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Statistics: Why Consumers “Like” A Facebook Page
Contributed by Rick DeVan on January 12, 2011 at 5:33 pm ET
Resource: The top-10 reasons why consumers follow a company on Facebook via Social Media Today.
Some interesting statistics on Facebook pages, especially that only 13% of consumers want to interact directly with a company. They want updates and sale information.
Filed under Business and Commerce, Marketing, Media
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Getting It: Disney
Contributed by Rick DeVan on January 6, 2011 at 9:59 am ET
Resource: Disney: Doing Social Right via the Dachis Group.
Amid all of the holiday chaos, you might have missed an absolutely astounding announcement from Disney in early December. Their Facebook presence extends to over 100 million fans across more than 200 Facebook Pages, and they’re adding more than 5 million fans per week.
Disney is a brand perfectly suited for social media.
Filed under Getting It, Life, Work, and Society, Media
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Facebook Tag Suggestions Rolling Out Next Week
Contributed by Rick DeVan on December 16, 2010 at 1:58 pm ET
Resource: Facebook Brings Facial Recognition to Photo Tagging via Mashable.
Facebook Photos, one of the social network’s most popular features, is getting a big and potentially controversial upgrade that automatically suggests whom users should tag in photos based on facial recognition technology.
FYI.
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Time’s Person of the Year 2010: Mark Zuckerberg
Contributed by Rick DeVan on December 15, 2010 at 10:41 am ET
Resource: Person of the Year 2010 — Mark Zuckerberg.
For connecting more than half a billion people and mapping the social relations among them; for creating a new system of exchanging information; and for changing how we all live our lives, Mark Elliot Zuckerberg is TIME’s 2010 Person of the Year.
Reviewing the Time Person of the Year list since 1927 is an exercise in history. Zuckerberg joins a distinguished and not-so-distinguished list that includes Adolf Hitler, Jimmy Carter, and You.
Filed under Life, Work, and Society, Media
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Child Porn a Big Problem on Facebook
Contributed by Rick DeVan on December 14, 2010 at 11:59 am ET
Resource: Policing predators: vigilantes blast Facebook for failing to protect children via The Sydney Morning Herald.
Paedophiles are brazenly sharing child pornography pictures and videos on Facebook, and internet safety experts believe the social networking site has failed to curtail the practice.
Child pornography on the Internet is not always in the news as much as a few years ago. Apparently, though, it is still going strong, even on Facebook.
Be aware.
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