Is Facebook important to you and your business? If it’s not now, it will be soon (see my post tomorrow for more on that). Now with more than 500 million global members, Facebook is changing the way we interact, communicate, share, and shop. Despite Facebook’s apparent addiction to public relations missteps and half-baked schemes, they [...]
11 Mind-Blowing Reasons Your Company Needs Facebook
Join me and 21 other speakers for Facebook Success Summit 2010, a Webinar series with everything you need to know about Facebook for business. Sessions start October 5. Go to http://bit.ly/facebooksuccess to save 50% for a limited time. Wow. Remember when MySpace was the dominant social network? Seems like a long time ago, as the [...]
Is Your Company More Interesting Than My Wife?
If you’re going to succeed on Facebook, you don’t just have to be more interesting than other companies, you have to be more interesting than my friends and relatives. Are you prepared for that? My friend Jeff Widman runs BrandGlue, a consultancy that helps companies better manage their Facebook fan pages. He told me recently [...]
US Speedskating Finds Fans In Social Media
Did you know the United States Speedskating team has won 75 Olympic medals, making it the most successful U.S. winter Olympics sport? But the global economic bear doesn’t take medal count into consideration, and last year the speedskating team was without a title sponsor when Dutch bank DSB went bankrupt. (Why a U.S. bank didn’t [...]