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New Facebook Business Pages and Engaging Consumers in Conversation

Posted 11 March 2009 | By | Categories: Industry News, Marketing, Social Media | 240 Comments

Facebook recently revamped it business pages and while it provides new opportunities for brands, there are also new challenges. The primary change is that a majority of the page is now taken up with the “wall”, which consists of status updates and comments by fans. This is obviously a direct response to Twitter and the [...]

The Videophone Trap (or… History Often Repeats with New Technology)

Posted 16 July 2008 | By | Categories: Technology | 167 Comments

I recently attended a conference on location based services and although this is an area of amazing potential, I was reminded how easy it is with new technologies to get caught in what I’ll call “The Videophone Trap”. In this, people within an industry become obsessed with, and base entire business models on, demonstrating certain [...]

Why do Corporate Facebook Apps Often Fail?

Posted 28 June 2008 | By | Categories: Case Studies, Social Media | 199 Comments

In a previous post, it was seen that two college students could, in their spare time, make an unofficial brand application that attracted hundreds of thousands of users. But what about the official applications? Why is it that so often, when companies invest a great deal of time and effort into creating applications, they fail? [...]