Facebook, you know the social network that started for college kids has headed back to it’s roots in a unique way….an MBA. The London School of Business and Finance is now offering their Global MBA courses on Facebook. What I find most compelling is not that it’s being offered on Facebook – I find it [...]
Yesterday I had the opportunity to speak on a panel with my friends Chad Parizman and Lynsay Caylor to a class of very bright full-time MBA students at the University of Tennessee. Our topic was social media monetization, although we certainly talked more broadly then that in our time with the class. I enjoyed hearing [...]
I caught a piece on eMarketer by Clark Fredricksen today about the dilemma of customer engagement companies face when moving into social media. The basis of the post is found in the video embedded below. Tension ramps up between the desire to have a presence and the need to participate. To quote the post: Most businesses have [...]
David Armano makes a three predictions for 2010 on social media and business. 1. Scale 2. Integration 3. Policy I think he’s right on for 2 and 3. I’d add an additional prediction – that social networking sites and tools will begin to add offerings that appeal to business. I’m not talking about CoTweet ramping [...]
UPDATED: 10/14/09 with new information about groups. I developed this comparison (download) of Ning and Facebook for an internal discussion, but figured I’d share it since there didn’t seem to be much on the Internet in terms of a direct breakdown. As an overview, Ning is a site that easily allows the creation of free private [...]