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Wow, when those Facebook guys launch a new service, they really know how to create some buzz. Their latest addition is a service called Beacon.
Quite simply, Beacon is a way for marketers to allow users on their sites to send information to Facebook. Some examples include making a blog post on Typ…
Continue reading "Facebook Beacon, the Pandora’s Box of Marketing"Tags: beacon, Facebook, Marketing, MarketingProfs, Matt_Dickman
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The use of social networking tools hasn’t exactly taken off in the workplace as many employers are banning the use of Facebook, MySpace and other online communities as a time waster. However, one company is aggressively asking employees to use Facebook to build relationships with each other and…
Continue reading "Frivolous Facebook Fridays?"Tags: Facebook, Networking, recruiting, Serena Software, Social Media, Social networking, Toastmasters, Web 2.0
Posted at: 7:42 am in Featured Posts, Social Media | Permalink | Comments (18) | Trackbacks (1014)
Are you on Facebook yet? Maybe you should be.
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Last month, in BusinessWeek, writer and entrepreneur Jeff Pulver asked that question, adding, “Maybe you should be.”
Jeff went on to explain why he has abandoned LinkedIn in favor of Facebook–because of Facebook’s rich and flexible plat…
Tags: Ann_Handley, Facebook, professional_networking, social_networking
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I recently joined Facebook at the suggestion of Jeremiah Owyang. Jeremiah will soon be joining Forrester from PodTech, where he’ll be covering Facebook as an analyst. He has been a big believer in the power of Facebook as a social networking/community site for some time. I am becoming more of a…
Continue reading "Observations About Facebook"Tags: Facebook, Jennifer_Jones, professional_networking, social_networking
Posted at: 7:54 am in Featured Posts | Permalink | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (1014)
I was taking a look at some of the comments on my Facebook post the other day and there were two comments that echoed each other — “It seems to me that there is some indecision including on the part of Facebook itself about whether it’s social networking or professional networking.”
Keystone Yie…
Continue reading "Facebook’s Strategy Is Not Its Own"Tags: business, Facebook, Gavin_Heaton, social_networking, Strategy and Tactics
Posted at: 8:42 am in Featured Posts | Permalink | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (1014)
There has been a feast of BSP (blogger sensory perception) this week over two converging topics — Facebook and “participation”… and I have been fascinated by the implications.
Drew McLellan points out that a number of corporations are banning the use of Facebook during work hours. One of those …
Continue reading "Employers and Facebook: Turn the Other Cheek"Tags: Age_of_Conversation, employees, employers, Facebook, Networking, social_networking, Telstra, trends
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Reports on the death of blogging are greatly exaggerated. While I am distracted, fascinated, and constantly learning from my daily involvement with Twitter and Facebook, among other business/social networks, I am not about to give up daily blogging. And at the C-level, a lot of companies are finally…
Continue reading "Reports of Blogging’s Death Are Greatly Exaggerated"Tags: Blogging, Facebook, internet, trends, Twitter
Posted at: 7:55 am in Featured Posts | Permalink | Comments (8) | Trackbacks (1014)
We all love social media … we love the way that it connects us, the way we can interact with people both near and far, and to an extent, we even love the gadgety effects of the technology that drives it all.
We have profiles all over the place, pictures, links, likes, dislikes, favorites and wid…
Continue reading "Who Owns ‘You’"Tags: Facebook, Gavin_Heaton, Harry_Joiner, social_media, social_networking, social_networks
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