By Daniel Saunders on
April 10, 2012 |
Category: Blog |
Tags: Facebook, Instagram, Mark Zuckerberg, social media |
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$1,000,000,000
At first $1 billion sounds like a lot of money. But this week we learnt it is just enough to get you a company with only thirteen employees and whose sole product is available for free.
A quick calculation can tell you that this price means that each employee is worth $77 million each, a valuation above and beyond any other buyout in business history. This tells you that this must be no ordinary product and to pay such a price you can rightly assume that this is no ordinary buyer. Read more …
By Oscar Holland on
January 25, 2011 |
Category: Blog |
Tags: business page, Facebook, facebook group, facebook page, Groups, Pages, social media |
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Following on from my recent post about using Facebook pages and groups for your business, cause or organisation, I’ve summarised all of my key points into a comparison table.
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By Oscar Holland on
January 13, 2011 |
Category: Blog |
Tags: Facebook, Groups, Pages, social media |
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Having a professional and informative brand website only forms one dimension of organisations’ online strategy. An active presence on Facebook can be a far more effective way to build awareness and engage with potential customers, supporters or advocates.
The Daily Mail recently announced that Facebook generates 10% of all their UK traffic; and if its good enough for the world’s second biggest newspaper website then every organisation should be keen to embrace the potential.
Facebook offers a choice between groups and fan pages, but which one is right for your organisation or product?
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By Nitya Rajan on
January 7, 2011 |
Category: Blog |
Tags: blogging, brand awareness, business, client loyalty, Facebook, friends, Paul Butler, relationships, social media |
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Communicating effectively wields influence. With the growing world of social media doing this is increasingly effortless; Joe Bloggs can reach an audience of thousands on any given day.
Canadian maths and computer science student Paul Butler was astonishingly adept in visually presenting the rise of one such social media tool – Facebook. He took a sample of ten million pairs of friends and correlated it with each user’s current city and the number of friends between each pair of cities. Having merged this with the longitude and latitude of each city, he discovered that all the points of his graph formed a map of the world with each line representing a real human relationship.
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By Nitya Rajan on
November 3, 2010 |
Category: Blog |
Tags: Evening Standard, Facebook, NHS Brent, Sexual health, twitter |
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Writing for the web is a skill most flacks and hacks share in their tool kit and is increasingly making up a large chunk of what we do here at Journalista. By using our journalistic skills to talk directly to our audiences we’re entirely bypassing the mainstream media, such is the power of social media and the web as well documented in Journalism.co.uk’s blog here.
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