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Is Facebook Good for Business?
There’s been quite a buzz lately about whether Facebook can or should be used in a professional capacity. What do you think? Check out these links and leave your opinion in the comments!
- 12 Ways to Use Facebook Professionally (Web Worker Daily)
- Facebook at Work – Slacking or Networking? (Read/WriteWeb)
- Confessions of a LinkedIn Dropout (Business Week)
- Facebook Is NOT For Business (Publishing 2.0)
- Fogeys Flock to Facebook (Business Week)
- How Can Business People Use Facebook to Manage Professional Contacts? (Video) (Web Community Forum)
August 29th, 2007 at 12:21 pm
Many thanks for the link love. I think that Facebook can be used as a business tool only insofar as people are willing to keep an open mind about what they see. Since transparency is the order of the day, people are being more transparent.
This is a site that allows you to post not only your name and occupation, but your marital status, sexual orientation and photos and videos of yourself. Professionalism as we know it is going to change. It has to.
August 30th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
I think that Libraries (or other business, but i’ll stick with libraries in my example) can use Facebook to get closer to their users, but I don’t believe in creating a library profile there.
I think it should be through the creation of APIs that people can install on their Facebook (or other social sites). Direct access to searching the catalog or databases, showing what book you checked out of the library, things like that.
People don’t want to be ‘befriended’ by their library (at least, i doubt many do). I heard someone being almost freaked out because her teacher offered to be her friend on Facebook, I can only guess what she would have thought if her Academic library did.