Chris Webb

Social Media Tools For Publishing Professionals

Today I had the opportunity to give a crash course in social media to a group of publishing colleagues at Wiley’s European headquarters. The talk was only an hour, so we covered a lot of ground quickly with hopes that everyone could pick up at least one tool they could put to use right away. [...]

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Scrabblegate- Hasbro’s Missed Facebook Opportunty

Brothers Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla are Scrabble fanatics. After the site on which they were playing a Scrabble knock off, Quadplex started charging users to play, they decided to create their own version. In June 2007 they took their online version to Facebook and since then, more than 2.3 million users have [...]

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Managing 5,000 Facebook Friends

“How do I manage my 5,000 Facebook friends?” is a question Mark Cuban had to face recently. Facebook went from being a way to broadcast information to 5k people, probably 4k of which I didn’t know or even have a business link to, to a platform I either had to take seriously or walk away from. Mark [...]

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