The Twtapps Blog » Blog Archive » Meet @HighTechDad And Learn Ab. Facebook, Privacy Settings and Taking Control of Your Personal B. Facebook today announced new features to address the criticism that is has faced recently for its privacy settings and processes. In December 2009 and then again in April this year, the site made a number of changes to its privacy options and settings. In essence they opened up more data to users beyond your friends and immediate networks and changed some of the default settings. This led to the situation where users had 50 different settings and 170 options to control the levels of access to and sharing of the data and information on their profiles. As somebody with quite strict levels of access and privacy on Facebook, I know the complexity of these controls and the amount of time and effort needed to control access to your profile and your content.
What Facebook’s privacy changes mean Today’s announcements are designed to make it simpler for users to see what their Facebook privacy settings are, and to manage them. The real test: will people manage their brand online.
More people LinkedIn than tweeting. The 8 Commandments for Participating in Online Conversations. In 2000 the Cluetrain Manifesto announced that “Markets wish to talk to companies”. This turned out to be a prophetic statement. Back then they already declared that markets consisted of conversations between people. They want (and can) communicate their opinions to companies.
Companies that dispose of the talent to engage in a conversation with their consumers will become this century's successful marketers. Many companies are currently struggling with the practical elaboration of this concept: how can we engage in a conversation with our consumers? A conversation with a consumer should respect eight principles: 1. When a consumer engages in a conversation with you, you should focus on what that person has to say. 2. In order to really understand the consumer, questions need to be asked. 3. A consumer may communicate a good idea, but you immediately spot the practical difficulties for implementation. 4. 5. 6. A good conversation often leads to action. 7. 8. Connect: Authored by: