by Brad Friedman | Social Media
This guest post is written by Evan Hackel, President and Founder of Ingage Consulting. Throughout his twenty-five year career, he has seen the need not only for improved engagement but for an understanding of why engagement plays such an important role in any organization. Evan’s company works closely with the managers and leaders of franchises, co-ops, and buying groups, to help them improve their business practices. Evan can be reached directly at ehackel@ingageconsulting.com. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
Are you looking for your first job, changing careers, or do you just want to set yourself up to succeed in the future? Social media websites have become important venues for building that all-important network of connections, show the world who you are and what you’re passionate about, and, quite possibly, enabling you to get the job you’ve always wanted. There are many examples of people obtaining various types of work through social networks. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
I will likely write more on this later, but wanted to put up a link to Mark Zuckerberg's blog post entitled Making Control Simple as well as a link to Facebook's new Privacy Guide. Frankly, these are pretty big changes made in a short period of time. Of course, it took an uproar from users to make it happen, (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
Facebook's new “Open Graph API (application programming interface)” was created to enable Facebook and other sites to take information they know about their users and automatically personalize the experience people have online. And I thought Google was the only company that could invade our privacy in this way. Silly me. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
On April 30th Starbucks rolled out a Facebook app allowing customers to manage their Starbucks cards. The app may be found on the Starbucks Facebook page. The app provides you with the ability to do everything you can do by going to the Starbucks website including loading your card and reviewing your transactions. This is pretty convenient for those of us who spend lots of time on Facebook. We don't have to leave Facebook to perform these tasks. (more…)
by Brad Friedman | Social Media
A couple days ago, our friends at LinkedIn launched “Follow Company” to make it easy for you to follow companies you are interested in. After following a company, you will get notifications like Facebook “status updates” when the company you are following posts something. This feature appears to be in line with what used to be called the Facebook “Fan” page (Now I suppose it is the Facebook “Like Page”) and Twitter, that enables you to follow people and companies you are interested in. Now, the companies you follow will be able to let you know about the people they hire, the people they promote, new job opportunities, and press release type information. (more…)
