Krishna De: Insights From Ireland On Digital Marketing, Social Media And Entrepreneurship

Quick thoughts and tips about building visibility, buzz, reputation and profits - plus stuff that doesn't fit my blog

The darker side of Facebook - harbouring sex offenders and paedophiles as reported in the UK press this week

Facebook and social media have the power to change the world as I have written about recently - but here is the darker side of Facebook as reported in the UK media this week.

  • Six mothers who set up a campaign group on Facebook to track down and expose online paedophiles have been given a warning and had their page removed from the internet. Leanne Moss, 33, set up the Mommies on a Mission group after claiming she stumbled across Facebook profile pages featuring images of child abuse. But the group, which attracted more than 300 people in two days, was later removed  by Facebook, who sent Mrs Moss a message saying the content violated their terms  of use. Read more about this story on the Daily Mail website.
  • The BBC reports today that the ringleader of an international netwtork who shared up to 100,000 indecent images of children on Facebook has been jailed for four years.

As a mum of three little ones these stories obviously caught my attention.

I wonder what if any reaction we will see in relation to people starting to think about Facebook in a different way? What implications does this have for my family when my children reach 13 years of age will I be pro-Facebook or what ever is the newest social network then?

What do you think?

 

 

Fan Page Monitor - receive email notifications of comments on your Facebook Page

via weteachfacebook.com

One of the challenges of Facebook pages is that you don't receive updates from Facebook when people comment on your Facebook Page.

This means that you need to be vigilant in terms of monitoring the content. Especially if you want to keep in touch with customer feedback - even if you had not planned to use your Facebook Page for customer service, there is no question that you will get posts from your community about your products or services.

I noticed today a new service being launched by WeTeachFacebook.com called Fan Page Monitor which enables emails to be sent to youwhen a new post or comment is made on your Page.

The service is being offered for just US$7.75 per month.

I am not sure if you can have emails sent to multiple accounts in the event that you have a few Facebook Page Admins.

Also I am not sure if this a service they have developed themselves or is a while label - their comment on their Facebook Page says "We believe in this tool and think of it as a must have for Facebook Page admins".

There is no free trial offer or video to show you behind the scenes unfortunately - but given that it's a small investment it may be something you want to explore.

I definitely recommend using an online tool as I recommend to my clients to manage their Facebook engagement - Fan Page Monitor may be a great place for SME's to start.

Do let me know what tools you use to monitor your Facebook Pages adn if you try our Fan Page Monitor let us know what your thoughts are about it.

Florida school district Lee County bans teachers and current students connecting on social networks

via wtsp.com

Should teachers use sites like Facebook to communicate with students?

One Florida school district, Lee County, is the first in the state and possibly the first in the US to introduce a policy to ban teachers from communicating with current students through the social networking sites "regardless of the reason."

Teachers - would you or do you connect with your students through social media? Whose responsibility should it be to determine connections?

Facebook launches live-streaming channel sharing events and workshops happening at Facebook

This week Facebook has launched a live-streaming channel sharing events and news from the organisation. The 'Facebook Live' channel is powered by Livestream.com and also enables people to share the content with their Friends on Facebook and to Twitter.

When the shows are running live people will be able to comment live - and if you miss an episode there is an archived recording.

It will be interesting to see the content that starts to be shared - hopefully some helpful tips on using Facebook too.

There is also a link to the Privacy policy on the channel - so if you decide you want to engage with the content and share comments be sure you review your privacy settings.

Hitwise Intelligence reports that Facebook accounts for 1 in 6 page views in the UK

via weblogs.hitwise.com

Hitwise has reported this week that Facebook is the second most visited website in the UK accounting for 7.14% of all UK Internet visits in June 2010, which is over half (54.48%) of all visits to a social networking websites.

However Facebook accounted for 16.73% of UK page views during June 2010 i.e.1 in every 6 Internet pages viewed in the UK was a Facebook page.

And the amount of time spent on Facebook in each session in the UK is currently about 27.36 minutes.

