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You’re probably about to be on Facebook

Monday, November 22nd, 2010

Since you’re visiting this site, that means one of the next 3 sites you’ll visit will be Facebook.  Sounds incredible, doesn’t it?  That one site can have so much power and attention?  From Experian’s Hitwise:

Content consumption on the social network has grown substantially where nearly 1 in 4 page views in the U.S. took place on Facebook.com for the week ending November 13, 2010. The site’s market share of page views was 24.27% last week, 3.8x the volume of the 2nd ranked website YouTube with 6.93%.

The new world is social.  Creating a social experience for brands is the best way to increase engagement and stay relevant in today’s hyper-responsive world.  Social media is the first type of media to actually talk back, and the world is listening.  The social graph (and Facebook’s nauseating numbers) demand a personal, genuine relationship from brands who understand what their consumers are saying.

Now go check your profile.


Facebook’s Popularity Contest

Monday, October 18th, 2010

A new experiment from Thomas Weber and The Daily Beast attempts to demystify the Facebook algorithm that controls what we see in our news feeds on Facebook.  I want to summarize the findings for you and explain what it means for brands trying to be heard on Facebook.

1) Facebook punishes the unpopular

Consistency and engagement are key.  Rather than just updating your status, pose a question and encourage interaction.  You can have all the updates in the world, but if you don’t get people to click on your content, it won’t show up in people’s news feeds.

2) Updates are nice, but links are better

With the first point in mind, make sure you’re linking to related content in order to promote clicks.  Clicks are one of the most important aspects of inclusion in the news feed.  And the only things that gets more clicks than links are…

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Stat of the Week

In one day on the Internet, 2 million blog posts are written (enough posts to fill TIME magazine for 770 million years).

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