August 21, 2007Experimenting with Facebook
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Ad Age just featured a piece along the lines of "would you buy a used car from this man/woman?" regarding marketers' use of Facebook.
I absolutely support any and every marketer "trying Facebook before they buy". The only way to get to understand a new tool, medium, approach or idea is to immerse oneself in it. That said, I also think it's important to move from toe-dipping to anywhere on the continuum of platform diving to belly-flopping. It's all good...
I joined Facebook (admittedly late) just over 3 weeks ago as of this post, I have 402 friends and my Jaffe Juice group has 2982 members.
I think I'm going to try a few experiments with Facebook (to cross-promote between my profile, blog and podcast) such as the following:
- Every 100th friend on my main profile will get a punt on either Facebook, Twitter, Jaffe Juice and/or Across the Sound - such as Eric Had from Microsoft who was my 400th friend (PS Do you know there's an Eric Hadley at Microsoft as well?)
- Every milestone on Jaffe Juice will be invited to either guest blog a post and/or come on Across the Sound for 5-10 minutes to introduce themselves and chat about a topic of interest - let's try 300th (hint: that's
28 away), 400th and 500th members of Jaffe Juice as the next 3 milestones and see where that leads...
Update: Hold on a second...how do you view groups by recency of membership?
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How do you reconcile Facebook with business?
I've been on about a month now and get to learn all about the love lives of the junior people I work with, where they went drinking and, if I'm really curious, I can see pictures of them drunk, in bathing suits, or both.
What's more, anyone who knows me or knows my name can see all of my friends and their pictures. So they can hit them up for a job or an interview or something.
Just doesn't seem conducive to business in the slightest. Certainly not the way LinkedIn does. Are you facing the same issues?
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