Widgety goodness from Audioboo and why you should consider using Audioboo to send audio content to Twitter

 

Listen!

Mashable had an article recently about how to send audio messages to Twitter.

On reading the article I was compelled to leave a comment as I didn't think the author had done justice to the full capabilities of Audioboo. You can listen to my podcast about this above - of course using Audioboo.

Here is what I said in my comments:

I know your article covers tools where you don't need a phone so I would also suggest exploring http://www.ipadio.com. ('If it is about only sending your audio to Twitter, iPhone users may also want to check out http://www.tweetmic.com.)

As someone who produces podcasts and uses online audio a lot it's great to see that the recording and publishing of content is becoming easier. I have used many different services including Utterli which was a great tool but unfortunately is no more.

I think a fundamental difference for http://www.Audioboo.fm is that they have enabled cross posting to Twitter, Facebook (including Facebook Pages), Posterous, FriendFeed and Tumblr at the moment. You can take the embed code and add it to your website and your blog.

Audioboo.fm is available for the Android and the iPhone and you could also upload content direct. Each time you post content you also have the opportunity to tag it with key words and add an image.

You can also send your podcasts to iTunes and encourage your community to subscribe to your content there.

With some of the users of Audioboo including the BBC, the Guardian Newspaper, Audioboo is certainly worth checking out if you want to add an audio message to your Tweets."

But are here are two things I did not mention:

1. If you add Twitter handle of someone in the title of your Audioboo it will mention that person in the Tweet that you syndicate to Twitter - a great way to notify them that they are mentioned in your podcast

2. There is an early release of a widget for adding to your Audioboo stream to your blog or website. See my own stream below.

 

Listen on audioboo.fm!

What is your preferred too for sharing audio to Twitter?

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Great infographic from the BBC showing the changing use of social networks across the globe

via bbc.co.uk

A great infographic from the BBC about the changing numbers of people engaging in social networks across the globe.

The data is provided by Nielsen as at June 2010.

You will see the growth in LinkedIn which now has over 70 million business people on their site - no where as big as Facebook but certainly a network that is of interest especially if you are a B2B marketer.

Want to learn more about how to use social networks as part of your marketing plan you can access my free webinars:

- about Facebook and Facebook advertising for business

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The Social Network movie trailer is here - will you be going to the movie when it is released?

via movies.yahoo.com

The new trailer for the 'The Social Network' the film about Facebook and it's founder Mark Zuckerberg is now launched - here's the clip from Yahoo Movies.

The film is written by Aaron Sorkin and directed by David Fincher.

I wonder what Mark thinks when he watches this - must be interesting to have a film about you!

Will you be heading to the movies to watch the film when it is released in October?

The song is Scala’s version of Creep.

Barbie's getting ready for her Video Girl Scavenger Hunt: using Twitter and Foursquare

via alldolldup.typepad.com

Are you following Barbie on Twitter and FourSquare? If you are in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and New York you just might want to if you want to be in with a chance of winning one of the new Barbie Video Girl dolls.

She has just announced the competition on her blog.

Follow Barbie:

Seattle Swedish Hospital Celebrates it's 100th birthday with an Abba Flash Mob

via youtube.com

Here is a great example of an alternative way to celebrate your centenary - with a flash mob.

I noticed an article at Ragan.com about the Swedish Medical Centre in Seattle celebrating the 100th anniversary of the non-profit healthcare service (funded by Swedish immigrants some 100 years ago).

On the Seattle hospital’s anniversary, employees were invited to gather for a group birthday photo and then some of the employees started to dance to Abba's 'Dancing Queen'. At the timeof writing this article the video on YouTube has had 18,851 views.

You will also find the hospital online:

On a microsite celebrating the 100th anniversary of the hospital - http://www.swedish100.org/our-first-100-years

On Twitter - http://twitter.com/swedish

On Facebook for the hospital - http://www.facebook.com/swedishmedicalcenter

On Facebook for with a lovely page celebrating the babies born at the hospital - http://www.facebook.com/swedishbabies