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Re: Mayo Clinic Senior Couple Brings the House Down

Lee Aase — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:34:23 -0000

Thanks for posting the link to this! We thought it was just a priceless video, so glad you passed it along.

Re: Daily Links - Sunday, October 21

Lee Aase — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:00:14 -0000

Thanks for the shout out, Jake.

Re: Facebook search: What’s the big deal?

Lee Aase — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 20:00:16 -0000

Concerns are way overblown. I think it will actually fuel faster growth in Facebook as people run across listings in Google, but can’t contact the person without signing up for an account. If Facebook is growing by 1.2 million people a week now, it will be 1.7 million a week by October 15.

Re: Mayo Clinic blog shares real stories

Lee Aase — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:07:15 -0000

Thanks for highlighting our work with Sharing Mayo Clinic. We have had patient stories on our Web site for several years, and those have been quite popular, but giving patients the opportunity to tell their stories in their own words will be even more powerful.

Re: Crisis Communications Gets Simplified With Facebook

Lee Aase — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:26:05 -0000

Thanks for the link. This certainly isn't the be-all and end-all tool for crisis management, but I think it should be part of the arsenal. If Facebook groups are going to be created around any major public event, like the restaurant rats you mention, it would be better to have some "ownership" of the conversation, so at least you can get your side of the story told.

For other things, like natural disasters, it might make sense to have all of your crisis team belong to a secret group to they can be instantly messaged (particularly if they have the Facebook mobile app, which sends them a text message alerting them to new content.)

Facebook is just a tool...a really cool tool...and we should think creatively about how we can use it to accomplish organizational goals.

Oh, yeah, and it's fund to connnect with people, too!

Re: Facebook’s Killer Feature

Lee Aase — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 00:18:00 -0000

Hi Nick - Absolutely. This definitely needs to happen, especially since Facebook aims to reflect "the social graph." The reality of our social relationships is we have real friends, family, acquaintances and professional colleagues. We have different information we want to share with each category.

I've written several posts about how to work around the one-class friend system, and the limited profile helps to some degree. But they all introduce friction into a system that otherwise is simple and smooth. I think I have a successful way to do it, but eventually Facebook is going to come up with the simple friend class management.

I would settle for two classes: personal and professional.

I saw they now have a book exchange application, which is nice. But I agree that multiple classes of friends would be the LInkedIn killer. It probably will take a lot of work to do this, but it definitely should be the priority as Facebook aims at the more adult user base.

Re: Facebook to Become the Web’s White Pages

Lee Aase — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 19:54:59 -0000

Concerns are way overblown. I think it will actually fuel faster growth in Facebook as people run across listings in Google, but can't contact the person without signing up for an account. If Facebook is growing by 1.2 million people a week now, it will be 1.7 million a week by October 15.

Re: Not Just Messages, But Wall Posts Receive Email Love

Lee Aase — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 00:08:18 -0000

This IS great. If I'm giddy, it's just because it's getting late. But I had noticed this on my Blackberry today, and wondered whether it was a global change. This makes FB messaging MUCH more useful.

Re: Be SMUG on Facebook Win 100 Dollars

Lee Aase — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 11:13:21 -0000

Thanks for calling attention to this, Anthony. I'd really like to see whether anyone can break into this group. If no one can, it will give everyone a lot more confidence that they can hold conversations in Facebook that are at least as confidential as what gets sent back and forth by email.

And if someone CAN break in to this group, it will be worth the $100 to keep people from putting REALLY valuable or confidential information in secret Facebook groups.

I obviously think they won't be able to do it, but let's find out.

Re: Top 30 Health Tweeple

Lee Aase — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 22:57:51 -0000

Thanks for your endorsement, Carmen. It's great to see that many of the folks you have listed are already among those I follow. Nice to have a specialized list like this, and appreciate Carmen's honorable mention.

Re: Peninsula - a simple truth…

Lee Aase — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:16:08 -0000

Excellent post, and great figures. These studies always pump the figures to get headlines, and climb on the latest hot trend like Facebook. The bad thing is BBC doesn't post the study so people can evaluate for themselves. Or did they even see the study? They just take Peninsula's word for it that they were conservative in calculations.

Re: It is our responsibility to have Peninsula explain their figures

Lee Aase — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 16:18:29 -0000

I did send a note to Peninsula's PR department asking for a copy of the study. Haven't received a response.

Re: Monitoring the blogosphere with blog search engines

Lee Aase — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:10:09 -0000

Thanks for the link, Philip. I'm glad you're finding the information at SMUG helpful.

Re: Calacanis asks deep questions about social networks

Lee Aase — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 21:51:42 -0000

I agree with you Robert. Facebook is the digital Rolodex. Did some people have hundreds of names in their analog Rolodexes back in the 80s? Sure. Were there some people they never called? Of course. When you accept friend requests, that gives you contact information that may be helpful in the future. It's just like when you exchange business cards at a networking dinner; you may not get to have a meaningful conversation with a person, but if the need to get in touch arises in the future, you have the contact info.

And Ilya's comment about being out of Facebook's target demo is soooo 2006. Facebook has 90 percent of the college kids, but is adding over a million users a week in the 25-49 group.

Re: Cool new little Facebook feature (and unfriending)

Lee Aase — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:55:43 -0000

Robert - I think I have a solution for you, and how you can get an unlimited number of friends.

I wrote about it here: http://leeaase.wordpress.com/2007/09/15/congres...

Scroll all the way to the bottom to see how you can beat the friend limits.

Re: Helpful Links 04/02/2008

Lee Aase — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:59:36 -0000

Thanks for the link. We're starting a whole new course on podcasting; this was just the first installment. I hope you'll check out the rest of the course as we work through podcasting step by step.

Re: Why Your Answer to, “Are You on Facebook?” Will Determine the Fate of Your Business in 10 Years or Sooner

Lee Aase — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:59:25 -0000

Great post, Daniel. And I agree with you on the "maybe sooner" part. People will be looking for REALTORS and other professionals they can trust, and social networks will be the way they find them. Given what your profession spends for advertising, I can't imagine why you wouldn't take advantage of these free services. I appreciate the link, and look forward to hearing about other creative uses people find for these social networking tools.

Re: Facebook Is NOT For Business

Lee Aase — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 22:06:28 -0000

Of COURSE Facebook is for business...just like eBay is for business. You can have lots of interaction with people with common interests in Facebook without becoming their Friend. You can just belong to the same groups. And for non-family members, you can use the limited profile to avoid divulging an information about yourself that you think others might find controversial.

Think creatively and you will see lots of business uses for Facebook.

Re: SMUG About Social Media

Lee Aase — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 12:57:05 -0000

Thanks for the mention and link, Kevin. We're always open to new SMUGgles (who are ordinary mortals who want to learn how to do magical things with social media.)