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Facebook’s Newest Updates: How They May Impact Brands

I remember when I first learned about Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and the thought that nothing

A Baker’s Dozen: Tips for Successfully Managing Your Brand on Facebook (Part II)

I’ve collected my top 13 tips for successfully managing your brand’s Facebook presence. Yesterday, in part I of my post, I detailed my first six tips. Today I’ll share the rest. 7. Be curious: Ask questions There are two types of questions that accomplish three things. The first is fan engagement questions. They can be […]

A Baker’s Dozen: Tips for Successfully Managing Your Brand on Facebook (Part I)

Launching your brand’s Facebook page can be scary. Was it truly the right move? Will it pay off? Will anyone “like” us? Will enough people “like” us? You have the ability to make all of those answers be “yes.” If you’re asking these questions, I’m assuming you’ve already sold the value of Facebook to your […]

20 Reasons Not to Collaborate – You are afraid of people voicing ideas (congruent and contrary to corporate *insert dept*)

Ideas – what to do about these pesky things. What if they point out a failure or shortcoming of the company? Not as big of a concern is ideas that would compliment and build on a culture or system that is working great. Control by legal, marketing or communications are usually some of the bigger […]

Facebook Nixes Virtualization, Eyes Intel Microservers

ITEC Connect has an article about facebook choosing to go with a microserver architecture instead of hordes of virtual servers.  If so, that’s one major player bucking the trend.  However, a microserver from a facebook perspective seems to have a lot of similarity with why people choose virtual servers: Easy to add resources Flexibility Plug […]

Viral Marketing: Facebook Comments Right Inside Your Website

Facebook recently announced the Comments Box Plugin.  This new plugin allows you to add the Facebook Comments feature to any website.   The plugin makes it easy to include a comment thread on your website, allows for comment moderation, and integrates the Facebook login. But the really cool thing is that when a user enters a […]

Change to Facebook Pages Feature

Just read this illuminating post from a former esteemed colleague. It coincided well with my attempt just a few hours ago to find the pages that I’ve “liked” on Facebook. I wanted to see if I had remembered to like a company page to get into their free iPad2 drawing. I have declared to my […]

Social Media Hierarchy of Needs

I like where Alinean is going with this article / white paper.    When Goldman Sachs invests $450 Million in facebook and thinks it’s a $500 Billion company. When MySpace is laying off employees. When you see a lot of articles about how to manage your social media, then you have to question what is the […]

Sign into SharePoint 2010 with Facebook using a custom STS

In an earlier post, I demonstrated how you can use Windows Azure ACS v2 as a Trusted Identity Provider to SharePoint 2010. One of the interesting options that ACS v2 provides is sign-in using Facebook. Using social media as a means to provide single sign on with SharePoint has always been an interest of mine […]

The World’s Facebook Relationships Visualized

Mashable.com has a post on a study done by Facebook intern Paul Butler.  It’s interesting to see how the world looks according to Facebook.  I think it’s also interesting to note that analyzing these relationships will become far more common.  Social Analytics is a nascent field but I don’t doubt we will see more.  Click […]

The World's Facebook Relationships Visualized

Mashable.com has a post on a study done by Facebook intern Paul Butler.  It’s interesting to see how the world looks according to Facebook.  I think it’s also interesting to note that analyzing these relationships will become far more common.  Social Analytics is a nascent field but I don’t doubt we will see more.  Click […]

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