Are you on Facebook?

London, UK

If so, you may want to personalise your Facebook URL. But you'd better hurry up!

Ed. Looks as though I was one of the first 200,000 at 5am BST

Pensionbook is more fun than Facebook

London, UK

Now this is funny

Do you like Facebook?

Well the Wall Street Journal certainly does. Graham Jones highlights a new Facebook application called Beacon. Read all about it here

Facebook chain letter about Star Signs

This is so me!

LEO - The Lion

Great talker. Attractive and passionate. Laid back. Usually happy, but when unhappy tend to be grouchy and childish. A Leo's problem becomes everyone's problem. Most Leos are very predictable and tend to be monotonous. Knows how to have fun. Is really good at almost anything. Great kisser. Very predictable. Outgoing. Down to earth. Addictive. Attractive. Loud. Loves being in long relationships. Talkative. Not one to mess with. Rare to find. Good when found. 7 years of bad luck if you do not forward.

Mash up your Facebook

London, UK

Graham Jones has written another "we a really ought to think about this" post. This time the subject is social media. Just how many of you are on Facebook, You Tube, MySpace? I guess many of you have all three or more. Graham's post is all about who we post to, about or even Poke! He writes.......

At first sight, the fact that you are widely connected in this way may seem a good thing. But research from the University of California hints that this might not be such a good idea after all. It seems that when we are in a group to help us achieve things, by creative thought for instance, we think we are doing well if we are familiar with the group members. If, however, we enter into new, unfamiliar groups, it actually increases our creative behaviours.

I'll explore Facebook in more depth from now on.


Jeremy Jacobs - Corporate Presenter

Facebook Ban (2)

Flipchart Fairytales has posted a beautiful post about the subject I raised last week.

Did you hear about this? Kent County Council have banned their *32000 employees from using the social utility Facebook.

Employers are great at disciplining staff aren't they? If they spent as much time getting people to "buy-in" to the culture (I know it isn't easy in the public sector) of their organization, valued them more their staff just might do a better and more committed job. Perhaps then they wouldn't feel the need to spend time at Facebook or going outside for a fag.

This sort of thing is so typical of British management. Minimalist, narrow-minded, old-fashioned and unnecessary.


*32, 000 - what do they all do?

He goes a little further and is quite scathing in his attack on the corporates.







Jeremy Jacobs - Corporate Presenter

Facebook marches on!

So the social network, Facebook has forced a major international banking institution to climb down over student loans. Graham Jones has written a wonderful piece about this here. READ IT

I think there are 2 things:

1. The crass stupidity of HSBC. Don't they realise they could have made customers for life of these students? Oh no, short-term thinking and petty-minded arrogance won the day.

2. I getting to love the power of Facebook and other social media sites. How many of you are with me?




Jeremy Jacobs - Corporate Presenter

Facebook Groups

I've decided to leave several of those groups on Facebook. I really don't see the point of continuing with groups which are short-lived projects, silly, absurd and bizarre like the "Cats that look like Hitler Appreciation Society".

Graham Jones has a bit to say about social networks, like Facebook, here