Comments on: Why Facebook sucks to manage communities… http://www.emergencemarketing.com/2008/07/07/why-facebook-sucks-to-manage-communities/ Thoughts on marketing, innovation, social networking, new products and the impact of technology on all those thingies Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:20:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Join me on Facebook! (plus 119+ Must See Facebook Resources including Marketing, Education, Security, Apps and more!) » Barbara Ling http://www.emergencemarketing.com/2008/07/07/why-facebook-sucks-to-manage-communities/#comment-2013 Join me on Facebook! (plus 119+ Must See Facebook Resources including Marketing, Education, Security, Apps and more!) » Barbara Ling Fri, 01 Aug 2008 20:40:26 +0000 http://www.emergencemarketing.com/?p=1100#comment-2013 [...] Why Facebook sucks to manage communities [...]

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]]> By: facebookhater http://www.emergencemarketing.com/2008/07/07/why-facebook-sucks-to-manage-communities/#comment-1973 facebookhater Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:18:42 +0000 http://www.emergencemarketing.com/?p=1100#comment-1973 i never had a problem with facebook till now,i mean i use to get annoyed with the fact that you make your pictures private to just friends ,but if a friend posts a comment about your picture even if you are not my friend you'll see da picture and comment can can see all my pictues by simply clicking that picture. what did it for me was i tried to add mt nickname, but facebook would would not let me,fine i message them,they asked what i wanted to change it to,and i told them ,next thing i know my account is deactivated, and i get a letter asking me for a copy of my social and id,lololol these people must be crazy or smoking crack or something...i am speechless......no more fackbook for me..and that is why facebook sucks..... i never had a problem with facebook till now,i mean i use to get annoyed with the fact that you make your pictures private to just friends ,but if a friend posts a comment about your picture even if you are not my friend you’ll see da picture and comment can can see all my pictues by simply clicking that picture.
what did it for me was i tried to add mt nickname, but facebook would would not let me,fine i message them,they asked what i wanted to change it to,and i told them ,next thing i know my account is deactivated, and i get a letter asking me for a copy of my social and id,lololol these people must be crazy or smoking crack or something…i am speechless……no more fackbook for me..and that is why facebook sucks…..

]]> By: Khawaja M. http://www.emergencemarketing.com/2008/07/07/why-facebook-sucks-to-manage-communities/#comment-1942 Khawaja M. Sun, 13 Jul 2008 04:22:13 +0000 http://www.emergencemarketing.com/?p=1100#comment-1942 True.. very true... I feel that Facebook is designed to focus and serve individuals rather than communities. That's why it doesn't offer an easy way for group updates to get into your news feed! I have so many groups that I can't track its wall or other staff due to this reason. True.. very true…

I feel that Facebook is designed to focus and serve individuals rather than communities. That’s why it doesn’t offer an easy way for group updates to get into your news feed!

I have so many groups that I can’t track its wall or other staff due to this reason.

]]> By: scorpfromhell http://www.emergencemarketing.com/2008/07/07/why-facebook-sucks-to-manage-communities/#comment-1903 scorpfromhell Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:24:01 +0000 http://www.emergencemarketing.com/?p=1100#comment-1903 I haven't got into Facebook inspite of all the hype & following in US. I am more an Orkut guy, been so nearly since its inception. Google's networking site big in India & I am now owning a community of more than 14750 members there. http://www.orkut.co.in/Community.aspx?cmm=55950 It is an unofficial group for my employer that I started off to keep in touch with some of my friends & old colleagues who had left the org. But over time, it became a hot spot for freshers from colleges, who would frequent the community to clear various doubts regarding the org, the joining formalities, the various options for training, dept.s, benefits, etc. I faced the same problems of spam & vagabond youngsters. So first I put up "Ten Commandments" for the community [http://www.orkut.co.in/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=55950&tid=2508947966782649152] Then I collated all the various threads that were recurring very year with new batches of college graduates joining us. This I put up as a Freshers' Guide [http://www.orkut.co.in/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=55950&tid=2510010365598020416] Then I request a few of the frequent participants to help me manage the spam. I roped in a guy who works out of one of our US offices to make it a 24 hour job. It worked!!! And then came the best ... Google started implementing their spam tech from GMail in Orkut. And now we don't have to bother with SPAM at all!!! Orkut now moves the potential spams as well as the ones reported as spam by the members into a separate folder, which I can then later go through to remove the false positives. Orkut is really shaping up as a great tool to entice our talent market - college graduates. Best part is that the top guns in my org are still oblivious to this community, except one of our SVPs, the CKO. And the campus recruitment head vehemently disagrees that venturing into Orkut makes a good business sense! In the face of solid proof denouncing his claims at that! I haven’t got into Facebook inspite of all the hype & following in US.

I am more an Orkut guy, been so nearly since its inception. Google’s networking site big in India & I am now owning a community of more than 14750 members there.

http://www.orkut.co.in/Community.aspx?cmm=55950

It is an unofficial group for my employer that I started off to keep in touch with some of my friends & old colleagues who had left the org. But over time, it became a hot spot for freshers from colleges, who would frequent the community to clear various doubts regarding the org, the joining formalities, the various options for training, dept.s, benefits, etc.

I faced the same problems of spam & vagabond youngsters. So first I put up “Ten Commandments” for the community [http://www.orkut.co.in/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=55950&tid=2508947966782649152]

Then I collated all the various threads that were recurring very year with new batches of college graduates joining us. This I put up as a Freshers’ Guide [http://www.orkut.co.in/CommMsgs.aspx?cmm=55950&tid=2510010365598020416]

Then I request a few of the frequent participants to help me manage the spam. I roped in a guy who works out of one of our US offices to make it a 24 hour job. It worked!!!

And then came the best … Google started implementing their spam tech from GMail in Orkut. And now we don’t have to bother with SPAM at all!!! Orkut now moves the potential spams as well as the ones reported as spam by the members into a separate folder, which I can then later go through to remove the false positives.

Orkut is really shaping up as a great tool to entice our talent market - college graduates.

Best part is that the top guns in my org are still oblivious to this community, except one of our SVPs, the CKO. And the campus recruitment head vehemently disagrees that venturing into Orkut makes a good business sense! In the face of solid proof denouncing his claims at that!

]]> By: Morriss Partee http://www.emergencemarketing.com/2008/07/07/why-facebook-sucks-to-manage-communities/#comment-1898 Morriss Partee Mon, 07 Jul 2008 17:30:39 +0000 http://www.emergencemarketing.com/?p=1100#comment-1898 Indeed, I don't think Facebook appreciates that really, truly the best aspect that they have is their personal-economy of subgroups and sub-communities within the overall community. The fact that you can find communities related to, or peripheral to, your main focus of interest is a primary driver of the goodness that is facebook. They would be wise to enhance, not diminish, these subgroups and sub-communities within the larger Facebook environment. There is much they could to do further them! But I doubt if they fully recognize the extent of this aspect of what they've created, because not much is happening on this front. Indeed, I don’t think Facebook appreciates that really, truly the best aspect that they have is their personal-economy of subgroups and sub-communities within the overall community. The fact that you can find communities related to, or peripheral to, your main focus of interest is a primary driver of the goodness that is facebook. They would be wise to enhance, not diminish, these subgroups and sub-communities within the larger Facebook environment. There is much they could to do further them!

But I doubt if they fully recognize the extent of this aspect of what they’ve created, because not much is happening on this front.

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