With over 500 million registered users, Facebook has quickly grown into an amazingly vibrant community with millions of conversations happening simultaneously, and a high percentage of them about products, brands, and companies. Social media is THE way that people will be communicating in the future. Many colleges have gotten rid of e-mail and switching to a social media-only format of communications. Understand it or be left listening to your Eight Track...

12. SO WHY IS FACEBOOK SO IMPORTANT????? The value of having a Facebook presence is in the vast network you can create in a few simple steps. A second advantage -- constant contact with your friend/customer base. Human brains cannot manage more than 150 friendships. This is where social networking comes in. Social networking now accounts for 31% of all time spent online in the United States. Social web sites such as Facebook are now the most common home pages for users. More than 80,000 websites have implemented Facebook Connect since December 2008 and more than 60 million Facebook users engage with it across these external sites each month More than 700,000 businesses in the US have active pages on Facebook. Purpose-built Facebook pages have created more than 5.3 billion fans!!

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21. What is Social Gaming!?!?

24. Important Questions to ask Yourself How accessible is your company on the web? How useful/relevant is the displayed information to viewers? What is the overall portrayal of of your company on the web? How effective is your company at enabling relationships over the internet? How effective is your company at facilitating feedback over the internet? What are your social media“WOW factors”??

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