Facebook Won The Conversation Battle
Published in March 14th, 2009
Posted by robdiana in Social Media
Well, it took several days, but I finally got the new Facebook homepage. With this redesign, Facebook realized the battle is for conversation. Conversation makes a site more of a destination for people, and the new redesign is completely targeted towards this. As much as sites like Twitter and FriendFeed have been battling for the conversation destination title, I warned that Facebook could just decide that they need to own something.
Facebook has just won the conversation battle. Why? The reasons are fairly simple. First, they have almost 200 million users staring at the “What’s on your mind?” prompt. All of the other social sites combined do not have anywhere near this number of unique users. You will probably not hear this from many bloggers, because they tend to be early adopters. Those people, myself included, will stick with Twitter. This is about the mainstream. Facebook is most definitely a mainstream site. One killer feature they have that Twitter does not is lists. I quickly created lists for groups of my Facebook friends and was able to view their updates without the noise of the “news feed”. There are even predefined filters for photos, links and videos. Search capabilities are a glaring omission, but that is not as important to the mainstream user. That is only important for people building third party applications.
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combine the power of visually looking at page activity on your website with google analytics to get a rich picture of visitor behaviour and their activities on your website.
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Crazy egg provides a visual way of analysisng website visits. YOu can see overlayed on a page the most clicked links as numbers or percentages. Also, you can view areas where the mouse has hanged out most. Use this with google analytics and you have a fab way of examining how your site is being discovered, what people r looking at, and the next place people go to!
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Hi Raeli, Thanks for the question. my main intent and purpose for this book is to share inspirational resources out there that will help charities and social enterprises to develop their capacitie...
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The other big reason that Facebook may be crowned king is that all of the social sites in the conversation battle have either written a Facebook application or have their feed being pulled in as status updates. It is fairly simple to import your Google Reader shared items, your Twitter status updates, your FriendFeed and SocialMedian activity. The lure of a potential audience of 200 million users is too great to not create some hook into Facebook.
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That means that we as charities need to be going to the spaces and places where our sympathizers hang out - and chill out with them, see what they post, see their passions, and pass on opportunities to collaborate! - if it were only for the rattling tin! - we have not tapped into the skills of the crowds enough!
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It's about the conversation...and the conversations spaces people chose in order to engage in conversations, trot their stuff, pose and be silly! - MUST READ!
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run over two years from 2008 to 2010
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