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Goal Post App: Perfect for New Year’s “Resolutions”!

At last, I found a really useful Facebook Application. Based on Keith Ferrazzi’s book, Never Eat Alone, the Goal Post app is simple to use and encourages interaction among small groups of friends. You set a goal (choose from a selection of preset ideas, or customize your own), then select three accountability buddies. You can…

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Suffering from Social Networking Overwhelm?

A participant in my Facebook Fortunes class recently posed this challenge to me: “Hi Mari, My name is Sara and I am a newbie 🙂 I just sent you a message from Facebook too. In fact that’s part of my question. I’m on Plaxo, LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, MSN Messenger, Gmail, Gmail Chat, MySpace, have three…

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What’s Your Friending Policy?

Do you have a clearly defined personal policy for requesting and accepting friends on Facebook? I sure hope so. Over-friending can get your profile shut down in a heartbeat by the FB police (this happened to two of my buddies recently). The bad news is you’ll lose ALL your accepted friends, posts, emails, installed apps…

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Be Santa Facebook app: Bad Santa?

Just installed the Be Santa app after listening to Jason Beckerman, the app developer (Dank Apps) rave about it at the Web Community Forum event. (Jason is also the developer of The Lotto application and TeachThePeople.com). Be Santa has lots of really cool features: send your friends gifts, write letters to Santa, enter to win…

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Jeremiah Owyang on Facebook Strategy at Seattle Conference

Just finished listening to Jeremiah Owyang – keynote speaker at the Web Community Forum Facebook Conference in Seattle, WA. Jeremiah provided some great information covering these four topics: Facebook Offers a Ready-Made Marketing Platform 1. Why Facebook? 2. Facebook offers a bevy of opportunities 3. Challenges of Facebook Platform 4. Develop a Strategy I took…

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