1. Facebook for Business
How to build
relationships, express
identity, and manage
information in a
social ecology
2. Why Facebook relevant for Business?
“I’m here to build something for the long term. Anything else is a distraction.”
Mark Zuckerberg (Fast Company, May 2007)
Flickr photo courtesy of ekai http://tinyurl.com/4rpa9l
3. 70+ million active users
Growing Community 7+ million are Canadian
more than half outside of college
4. Real World Friendships
•Control
•Ease of Access
•Exclusivity
“What [Facebook] needed to do was construct as accurate a model
as possible of the way the social graph looks in the real world”
~Mark Zuckerberg (Newsweek, Aug 2007)
26. “1 billion pages views is cool but really what I care about is giving people access to
connect and the information they want as efficiently as possible.”
-- Mark Zuckerberg, March 24, 2007 Andy Kessler Interview http://tinyurl.com/32ql97
Friends produce and consume within shared information space