Zombie Journalism

Thanks to Facebook’s near-constant changes to their privacy settings, it’s tough to keep documentation on them up to date. In preparation for staff training here at TBD, I’ve completely overhauled these resources for anyone wishing to use Facebook for their professional journalism uses as well as their personal lives. I hope you’ll find these useful. [...]

Social networking is supposed to be about connecting with old friends and making new ones. It can involve marketing products, but it takes individualized recommendations to be anything but spam.

If you allow employees to create your company’s Facebook fan pages on their personal accounts, beware. You may never get control of that page if the employee leaves the company.

Just how much personal info do you tend to share on Facebook? Probably more than you think. Luckily new privacy policy changes and a few handy links about privacy settings can keep your info safe (safe-ish?) on Facebook.