Tag: Facebook
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Social Is All About Permission
If you’re going to use “social” as part of your online strategy you need to remember a key concept. Permission. Earlier this morning I got an email “invite” from a contact to join a site that likes to see itself as being “social”. I ignored the invite but the wording of the email really touched…
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Heinz Launch Commerce Via Facebook But Get Security Wrong
Heinz have launched a special offer via their Facebook page that allows “fans” to buy a “limited edition” ketchup. Unfortunately it’s pretty clear that the people behind the integration don’t really understand security or privacy. In order to order the ketchup you need to fill out this form: Now why do they need ALL that…
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Facebook Getting Serious With Places
It looks like Facebook is getting set to make a serious play in location based services in Europe. According to an article in today’s Guardian the social networking behemoth is about to launch of “Deals” which would give users benefits and discounts at local retailers. The company has announced partnership deals with several “heavy hitters”…
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Irish Teens Digital Lifestyles
I’ve always been fascinated by statistics and surveys, so the Mulley Communications survey on Irish teenagers’ digital habits makes for some interesting reading. You can download a copy of the report directly from their site. Here are some of the highlights: * 14% have a part-time job * 28% spend their money on socialising, 27%…
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Facebook Goes Down – Millions Scream
Last night Facebook suffered an outage. It wasn’t a particularly long outage, but due to the site’s sheer size the impact of the outage was felt globally. Millions of people were forced to talk to their spouses, girlfriends, co-workers and neighbours face to face (in real life). Oh no!
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Irish Public Servants To Get Premium Social Media Training
You gotta love Ireland. In the midst of the doom and gloom of an economic crisis somebody somewhere got the “bright” idea of sending councillors off to learn about social media. At the cost of about €500 a person of taxpayers money you’d have to wonder what they were thinking .. More here and here