Facebook Marketing Makeover Contest. To celebrate the release of my newest Facebook marketing book - Facebook Marketing: An Hour A Day, Second Edition - coauthored with Chris Treadaway, I just launched a fun contest on my Facebook fan page!
The grand prize is a “Facebook Marketing Makeover” worth $1,000. Complying with Facebook’s Contest Rules As you may know, Facebook has strict rules around running contests on fan pages. The Promotions Guidelines have changed over the years and have, in fact, become more simplified. The main thing to know is that you must use a third party app when administering any type of promotion (contest, drawing, competition, or sweepstakes) on your fan page. Why Do People Choke When the Stakes Are High. California moves to stop employers demanding Facebook passwords. The California assembly passed a bill on Thursday that prevents employers from demanding job applicants' passwords for accounts on Facebook or other social networking sites.
The bill passedunanimously and will now head to the state senate. Similar legislation was introduced Thursday in the U.S. Congress. The legislative moves follow reports that employers have demanded passwords for social sites from job applicants, demanded a walk-through of the content on those sites or insisted applicants accept a friend request from a member of staff. It's unclear how common the practice really is, but according to Nora Campos [cq], the Democrat who introduced the California bill, there are 129 cases before the National Labor Relations Board involving improper use of social networking accounts by employers. Reel. SpillTrend FLAVO DUB. SpillTrend - Goglogo Search.
Semblee. Google vs Facebook. Google vs Facebook. Facebook. IPO & owners of Facebook - infographics. Singel-Minded: Anatomy of a Backlash, or How Facebook Got an ‘F’ for Facial Recognition. ANALYSIS — If you haven’t heard yet, Facebook hiked right into another privacy wetland this week, as it started rolling out its facial recognition technology to users outside of North America.
The backlash, led by Graham Cluley blogging for the security firm Sophos, was fierce — and not altogether focused. European privacy regulators immediately began an inquiry – a bad sign for all since there’s little the E.U. does worse than investigate privacy issues (opt-in for even first party cookies, for example — notwithstanding that the E.U. actually has some decent smart rules about information privacy.) At issue is a feature that Facebook turns on by default. When one of your friends uploads a photo and goes to “tag” individuals in the photo, Facebook’s facial recognition algorithm makes guesses about the faces in the photos and suggests the right user for the picture.
Facial Recognition. Facebook's face recognition strategy may be just the ticket. Most of the commentary on Facebook’s new face-recognition strategy has been negative, with many folks posting instructions on how to opt out.
I, on the other hand, think that Facebook may have come up with a great strategy for cutting the Gordian Knot on this thorny privacy problem. Face recognition is here to stay. My question is whether to pretend that it doesn’t exist, and leave its use to government agencies, repressive regimes, marketing data mining firms, insurance companies, and other monolithic entities, or whether to come to grips with it as a society by making it commonplace and useful, figuring out the downsides, and regulating those downsides.
This is part of my general thinking about privacy. Hoodie Gate: Facebook CEO's attire a sign of 'immaturity'? Computerworld - Of all the things discussed and analyzed surrounding Facebook's upcoming initial public offering, perhaps the most surprising -- or just plain funniest -- is co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's hoodie.
Facebook launched a pre-IPO roadshow this week, holding meetings in New York, Boston and other cities to pitch the company's stock to potential investors. Zuckerberg was on hand to talk to investors at the first roadshow stop in New York on Monday. The young CEO was criticized by some attendees because he was wearing jeans and a so-called "hoodie" sweatshirt when he showed up to speak to some of the country's most influential and buttoned-down investors. It was definitely not the suit and tie that the financial types are used to seeing corporate executives wear. Military personnel and their families have a new ally in times of crisis: Facebook.
Today, Facebook is announcing new military-specific tools for service members in crisis, struggling military family members, and veterans in need of assistance.
The social network has partnered with the Department of Veterans Affairs and with Blue Star Families (a support organization for military families) to create a special set of military crisis content. The lives of military members and their spouses and children aren’t easy. Orders can take military families halfway around the globe on what seems like a moment’s notice, and it’s hard to tell if a support system is going to be there for them when they land. In recent years, more and more military families have relied on Facebook to create and maintain a virtual replica of the real-life relationships that gave them strength in times of uncertainty or turmoil.