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buell — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:50:59 +0000

From time to time I use this blog to talk about the power of Facebook. You’ve heard me discuss many times the blessings and curses of the old FB. You’ll also notice in my tag cloud that Facebook is one of the most repeated topics here. Normally I am alerting you to a current world leader’s FB page or how Facebook can motivate students to action or help in times of disaster (like the earthquake that hit China in May 2008). This caught my attention, however, for no good reason–and I just had to share. Clearly, I want you to learn history this year, but I also hope to inspire you to be adaptable and creative and to seek innovating thoughts and ideas.

There was a video that explained what IKEA–or specifically the manager of the new store in Malmo, Sweden under the guidance of ad agency Forsman and Bodenfors (who requested the YouTube video be taken down). In the blogosphere, you snooze, you lose. So, for those of you who did not view this post in a timely manner check out this post from On The Web With Kim Vallee to find out how they used FB to advertise furniture.

History of All This…

buell — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:29:58 +0000

I’m sure you’ve heard of Thomas Friedman and his book The World is Flat (currently selling in version 3.0). Here is a lecture he gave at MIT not too long ago about the his groundbreaking work. The entire lecture is quite long—so if you haven’t got the patience to listen to that much talking over vacation week you might just want to skip past the introduction (where Friedman discusses his background and what led him to this topic) and go straight to 5:15 in when he gives a history lesson on how we got to this point. In hindsight it all makes perfect sense…but at the time no one could have predicted that the decisions that were made when you were all babies would have produced this crazy world where we are all connected through the technology that gave us Facebook and YouTube….but also gave the world the ability to not just socialize across continents, but to actually work across continents.

Also, see 33:10 when Friedman discusses China and 36:56 when he examines the concept of the “Green Revolution” which he says is more of a “party” than a “revolution.” What do you think?

Facebook in Reality

buell — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:56:34 +0000

Just a little Thursday morning humor:

Facebook, Round Three

buell — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:00:53 +0000

There are some interesting comments about the war on Tzipi Livni’s Facebook page. She is the current Foreign Affairs Minister and frontrunner to be Israel’s next Prime Minister after elections that are supposed to take place next month. Check out “The War” posts under discussion board–the comments are mostly in English compared to the rest of the page which is written in Hebrew.

For Those of You With Facebook (round 2)…

buell — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:28:56 +0000

And I know first hand that there are several of you (Katie, Michael, Tyler, Jesse) check out the group You know you live(d) and work(ed) in Liberia when… There are funny stories and pictures on the page. The reason this is called round 2 is because of a similar post I made last year. Check that one out too if you get the chance.

For Those of You With Facebook…

buell — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 18:40:03 +0000

Wen Jiabao, the Premier of China, has a Facebook page…might be an interesting thing to check out.

Oh, and since I was on Facebook it got me thinking about MySpace and Facebook in China…so I dug around a little. Apparantly they have censored versions that are allowed, but Word Press who runs this site decided not to kowtow to China and I guess we are banned there.