This week’s big topic seemed to be Facebook’s 6th birthday, and Foursquare’s rapid adoption by business. A sixth year and a now 400M-strong active user base shows that Facebook is the place business needs to be. Foursquare’s strong showing of a tripled user base in three short months, as well as the launch of a business campaign page, shows that Foursquare is where businesses will need to be in the near future.
The articles below make the case better than I can. I’ve also thrown a few great pieces on CSR, and some thoughtful reflections on social media’s past, present & future.
Entries Tagged as ‘public relations’
02/23/2009
following the fray: a look back at the facebook TOS debacle
There is no doubt that Facebook’s changes to their Terms-of-Service was the hot blog topic last week. Let’s recap the events blow-by blow. The Consumerist originally broke the story with the quasi-sensationalist (and ridiculously-long-titled) blogpost Facebook’s New Terms of Service: We Can Do Anything We Want With Your Stuff Forever. Facebook’s terms of service (TOS) [...]
02/15/2009
even twitter is investigating cash4gold
I’ve been keeping up with Cash4Gold on Twitter for the past week, and noticed I hadn’t received any tweets from them lately. I wasn’t particularly sad, as most of their tweets were self-serving propaganda and pro-gold drivel. I was, however, curious. I checked out their Twitter page and was greeted by this message: Interesting. I [...]
