible source, it may be useful to conceptualize Web sites in human [...]

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A brief history of social marketing and the Internet

Brian — Tue, 04 May 2010 09:07:31 +0000

The roots of social marketing date back to the 1950s, when one psychologist argued that the more non-profit organizations communicated like for-profit marketers, the better their prospects for success. Then during the 1960s, practitioners in developing countries and marketing academics set the stage for the emerging field. Social marketing was formally launched in the 1970s; searched for an identity in the 1980s; and had found a unique niche by the 1990s. By 2000, social marketing was considered an established field; it now continues to grow and evolve.

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